What’s happening in New York State? Are we bucking the Union and joining Canada? A sideways move, if anything.
Sadly, we probably won’t give much time to this “New Amsterdam” stuff floating around. Unless we’re mocking it.
by Black Lives Matter, Upstate NY/Guest Today (April 11), organizers from the Black Lives Matter chapter of Upstate NY had a private meeting with Presidential hopeful, Bernie Sanders. The meeting occurred shortly before the Senator addressed an over-capacity crowd at The Washington Avenue Armory in Albany. We were […]
by New York Immigration Coalition/Press Releases Coalition Calls on New York State Senate to Vote against Divisive and Dangerous Bill New York, NY – The New York Immigration Coalition has learned that New York State Senator Terrence Murphy introduced a bill that would require residents of New York […]
by Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage Over the summer, there was a palpable atmosphere of excitement in Utica as if a parade could spontaneously come into existence. No our Utica Comets hadn’t won the Calder Cup. Turns out that our governor, Andrew Cuomo, had announced big news about the […]
by Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage Mara Ahmed, a Rochester-based filmmaker, has a small but notably socially conscious list of works. Her latest film, A Thin Wall, debuted at The Little Theatre in Rochester on April 10th. A Thin Wall is a documentary about the partition of the British […]
by Derek Scarlino ALBANY – On Thursday March 19th, a delegation of litigants in the Maisto, et al. v. New York case (commonly referred to as the “Small Cities” case)for public school funding traveled to the state’s capital to address their lawsuit which will likely end up in the appeals process. […]
by Brendan Maslauskas Dunn/Love and Rage Something new is taking shape in the Mohawk Valley in response to the local austerity measures which have slowed, but not stopped, the pulse of the school system. Some may call it a simple protest here and there; others a passing outrage at […]
RELEASE by CNY Citizens In Action The Fiscal Policy Institute, Central New York Citizens in Action, Inc., Central New York Labor Council, and other community groups will hold their annual New York State Budget Community Forum at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 4 at the Cornerstone Community Church, […]
By Love and Rage UTICA AREA – In response to the most recent proposed school reforms, the state teacher’s union, NYSUT (New York State United Teachers) is working to mobilize its members to build community-wide coalitions to save public education. The first action locally will be held today […]
(This interview was originally conducted by Brendan Maslauskas-Dunn and published in 2010 in the IWW’s Industrial Worker and on ZNet) I understand you spent some time in the Bay Area growing up. What were you politically involved with back then? Howie Hawkins (HH): Well, Willie Mays was a […]
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