by Brendan Maslauskas Dunna and Elizabeth Meeks The rural Upstate NY village of Ilion, located just East of Utica, is home to Remington Arms, the oldest gun manufacturer in the nation. The massive, sprawling red brick factory is the beating heart of this small village of around 8,000 […]
The 2020 United States Presidential election is days away. Since 2015, we have witnessed the growth and eventual electoral victory of a far-right populist experiment. The flaws inherent in the United States as a country are manifest and date back to well before its founding, but there can […]
by Love and Rage Team The Christopher Columbus statue at the intersection of the Memorial Parkway and Mohawk Street in Utica, NY was vandalized last night with the word “killer” painted in red. The statue has stood at the intersection since 1952 but a growing number of residents […]
“This was one of the more violent things I’ve seen in my years in journalism,” said one reporter. by Lisa Newcomb – Common Dreams Police in Rochester, New York fired pepper bullets and pushed back demonstrators with riot shields Thursday night amid protests demanding justice for Daniel Prude, […]
by Free the People Roc / Press Release On March 23rd, 2020 the Rochester Police Department (RPD) executed a Black man named Daniel Prude. Mr. Prude was naked, unarmed, and experiencing a mental health crisis. Daniel’s brother Joe had called 911 for help. No one trained to respond […]
by Love and Rage Team Love and Rage Media and another freelance journalist and photographer were on scene at the “Back the Blue” rally organized by Trump and Tenney supporters, which was also sponsored by Dave’s Diner in Schuyler, NY. The August 26th rally was met with opposition […]
by Brendan Maslauskas Dunn / Love and Rage Residents in Utica, NY gathered at the Oneida County Office Building on the morning of August 19 for a Black Lives Matter rally in response to incidents of discrimination targeting local Black people. Kimberly Jones, who was recently fired from […]
by Brendan Maslauskas Dunn This article was first published in November of 2005 by the Utica Tangerine – the only local publication willing to publish this story, and later by multiple Indymedia websites across the US. Love and Rage is republishing this to shed light on the Utica […]
By Noelle Kakimoto, Leilani Maxera, and Laurel Mei-Singh – Views Black Lives Matter protesters have taken to the streets across the world to demand justice for lives stolen by police violence, with the rallying cry to defund the police. Many, including us, call to defund the police as […]
by Love and Rage Team Activists with the Utica Abolitionists launched a fundraiser for the family of Jessie Lee Rose who was tragically killed by police in Utica, NY. The full text of the fundraiser is posted below. More will be written about his case over the summer […]
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