by Alexander Reid Ross/It’s Going Down The Malheur Rebellion took overnight control of all screen time throughout social media and conversations about it quickly became pervasive. I felt compelled to go to the site and try to gain some perspective. I contacted Ben Jones, and we decided to go down together […]
by Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage Many commemorate the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. without paying much tribute at all to the intellect and ideas of the man. We settle for a whitewashed history that erases much of the man himself and his radical, even revolutionary, […]
by Dilar Dirik/Guest We publish this letter here on Love and Rage from Dilar Dirik, a committed activist in the Kurdish liberation struggle. It is an open letter in response to the recent publication of a racist cartoon depicting Alan Kurdî in the French magazine Charlie Hebdo. Kurdî […]
The Problem with The Utica Phoenix by Brendan Maslauskas Dunn/Love and Rage You may have seen the latest edition of the Utica Phoenix around town lately or perhaps you’ve read it online. I have been reading the Phoenix since shortly after it was launched. I even wrote for […]
by Brendan Maslauskas Dunn / Love and Rage Urged on by local activist John Furman in the middle of his speech, the gathered protesters started chanting, “No borders! No fences! No borders! No fences!” The words echoed throughout Utica’s historic Oneida Square on an unseasonably warm evening on […]
by Tess Riley/The Guardian Capitalism took a bashing in 2015: Corbynomics, the rise of anti-austerity partiesPodemos and Syriza, Hillary Clinton slamming our culture of short-termism, COP21 protests and more. Capitalism – and more specifically its failings – is likely to be as brashly and uncompromisingly in the headlines […]
by Days Massolo Staff/Press Release Spring 2016 Calendar – January Monday January 18 Dr. MLK, Jr. Celebration and Dinner 5:00 PM – Tolles Pavilion A&B (COOP and Dean of Students collaboration) Annual MLK Dinner with lecture and special guest Jennicet Gutierrez, trans-liberator activist who interrupted President Obama’s LGBTQ […]
Press Release Assemblyman Brindisi and Mayor Palmieri Featured Speakers Utica, NY – The New York State Working Families Party will host its third annual fundraiser on Thursday, January 28 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at The Stief, 618 Varick Street, Utica. Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi and Mayor Robert Palmieri […]
by Mohawk Valley Freedom School Militias, Militants and Rebels: Anti-Government Movements on the Left and Right Thursday, January 7, 2016 at 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Derek Scarlino will lead a conversation about the similarities and differences within anti-government efforts of both the left and right. While […]
by Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés and Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano/Enlace Zapatista From the mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, on the 22nd anniversary of the War Against Oblivion, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) has a message to all those struggling for a better world. Good evening, good day compañeras and […]
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