by Lana M. Nitti/Love and Rage Recently there has been much excitement about the future of the city of Utica’s urban redevelopment. Downtown has been updated with fresh paint and new facades, accompanied by intense and targeted marketing and branding strategies. The city is set to welcome its […]
by Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage It doesn’t take much. A Black person expresses support for some attribute of Blackness or solidarity with the unique struggles of Blacks in the US and white people come from all directions with accusations of racism. The arguments are lazy, reactionary and represent […]
by Kevin Nugent/Love and Rage Since announcing last spring, the Sanders campaign has sparked a fierce debate on the left regarding Sanders’ viability as a candidate, his left-wing credibility, and the distance between himself and the establishment party machinery. Quasi-enthusiastic Clinton supporters aside, the left is split between […]
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 Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage Gone are the days when the Brooklyn-tinged voice of philosopher Murray Bookchin could be heard entertainingly berating the likes of right-libertarians and trumpeting the causes of social ecology and egalitarian municipalism. His analyses, though, are not lost to us. Best-known for Post-Scarcity Anarchism, […]
by Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage (Note: Due to the similarity of the posts, most of the sources used for this article have been used in the recently published article ‘Congressman Hanna Joins Cowards, Calls for Immigration Halt for Syrian Refugees’, to avoid recycling them the link for the […]
by Lydia Marie Hanna/Love and Rage It’s hard to get help if you’ve never done it before. There’s an art to it, to obtaining the support you need from a medical establishment that is poorly designed to help those living with mental illness. There is an infinite list […]
by Kevin Nugent/Love and Rage Terrorists affiliated with ISIS struck Paris over the weekend, killing at least 129 people and injuring hundreds more. The world recoiled in horror and roundly condemned the attacks. The warm sentiments directed toward France from around the world, as well as the outcry […]
by Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage In the wake of 30 states refusing or opposing to take in Syrian refugees, Congressman Richard Hanna (R) of New York’s 22nd Congressional District issued a statement urging the Obama administration to immediately cease plans to accept refugees in the aftermath of the terrorist […]
by Lana Nitti/Love and Rage Two years ago I was sent a very interesting piece of investigative journalism from USA Today entitled, “Ghost Factories”. This article looked at the societal impacts of formerly unknown lead smelters throughout the United States. It also detailed ongoing and intentional failure on […]
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