by Derek Scarlino / Love and Rage – The States Honolulu – A group of around 30 people convened outside of the Kamehameha Highway entrance of the Oʻahu Community Correctional Center in Honolulu on January 6 to hold a candle-lit vigil for the prisoners on the other side […]
by Love and Rage Team Prisoner justice and abolitionist activists are staging rallies across New York State on December 12 and 13 to demand county governments and the state government take drastic action to address mass incarceration and the rapid spread of Covid-19 in the prison system. Activists […]
by Kurdish Women’s Movement / Press Release The world premiere of the film Blooming in the Desert will take place on Tuesday, December 1, 2020 at 3:00 PM EST. The film will be available to the public on the Kurdish Women’s Movement social media pages. of Blooming in […]
“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 Brendan Maslauskas Dunn / The Indypendent While New York is a largely blue state, there are pockets of red. Upstate, the Republican party’s election-year “law and order” messaging has stoked violence at rallies billed as positive and patriotic. Local Black Lives Matter supporters who say they are […]
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 Mohammed Elnaiem / Jstor Daily This interview is accompanied by an article about “The Detroit Rebellion” that contextualizes the tumultuous period in Detroit history that it discusses. Darryl “Waistline” Mitchell and Donald Abdul Roberts (Waistline and Abdul, respectively) grew up in times that resonate with our […]
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 […]