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 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 Resilient Indigenous Action Collective Indigenous activists in Syracuse are holding a rally this Saturday, June 27, 2020 at 5:00 PM in the city’s historic Columbus Circle. Activists join the recent wave of activists to tear down statues that to many represent white supremacy, colonialism, slavery, and genocide. […]
by Assata Shakur I believe in living. I believe in the spectrum of Beta days and Gamma people. I believe in sunshine in windmills and waterfalls, tricycles and rocking chairs. And I believe that seeds grow into sprouts, And sprouts grow into trees. I believe in the magic […]
by Jo Freeman “The Tyranny of Structurelessness” was first published in 1970 to address the need for organisation in the US women’s liberation movement. Freeman’s classic essay has over years reached many different social and political movements in addition to the women’s liberation movement. As the Black Lives […]
by Brendan Maslauskas Dunn Propelled by the rebellion that has swept the nation following the police killing of George Floyd, on June 7th demonstrators in Richmond, VA – the Confederacy’s former capitol – tore down the statue of the Confederacy’s former president Jefferson Davis. It was just one […]
by Brendon Spencer / BlerdUp Two years ago, I hypothesized that a new wave of rap was coming. I used social, economic, and political changes in the U.S. to chart waves within the music. I reasoned that the coming recession and the rise of Trump would push rap into a […]
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