by Mohawk Valley Freedom School/Press Releases The acclaimed 2012 documentary “Free Angela and All Political Prisoners” will be screened at the Mohawk Valley Freedom School on Thursday, November 5 at 7:00pm. The film chronicles young Black revolutionary Angela Davis’s trial in connection with the Marin County attempted jailbreak […]
by Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage President Obama, on Monday, announced his support to “ban the box” for federal employees. So what does that mean? It means that applications for federal jobs will no longer have a check box or question where applicants state whether or not they have […]
by Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage The hacktivist collective Anonymous had recently made promises to release personal information on 1000 members of the Ku Klux Klan currently serving in elected positions throughout the United States, so when the internet was treated to a storm of activity revolving around the […]
by Mohawk Valley Freedom School/Press Releases In remembrance of the founding of the Black Panther Party in October of 1966, the last Freedom School class of this month will look at the politics of the Black Panther Party as well as other groups of the New Left of […]
by Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage I don’t write about my job, it’s confidential, but the nature of the job is something which becomes apparent per mention of the agency I work for, thus it’s safe to say that I teach traumatized kids. On to the video of Deputy […]
by Dr. Nicholas Partyka/The Hampton Institute Dislocation; Or, On the Experience of Being Lost In literature, the term “lost generation” refers to a cohort of authors whose work defines the post-First World War era. This group includes literary notables like Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, among others. […]
Photos by Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage A coaltion of activists from the Utica chapters of Justice or Else and the Black Rose Anarchist Federation as well as students from Mohawk Valley Community College’s Black Student Union and Hamilton College Democratic Socialists took to the Christopher Columbus statue on […]
by Mohawk Valley Freedom School/Press Releases On Thursday October 15th, the Mohawk Valley Freedom school will forego meeting at its home at 500 Plant Street and instead encourage everyone to head to The Other Side Gallery in South Utica for a screening of the documentary, Merchants of Doubt, based […]
by Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage Italians have a colorful place in the history of Utica and the United States as a whole. I know. I am one. Whites in the US have long gushed over model minorities from Asia, but only one minority was ever extended the privilege […]
by Mohawk Valley Freedom School/Press Releases On Thursday, September 24th, the Mohawk Valley Freedom School located at Cornerstone Community Church in Utica will be hosting a presentation and discussion on the Ban the Box campaign which is seeking to expand further locally. Ban the Box is a national […]