by Shane Burley/ROAR Magazine It takes a few minutes for guards to notice that the chow line has stopped. The line of prisoner workers who cook and serve the food have stepped back and are working at half speed. Some never left their cells at all. Others […]
via Democracy Now! NORTH DAKOTA – Governor Jack Dalrymple has activated the National Guard ahead of Friday’s ruling on the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s lawsuit against the U.S. government over the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline. On Friday, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg will rule on an injunction in the […]
by Love and Rage Staff/Upcoming Events Local activists with the Mohawk Valley Freedom School, Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and Black Rose Anarchist Federation are planning a rally this Saturday in support of a national prisoner strike that will commence on September 9. The strike is against […]
by Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage WASHINGTON – Results from a poll conducted by the Associated Press and the Black Youth Project show majority support among white youths for the Black Lives Matter movement. 51 percent of whites aged 18-30 either “strongly” or “somewhat” support the movement which aims […]
by Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage SYRACUSE, N.Y. – On the shore of Onondaga Lake this afternoon, about 60 people gathered to declare their solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux tribe of North Dakota in the latter’s efforts against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline which poses threats […]
by Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage NEAR RED WARRIOR CAMP, N.D. – Shocking scenes developed over the weekend when Native American protesters of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, who have been protesting the planned Dakota Access Pipeline through their land for months, were set upon by security dogs on […]
by Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage CHICAGO, IL – Megan Rapinoe, midfielder for the NWSL’s Seattle Reign and US National Team since 2006, took a knee during the playing of the Star-Spangled Banner during a game Sunday versus the Chicago Red Stars. The gesture, which Rapinoe said was “very […]
by Janet Biehl/ROAR Second Wave feminism, once it erupted in the late 1960s, called out misogyny where it came into view. Breathtakingly, it insisted on recognizing human rights for all women everywhere. But today many Western feminists hesitate to speak in such bold terms. Wrestling with the legacy […]
by Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage NEW YORK, N.Y.– An occupation of City Hall Park in New York, which began Monday as part of a strategy to urge several changes in the structure of the New York Police Department, resulted in an early victory as Commissioner Bill Bratton resigned […]
by Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee/Press Release Prisoners from across the United States have just released this call to action for a nationally coordinated prisoner work stoppage against prison slavery to take place on September 9th, 2016. This is a Call to Action Against Slavery in America In one […]
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