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 UTICA – Wednesday night’s Common Council meeting carried a little extra weight going in. On the table for the evening would be Councilman Frank Vescera’s proposed moratorium to halt the relocation of Syrian refugees in Utica for two years; a hastily put-together piece […]
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 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 […]
Press Releases A group of community residents is seeking to raise money to restore the Gillmore Village Basketball Court, put a memorial at the park, and rededicate the basketball court to the memory of Corey Carr. They will be holding a fundraiser on November 6th 2015 from 7:00 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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