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 […]
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 […]
by Thomas-Ryan Cleek / Love and Rage “Endless is the good that I have given for you to enjoy.” The supposed last words of King Kamehameha the Great. If King Kamehameha had lived to see what would become of his kingdom, he would see what we see: an […]
by David Crawford Jones On May 25, 2015, on a warm Monday morning on the outskirts of Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso, a large crowd gathered outside the gates to Dagnoen Cemetery, located in an especially destitute neighborhood in one of the world’s poorest countries. Police, […]
by Anti-Fascist Coffee Club UTICA – At the last Utica IWW meeting, following discussions within the Utica activist community over the past two months, Wobblies agreed to launch an “Anti-Fascist Coffee Club” to create a space for collective education and discussion about the dangerous rise of fascism and […]
by Benjamin Dangl/Toward Freeedom The Zapatistas and National Indigenous Congress (CNI) held an assembly in May in which they chose María de Jesús Patricio Martínez, a Nahua indigenous healer, as their spokesperson and presidential candidate for the 2018 elections in Mexico. Patricio’s candidacy and radical vision for Mexico […]
by Miriam Axel-Lute/MiriamJoy.com There’s this pattern that happens with abusive spouses. They often explain to their victims how to behave so they won’t get beaten up again. All the victim needs to do is give them proper respect, not burn their dinner, remember to leave out their slippers […]
by Joe Pasqualetti/Guest Most currently offered Internet services in Oneida County do not positively distinguish our region and fail to support economic growth. Digital networking is paramount to commerce and communications in this century just as telegrams and telephones were in the last two. We can change our infrastructure and […]
By Justin A. Thompson/Guest For almost 11 years, I have worked for a retail environment. In these 11 years, I have come to understand the culture of corporate America. Everyday I wake up with the grueling uncertainty of how I am going to pay my bills; how much […]
by Joris Leverink/ROAR Magazine Illustrations, Mirko Rastić The idea of the commune has animated the radical imagination of rebels and revolutionaries for centuries. Examples of pre-capitalist societies characterized by communal ways of living were studied by radical theorists like Marx and Kropotkin, who did not necessarily consider these societies […]
