by Masai Andrews/Medium “On January 30th, 2016, three Black University at Albany students boarded a city bus heading to the UAlbany campus. The bus was crowded with intoxicated white students. Words were exchanged between the sober Black women and the drunken white passengers. A racially charged discussion ensued, […]
photos by Love and Rage and Hudson Valley Antifa SYRACUSE – On Saturday June 10, antifa factions from across New York State descended on Syracuse to demonstrate against the ‘March Against Sharia’ event planned for the city. The march was organized by ACT for America, one of the largest […]
Utica, NY resident Ricky Morgan was detained by ICE on June, 5 during a routine monthly check-in and is in the process of being deported to Jamaica. He currently sits in Albany County Jail and will then be transported to the ICE Detention Center in Batavia until his deportation. Ricky […]
by Love and Rage Team UTICA – According to witnesses disembarking from trains at Utica’s Union Station, several US Border Patrol agents were patrolling the platforms, allegedly asking about the citizenship of several people of color. Union Station in #Utica, #ICE agents patrolling, profiling POC by asking about citizenship […]
by NY Antifa Alliance/Release We, the undersigned, represent a coalition of anti-fascists from across the State of New York. We have chosen to assemble in Syracuse on June 10 to take action in defense of people in this community who have been targeted for violence by attendees of […]
by Romina Akemi/Black Rose / Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation On May 8, 2017 the LA-based feminist collective Intersectionality NOW organized an event at the Women’s Center for Creative Work titled Feminists Against Capitalism. The panel participants included Miranda Sklaroff from the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) Left Caucus, […]
by It’s Going Down Here at IGD we talk a lot about strategy, about building our capacity, and also about growing as a material force within our communities. One thing we haven’t talked a lot about however is the need for more people to step up to the plate and […]
by Utica IWW There will be a rally held on Monday, June 5th at 9:30am in Latham, NY as activists accompany immigrant Ricky Morgan for his monthly immigration check-in with ICE. Ricky Morgan lives and works in Utica and is facing a threat of deportation to Jamaica. He […]
by Love and Rage Team Since late 2014, the collective media project called Love and Rage has devoted much of its time to providing alternative approaches to not only how to engage in journalism locally, but also putting an analysis to that coverage which was sorely missing. It […]
by Black Rose Anarchist Federation We members of the Black Rose/Rosa Negra Rojava-Syria Solidarity Committee (BRRN-RSSC) in the strongest terms condemn the Bashar al-Assad regime and its Russian and Iranian allies for their recent conquest of Eastern Aleppo. This brutal defeat of the Aleppo rebels, who were both […]