by Mari Matsuo – Views and Analysis I am Japanese American. I have experienced anti-Asian racism since grade school, whether it was generalized calls of “chopsticks,” “ching-chong,” “chink,” “chi-fry-ryce”; or the more specific, “Jap,” “Hiroshima,” “sushi roll,” “geisha girl.” I have been hit with “too bad your egg-roll […]
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 Brendan Maslauskas Dunn/Love and Rage A small group of people waited outside Utica’s Cornerstone Community Church the evening of Wednesday, November 16 for a scheduled activist meeting leading up to the Expect Resistance – Post Election Rally. The rally was planned weeks earlier to protest disastrous ongoing […]
by Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage As three football players from Syracuse’s Nottingham High School varsity team knelt for the national anthem before a football game, people took notice. The reports were written. This specific action taken against police brutality, spreading through the pro and college ranks of multiple […]
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 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 Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage Since publishing the article on the activities of the Utica Police Department over the last week, there has been much for Utica activists to get caught up on, and ahead of as the story spread, garnering several thousand reads over the last week […]
by Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage photos by Derek Scarlino SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Around 300 people gathered at the Everson Museum of Art located in downtown Syracuse this morning for a demonstration in the name of Black Lives Matter. Speeches were given at the museum by organizers associated with Project […]
by Project X/Press Release For Immediate Release Contact: Shaunna Spinner-Spivey, CEO Project X 315-760-2037 shaunna.spiveyspinner@gmail.com Local Organization: Project X Joins Organizers in Local #BLM Demonstration 12 July 2016 SYRACUSE – “This movement is not radical, aggressive or violent…those are some of the issues that we are aiming to […]
by Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage Waking up to a text message from a close friend that read “I’m sick of the police,” I didn’t respond immediately, instead typing “police shooting” into Google and instantly coming across an article from The Advocate about the shooting of Alton Sterling by […]
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