by Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage photos by Christopher Casey and Kimberly Jones UTICA – On Thursday November 12th, the lights in the classroom of the Cornerstone Community Church were turned on a little before 7 PM. This night of the week is usually reserved for meetings of the Mohawk […]
by Lana Nitti/Love and Rage Two years ago I was sent a very interesting piece of investigative journalism from USA Today entitled, “Ghost Factories”. This article looked at the societal impacts of formerly unknown lead smelters throughout the United States. It also detailed ongoing and intentional failure on […]
Press Releases On Thursday, November 12 at 7:00pm there will be a community activist networking meeting that will be open to local activist, community and student groups. The reason why this meeting was called is because there are so many organizations and individuals doing great things in the […]
by Mohawk Valley Freedom School/Press Releases The acclaimed 2012 documentary “Free Angela and All Political Prisoners” will be screened at the Mohawk Valley Freedom School on Thursday, November 5 at 7:00pm. The film chronicles young Black revolutionary Angela Davis’s trial in connection with the Marin County attempted jailbreak […]
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 Mohawk Valley Freedom School/Press Releases In remembrance of the founding of the Black Panther Party in October of 1966, the last Freedom School class of this month will look at the politics of the Black Panther Party as well as other groups of the New Left of […]
by Mohawk Valley Freedom School/Press Releases On Thursday October 15th, the Mohawk Valley Freedom school will forego meeting at its home at 500 Plant Street and instead encourage everyone to head to The Other Side Gallery in South Utica for a screening of the documentary, Merchants of Doubt, based […]
by Mohawk Valley Freedom School /Press Releases Members of the Love and Rage Media Collective will give a presentation and facilitate an interactive discussion about corporate media, independent media, citizen and grassroots journalism and the Love and Rage media initiative. A short history of Love and Rage as well […]
by Mohawk Valley Freedom School/Press Releases Based on Canadian author Naomi Klein’s 2007 book of the same name, The Shock Doctrine argues that libertarian free-market policies (as advocated by the economist Milton Friedman) have risen to prominence in some developed countries because of a deliberate strategy by some […]
by Mohawk Valley Freedom School/Press Releases On Thursday, September 24th, the Mohawk Valley Freedom School located at Cornerstone Community Church in Utica will be hosting a presentation and discussion on the Ban the Box campaign which is seeking to expand further locally. Ban the Box is a national […]