by Brendan Maslauskas Dunn/Love and Rage The taxi rolled to a sudden and unexpected stop. The driver turned around. “Estamos aqui. Oventic.” For the last hour the car had driven the winding roads from the city of San Cristobal de las Casas to our destination – a small village […]
by Mohawk Valley Freedom School In celebration of May Day, the Mohawk Valley Freedom School will screen the classic film “Matewan” (1987) at 500 Plant Street directly following the May Day rally. The film will start at 7pm. The film was written and directed by John Sayles and […]
by Black Rose / Rosa Negra A rally will be held on May Day, otherwise known as May First or International Workers’ Day, at the intersection of Burrstone Road and Genesee Street in Utica in front of McDonald’s from 5pm – 6:30pm. May Day is an international day […]
by Brendan Maslauskas Dunn/Love and Rage “We are out for Ireland for the Irish. But who are the Irish? Not the rack-renting, slum-owning landlord; not the sweating, profit-grinding capitalist; not the sleek and oily lawyer; not the prostitute pressman – the hired liars of the enemy. Not these […]
by Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage Note on this re-publishing: I originally published this on the Utica Phoenix website in September of 2012, before the 2012 Presidential Elections (it is currently up on Daily Kos). It still contains a lot of relevant criticisms of Barack Obama as well as […]
The January/February issue for the Industrial Worker, the newspaper for the labor union the Industrial Workers of the World has just hit the stands (and the web). The IWW is also active in the greater Utica area and upstate New York. You can visit the IWW website at […]