Rochester Red & Black

02/03/2021

The union that represents RPD, the Rochester Police Locust Club, has enabled police violence in our city for far too long. In response to Locust Club President Mike Mazzeo's unforgivable comments regarding the brutalization of a 9 year old child, we call on our friends and allies in the Rochester Labor Council to break ties with the Locust Club. The time to take action is now.

08/30/2020

08/17/2020

We go to Bolivia, where opponents of the coup government have entered day 11 of a general strike and nationwide highway blockade to protest the repeated postponement of Bolivia’s first presidential election since last year’s ouster of Evo Morales by the right-wing coup government of Jeanine Áñ...

07/28/2020

Continuing the protests is the only way to resist Trump’s attempt to establish martial law in Democratic cities.

07/23/2020

For reals though.

07/21/2020

Some people hear "ethnostate" when Indigenous peoples say or when Black folks say . There is a genuine fear that Black and Indigenous peoples (and other POC) will do exactly to the oppressor what has been done to us. Take note, asking for justice and accountability has nothing to do with building an ethnostate. In fact, what we're trying to do is dismantle white supremacy and settler colonialism, the very institutions that have tried to destroy Black, Indigenous, and other POC.
- Amber Starks ()

07/21/2020

Democratic confederalism, the ideological framework organizing society in Rojava, outlines the features of a post-revolutionary justice system.

07/21/2020

An ICE agent was indignant after once again being compared to a member of the Gestapo, despite avowing to have more in common with the SS.

07/21/2020

A comprehensive list of reasons why Blue Lives Matter