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March 17, 2025Essay
‘Community’ As Trendy Buzzword Amongst the Left: How Identity Divides Us and Class Unifies Us
The concept of building community is commonly used as a buzzword by NGOs and leftists as a proposed solution to the struggles faced under capitalism within the imperial core, where we find ourselves socially alienated and struggling to tread water financially. The issue however is that it rarely materializes into anything more than empty platitudes.
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March 17, 2025Essay
💙🌊 Canoe Landing On Canadice Lake 💙🌊
Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty Not too many waters are as pure as Canadice Lake. The wildness of the wilderness still remains as homes are prohibited from the shoreline and large boats are banned from the waves. Just the tranquility of fresh water splashing on the
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March 17, 2025Essay
Justice for Sam Nordquist
We are here today heartbroken and angry. We mourn the brutal murder of Sam Nordquist, a Black transgender man from Minnesota who went missing here in Canandaigua. Sam’s life was cut
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February 11, 2025Reviews
PRETTY UGLY
Interview with photographer Nate Tangeman
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February 5, 2025Essay
Butterfly Society
By Hank Stone The most effective work we can do for society is to describe the positive future we want. We need to imagine, and lead, where we want society to go. Society has become stuck. Yet many imagine that life will continue as it has, indefinitely. Population growth has not (so far) interfered with
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December 9, 2024Essay
An Anarchists Sketchbook
Nic Sweet talks praxis and theory in his evolution as an artist When I’m making pictures, everything in my life is going to bleed into it. I didn’t get into a lot of theory until my twenties. And not to Kropotkin or Bookchin until I was 30 at least and had my first stable job
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December 3, 2024Reviews
The Making of Solarpunk Ranger
Interview with creator Nic Sweet BIOGRAPHICAL INFO Boom Town Press: What inspired you to get into graphic novel making or cartoon making? Nic Sweet: I think the first comic book I remember was Spectacular Spider-Man. He was fighting the Tarantula, I think, like the first comic book I remember
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December 2, 2024Essay
Letter to University of Rochester President
Re: UR action against pro Palestine students By Robert Sandrund December 2, 2024Robert Sandgrund92 Shepard StreetRochester, NY 14620 President Sarah MangelsdorfUniversity of RochesterRochester, NY 14627Re: UR action against pro Palestine students Dear President Mangelsdorf, I am a Jewish community member. In its statement regarding the arrest of the four pro-Palestine students, University of Rochester Jewish
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August 29, 2024News
Sensational Inclusion is a Culturally Rich, Accessible Learning Center for Neurodiverse Children
Dr. Tyana Velazquez-Smith has a unique understanding of the needs of her neurodiverse students. Having been diagnosed with autism as an adult, she now uses her perspective to create inclusive and sensory-friendly educational environments through Sensational Inclusion, a learning center and educational program she created in February this year. Already, Sensational Inclusion has worked with
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July 30, 2024News
Kirsten Gillibrand! When will you listen?
A grand day to be heard. Paying guests are chastised from the other side of the fence at a Garden Party fundraiser for Kirsten Gillibrand in former Brighton supervisor, Sandy Frankel’s backyard. Note: Kirsten Gillibrand has received around $500,000 in campaign support from AIPAC which was part of the $900,000 total from supporters of Israel’s
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‘Community’ As Trendy Buzzword Amongst the Left: How Identity Divides Us and Class Unifies Us

💙🌊 Canoe Landing On Canadice Lake 💙🌊

Justice for Sam Nordquist

PRETTY UGLY

Butterfly Society

Trending

Ahmed Launches Warp & Weft Palestine

Study, Don’t Speculate: Responding to Kent Gardner’s “Explorations” on a Community Utility

Still Here

An Anarchists Sketchbook

The Making of Solarpunk Ranger

Letter to University of Rochester President

Sensational Inclusion is a Culturally Rich, Accessible Learning Center for Neurodiverse Children

Kirsten Gillibrand! When will you listen?