All posts tagged in Rochester
November 28, 2025
By Gary Harding I know on the surface it can look like things are moving in the right direction.The “mayor on the block” walks.The ribbon cuttings.The smiling photos with neighbors and business owners.The press releases about new initiatives and “investments in community.”I get why that feels hopeful. I really do.But here’s what it looks like
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142- November 28, 2025
Workers at Lori’s Natural Foods wrote this announcement of their intentions to the owners: We, the workers of Lori’s Natural Foods Center ,write to you to inform you we are forming a union. We believe that doing so is the best way to make Lori’s the best place it can be for working and shopping,
Read More169 - November 6, 2025
From the Witness Palestine Film Festival Rochester organizers: We are thrilled to be working with Visual Studies Workshop for an evening of short films on Thursday November 20th, 2025 from 7 to 9pm. As part of the Fall VSW Salon, join us evening of contemporary film from Palestine, exploring the role of the moving image
Read More463 - October 6, 2025
Our new County Attorney is a career prosecutor who is registered with the Conservative Party, which opposes everything Democrats stand for. Matthew Schwartz is registered as a member of the Conservative Party — a party whose platform couldn’t be more at
Read More809 - June 17, 2025
by Gregory Lebens-Higgins Rochester’s mayoral primary debate took place on May 28, between incumbent Mayor Malik Evans, ROC DSA-endorsee and city councilmember Mary Lupien, and local businessman Shashi Sinha. Lupien spoke ambitiously of her vision for a better future, while Evans and Sinha invoked limitations
Read More1.1K - April 23, 2025
Rochester’s top Democrats have nothing to say while immigrants are detained, deported, and disappeared. Mayor Malik Evans would rather talk about anything else. At a recent press conference, Evans awkwardly confirmed that Rochester police officers helped Border Patrol detain undocumented immigrants—violating the
Read More1.1K - April 21, 2025
Just a quick background setting question: How did you get into photography? I started taking photography more seriously after my paternal grandmother passed. When my sister and I were kids, she used to always visit and insist on taking photos of us. One day, when I was visiting her house, she asked me to follow
- April 12, 2025
By Bleu Cease On April 10, The Little Theatre hosted this film as part of their One Take Documentary Series presented in partnership with Rochester Contemporary Art Center (RoCo). The film tells the story of a group of young Rhode Islanders who secretly built an apartment inside the Providence Place Mall from 2003 until their
Read More1.1K - April 10, 2025
by Gregory Lebens-Higgins Did Donald Trump stage an attempted assassination to score political points? Did McDonald’s help track down Luigi Mangione using AI-powered facial recognition technology? What if
Read More751 - March 17, 2025
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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