The Latest from Black Rose/Rosa Negra
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Movie Screening: Capitalism — A Love Story
DATE: Tuesday, July 17th TIME: 7:00pm PLACE: Flying Squirrel Community Center (285 Clarissa St.) In anticipation for the local Anti-Capitalist March on July 21st, Rochester Red & Black will be screening Capitalism: A Love Story by Michael Moore. Afterwords, we will have a brief discussion about the importance of explicitly anti-capitalist activity for today’s movements.…
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Against Fascism, Against Racism
Wild Rose Collective endorses the July 31 Day of Action against Fascism and Racism. The recent membership leak of the neo-Nazi group the National Socialist Movement and other similar leaks demonstrate that across the country fascists are living in our neighborhoods. Here in Iowa City, like many other places across the world, we too have seen murmurings of…
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Solidarity to the students of Quebec!
WRC operates in the moderately sized Iowa City, home to the state’s largest university — the University of Iowa. Like many university towns the student population, perhaps the most present in Iowa City, remain relatively silent as political actors. Either unaware of or apathetic to their power to resist the privatization of the University and…
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Saturday 6/16/12 1pm: Montreal Today, Miami Tomorrow
Saturday June 16th MAS, Occupy FIU, SEA, and others are holding a panel discussion on the student movement in Montreal, implications for and activity of students in Miami, and environmental justice. The event will include student activists presenting a broad overview of student movements and their compelling impact on society, and a discussion on the…
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Sunday Noon Downtown: From Miami to Montreal No Tuition Hikes
In Quebec, Canada students have gone on strike fighting against tuition increases, a struggle that we in Florida can understand. As covered in a recent Huffington Post article, Occupy FIU has called for a rally at the Canadian consulate downtown to protest the repression of the infectious student movement in Montreal and against the tuition…
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Crime
Today we feature two contributions on crime. The first is from the blog Morelli84 called Crime and Crimen: do they intersect? The piece explores crime literature, the drug war, media, and terror & calls for looking at crime that goes beyond the spectacle reproduced daily around us. The whole piece is reprinted below. Second, we share…
