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  • Hats off to Kropotkin!!

    Happy birthday Kropotkin!

  • Facebook Posts Lead to Federal Rioting Charges

    A Daniel Prude Protester Faces 5 years in Jail for Social Media Posts

  • Youth Sports Leagues, Personnel Files, & Copaganda

    The problem with these fluffy stories is that they are anecdotal when compared to the brutal nature of our nation's carceral state and police use of force in Black communities.

  • Behind Those Giant Messages at the Protests

    Bryan Agnello, a local audio-visual producer, has been able to avoid traffic congestion and keep everyone safe by pulling the equipment on a trailer behind his bike.

  • 'Agitators', Family Dollar, and a rip-off at half the price

    Language is important. The former is doublespeak, or an attempt to shuffle the meaning of words to shift the systemic failures of the state onto the community.

  • Justice For Daniel Prude - 12th night (Sept 13)

    Video footage from the 12th night of protests.

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The Case for an Independent Police Accountability System: Transforming the Civilian Review Process in Rochester, New York (Feb. 2017)

Submitted by Rochester Indymedia on Tue, 2017-10-24 21:56

From the "Abstract" of The Case for an Independent Police Accountability System: Transforming the Civilian Review Process in Rochester, New York (Feb. 2017):

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Final Report of the Citizen's Committee on Police Affairs (1976)

Submitted by Rochester Indymedia on Tue, 2017-10-24 15:13

From the "Forward" of the Final Report of the Citizen's Committee on Police Affairs (1976):

This is the Report of the Citizens Committee on Police Affairs. It is the product of the work of fifteen persons appointed by the Honorable Thomas P. Ryan, Jr., Mayor of the City of Rochester, New York and the Rochester City Council.

The Committee was specifically charged to study and evaluate:

   a. The policy and procedures of the Rochester Police Department in regard to responding to crisis calls;

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PATHWAYS TO BETTER POLICE-COMMUNITY RELATIONS IN ROCHESTER (2004)

Submitted by Rochester Indymedia on Tue, 2017-10-24 14:38

From the "Summary" of PATHWAYS TO BETTER POLICE-COMMUNITY RELATIONS IN ROCHESTER (2004):

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A Response to "When hate whispers, let justice shout!"

Submitted by Howard Eagle on Wed, 2017-10-18 20:46
 
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Ayahuasca Offers Hope To Veterans With Treatment-Resistant PTSD

Submitted by Michael Israel on Sun, 2017-10-01 01:06

 

Twenty-two veterans a day commit suicide as a result of PTSD. An alternative therapy exists that helps veterans recover from treatment-resistant PTSD.

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Rochester Police Department Field Training and Evaluation Manual

Submitted by Rochester Indymedia on Sat, 2017-09-16 09:30

This is the Field Training and Evaluation Manual for the Rochester Police Department. The City of Rochester's Freedom Of Information Law department responded to Rochester Indymedia's request for this manual on November 9, 2016.

 

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Ploy Story: The Art of Subterfuge

Submitted by Rajesh Barnabas on Mon, 2017-09-11 19:53

 

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They Had an Antiwar Press Conference and Nobody Came

Submitted by AlBrundage on Thu, 2017-08-24 23:05



What if they gave an antiwar press conference and nobody came? Well, that's what happened July 22 2017. Local Antiwar groups International Action Center, United National Antiwar Coalition and Peace Action & Education released the following press release:

                     International Action Center
                     rochester_iac@frontier.com

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A Walk Through College Town

Submitted by AlBrundage on Thu, 2017-07-20 13:35

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Five years ago, then-mayor Thomas Richards announced a grandiose project for the University of Rochester-Strong neighborhood. It was going to be an eco-friendly project with green spaces, a transit hub, a book store and most importantly for the neighborhood, a grocery store. Wegmans supermarkets had closed their store on the location several years prior.

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The Chickens Have Come Home to Roost; Another Rochester, NY Cop Shot

Submitted by Davy V. on Mon, 2017-07-03 21:28

 

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Local Group Rallies to Oppose Trump Health Care

Submitted by AlBrundage on Sat, 2017-06-24 23:49

June 22, 2017 the same day Republicans unveiled their secretly written plan to replace Obamacare, a group was waiting to greet it with opposition. Indivisible, a group formed to explicitly oppose the Trump agenda was organizing an orderly visit to the local office of Senator Charles Schumer (D)NY to encourage and support his opposition to the Republican Act. About 25 people were present on notice of only a few hours.

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People's Climate March April 29 2017

Submitted by AlBrundage on Mon, 2017-05-01 23:25

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BEHIND THE CURTAIN: How Lovely Warren and the party of Trump have taken over the City of Rochester

Submitted by Anthony J. Plonczynski-Figueroa, Leader of the 21st LD and Vice-Chair of Sheppard for Mayor on Mon, 2017-04-03 12:55

This is a response from Anthony J. Plonczynski-Figueroa, leader of the 21st LD and Vice-Chair of Sheppard for Mayor, to our feature The Reinvention of Jim Sheppard and the Rise of the New Jim Crow. Neither piece should be read as a Rochester Indymedia endorsement of either campaign. -Ed.

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2 Guatemalan Women and 6 Children Detained after Traffic Stop and Community Resists

Submitted by SusanGalloway on Fri, 2017-03-24 15:40

On Thursday evening, two women and 5 children were stopped by Genesseo police for a minor traffic violation.  The police, rather than handle the traffic violation as a what it was, called Border Patrol.  The women and children were detained for 3 hours at the side of the road.  The children and mothers were separated including a 2 month old US citizen, who was denied nutrition because of separation.   The mother wanted to leave the children who are US citizens with the pastor, but the border patrol took the children into custody despite the mothers’ requests.

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New York Health Act could be a lifeboat if Obamacare repealed (Updated)

Submitted by AlBrundage on Fri, 2017-03-24 02:37

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Update with video at end of article 05-26-2017

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What Black Lives Matter Means: Rochester’s Black Lives Matter at School and The Importance of Education

Submitted by Black Girl With Glasses (from BlackGirlWithGlasses.wordpress.org) Image: WHEC Rochester on Wed, 2017-03-15 14:55

You can see the original piece at: https://blackgirlwithglasses.wordpress.com/2017/02/23/what-black-lives-matter-means-rochesters-black-lives-matter-at-school-and-the-importance-of-education/

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The Reinvention of Jim Sheppard and the Rise of the New Jim Crow

Submitted by Rochester Indymedia on Tue, 2017-03-14 17:43

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ELECTION TEARS & REVENGE

 

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Use Wind Storm to Empathize with Refugees

Submitted by George Payne on Mon, 2017-03-13 11:50

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Exploring Mayor Lovely Warren’s Time in Office

Submitted by Tianna Mañón, Nilan Lovelace, Michele Ashlee, Vanessa J. Cheeks, Photos by: Michele Ashlee on Thu, 2017-02-02 10:34

Rochester Indymedia and Open Mic are going to be cross posting and collaborating in the coming months on various stories. This is one of the first pieces to be cross posted. We're excited to be working with Open Mic! Check out the original article here: http://www.openmicroc.com/exploring-mayor-lovely-warrens-time-in-office/

Mayor Lovely Warren discusses her time in office. Credit: Michele Ashlee.

Mayor Lovely Warren discusses her time in office. Credit: Michele Ashlee.

Sharing the background of many of Rochester’s black residents, Mayor Lovely Warren’s grandparents migrated north seeking better economic opportunities. And like many of our grandparents, hers didn’t find it either, settling instead for labor.

Graduating from the Rochester City School District, she went on to college, law school, then became a lawyer before working in the community and later leading City Council as the youngest to ever do so.

And then that granddaughter of migrators, sharecroppers, laborers, became Rochester’s first black female mayor.

“If you look at the history of our city we’ve had periods of challenges. And we didn’t look at those and cower down.” -Warren

Mayor Lovely Warren took office in January 2014. However, it hasn’t been an easy three years. In fact, the first year of her term saw a number of scathing reports and criticism from the community. She created security positions in her office, claiming she was being threatened, and then gave them to family members. She was constantly criticized for her handling of the press and many were worried that she wasn’t as good of a pick for Rochester as they’d first hoped.

Going into 2017, Warren hasn’t announced yet if she’ll campaign for re-election. Already James Sheppard, County Legislator for the 23rd District, has announced his campaign for her seat and Rachel Barnhart who recently lost a bid for the State Assembly against Rep. Harry Bronson is toying with a mayoral run as well. Both have charged that Warren has made no change, prompting OM to look at Warren’s time in office.

We looked at four pillars as we examined her “legacy:” development, social justice, violence and crime, and putting Rochester on the map.

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Protesters Gather In Response to Trump Immigration Order (photos)

Submitted by AlBrundage on Mon, 2017-01-30 00:45

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For the second time in a week Washington Square Park and the surrounding sidewalks were packed with people protesting President Trump's executive order to ban immigration from certain countries. The ban included seven predominantly Muslim countries among them Syria, Iraq, Iran, Somalia and Yemen. By "coincidence" it did not include other nations in the area where Trump has business interests.  Photos below.

 

 

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We came to this decision after we had repeated spam posted to our website that caused difficulty with the website's functioning.  We will still have open publishing and keep our site as nonrestrictive and accessible as possible.

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