Before there was such a thing as the environmental movement, Mohandas Gandhi warned of the dangers of industrialization and espoused living in balance with the earth. Fittingly, the Rochester-based institute that bears his name is stepping into the fracking debate. From 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday, September 21, the M.K. Gandhi Institute for […]
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NEWS BLOG: HBO documentary showcases gay activist Vito Russo
Vito Russo is not a household name. He’s not even well known in the gay community, though he should be. The gay activist, who died in 1990 of AIDS, was extremely influential in getting mainstream media to change its approach to covering LGBT issues. “Vito,” a new documentary for HBO, aired for the first time […]
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ACTIVISM: Protest occurs with little conflict
Last night’s rally and march to protest the Rochester Police Department occurred mostly without incident. Protestors marched from Washington Square Park to City Hall, then to the Liberty Pole. At City Hall, one protestor was writing on the building’s steps in chalk when police took him in to custody. Ultimately, he was released without being […]
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ACTIVISM: Protestors denounce police response to march
A group of protestors say police used aggressive physical force and “chemical weapons” to break up a march, even though, they say, the officers hadn’t asked anyone to disperse. An informal group of protestors – not an Occupy Rochester contingent, as police and some media erroneously reported – held an anti-capitalism march Saturday. The procession […]
