1. Steve Sussman, Larry Hoyte & Francis Parks Photo from Syracuse Stories 2011 Festival courtesy of Daylight Blue Media Syracuse Stories and Daylight Blue Media filmmakers Courtney Rile and Michael Barletta premiere  “Syracuse Stories” a documentary chronicling the week-long Syracuse Stories Festival held in July 2011. Courtney…

  2. The Nakba (catastrophe) is the uprooting and displacement of 750,000 Palestinians as the state of Israel was created in 1947-48, a process which has continued ever since. We will gather to remember and commit ourselves to working for justice for the Palestinians and all who…

  3. An award-winning photographer for the Syracuse Post-Standard, Mike Greenlar traveled 10 times to a remote mountain region of Laos to document the effects of cluster bombing on the Hmong people. The US covert bombing campaign, between 1964 and 1973, gave Laos the distinction of being…

  4.   Sandra Stephens’ exhibition was an  in-depth look at how culture contributes to our construction of identities. Pieces looked at race, class, gender and sexuality. She explored how war propaganda simplifies and objectifies the view of the “other” – the “enemy”; the effect our visual culture…

  5.   In collaboration with the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation Utica-native Patrick Fiore has created a series of paintings inspired by Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States 1492 – Present.” ArtRage exhibited all 34 of his original paintings and the Gage Foundation  unveiled…