This meeting will focus on the upcoming elections.

• Learn how you can help with voter outreach
• Hear from NYS Senator Rachel May
• Check in with volunteers who have been on the phones and at the doors
• Hear updates from our committees
• Take action by writing postcards to voters.

All are welcome. Masks are recommended.

Can you talk to 10 of your neighbors before our next meeting? It is easy to participate. Just sign up for Indivisible’s Neighbor2Neighbor program to get a short list of your neighbors, a simple script, some best practices and a printable handout. There’s no app to download and you can have these conversations on your own time.

Tuesday, October 01,  5:30 PM- 7:00PM
Central Library | 447 S Salina St, Syracuse, NY
More Details Below.

RSVP to Jobs to Move America Here

Harris supporter and international singer P!nk will be performing at the Dome on Sunday, October 6th at 6:30pm. Who do you think will be attending this concert? Probably young women, who will be key to voting in November. While people stand in line, we’ll be checking their voter registration and talking to them about voting for Harris and Prop 1. We’ll have stickers to give them too. Would you like to be a part of this fun action to engage young people in the upcoming election? Come to our CNY Solidarity Meeting Sunday, September 29th meeting to learn more details.

New York has a historic opportunity to make polluters pay for the damage they’ve done to our climate and communities.

This Spring, the New York legislature passed a groundbreaking piece of legislation, the Climate Change Superfund Act (S.2129B and A.3351B), which would force major fossil fuel companies to pay their fair share for climate damages in New York State.

Now, we just need Governor Hochul to sign the bill and make it law! Tell Governor Hochul to stop dragging her feet and sign the Climate Change Superfund Act into law now!

Sign the Petition Here

9/24 – Call Arizona for H/W with Indivisible. Link

10/1 – Call North Carolina for H/W with Indivisible. Link

10/7 – Call Georgia for H/W with Indivisible. Link

10/15 – Call Florida for H/W with Indivisible. Link

Boundary lines for the 17 districts of the Onondaga County Legislature must be redrawn again for the 2025 election, thanks to the resolution of a court case brought by local Democrats who claimed the districts were gerrymandered.

The settlement acknowledges that the district maps created in late 2021 failed to meet a requirement of state law that limits how much the districts can vary in population.

Democratic leaders will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. Tuesday to discuss the next steps. Max Ruckdeschel, county Democratic chair, said new maps should be adopted in time for the 2025 election.

Read More on MSN (article by Syracuse.com)

Russ Vought has a plan to take presidential power to new heights.

Vought is a wonkish radical who helped mastermind Project 2025 and is tipped to be Trump’s chief of staff. Given the opportunity, Vought would help Trump crush the federal bureaucracy—firing thousands of expert career civil servants and replacing them with partisan MAGA loyalists.

Read on MotherJones.com

The report does not give a specific number of officers the department needs to function. The department is currently budgeted to have 423 officers, though it has about 40 fewer than that number. 

Read on Central Current

Listen to Robert Reich’s brilliant 5 minute explanation of the damage that  private equity firms are doing to any segments of our economy.

Watch/Listen Here

From 2013 to 2022, Syracuse police officers have crashed department vehicles hundreds of times, our investigation found. Those crashes have injured and killed civilians while leaving taxpayers on the hook for at least $3 million dollars in collision damage, repairs and settlements.

Read on Central Current

“It’s abjectly terrifying that the personal benefit of any member of Congress is factored into decisions about how to wield and fund the largest military in the world,” said one critic.

…The most widely held defense contractor stock among senators and representatives is Honeywell, an American company that makes sensors and guiding devices that are being used by the Israeli military in its airstrikes in Gaza. The second most commonly held defense stock by Congress is RTX, formerly known as Raytheon, the company that makes missiles for Israel’s Iron Dome, among other weapons systems.

Read it on CommonDreams

US military interventions are not just wars on people — they’re also wars on the climate.

“The U.S. military is the single largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels in the world,” Taylor Smith-Hams, U.S. senior organizer at 350.org, a global climate justice organization, said at a workshop on the Impact of Current Wars on Climate Crisis at the Veterans For Peace (VFP) Convention on August 17. “Militarism and war are key drivers of the climate crisis” 

Read on Truthout

Tuesday, September 24 at 7PM
Durland Alternative Library Anabel Taylor Hall 241 Campus Rd, Ithaca

Wednesday, September 25, 6:00 PM

Cinemapolis Theater 120 East Green St Ithaca
Speaker after film w/Q&A: Frida Berrigan

The Berrigan brothers, Philip and Daniel, both Catholic priests, and Philip’s wife, Liz, a former nun — spent their entire lives engaged in faith-based, nonviolent resistance to war, racism, nuclear proliferation, and the Catholic Church. Named America’s “Most Wanted” fugitives by J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, they were the “influencers” of the day, not only spreading the gospel of nonviolence in pulpits worldwide, but appearing on talk shows, in rock lyrics, and on magazine covers. Speaker after film w/Q&A: Frida Berrigan

Free and open to the public

Sponsors: Ithaca Catholic Worker, The Daniel Berrigan Society, The Durland Alternatives Library

Wednesday, Sept. 25 – 1 p.m. Online

Deadline to register: Monday, Sept. 23, 3 p.m.)

Couldn’t make the in-person hearing?  There’s a virtual public hearing on National Grid’s rate hikes on Sept. 25. Register to speak up and make your voice heard without leaving home. Sign up now and let’s keep the pressure on National Grid to protect our communities from unjust rate hikes and to stop more investment in dirty fossil fuel infrastructure.

If you missed the Monday registration date for the virtual public hearing, you can submit written comments on the Department of Public Service website. 

Submit comments on Gas Service Here  |  Electric Service Here

RSVP here

Wednesday, Sept. 25 at 5:00pm – 7:00pm 

Bishop Harrison Center, 1342 Lancaster Ave, Syracuse
Friends of Dorothy is our initiative to be supportive of people with AIDS. Since October of 1992 we have offered home-based care to people with AIDS in a variety of ways, including recuperative or hospice care, supportive housing and emergency assistance.

Wednesday, September 25 @ 7pm 

Grace Church, 819 Madison Street, Syracuse

We invite all singers to join us for our 2024 winter season: Sharing the Harvest.

At our core, we are dedicated to creating a space where every voice can rise in harmony, singing songs that not only sound beautiful but also carry the powerful messages of peace, freedom, and justice.

Thursday, September 26, 2024 6-8 pm

CNY Biotech Accelerator, 841 East Fayette Street, Syracuse, NY 13210

The New York State Department of Transportation will host an upcoming open house, focused on construction along Interstate 690, Crouse and Irving Avenues, and several streets on the eastside in the City of Syracuse, as part of Contract 4 of the I-81 Viaduct Project.

Project renderings will be available for review and NYSDOT representatives, along with the Prime Contractor, will be available to answer questions. No formal presentation is planned

Un intérprete de español estará presente. handicapped accessible.

Please contact TeNesha Murphy at (315) 728-4251 if a sign language interpreter, assisted listening system, or other accommodation will be required to facilitate your participation.

Project Email: 1810pportunities@dot.ny.gov

Project Hotline: 1-855-181-TALK (855-481-8255)

Learn More on Syracuse.com | i81.dot.ny.gov

Thursday, September 26, 6 – 8pm 

Everson Museum of Art – Hosmer Auditorium, 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY, 13202 

Environmental Storytelling CNY Fall 2024 https://envirostorycny.com/events

In this interactive film screening, award-winning filmmaker and science communicator Dena Seidel and her students from Rutgers University will showcase a series of short films that focus largely on food systems and the collaborative work of scientists and communities to better understand and improve these systems. Between short films, Seidel and her team will ask the audience to reflect on what they’ve seen and to begin to craft their own food and science stories.

Thursday, September 26th, 7 pm  

Syracuse Peace Council, 2013 E. Genesee St.  (top floor, accessible, parking in the back) 

Join the Nuclear Free World Committee of SPC for Television Event, a documentary about the making of “The Day After,” which spurred the huge anti-nuclear movement in the 80s and helped inspire a world-wide round of nuclear weapons treaties during that era. Shown in recognition of the UN designated International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons . Can we do something of that magnitude to spur a renewed anti-nuclear movement?

Learn more on peacecouncil.net

Friday, September 27, 10am – 12pm 

SUNY ESF’s Digital Storytelling Studio – 120 Marshall Hall 

https://envirostorycny.com/events

In this interactive workshop, Dena Seidel and her team of undergraduate scientist filmmakers will lead a series of activities that show how science is a story that can be told in ways that reach broader audiences and encourage greater scientific and civic participation. Through this workshop, attendees will sketch out science stories and explore the close relationship between a narrative story arc and the scientific method. Rutgers students will share their video storytelling insights and discuss the trust and relationship building needed to co-create communal stories. 

Register here.

Sunday, September 29, 2024 

Start/Finish: Everson Plaza, 401 Harrison St, Syracuse 13202

A 5K Run and 3K Roll/Stroll event that traces a portion of the infamous ‘redline’ that helped segregate Syracuse. During the Great Depression, the Federal Government worked with local officials and real estate professionals to draw maps that placed red lines around neighborhoods deemed too risky to receive federal housing assistance. These ‘redlining’ maps deprived Syracuse’s most racially integrated neighborhoods of opportunity, and their effects can still be felt today. Run the Redline to experience the physical spaces shaped by these federal policies.

Sign Up Here

RSVP Here

Tuesday, October 01, 2024• 5:30 PM- 7:00PM

Central Library | 477 S Salina St, Syracuse

Jobs to Move America

Micron is coming to Central New York and is scheduled to receive upwards of $20B in public subsidies and tax credits from federal, state, and local governments. With this historic investment, the CNY community has been promised thousands of good jobs created by the project, but there has been little discussion or firm commitments made regarding what exactly a “good job” is, or how equitable access for said jobs will be achieved for current local residents, especially Syracusans. 

Please join us for a community Town Hall discussion around CNY Micron good jobs and equitable access.

RSVP to Jobs to Move America

Thursday, October 3 at 12:00-1:00p

Columbus Circle Park, 298 E Jefferson St, Syracuse

Communications Workers of America represents workers at TCG Player, a wholly owned subsidiary of eBay and we’ve been fighting for a fair contract for over a year now.

They’re all really great and brave workers – but it’s been a slog. More here: https://tcgunion.org/

We’re about to release a “Making Ends Meet” report about the poverty wages at eBay and doing a rally to get some press.

We’ll have about 50 workers and local electeds – and we’d love to have some ally support.

Thursday, October 3 at 5:30pm

Onondaga County Legislature Session

4:00 P.M. REGULAR SESSION 
5:30 P.M. PUBLIC HEARING ON THE 2025 TENTATIVE COUNTY BUDGET AS AMENDED BYTHE WAYS & MEANS COMMITTEE REPORT

Budget Documents | More Info Here

Sunday Oct. 6, 9 AM, Inner Harbor, Syracuse

2k Peace Run in memory of Brexialee “Brexi” A. Torres Ortiz

October 7 2011 – January 16 2023

Brexi was a 6th grade student at Stem @ Blodgett Middle School where she was an honor student, president of her class, loved math, dancing, and hugs. Brexi was everyone’s cheerleader, best friend and willing to help anyone in need. She was protective of her sisters, loved family time, cooking and laughed with her whole heart. Brexi was a child full of life and will be remembered as a ray of sunshine everywhere she went. Her family and friends said that you could see how much Brexi cared about others, and she showed it every day

More Details Here

Sunday, Oct.  6th from 5 – 8pm
Seneca St. Brew Pub, 315 E Seneca St, Manlius

Featuring the hypnotic rhythms and beats, and powerful vocals of Transient Kicks, we invite you to join us for an unforgettable night of live music in a vibrant atmosphere.

Come out for an evening of great tunes, craft brews, food, and the company of fellow peace advocates, all while supporting a cause that champions justice and harmony in our community.
We are asking for a donation at the door of $5 to $20, all proceeds will go directly to the Syracuse Peace Council.

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Sunday, Oct. 6th

Welcome to the 7th annual ArtRageous Bike Ride! A fun event to raise funds for ArtRage Gallery and support social justice art in CNY. Choose between two rides and enjoy a delicious lunch buffet back at ArtRage after the ride. 

Register HERE!

Central Current is hosting the first of its Current Conversations series

Monday, October 7 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. 

Community Room at Salt City Market, 505 S. Salina Street, Syracuse

Interactive Q&A about the East Adams Public Housing Redevelopment, moderated by our Managing Editor Chris Libonati, with key community leaders:

• William Simmons, Executive Director, Syracuse Housing Authority
• Michael Collins, Commissioner of Neighborhood and Business Development, City of Syracuse
• Lanessa Owens-Chaplin, Director of the Racial Justice Center, NYCLU
• Raquan Pride-Green, Executive Director, Blueprint 15
• Marquita Hetherington, Neighborhood Navigator, Blueprint 15

A panel conversation with the City of Syracuse, Syracuse Housing Authority, Blueprint15, the NYCLU, and members of the public to explore the systems to support tenants during this transition, review the projected timeline and progress to date, and discuss residents’ concerns.

Free and open to the public. Coffee and refreshments 

Register and Learn more here

October 12, 5:30-9:30pm

Gateway Building, SUNY ESF Campus

At Onondaga Earth Corps our mission is to empower young people to be active participants in creating positive change for their communities and their environment.

Info & Reservation: https://tinyurl.com/mr2ay7pt

Sunday, October 13th 2024, beginning at 12 pm

3370 State Route 11A, Nedrow

4th annual REFOCUS film showing, Haudenosaunee singing, social dancing, Onondaga vendors (food and various crafters), featured Haudenosaunee artists, children’s activities, speakers, and more Organized by members of NOON (an SPC committee), WISH CNY, in consultation with Onondaga Nation citizens

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Syracuse Street Heat is just one, very unencumbered way to work for peace and social justice. We’re part of a decades-long grassroots tradition here, in Ithaca and elsewhere. We stand out and stand up for what we stand for. 

A handful of us stand at busy intersections, for 45 minutes at rush hour, pivoting to the traffic with hand-held signs. We want to get the public thinking about issues often underrepresented in the media. We’re there weekly in almost all of Syracuse’s weather (we seldom cancel). Bring your own sign – or use one of ours. No meetings or committees, so participation time is minimal (yay!) Our Team:  Ann, Dick, Ed, Geoff, Jim, Julienne, Les, Leslie, Peter…. 

To learn more, call Ann or Ed: (315) 478 4571.      

FIRST & THIRD TUESDAYS OF THE MONTH…4 TO 4:45 P.M. (Killer Drones)

Across from the main gate of Hancock AFB, home of the 174th Attack Wing of the NYS National Guard  training Reaper drone operators. 6000 East Molloy Road.

EVERY FRIDAY…4 to 4:45 p.m. (“CEASE FIRE NOW”, etc./ Palestine solidarity)

A handful of us disperse along the sidewalk with our signs at the very busy intersection of Erie Blvd East and East Genesee St. (across from the DeWitt fire station; park in the nearby mini mall lot.)

EVERY  SATURDAY…9 to 9:45 a.m. 

(range of issues: racism, Palestine solidarity  anti-war, anti-war, etc.)

Across from the Syracuse Regional Market, 2100 Park  St. at the 81N Liverpool/Park St. exit. Park in the Market lot on the north side of Park. You can use one of our signs or bring your own.

Donate to the CNY Solidarity Coalition

CNY Solidarity Coalition contributes regularly to local progressive organizations: Syracuse Peace Council, National Action Network, & Urban Jobs Coalition. We also make occasional donations as needed to other local groups. We depend on your donations for this. 

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Mail donations to: 

CNY Solidarity Coalition

P.O. Box 6137, Teall Post Office, 226 Teall Ave., Syracuse NY 13217

Our Committees

To sign up for each of the committee mailing lists, contact the person listed. 

Indivisible Onondaga County: Contact: Tom Keck

Climate Justice: Contact: Dick Kornbluth

SLAT (State/Local Action Team) Contact: Peter McCarthy  

Beyond War and Militarism: A joint committee of CNY Solidarity Coalition and the Syracuse Peace Council. Contact: Ron Van Norstrand

Elaine Denton

Peter McCarthy

Coordinating Committee

CNY Solidarity Coalition