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Election for coordinating committee will be at our next meeting on January 12, 2025. The Coordinating Committee plans and organizes the Coalition meetings. Currently we meet on zoom two or three times a month depending on our meeting schedule. Terms are only 1 year. Submit your name or nominate someone by emailing cnysolidarity@gmail.com by January 8th, 2024. 

Interested but want to learn more? Watch a Coordinating Committee Meeting on zoom to learn more on Thursday, January 2 at 10:00am. Contact us for the zoom link.

Join us at our first meeting of 2025! With the new administration coming we will have a lot to talk about and organize around. All are welcome. RSVPs are appreciated.

Annual Meeting – January 12, 2 PM – 4 PM  In person. 

Bishop Harrison Center, 1342 Lancaster Avenue, Syr. 13210

February 9,  2:00pm – 4:00pm In person.

Bishop Harrison Center, 1342 Lancaster Avenue, Syr. 13210

Meeting Policy: In case of a change due to weather, health warnings, etc., we will make a decision by 10 AM the day of the meeting and switch to Zoom. An email notification will be sent.

Every Syracuse Tenant deserves safe, stable and affordable housing. Right now many Syracuse tenants are living in horrific conditions due to slumlords who won’t make timely repairs. No-cause retaliatory evictions are on the rise and rents in Syracuse are increasing faster than any other municipality in the country: 22% average increase in one year (source: NY Times)

By signing this petition you are taking a step in supporting the campaign to Stop Slumlords and win Safe Housing for All. 

We call on the Syracuse Common Council to:

1. Opt into the STRONGEST version of Good Cause eviction.

2. Pass Syracuse Tenants Union’s Rental Registry Proposal (see proposal here)

3. Fund and conduct a vacancy study for ETPA rent stabilization
   
   

Click here to sign

MSF has been working in Palestine before and throughout the current war, providing desperately needed medical care and aid in a fast-changing, politically charged setting. Here are some of the questions frequently asked about our work and mission as it pertains to the ongoing crisis.

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Central Current is pleased to announce that we have been selected as a 2025 Report for America host newsroom partner. Through this partnership, we will be adding a new reporter to our growing team – allowing us to expand our coverage of housing and infrastructure including the I-81 viaduct removal, the community grid construction, and Syracuse’s public housing redevelopment.

Journalists interested in this position can apply here, by Feb. 3, 2025 for positions beginning July 7, 2025.

A  great way to learn, connect with activist work and contribute to transformation of our troubled world. We regularly have interns working with us on social media marketing  and on the Peace Calendar in the winter/spring semester.  If you’re interested in another kind of internship, please reach out to us.

We’re looking for two interns for the winter/spring semester (both requiring a flexible 10 hours/week). Unfortunately the internships are unpaid at this point.  The ideal candidates are people who pay close attention to progressive politics and social movements and has an eye for powerful graphics.

More Info Here

From the Invest in Our New York Campaign:

“We’re glad Governor Hochul heard New York voters during the November elections: they are fed up with the status quo of barely making ends meet and expect her to seriously tackle New York’s ever-growing economic inequality and affordability crisis. 

“But with the impending federal budget cuts coming from the Trump administration, Governor Hochul and state lawmakers need to go much further than sending one-time payments, and do everything they can to keep money in New Yorkers’ pockets for the long term. 

“A majority of New Yorkers know and support the best solution to make our state affordable for generations to come: raising billions of new public dollars by making the ultra-wealthy and wealthy corporations pay their fair share and fully funding our public health system and schools, funding universal free childcare, shrinking utility costs, and more…”

Read  more here

There is promising evidence that workers may be more progressive on economic issues than in the recent past, and in relation to their professional-class peers. As a forthcoming analysis from the Certified Workers’ Compensation Professional program shows, workers do embrace progressive economic positions. Meaning, those on the left have an opportunity to develop an appealing populist economic program. Such a program would confront the very structure of the job market, ending mass layoffs, automation, and offshoring. It would advocate for rebuilding the industrial heartland, providing high-wage jobs for workers at all levels of education, not just for professionals in “smart” coastal hubs. And it would seek to strengthen union rights, revitalize social programs, lower costs and improve education.

Read it  on The Guardian

This all comes as The New York Times has confirmed past reporting by +972 Magazine that on October 7, 2023, Israel loosened military rules meant to protect noncombatants in Gaza. Award-winning Israeli journalist Gideon Levy decries the moral decay of Israel, which has gone so far as to open a luxurious rest area for soldiers in northern Gaza. 

Read it on Democracy Now

“If Congress wants to wash itself of conflicts of interest it can start by passing a stock trading ban.” The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft found that at least 37 members of Congress and their relatives traded between $24-113 million worth of stock in companies listed on Defense and Security Monitor’s Top 100 Defense Contractors index.

Read on Common Dreams

That figure is three times the number of deaths reported earlier this year by the U.S. Interior Department. 

Read on Democracy Now

Governor Kathy Hochul signed the Climate Change Superfund Act (S.2129/A.3351), nation-leading legislation that will use the polluter-pays model exemplified by existing federal and state superfund laws to collect $75 billion over twenty-five years for climate change adaptation from the parties most responsible for causing the climate crisis – big oil and gas companies.

Read More Here

Tuesday, December 31·5:00 – 6:00 pm

Clinton Square, 161 Genesee St, Syracuse

Join the Syracuse Peace Council for a vigil calling for peace and investment in our communities instead of war.

Apply by January 1

Winter/Spring 2025 | January 29 – April 9, 2025

Citizens Academy Is Searching For Its Next Exceptional Cohort!

Citizens Academy is an 11-week educational program that informs community members how local governments are organized, and how services are funded and delivered. The program is a place to learn about community involvement through an integrated approach to economic vitality, social equity, and a healthy environment.

Your journey to making a positive impact starts here!

Thursday, January 2, 2025 by 5:00pm

Many races in local elections are uncontested. With 19 towns, 15 villages, the city of Syracuse and Onondaga County, there are many positions to fill from town councilors, village trustees, city councilors to county legislators & more. Anyone wishing to be considered as a Democrat candidate in 2025 for any state or local elected office in the County of Onondaga, and who seeks the OCDC designation, must submit a letter of intent to run and a current resume by Thursday, January 2, 2025 to participate in the process. To learn more about the process visit: https://www.ocdemocrats.com/designation

Wed., Jan. 7 – 6 p.m.

Central Library’s Community Room (first floor), 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse

RSVP

Citizen Action of New York and Citizens’ Climate Lobby CNY are hosting a teach-in for climate activists on the extremely important, increasingly relevant, and slightly complicated Cap & Invest system.

If you aren’t familiar, Cap and Invest is coming to New York State–hopefully by the end of 2025. With Cap and Invest, we could see funding for climate solutions that we’ve never seen before. This is one way the state’s Climate Law can get funded. 

Join us to talk about this program and how we can work together to make sure it actually works the way it’s supposed to by participating in upcoming public comment periods and hearings.

Thursday, January 9th at 6pm on Zoom

We are a volunteer medic collective providing free basic healthcare care at protests. Based in Onondaga Land (Syracuse NY)

We’re mainly looking for anyone with any kind of medical training, doesn’t have to be current, however, if you have none and are interested in joining that’s fine too. Residents of the Syracuse area,  age 18+. If you are interested in becoming a member please fill out this survey, even if you can’t make this meeting day. 

Register Here

Friday, January 10 from noon to 1:30 p.m.

In 2025, for the first time, New York State will start collecting substantial amounts of money under the state’s new Cap and Invest program. Learn more about this new program and ways for those funds to be spent effectively and where it matters: increasing affordability, decreasing pollution, and prioritizing communities that have suffered the most from pollution, disinvestment, and the burdens of burning fossil fuels. Importantly, this spending can establish new statewide programs and strengthen existing programs that help New Yorkers decarbonize their homes for clean, affordable heating and cooling. Join us to learn more about the Cap and Invest program and the NY Renews Fund Climate Campaign.
Panelists:
Jasu Scott, Lead Coalition Organizer, New York Renews
Ethan Gormley, Climate Justice Organizer, Citizen Action of New York
Free! But you must Register by 11am on Friday, January 10, 2025

Registration:   https://tinyurl.com/yxc6z25h

Thursday, Jan. 16 at 5:30 p.m.

Grant Middle School auditorium, 2400 Grant Blvd., Syracuse

Thursday, January 16th at 6:00 PM 

Community Folk Art Center, 805 E Genesee St, Syracuse, 13210

In this captivating exhibition, 13 artists explore Black Women’s Care Pedagogy in CNY communities by creating artwork inspired by Black women who lived, worked, and loved in this space throughout time. 

Saturday, January 18th at 11am – 1:30pm

March from the Federal Building in Downtown Syracuse to United Methodist Church, University Ave

March from the Federal Building in Downtown Syracuse to United Methodist Church, University Ave. where we will have a keynote speaker, Internationally known woman’s activist, May Sabai Phyu. March will begin at 11 am, arriving at the Church by noon for speakers.  Join us for coffee and hot chocolate after the March. If you are unable to March meet us at the Church at 12 noon for the speaker and community.

https://www.womensmarch.com/

We are not done. With Trump set to return to the White House early next year, we’re facing a moment that calls us to act boldly. It’s time to march. Join us!

RSVP to Syracuse March Here   | Syracuse March on Facebook  

January 20,2025

Metropolitan AME Church, 1518 M Street NW Washington DC 20005

While Donald Trump is being sworn in, let us rise up and march for the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on his sacred federal holiday.

Let’s honor the fight for justice, equality, and change!

With Rev. Al Sharpton, Founder & President, National Action Network

Register & to find a bus in a city near you

WWW.NATIONALACTIONNETWORK.NET 

In 2025, New York State’s landmark Climate Law is under attack. With fast approaching deadlines and a climate change denier headed to the Oval Office, New York can and must be a climate leader for the rest of the nation.

Thankfully, in 2025 New York State will start collecting substantial amounts of money under the state’s Climate Law for the first time. It’s our job to ensure that money is spent effectively for climate justice.

RSVP today to join us in Albany on January 22nd for a statewide Fund Climate mobilization and lobby day to demand action on the climate crisis.

NY Renews is coordinating buses and transportation across the state. Contact Ethan at egormley@citizenactionny.org for more information

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.      

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

Focused on the war in the middle East…Israel’s military genocide of Gaza and  invasion of Lebanon. We 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.) When the temperature is below 29 degrees, we cancel! 

Watch past meetings about Micron, Good Jobs Town Hall, Rallies and more on our YouTube Channel.

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. 

Donate Online through PayPal

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