Lawnsigns for John Mannion for Congress and Rachel May for State Senate are available for free at our office. We’re open Mon-Fri 9 am to 4 pm. While you’re here, check out some of our other merch!

https://syracuseculturalworkers.com/ 

from County Elections Commissioner Dustin Czarny

In my first Czarny Seminar of 2024 I cover the topic of registering to vote in New York. I go over how to register to vote online and in person. All deadlines are covered for this year’s Presidential election and next year’s primary. Go to www.onvote.net   to check your registration and register or update your voter registration online today.

View the Czarny Seminar Here

From the League of Women Voters HERE

The November General Election is approaching! Here are 4 ways you can vote this Fall:

Early Voting In-Person: October 26th-November 3, 6 am to 9pm.

Where? Find your early voting poll site at voterlookup.elections.ny.gov

Election Day In-Person November 5th, 6am-9pm.

Where? Find your Election Day poll site at voterlookup.elections.ny.gov

You can also vote by mail through absentee or early mail:

For both:

How? Apply for a ballot, receive ballot and send back to the Board of Elections.

When? Applications must be received by October 26th or competed in person at the Board of Elections up to November 5th.

Where? Ballots must be sent back/dropped off at the Board of Elections by November 5th.

For absentee, only

Who? Any registered voter with an excuse to not come in-person to the polls, such as absence from the state.

How? Apply for a ballot at ballotapplication.elections.ny.gov/home/absentee, download and mail from elections.ny.gov/request-ballot, or go in-person to the Board of Elections.

Ideal for? Those with permanent illnesses/disabilities that will keep them from the polls, since absentee applications can be marked as recurring.

For Early Mail, only

Who? Any registered voter!

How? Apply for a ballot at https://ballotapplication.elections.ny.gov/home/earlymail, download and mail from elections.ny.gov/request-ballot, or go in-person to the Board of Elections.

Onondaga County General Election polling places & early voting locations are up on the website! 

Early Voting Sites: https://onondaga.gov/elections/early-voting/

General Election Day Polling Sites: https://onondaga.gov/elections/polling/

The unions of the Greater Syracuse Labor Council, AFL-CIO, are committed to informing the public about the dangers of Project 2025 and why it is important for us as a community to reject these reactionary policy proposals.n by organized labor over 125 years 

Read it Here

The unions of the Greater Syracuse Labor Council, AFL-CIO, are committed to informing the public about the dangers of Project 2025 and why it is important for us as a community to reject these reactionary policy proposals.n by organized labor over 125 years 

Read it Here

The Syracuse-based nonprofit reached out to more than 250 people incarcerated in New York state prisons to collect book requests.

Books and reading in prison are notoriously thorny topics for prison officials. Earlier this year, New York Focus found that prisons regularly block access to books about the criminal legal system, including books about solitary confinement and books about incarcerated women. 

• Read it on Central Current

The Movement Media Alliance is a coalition working to build a journalism of accountability based on social justice.

We made a big decision: to launch the Movement Media Alliance (MMA), a coalition of grassroots-aligned, social justice-driven journalism organizations committed to accurate, transparent, accountable, principled and just media. The MMA officially launches today, as we dedicate ourselves to working collaboratively to amplify our impact and sustain our work. Our members include Truthout, Prism, In These Times, Convergence, Waging Nonviolence, Scalawag, Inquest, The Real News Network, Baltimore Beat, Palestine Square, Respair Production & Media, The Forge and Haymarket Books.

Read it on Truthout

Tuesday, September 3, 2024 7:30 PM –  8:30 PM ET

Red Wine and Blue

Disinformation is rampant online with bad actors purposefully misleading people to exploit their concerns. No one is immune – not even those of us who understand the extent of the problem. We are all vulnerable and the impacts are real. But we can fight back! Join us to learn how to recognize disinformation and how it can be disrupted. We are thrilled to welcome Deb Lavoy of Reality Team who specializes in amplifying credible information and stopping the flow of disinformation online. The more we know, the more we can help stop this harmful tactic.  

Register for Zoom

Wednesday, September 4 @ 8pm EDT

NO to Nuclear Weapons and NO to Fossil Fuels!

Why we should be talking about nuclear weapons and fossil fuels – and what you can do about them.

Learn about the September Days of Action for a nuclear weapons and fossil fuel free world.

Expose the companies producing new nuclear weapons and promoting increased production of fossil fuels.

Find out about the many ways your group can commit to and participate in this international call against producers of nuclear weapons and fossil fuel pollution.

\Continued burning of fossil fuels will make this world uninhabitable within a few decades. A nuclear war would make this world uninhabitable in a few minutes. We must end our addiction to fossil fuels and nuclear weapons before it’s too late.

Register

Wed, Sept 04 • 6pm to 8pm

Jervis Public Library, Rome NY

Special Guest: Dr. Clemmie Harris, Utica University Professor

What You Need To Know And How Project 2025 Affects Your Community

NAACP

Rome NY Democratic Committee 

Public Invited to Attend This Free Event

September 4-5, 2024

Syracuse Marriott Downtown – 100 East Onondaga St. Syr 13202

The Future Energy Economy Summit will convene relevant state agencies and authorities, global and federal leaders, power producers, technical experts, labor groups, environmental groups, business groups and other interested stakeholders to discuss the role of next generation clean energy technologies and strategies to accelerate renewable energy deployment while collectively supporting economic development in New York.  

Register Here

Syracuse Marriott Downtown – 100 East Onondaga St. Syr 13202

Thursday, September 5th

12pm: Gather outside the Marriott downtown  

     100 E Onondaga St. in Syracuse

12:30pm: press conference and picket

New York State can lead the way to a clean energy future by building renewable energy, yet recent announcements from state agencies make it clear our climate justice plan is in trouble.

A report from the Governor’s office signals the state may be poised to push back the first major milestone of the landmark Climate Law–70% renewable electricity by 2030–accompanied by the announcement of a NYSERDA “Future Energy Economy” summit promoting nuclear power development and other false solutions to the climate crisis.

But all is not lost! It was the hard work of grassroots movements and ordinary people like you that got our climate law passed in the first place–and now it’s our hard work that will protect it.

So join us outside this summit to protect the clean AND safe energy future everyone deserves: one where we commit to climate justice, reject nuclear and all false fixes (including “renewable” natural gas and hydrogen), and create the future that we want for generations of people yet to come.

TBA: check back here for additional parts of the day’s program

Need a ride? Sign up for a carpool at our event page! 

Read more and Sign up Here!

Friday, September 6, 2024 6 – 9pm EDT

Everson Museum of Art Plaza, 401 Harrison Street Syracuse, 13202

Join us for the documentary premiere of “Voices Rising: Syracuse’s Fight Against Lead Poisoning”. The premiere will be shown outside and under the stars on the Everson Museum of Art Plaza. The first 300 people to register will receive a $10 credit towards the purchase of food from various local food trucks! #CNYCFVoicesRising

Learn More & Register Here

Saturday, September 7^th, 6-8pm

ArtRage Gallery, 505 Hawley Ave, Syr. 

Join us for the first opening reception

Meet the Artist! View our new look! And wish us well!

Ricardo Levins Morales is an artist and organizer based in Minneapolis.

He uses his art as a form of political medicine to support individual and collective healing from the injuries and ongoing reality of oppression.

His work is widely used by grassroots movements, organizations and communities.

This exhibition will examine the breathe and depth of Ricardo’s art over the past 55 years!n of the season! Free and open to the public.

Sunday, September 8th, 11:30 Am – 3:30 PM

ArtRage Gallery, 505 Hawley Ave, Syr. 

Join us for an art and craft sale to benefit Palestinian families in need of aid. Snacks, music, and a variety of handmade wares by dozens of local artists will be provided.

If you are an artist who would like to donate your work:

https://docs.google.com/…/1FAIpQLSeDam…/viewform...

ArtRage is a wheelchair-accessible space on the ground level. It has HEPA filters operating in the gallery. All volunteers will wear masks, and we strongly encourage all artists and visitors to wear them as well. There is one single-user, all-gender restroom on the premises.

More Here

Sunday September 8 –  2-5 PM

Matilda Joslyn Gage Center, 210 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville, NY 13066

The Witness to Injustice / KAIROS Blanket Exercise™ is a unique 2 ½-3-hour interactive group teaching tool. It uses participatory education to foster truth, understanding, and respect between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in the part of the world now known as the United States; especially in the territory stewarded by people of the Onondaga Nation and other Haundenosaunee peoples. 

Register Here

Friday, September 13th, 2024 Beginning at 5:30 pm)

Saturday, September 14th, 2024

Saint Kateri National Shrine and Historic Site – Fonda, NY 

Over the years the Kateri Peace Conference has worked to confront the waste and destruction of militarism and war, the suffering and injustice wrought by systemic racism; the devastation and desolation our embrace of unbridled materialism has wreaked on the planet. The hope has been to sow the healing seeds of light and love, seeds germinated from the core belief that we journey on this vulnerable planet as sisters and brothers understanding fully our need to care for each other with patience and kindness.

Info/Registration Here

Saturday, Sept 14, 2024, 9 – 11:3o AM

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

Join the Community Folk Art Center for an open house, alumni art exhibit, and panel discussion about the 30th anniversary of the first SU study abroad program in Africa (Zimbabwe). Hear about cultural programs offered at the center benefitting both the campus and the Syracuse community from CFAC Executive Director, Dr. Tanisha M. Jackson

Sunday, Sept. 15, 5:30 – 7 PM

At the renovated ArtRage Gallery, 505 Hawley Ave., Syr. 13203

We will be having chair elections in two months, we’d welcome anyone to apply or if they know someone who might want to help navigate the chapter through next year.

Agenda TBA, so bring any ideas/questions you have! 

Syracuse Democratic Socialists of America

Facebook Event

Thursday, Sept. 19th from 6 – 7:30pm 

Fayetteville Library; live and Zoom.

Hear Industry Experts, including: NYSERDA, National Grid, Clean Communities of CNY, and NY Bus Sales highlight the historic investments and incentives currently available for cleaner transportation choices.
Find out how to get assistance with applying for incentives.
Question and Answer session with industry experts.

Learn the facts about Funding, Partnerships and Resources.

Thanks to our supporters: Citizens Action of NY, Climate Change Awareness and Action, Energy 21, Greening USA, National Grid, New York Bus Sales, NYSERDA, Sierra Club – Central NY Chapter.

For more information contact pwirth2@verizon.net or 315-476-3396

Please Register Today

Friday, September 20, 12:05 pm to 1:00 pm

via Zoom. Free and open to everyone. 

Register Here

This forum will present the findings of the extensive public engagement process led by the CNY Community Engagement Committee (CEC) to identify priorities that will help ensure that opportunities presented by Micron’s investment in our region benefit all. Formed by Governor Hochul, the CEC engaged nearly 13,000 individuals through listening sessions, focus groups, surveys, and more. The findings of their recently released report, “Harnessing Opportunity, Community Priorities for Central New York,” now serve as the framework for the distribution of $500 million in awards over 20 years through the Green Chips Community Fund, a partnership between Empire State Development and Micron Technology, Inc. Panelists will speak to the depth of the engagement process, the priorities that emerged, and next steps for moving these priorities forward. The CEC report: https://www.cnycec.org/community-priorities-document

Panelists::

Daniel Kolinski, Regional Director, CNY Empire State Development 

Melanie Littlejohn, President & CEO CNY Community Foundation

Tim Penix, Vice President SUNY Syracuse Educational Opportunity Center

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.

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

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. 

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