Saturday, November 16 at 2:00pm – 4:00pm
Central Library Community Meeting Room 447 S. Salina, Syracuse

Join us to discuss election results and where we go from here while enjoying some snacks. This meeting will also be open to zoom attendees. Link will be sent in Thursday’s email.

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

With another Trump presidency and a GOP-controlled Senate looming, Senate Democrats must make the most of this time and do everything in their power to protect our rights. The Senate has confirmed over 200 of these judges, but there are 30 more nominations still pending – and that number could grow before Biden leaves office.

Email Your Senators Here

Our fight to protect and empower immigrants depends on supporters like you who are committed to creating a more just New York for our immigrant communities. By donating to the New York Immigration Coalition, you play a vital role in propelling our campaigns forward to ensure immigrant New Yorkers are rightfully protected and can live life with dignity and respect. Also see event below on November 16th.

Donate Here

There’s still a change to get congestion pricing through before next year. If we do, it will stand, and benefit NY. If we don’t, Trump can and will kill it. Governor Hochul is re-considering her opposition. Please call her today and tell her to begin congestion pricing. We don’t have much time. 518-474-8390 Press 1 to leave a message.

Also call your state legislators so they can know that their constituents care about this. This is really big. For those who care about the environment and health, this will reduce a lot of pollution, and help ambulances get to hospitals. For those who care about accessibility, the revenue from this will make many more stations accessible. And for those who care about resistance, this is a very good way to do just that. Trump wants to kill this. Let’s deny him the chance.

The key to taking effective action in a Trump world is to avoid perpetuating the autocrat’s goals of fear, isolation, exhaustion and disorientation.

Read it in Waging NonViolence

Remember that during the first Trump term, mass mobilization—including some of the largest peaceful protests in world history—was the battery that charged the resistance.

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Yes, extremist courts, including a Supreme Court stocked with MAGA loyalists, are poised to rubber-stamp Trump’s lawlessness. But litigation can slow Trump down, give us time to prepare and help the vulnerable, and deliver some victories.

Read it on Time

Local wins couldn’t offset Democrats’ anxieties over losing the presidency. Donald Trump’s win couldn’t offset the gut punch created by local Republican losses.

Read on Central Current

Tenants rights advocates who have long-heralded “good cause” as a tool that could help tenants avoid displacement — a key driver of the city’s housing crisis — think landlords are bluffing. Advocates said “good cause” shouldn’t disrupt the business of responsible property owners.

Read on Central Current

At Haymarket, we believe that books are crucial tools in struggles against racism, imperialism, and capitalism—and for a better world. That’s why we’ve decided to make TEN key ebooks free to download: join us in reading these indispensable works of analysis, history, and strategy.

Access it at Haymarket Books

Tuesday, November 12^th, Noon

Steps of Syracuse City Hall, 333 East Washington Street, Syracuse

Families for Lead Freedom Now, NYCLU,  Legal Services of CNY

 All our children deserve a fair chance at the start of life. Syracuse children are already burdened by decades of lead paint poisoning. Now, new data and media reports reveal a new source of danger for our children: contamination from many of the 14,000 water service lines made of lead itself. Lines that bring the drinking water into Syracuse homes. It is time to decide that burdening our children with more sources of lead poisoning is unacceptable! Watch Here!

 Tuesday, November 12th 6:00 – 7:30 pm

Fayetteville Library 300 Orchard St. Fayetteville NY or Zoom

Come join us at the CCAA November Member Meeting!

Presentation By: Dale Sherman, EnergyWright

Register Here for in-person attendance or Zoom link

Tuesday, November 12 at 6:00pm

Northside Learning Center, 501 Park St, Syracuse

Does your landlord fail to ensure you have hot water and heating? Does your landlord fail to do repairs? Come learn how to build your own tenants union to get your demands and rights met! 

Learn More Here

November 14, 2024 | 11:45 AM-1 PM | Zoom

Sandra Bigtree (Mohawk), Indigenous Values Initiative, and Philip P. Arnold, Syracuse University

The Joan & Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Social Thought & the Ignatian Tradition 

Bigtree (Mohawk Nation) and Arneld are founders of the non-profit organization, The Indigenous Values Imitative. Using a “values approach,” their work with the Onondaga Nation leadership over the last 45 years has resulted in the creation of the Skä-non-Great Law of Peace Center in 2015. Skä-nonh means ‘peace’ that can only be achieved when human beings are in a proper relationship with all living beings. including non-human persens. Since 2005, Arnold and Bigtree have been werking en the Doctrine of Christian Discovery (DoCD). In 2010 they founded the Doctrine of Discovery Project and are now working for the education of the general public as well as the academic community.

Register Here

Thursday, November 15 at 5:30pm

Common Council Chambers at City Hall

A Public Works Committee meeting is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, in the Van B. Robinson Common Council Chambers at City Hall. The purpose, according to a meeting notice, is to “to hold a town hall-style meeting to educate the community and address concerns regarding water sampling as it relates to lead.”

Learn More Here

November 15th 7 PM – 9:30 PM

ArtRage Gallery, 505 Hawley Ave 13203

CNY Workers’ Center  will be hosting a film screening and discussion of the film.

It lies within every undocumented immigrant family with the threat that at any moment they can be captured, incarcerated, deported; their lives destroyed. BORDERLAND | The Line Within not only exposes the profitable business of immigration and its human cost, but weaves together the stories of immigrant heroines and heroes resisting and showing a way forward, intent on building a movement in the shadow of the border industrial complex, recognizing the human rights of all. 

View Trailer / Buy Tickets

Friday, November 15

Syracuse Urbanism Collective

Central New York is on the cusp of growth and change. Join the conversation to help plan for the kind of growth that will best serve the community we call home. Learn more and buy your ticket or at this link! The ticket price covers a full day of programming, plus two meals and a swag bag.

We have $1000 worth of need-based scholarship tickets to give out, first come first serve. If you’re in need of assistance and would like to attend any or all sessions, please reach out to contact@syracuseurbanism.org with the subject “SG2024 Scholarship”.

More information at syracuseurbanism.org/sgcny. 

November 16, 2024 | 4:30pm – 8:30pm

Bishop Harrison Center 1342 Lancaster Ave, Syracuse

NYIC is hosting an enforcement response convening in Syracuse. This will be for organizers, volunteers and community leaders in Central NY, North Country, and the Southern Tier. We will do some education, training and local planning. Food will be provided, childcare activities and Spanish interpretation available.

Register Here

Monday, November 18th from 11:00am – 2:00 pm.

Legal Services of CNY, 221 South Warren St, Syracuse

Learn about this historic legislation to end perpetual punishment by sealing old convictions records. Have your criminal record reviewed by reentry advocates, learn about the Clean Slate Act, and discover other forms of relief you may be eligible for. 

Register Here

Monday, November 18th from 5 – 6:30 pm.

The Dunbar Center. 453 S. State Street, Syracuse

Join Central Current for an interactive conversation about the state of local news.

Admission is free, and refreshments will be served.

We want to hear your thoughts about local news in Syracuse and Central New York:

Do you pay attention to local news?

What subjects do you wish were reported on more?

Do you think local news is accessible? How do you access it?

What role should local news play in your community, and is it living up to that standard?

We ask these questions for a simple reason: as a newly formed, independent, and nonprofit newspaper – we want to make sure that our reporting is meeting your needs. This session will help us improve our own work, while also providing a space to educate participants about the decline of local news resources and the work being done to rebuild them here in CNY.

Reserve a seat

Tuesday, November 19 at 5:30pm

401 Montgomery Street Room 407 Syracuse

Review New Map Here

Thursday, Nov. 21 7:00 pm

ArtRage

Come celebrate the powerful artwork and inspirational words that fill the 2025 Peace Calendar and the 2025 Women Artists Datebook. People who created both publications will be on hand to talk about the process and meaning behind it, along with poetry readings from poets included in the Datebook.

In honor of the one year anniversary of Dik Cool’s passing, there will be sharing about his life and ongoing legacy of cultural activism.

Free and open to the public.

Thursday, Nov. 28 at 10-11 AM

Willow Bay at Onondaga Lake Park

On Thanksgiving morning, Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation gather each year with Onondaga people on the shores of Onondaga Lake to express thanks for the goodness of the Earth and to each other for our ongoing friendship, working side-by-side in peace and hope for healing, justice, and environmental restoration. You are invited to join us.

Some years it’s relatively warm, other years snowy and frigid. Please dress for the weather.

Questions, contact Cindy Squillace, cindysquillace@gmail.com

Facebook Event

GreeningUSA’s Next Virtual Green Bag Lunch

Friday, December 13, 2024 12:00-1:30pm

Registration:  https://tinyurl.com/56jtkht4  

An important component of the sustainability triad is economic development and an equally important component is social equity. The economic development which the central New York Micron project presents can only be accomplished in a sustainable fashion if the benefits such as jobs are equally available to the existing residents of central New York and when worker health and safety are paramount. This presentation will feature panelists who will talk about their perspective on the economic equity aspects of the Micron project.

PANELISTS:

Richard Kornbluth, CNY Solidarity Coalition. www.Cnysolidarity.org

Tylah Worrell, Executive Director, Urban Jobs Task Force. https://www.ujtfs.org/about-5

Khadeejah Ahmad, Jobs to Move America. https://jobstomoveamerica.org

Carolin Casteel, National Lead Organizer, Jobs to Move America

https://jobstomoveamerica.org/role/staff/

FREE! But you must be registered to attend. 

Syracuse Community Choir

Sunday, December 15 – 4 PM

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! 

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