Thank you to everyone who made it to our gathering this past weekend. We had an amazing turnout and a great discussion about where we go from here. We will continue this discussion and continue organizing at our next meeting on Zoom: Monday, December 2 at 7pm. 

With our weekly newsletter we provide actions for you to take, articles to read and share and events to attend. Let’s remember to pace ourselves. Be conscious and protective of our mental energy. Remember that what we do matters, even when we don’t always see the results immediately. So let’s breathe together, lean in on each other, and pace ourselves for the long haul. We got this.

 

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

 

For the new people (or if we haven’t seen you in a while). Here are ten ways to get involved:

1. Come to our meetings. Bring a friend.

2. Read the newsletter and pass it on to others. Read the articles. 

3. Attend events in the newsletter. Bring two friends. 

4. Check out our website and all the resources there. 

5. Tell friends outside CNY to look up Indivisible to find local groups. 

6. Sign up for one of our committees.

7. Make a regular practice of writing and calling your legislators – use our Contact Your Representatives resource and the newsletter Action Alerts.

8. Get involved in local politics at the town, village, city, or county level. 

9. Run for office. Citizens Academy is one place to start. 

10. Check out other local organizations in our Directory of Organizations.

 

Indivisible Onondaga County has migrated from Twitter to Bluesky. 

Bluesky is a social media app that works similarly to Twitter, but isn’t owned by Elon Musk and has better user controls for avoiding unwanted content. It’s been taking off as lots of people have abandoned Twitter since the election.

We’ve been up and running for less than a week, and we already have 200+ followers. The national Indivisible folks are posting regularly, and more local Indivisible groups have been joining every day. If you’d like to join us, you can go here to set up an account:  https://bsky.app/

Then go here to find our profile and follow us: https://bsky.app/profile/indivisibleononcty.bsky.social

We’ll be sure to post some tips and tricks to help new folks get started, and we’re open to helping people out at an upcoming meeting as well.

 

There is absolutely no moral or legal justification for the atrocities and war crimes that the Israeli government is perpetrating against Palestinians. And the Biden administration and Congress have facilitated this genocide by continuously sending weapons and funding to the Israeli military, despite mass opposition from the American people. 

Israel is able to conduct these daily massacres and carry out its genocide against Palestinians because of funding and weapons from the U.S. government. This must end. It must end now.

Demand an arms embargo and an end to military funding to Israel NOW.

Write to Congress.

 

New York State continues to have the worst income inequality and some of the highest child poverty rates in the nation, yet we also have the resources to solve these problems. In 2021, New York State committed to cutting child poverty in half by 2033. This year, Gov. Hochul and the legislature can make good on that promise by passing a transformative package of policies that would slash child poverty and pay for it by fairly taxing the richest corporations and individuals.

 

It’s up to all of us to make sure New York follows through and implements these policies to lift more than a quarter million kids and their families out of poverty. Add your name to call on Gov. Hochul to include this anti-poverty agenda in her Executive Budget proposal.

 

Sign Petition Here

Onondaga County Democrats sued in 2022 Republicans and County Executive Ryan McMahon over maps they claimed were drawn improperly. A judge ruled that Onondaga County’s current district maps must be redrawn to include incarcerated individuals in September 2024. Republicans have since proposed new maps that reflect some small changes to districts. Review Maps Here 

 

Attend the Public Hearing & Make a public comment Tuesday, November 19, at 5:30pm or Send your comments for the record to onondagacountylegislature@ongov.net

We need community more than ever! Help us get out into the community and let people know about CNY Solidarity! Learn more about the 54th Plowshares Craftsfair and Peace Festival happening December 7th & 8th at https://peacecouncil.net

 

Sign Up To Table Here

 

 

In a clear reaction to pro-Palestine protests, the House might pass legislation that would hand the government a dangerous tool to stifle free speech and punish disfavored groups… This bill (H.R. 9495) gives the executive branch the authority to effectively dismantle any nonprofit organization it deems to have provided “material support” to terrorist groups and the potential for abuse under this law is staggering.

We’ve already seen government officials conflate protesting students with Hamas or other terrorist groups. It isn’t a stretch to imagine how this bill could be used to pressure universities to shut down student groups and further criminalize dissent in this country. 

Tell your representatives to vote no on H.R. 9495.

 

Conflict in Gaza and Israel. War in Ukraine. Earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria. Devastating drought and hunger across East Africa.

Families around the globe face urgent crises that are made worse by deep and enduring inequalities. Oxfam teams are responding in more than 80 countries to save lives during crises and advocate for long-term solutions to inequality, poverty, and injustice. Support this work with a tax-deductible gift that helps people survive emergencies today and builds resilient communities for tomorrow.

Donate 

 

Strategies, Tactics, & Tips For How Everyday Americans Can Fight Back Together Wherever We Live

• Who this is for: Anyone who lives in America and is upset, scared, and determined. You want to do your part to protect your family, your neighbors, and democracy from Trump 2.0. Maybe you’re a current Indivisible group leader or member or maybe you’re brand new – welcome!

• What this guide is: A set of strategies and practical first steps to help you get started. It’s not everything we need to do. We’re going to need a lot of different people and groups to do their part. We don’t have all the answers yet, but we know we need to put one foot in front of the other.

• How to use It: Join or form a local Indivisible group or review this guide with your existing group, and start putting the parts of this into action that make sense for where you live. Don’t wait for orders and don’t ask for permission, If you’re in, you’re a leader in this movement, and we’re here to help.

Find it on Indivisible

 

Carole Cadwalladr

In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance.

Read it in The Guardian

 

 

Defiance must be woven into the fabric of our daily lives, rather than simply proclaimed at marches or on social media. Some refusals will be visible, but many quiet acts of disobedience—like a healthcare worker’s refusal to aid in criminalizing a patient—have the potential to save lives and interrupt state violence.

Read it on Organizing My Thoughts

 

States may seem powerless … Immigration is the purview of the federal government, which, in just over two months, will seek to … detain and deport as many people as possible, whether those communities and their state and local officials like it or not.

But deportations are a logistical game, and state and local governments hold some of the cards. For a removal campaign as massive as what Trump is promising, states can aid ICE’s efforts to find, apprehend, and lock up deportable people. Or they can throw a wrench in the agency’s plans.

Despite New York state’s immigrant-friendly reputation, the jury’s out on which role it will play. The direction it goes depends heavily on whether state lawmakers and Governor Kathy Hochul take quick action.

Read it on NYFocus

 

Sen. Bernie Sanders has introduced legislation that would require the Pentagon to return a portion of its budget as a penalty for failing audits, but lawmakers from both parties have declined to consider the bill.

The Pentagon is the largest U.S. federal agency and is responsible for roughly half of the government’s annual discretionary spending, with its yearly budget approaching $1 trillion despite long-standing concerns about the department’s inability to account for vast sums of money approved by lawmakers and presidents from both major parties.

Read it on CommonDreams

 

 

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

Citizens Academy is an educational program that informs community members about how local governments are organized, and how services are funded and delivered.

It is a place to learn about community involvement through an integrated approach to economic vitality, social equity, and a healthy environment.

Citizens Academy Facilitates A Dialogue Between Government Leaders And The Community

Citizens Academy has been a conduit of change and learning in CNY for 20 years!

Graduates join a network of over 700 engaged community members.

Immerse yourself in engaging Q&A sessions with key government officials and community leaders. Your journey to making a positive impact starts here!

Apply Today

11/18/24 Applications Open

1/1/25 Applications Close

1/3/25 Applicants Selected

1/29/25 Program Begins

Citizens Academy is open to all who live and/or work in Onondaga County, age 18 and above. Program Tuition is $100.00 per participant. A limited number of needs-based scholarships are available.

Info/Registration Here

 

Tuesday, November 19th

4 – 5:30PM: Tenants’ Rights & Resource Fair

5:30- 7 PM: Good Cause Town Hall

Southwest Community Center – 401 South Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13204

Tenants in Syracuse are facing skyrocketing rents, retaliatory evictions and neglectful slumlords. Opting in to Good Cause would help.

Join progressive community organizations and aligned elected leaders to talk about why we need strong Good Cause protections in Syracuse!

RSVP here.

Tuesday, November 19 at 5:30pm

401 Montgomery Street Room 407 Syracuse

Review New Map Here

Wednesday, Nov. 20 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.
Details on Facebook

 

 

Thursday Nov. 21, 6-8 PM

2013 E Genesee St. Syr NY 13210

Join Unchained and the Workers’ Center of CNY at the Syracuse Center for Peace and Social Justice to learn about the Unemployment Bridge Program and what it could mean for YOU and for the Upstate community. 

The event will feature speakers describing how the bill will support workers currently left out by unemployment legislation–freelancers, cash laborers, undocumented workers, and formerly incarcerated workers.

 

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, November 21, 7:30PM ET, Online

From Red Wine and Blue

Worried about those political conversations around upcoming holiday tables? Looking for some guidance on how to handle family members who proudly voted MAGA? You are not alone! Join us for a candid discussion about how to approach holiday gatherings and what to say to family members who want to engage and debate the election. 

SIGN UP NOW

 

Saturday, Nov. 23, 1 PM

Fayetteville Free Library- 300 Orchard St, Fayetteville, NY, 13066

The Witness to Injustice Exercise is a unique three-hour interactive group teaching tool. It uses participatory education to share the disturbing history of what Indigenous Peoples have experienced through colonization. The program seeks 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 Haudenosaunee peoples.

Join Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation (NOON) and Haudenosaunee facilitators as we participate in learning and dialogue through this exercise.

The subject matter is appropriate for adults and older teens. Space is limited; registration is required.

Register here

Sunday Nov. 24, 5-7 PM

ArtRage Gallery, 505 Hawley Ave., Syr 13203

Trump won. Now what?

Join Syracuse Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) for a post-election town hall where we’ll discuss our new political landscape, and how we can organize together to fight fascism and build a socialist world where everyone can thrive.

Whether you’re new to Democratic Socialist of America or maybe just socialist-curious and want to learn more about us, or a longtime member ready to recommit after a hiatus, this is a great meeting to attend to get plugged in!

Bring your questions, your hopes for a better and more equitable world, and maybe a friend or two.

Free food and N95 masks will be provided. 

RSVP Here

 

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

Saturday December 7 – 10:00AM – 5:00PM

Sunday December 8 – 10:30AM – 4:30PM

Nottingham High School, Syracuse, NY 

Admission is $2-5 sliding scale (more if you can, less if you can’t) Under 16 and Over 65 free

Masks are preferred and encouraged for everyone’s safety – and will be available.

Plowshares is Central New York’s premiere multicultural craftsfair, featuring over 120 local craftspeople and community organizations.

A beautiful community of activists, conscientious consumers and fair traders gather for a weekend of commerce and communing. Plowshares is an opportunity to step into the kind of world we’re working so hard to create: a place of justice, of peace, of compassion, of environmental sustainability. Plowshares is a labor of love that comes together thanks to the help of many volunteers.

https://peacecouncil.net/

 

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

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church – 310 Montgomery St., Syr 13202

$15 – 30 Siding Scale, less if you need to.

www.syracusecommunitychoir.org 

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