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Resistance is NOT a one lane highway. Maybe your lane is protesting, maybe your lane is organizing, maybe your lane is counseling, maybe your lane is art activism, maybe your lane is surviving the day.
Do NOT feel guilty for not occupying every lane. We need all of them.

CNY Solidarity & Indivisible Onondaga County

CNY Solidarity Coalition met on July 27. About 80 people attended, either in person or on Zoom.

Coordinating Committee reported on July events which CNY Solidarity co-sponsored or participated:

• Community Meeting – Syracuse Lead Crisis July 9·NYCLU Families for Lead Freedom Now
• Rally for Lead-Free Water July 12·NYCLU, NRDC, Families for Lead Freedom Now and CNY Legal Services.
• Good Trouble Lives On  July 17th honoring Civil Rights Hero, John Lewis Speakers included: Bishop H. Bernard Alex and Twiggy Billue of National Action Network; Lanessa Owens-Chaplin of NYCLU Racial Justice Center; Yvonne Griffin of Citizen Action of NY and Dr. Clem Harris of Utica University
• A Discussion About Public Transit In CNY. Tuesday July 22, at Harvey’s Garden
• MICRON Public Hearings July 24th.
• Volunteering with Syracuse Peace Council at the Montgomery St. Art Fair July 25-27
• Community Picnic Onondaga Park 7/26: NAN and RebirthSyr; CNY Solidarity Donated Food supplies

Veterans’ Panel: A panel of four veterans and former VA employees presented a series of compelling stories of the damage that the current administration is doing to veterans’ services.

Upcoming Campaigns, Protests, and Meetings

Submit A Public Comment on the Micron Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS)

Jobs to Move America and our partner local organizations including SustainCNY have organized a site for folks in the community to be able to easily comment during the Micron DEIS review and public comment period which is open until August 11th. We have included a comment template but we encourage you to add or edit this comment to personalize it with the issues and concerns that matter most to you.

Please submit your personalized comments here. 

Here is a reference page of experts’ (from SustainCNY and local organizations) summaries and analysis of the Micron DEIS and potential impacts that folks can review when writing their own comments. Many experts who have been reviewing the DEIS have identified significant gaps in the analysis. 

To read the impacts visit: https://tinyurl.com/MicronImpacts

Support the Workers’ Center Of Central New York

WCCNY is part of a nation-wide network of innovative workers’ centers affiliated with the Chicago-based Interfaith Worker Justice (IWJ). It operates in and around the city of Syracuse, to facilitate worker empowerment and leadership development through trainings related to workers’ rights and occupational health and safety, orchestrates campaigns to combat wage theft and to promote employer compliance with the law, and engages in organizing and coalition-building to push for policies that will increase wages and workplace standards and promote human rights.

There are several ways that we can all be involved with WCCNY:

• Petition the NY Farm Bereau to Protect and Defend NY Farm Workers

• Volunteer with Syracuse Immigrant and Refugee Defense Network

• Donate To Support Rapid Response Work

• Visit WCCNY To Learn More

Gov. Hochul, Sign the Repeal of the “100ft Rule”!

The NYS legislature passed S.8417/A.8888 – the first pillar of the NY HEAT Act – on June 16! Now we are calling on Governor Hochul to sign the bill into law. We need your help to generate hundreds of calls and emails to Governor Hochul to show widespread support for the bill.

Call & Email Gov. Hochul Here

Take Action TODAY: Tell DiNapoli NO MORE ISRAEL BONDS!

Comptroller Tom DiNapoli is proud of the NYSCRF holding over $350 million in these war bonds, which provide unrestricted funds for Israel’s assault on Gaza. On August 1, a bond valued at $5 million will mature. We need to tell DiNapoli loud and clear: Cash in! Don’t sink that $5 million back into genocidal junk bonds!

Join the Break the Bonds New York State (BTBNYS) campaign to contact the Comptroller’s office. We’ll be putting on the pressure by sending emails to his regional public affairs directors, who are required to track and respond to New Yorkers’ concerns – and share those concerns with the Comptroller.

Sign Up Here

Urge Madison County Sheriff Hood to Rescind ICE Partnership

Residents of Madison County are deeply troubled by Sheriff Todd Hood’s decision to partner with ICE. This decision was made without public input and apparently without consultation with the Board of Supervisors, which oversees the Sheriff’s Department. Sheriff Hood himself has acknowledged that illegal immigration is not a significant issue in our county, yet he has committed to dedicating our valuable deputies to assist ICE.

Sign the Petition

Urge EPA to act on Syracuse Lead Water Crisis

 State and local officials have failed to act quickly and sufficiently to protect the health of Syracuse residents who continue to be exposed to lead in the drinking water, posing an imminent and substantial endangerment to our health. Please sign the petition to demonstrate your support urging the EPA to act

Sign the Petition

Letters to the Editor

CNY Solidarity Coalition encourages letters to the editor regarding issues affecting us locally and nationwide. We also recommend that letters are written in response to recent articles; these are more likely to get published. Links to these articles will be included each week.

If you’re looking for a subject to write about, here are this week’s suggestions:

• Faith coalition denounces inhumane treatment of immigrants at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

Guidelines for writing Letters to the Editor, with a link to previously submitted letters, can be found on our website.

If you’ve written a Letter to the Editor, whether it’s been published or not, consider  forwarding  a copy to cnysolnews@gmail.com, so that it can be added to our website’s “Opinion” section.

CNY Residents weigh-in about the Micron project at public hearing

Residents both for and against the Micron project in Clay expressed concerns during the daylong public hearing Thursday at Liverpool High School. Even some supporters of the project wanted clarification regarding potential environmental impacts during and after construction.

Read & Listen at WAER.org  |  Watch Micron Public Hearing Here

Syracuse police try for 3rd time to convince Common Council to approve drone program

Syracuse Councilor Chol Majok, who chairs the Common Council’s Public Safety Committee, brought forward legislation that would allow the police department to buy “drone as first responder” software. Similar drone programs are proliferating across the country, alarming civil rights advocates, privacy activists, and surveillance technology watchdogs.

Central Current

Freedom Flotilla Sails to Gaza to Break Israel’s “Engineered Famine”

Activist Huwaida Arraf reports that a second group of international activists with the Freedom Flotilla Coalition are en route to Gaza to challenge Israel’s blockade. Their ship, named the Handala, launched from Italy five days ago carrying humanitarian aid desperately needed by Gaza’s starving population. The Freedom Flotilla’s most recent attempt to deliver aid was prevented by the Israeli military when their ship was raided and seized in international waters.

Democracy Now

Farmworkers are Essential, We Must Protect Them

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) this week proposed a litany of deregulation measures aimed at rescinding or rewriting over 60 current workplace regulations. The proposal, if enacted, would eliminate minimum wages in certain sectors, make workers across industries less safe on the job and leave them with little recourse to rectify dangerous, unjust and hazardous workplace conditions.

Unsurprisingly, the DOL’s proposed rule changes specifically target regulations designed to protect farmworkers.

Read more from the Workers Center Of Central New York

Trump’s EPA Is Trying to End America’s Fight Against Climate Change

The EPA is reportedly preparing to rescind a landmark 2009 declaration, known as the “endangerment finding,” which determined that greenhouse gas emissions pose a danger to humans. The finding was the legal predicate for regulating emissions under the Clean Air Act, as well as for the government’s ability to regulate car emissions and pollution more broadly.

Rolling Stone

The more Trump’s tyranny is exposed, the stronger the resistance.

Trump has entered a new and wilder stage of authoritarian neofascism. No holds barred. Nothing out of bounds. Rapacious, racist, nativist, vindictive, corrupt.

In his desperate attempt to deflect attention from his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein, he’s even accusing Barack Obama of treason.

If you’re also horrified by all this, know that most other Americans are, too (if polls are to be believed).

Resistance is more important than ever.

Robert Reich on Substack

Abolish ICE Rally

Every Tuesday 5:00 – 6:00pm

232 Washington Blvd Oswego, NY

Six Scoops le Cream Intersection

Join Organize Oswego WEEKLY to protest the ongoing ICE attacks on our communities. We stand in solidarity with immigrants being harassed by IcE and police, those held in detention centers, and those being deported.

Bring signs, wear a mask, and we will have extra supplies for you if you can just show up!

Don’t Panic. No Human Being is Illegal.

Citizens Academy Is Searching For Its Next Exceptional Cohort!

Application Deadline: Sunday, August 3, 2025 at Midnight

The 2025 program runs from September 3 to November 12

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.

Citizens Academy is open to all who live and/or work in Onondaga County, and are age 18 and above. Class size is limited to 35 participants. Program Tuition is $150.00 per participant. A limited number of needs-based scholarships are available.

More Information

Public Review: 2050 Metropolitan Transportation Plan

Zoom events:

Tuesday, July 29, 12–1 pm (must pre-register here)

Wednesday, July 30, 5–6 pm (must pre-register here)

In-Person event:

Tuesday, July 29, 4-7 pm

Salt City Market Community Room, 484 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The Syracuse Metropolitan Transportation Council (SMTC) has officially begun the public comment/review period for the draft 2050 Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP). The MTP guides the Syracuse Metropolitan Planning Area’s transportation investment over a 25-year period.

The draft MTP can be viewed on the SMTC website as well as printed copies at the Central Branch of the Onondaga County Public Library and the SMTC office, 126 N. Salina Street, Suite 100, Syracuse.

The SMTC will host three public meetings to discuss the draft plan. The draft plan and materials summarizing key elements of the plan will be available for the public to review and SMTC staff will be available to discuss and answer any questions.

Review the Plan Here

The Dismantling Of Our Government: Federal Workers Speak Out

Tuesday, July 29, 7:30-8:30 pm

Red, Wine & Blue Zoom event

Across federal agencies, public servants are being pushed out, placed on leave, or pressured into early retirement. Behind it all is a clear and deliberate goal, the dismantling of our government. What happens when expertise is discarded, departments are hollowed out, and essential functions of government are crippled?  Join us to hear from former federal workers who had a front-row seat to the chaos.

Register

Medicaid & Medicare 60th Anniversary Rally 

Wednesday, July 30, 12PM

Columbus Circle, 259 E Onondaga St., Syracuse, NY 

Citizen Action of New York

Medicaid and Medicare are essential programs that provide healthcare to millions and sustain the health workforce that serves our communities. In New York, 1 in 3 residents rely on Medicaid for access to care. Now, over 1.5 million New Yorkers are at risk of losing coverage due to Medicaid funding cuts advanced by Congress. On July 30, we will rally to protect and strengthen Medicaid and Medicare—to highlight how vital these programs are to our community, and to expose how the Republican tax and budget bill prioritizes corporate profits over people’s health

Protect Medicaid and Medicare

Stop Corporate Greed!

One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism

Wednesdays July 30, August 13, 8-9:30 pm

Indivisible and allied national organizations are launching an effort to train one million people to engage in strategic non-cooperation to fight authoritarianism. Let’s try to get a good showing of folks from CNY.

Session 2: How to Make it Happen – July 30 This train-the-trainer session is how we get to one million. Learn not just our strategy, but how you can train others and get them on board. You’ll host your first community resistance gathering after this session.

Session 3: What Now? – August 13 You’ll be onboarded to basic campaign design and learn how to implement it locally as well as get plugged into our next national campaign work. Your second community resistance gathering will move this action forward.

Sign up and spread the word Here

Fundraiser for Elaine Denton for County Legislator

Thursday, July 31st 5pm – 7pm

Trappers II Pizza & Pub, 101 North Main Street, Minoa

Join Elaine Denton, candidate for county legislator, for a fundraiser with special guest State Senator Chris Ryan!

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Get Tickets Here

The Real Impact Of Tariffs: Small Businesses Speak Out

Thursday, July 31, 7:30-8:30 pm

Red, Wine & Blue Zoom event

Tariffs are hitting small businesses hard! Many are struggling to stay afloat amid shifting trade policies and economic uncertainty. Join us for a candid conversation with small business owners as they share how tariffs are disrupting their companies, raising costs, and threatening their ability to survive.

Register

Pop-Up Rally – Indivisible Onondaga County

Friday, August 1, 5-5:45 pm

Intersection of South Salina Street & East Washington Street, Syracuse 

Bring your signs and join Indivisible Onondaga County for a weekly protest!    A new location will be announced every Monday. Raise your voice with a community of protectors of the Constitution and human rights by peacefully assembling together to exercise our First Amendment rights!

Sign up for updates here

15th Annual Peterboro Emancipation Day

Saturday, August 2, 9 am – 5 pm

Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark, 5304 Oxbow Road, Peterboro NY 13134

Events throughout the day will replicate activities that ancestors began in 1925 to commemorate the abolition of enslavement.

More Information

Save New York’s Rural Economy: A Journey Of Empathy Caravan

Saturday, August 2 – Saturday, August 9, 2025

Route: Long Island, Chester, New Paltz, Albany, Crown Point, Ogdensburg, Oswego, Rochester And Buffalo

Join a caravan across New York State, from the South Fork of Long Island to Buffalo, to foster an appreciation of immigrants by highlighting their humanity and emphasizing their positive impact on New York’s rural economy and agriculture. Along the way, we’ll support local businesses, hold vigils at significant locations, have workshops, gatherings, music and more.

More Information

Micron’s Impact: Learning from the Onondaga Lake Cleanup

Tuesday, August 5th at 6:30pm

Fayetteville Library, 300 Orchard St, Fayetteville

How do we ensure that Micron is a success for both the local economy, jobs, and the environment?

How can we learn from and replicate the Onondaga Lake Cleanup and Partnership (OLP)?

How can YOU get involved and make your voice heard in this process?

Join us as Les Monostory, OLP member and author of Onondaga Lake Restoration, discusses how the OLP could serve as a model for a citizen’s committee on Micron.

Sponsored by the CNY chapter of the Izaak Walton League and Fayetteville Free Library.

Register Here

Hiroshima Day Remembrance Procession marking the 80th Anniversary of the Nuclear Bombing of and Nagasaki

Wednesday August 6 at 4:30 pm 

Art In The Atrium, 201 East Washington St, Syracuse

The annual procession honors the lives lost that terrible day, and is a reminder of the horrific consequences of nuclear weapons. Eighty years after the first atomic bombs were used in warfare, the threat of nuclear war is at a fever pitch not seen since the height of the Cold War. Today’s weapons are more powerful and widespread and the proliferation of nuclear weapons is a very real existential threat that demands our attention and action. Join us in remembering history, and in vowing not to repeat it.

The procession will end at the Nancy Cantor Warehouse, 350 W Fayette St, for the opening reception of an art exhibition showing the horror of the  1945 Hiroshima bombings, and the hope for a peaceful future.

Sign-up to be a part of the procession here

WCNY will also show the following documentaries to commemorate this Anniversary:

Atomic People: August 4th, 10-11:30 pm and August 9th, 9-10:30 pm – features testimony of some of the last ‘Hibakusha’ survivors.

Atomic Cover Up: August 6th, 10-10:30 pm – the story of how for 25 years, the U.S. Government suppressed video and photographs by U.S. Army and Japanese newsreel

teams of the devastation from the bombings.

The Vow from Hiroshima: August 9th, 8-9:30 pm – shares the uplifting story of the life of Setsuko Thurlow, an 85-year old survivor of the atomic bombing.

Free Recurring Trainings: Sue Your Landlord For Repairs

Wednesday, August 6 5:30-7:30 PM

Soule Branch Library, 101 Springfield Rd, Syracuse

Syracuse Tenants Union is hosting workshops! Please come! Even if You aren’t having issues currently with your landlord. It’s always good to be informed in the event that you or someone you love does!!

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.      

2025 Spring, Summer, And Fall Schedule

Year round: Every  Friday afternoon. 4   to 4:45 pm   justice for Palestine; no more U.S.  funding Israeli genocide;  U.S.: stop terrorizing  families in Gaza; and so on.

West sidewalk of the intersection of Erie Blvd. East Genesee St, Dewitt (across from the Fire Dept.)

Beginning first Saturday in April: 4/5/25

Every Saturday 9 to 9:45 am with a variety of issues : anti-militarism, racism, Palestine genocide, Anti-nuke, climate disaster, etc.

Across from the main entrance to the Syracuse regional market, 2100 park st    

Stay in touch for anti-killer drone actions at Hancock National Guard Base

upstatedroneaction.com                           spc@peacecouncil.Net 

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. Please note donations are not tax deductible.

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