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“Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self- defense against a homicidal maniac…We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.”  – George Orwell

Photos By Mark Rupert

Next CNY Solidarity & Indivisible Onondaga County Meeting

Sunday, July 6 on Zoom at 7:00pm

Join us on zoom for a community check in. A lot has happened in 2025 and it is not slowing down. Let’s take some time to check in with each other. We will meet on zoom to share announcements and have an open discussion.  

Register on Zoom

Upcoming Protests, Meetings and Campaigns

Micron DEIS Clay Town Hall by SustainCNY July 2nd at 6:30pm Register Here

Join Indivisible Onondaga County’s Friday weekly protest: July 4th at 5:00pm Details Here.

Next national day of action: Good Trouble Lives On July 17th at 5:30pm Sign Up Here

Our next in person meeting will be on Sunday, July 27 at 3:00pm and will feature a panel discussion titled: Hands Off Our Veterans. The first hour will feature a panel discussion focused on the Trump administration’s negative impacts on veterans, locally and nationally. The second hour will feature meetings of our working groups to plan protests, engage with our representatives, advocate for town halls, fight for climate justice, support local candidates and more!

RSVP Here

Help us raise funds for a digital billboard during the NY State Fair! Learn More & Donate Here

Call Gillibrand and Demand a Retraction: Democratic Senator Gillibrand Goes on Islamophobic Rant Against Mamdani

The Democrat’s rant has sparked calls for her to resign over her bigoted language.

In an appearance on WYNC’s “Brian Lehrer Show,” the senator repeated numerous lies about Mamdani, echoing oft-repeated bigoted statements made about Palestinians and the pro-Palestine movement.

https://www.gillibrand.senate.gov

Syracuse: (315) 448-0470

Washington D.C.: (202) 224-4451

If the Big Beautiful Billionaire Bonanza Bill is still in the Senate

This budget would enact more than $1 trillion in cuts to vital public programs their own constituents depend on, including Medicaid, food assistance, and education, to help fund their massive tax giveaway for the ultra-wealthy and big corporations.

Join MoveOn, Working Families Power, Indivisible, Community Change Action, and Public Citizen at this link  for a national phone bank to Medicaid recipients urging them to call their Senators ahead of the upcoming budget vote to stop the cuts and save Medicaid!

Protect Tonawanda Seneca Nation’s drinking water! No HDD at STAMP.

NYSDEC must intervene NOW to protect the drinking water of Tonawanda Seneca Nation citizens and prevent STAMP developer GCEDC from repeating their environmental disaster of summer 2023.

Nearly two years ago, GCEDC’s first attempt at constructing a STAMP Wastewater Treatment Pipeline resulted in ‘frac-outs’ that spilled 500-700 gallons of hydraulic drilling fluid into wetlands of the Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge. Now, GCEDC is trying again. They plan to install the first section of a rerouted pipeline on the STAMP site using horizontal directional drilling (HDD) – the method that proved disastrous in 2023. Even worse, GCEDC intends to use this controversial method under waterways that flow directly onto the Tonawanda Seneca Nation.

Email the DEC Here

From the Alliance for a Green Economy:

Call Governor Hochul to Sign the Repeal of the “100ft Rule”!

The legislature just passed a bill A.8888/S.8417, a bill that ends the 100 foot gas line extension subsidy.

This law will save New Yorkers at least $200 million a year and will encourage the adoption of clean energy technologies in homes. Governor Hochul has supported this provision in the past. We need this bill signed into law immediately. Watch the Renewable Heat Now 2025 Legislative Session Debrief on YouTube.

Call Governor Hochul Here

Also Read AGREE Statement on NYPA Nuclear Proposal

Marshals Needed for Public Events: CNY Solidarity/Indivisible Onondaga County

Volunteer to join our group of  marshals! It’s a fun, important contribution to our protests. We will have intensive training.  To volunteer or ask questions about the role, contact lisaharrdel@gmail.com 

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:

• Syracuse’s mayoral primary was a landslide. Is it a wakeup call for old guard Democrats?

• Micron project takes another big step forward today with release of impact report

• GOP tax bill: a gift to the wealthy and a deficit time bomb

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.

Mamdani’s victory marks the rise of a new American Left

A new working-class immigrant politics, rooted in organizing, solidarity, and a sharp critique of inequality, is taking hold within the Democratic Party. Mamdani’s campaign – focused on rent freezes, universal childcare, public transit, and green infrastructure – galvanized multiracial working-class coalitions across the city. His win is a repudiation of corporate influence and local corruption, and a powerful endorsement of politics shaped by immigrants with deep ties to global struggles for justice.

Read it on Al Jazeera

Zohran Mamdani’s Win Is the Beginning of the End of the Old Democratic Party

Mamdani’s NYC primary victory shows that the old tricks of the political establishment are dying out—and something new is being born.

Read it on In These Times

SustainCNY to McMahon: We need more time to comment on Micron report

Further, we must not only consider immediate and long-term threats to public and environmental health from factories of this magnitude and in this industry, but the impacts on every public service including housing, first responders, health care and transportation — not to mention fiscal and economic outcomes of Micron’s influence. Our communities want to understand and give effectual input on these possibilities and how Micron will manage each of the impacts. What are the risks? What are the opportunities?

The sheer variety of issues alone leads us to know that 45 days is inadequate.

Read on Syracuse.com  |  View Micron DEIS Here  |  Info about Sending Comments Here

Syracuse Democratic leaders pick the losing candidate again

For the third straight mayoral cycle, leading Syracuse Democrats have backed the wrong candidate. Deputy Mayor Sharon Owens on Tuesday evening won the Democratic Party’s primary election, defeating the party’s designee, Common Councilor Pat Hogan, in the process.

Read on Central Current

NY AG begins civil rights probe of immigration enforcement by the Oswego County Sheriff’s Office

The New York attorney general has begun a civil rights investigation of the Oswego County Sheriff’s Office’s immigration enforcement. The AG’s interest follows a Syracuse.com | The Post-Standard investigation April 17 that revealed aggressive moves by the sheriff’s office, working with federal immigration authorities, that critics said amounted to racial profiling. Lawyers and advocates criticized deputies for stopping Hispanic drivers for minor traffic violations and handing them over to Border Patrol agents.

Read on Syracuse.com

The Supreme Court’s Ruling on Birthright Citizenship Is a Trump Power Grab

In one of the most anticipated decisions of this Supreme Court term, the justices today granted President Donald Trump’s emergency applications to stay a series of district court orders that had blocked his efforts to restrict birthright citizenship and upend who gets to be an American citizen.

Read on Mother Jones

Free America Study Session: Freedom and Abolition

Tuesday, July 1 at 8:00pm on Zoom

Policing, incarceration, surveillance—they’re sold to us as “justice.” But we know the truth: They are tools of control. And they were never meant to keep us safe. This conversation will ground us in the power of abolition—not just as resistance, but as a blueprint for a new world.

If you’ve ever wondered: What do we build in place of prisons? What does real safety look like? How do we make abolition a practice, not just a slogan? This space is for you. Come ready to learn, connect, and grow. Let’s study. Let’s resist. Let’s free America.

Register Here

Micron DEIS Clay Town Hall

Wednesday, July 2nd at 6:30pm

Clay Town  Hall, 4401 NY-31, Clay

SustainCNY is holding an in person Town Hall in Clay, NY to hear directly from the community and Clay residents in particular as they are the future neighbors of Micron Technology. Your voice is important to us and we want to hear from those impacted the most. Please join us at the Clay Town Hall for an informative community discussion and Q&A!

Register Here

GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON – National Day of Action planning sessions

Thursday, July 3,   7-8 PM

Thursday, July 10,   7-8 PM

Good Trouble Lives On is a national day of nonviolent action to respond to the attacks posed on our civil and human rights by the Trump administration and to remind them that in America, the power lies with the people. On July 17, the anniversary of Congressman John Lewis’s passing, we’re taking action across the country to defend our democracy and carry forward his legacy of Good Trouble.

Register

Pop-Up Rally – Indivisible Onondaga County

Friday, July 4, 5-5:45 pm

Fairmount, intersection of West Genesee St. and Onondaga Rd.

Bring your signs and join Indivisible Onondaga County for a weekly protest!  This week we will be  at the intersection of West Genesee Street and Onondaga Road  in Fairmount.   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

New York Immigration Coalition 2025 Central New York Roundtables

Wednesday, July 9, 4:30-7:30 pm in Syracuse, NY

Monday, July 14, 12-3 pm in Watertown, NY

Locations will be provided after registration

NYIC’s Regional Roundtables seek to collectively harness our power, foster collaboration, and increase our capacity as advocates, non-profit service providers, and immigrant and allied leaders working with immigrant communities.

Join us as we once again convene in person to check-in, recap the 2025 NYS legislative session, discuss emerging needs and brainstorm our 2026 statewide agenda. COVID-19 vaccination is required to attend these events and masks are strongly encouraged. Food will be served.

Register

Virtual “Know Your Rights” Training

Wednesday, July 9, 6-7:30 pm

Sponsored by the Syracuse Immigrant and Refugee Defense Network, and New York Immigration Coalition

For volunteers & employees and held by Mohammad Ali Seraji. Participation in a Know-Your-Rights Training is a requirement for joining the SIRDN Rapid Response efforts.

 For anyone who is trying to join SIRDN as an active volunteer, please take advantage of these opportunities, and let us know that you attended by emailing us at sirdn315@gmail.com.

Register

Syracuse Immigrant and Refugee Defense Network Orientation Training

Thursday, July 10, 7 pm

Required training for all new volunteers.

Register

Sunnking Sustainable Solutions Free Drive-Thru Electronics Recycling

Saturday, July 12, 2025 – 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

NYS DMV – North Syracuse – 5801 E Taft Rd, North Syracuse, NY 13212

Free up room at home while supporting a cleaner planet. Bring your old electronics and let us handle the rest.

Register and Check our Acceptable Materials List.

Syracuse Immigrant and Refugee Defense Network General Meeting

Monday, July 14, 5:30-7 pm

Call for agenda items will go out on Sunday. Zoom link will go out Monday afternoon. General Meetings are held on the 2nd and 4th Monday of each month.

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.

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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