Syracuse Center for Peace and Social Justice

Join our friends, the Syracuse Community Choir for their Virtual Summer Solstice Concert: Keep on Moving Forward tonight at 7pm LIVE on their Facebook page.

Important read...thanks to Aly Wane for posting.

We are currently working on board development, and are actively seeking new volunteer board members who are interested in serving the social justice community in Syracuse. Interested individuals can fill out an online application under the "Get Involved" on our website at syracusecenter.org.

Thanks to Andy Mager for this post! We are just completing a second batch of bricks, and will be having a "Grand Opening" in October! Great photos, Andy! Bricks can be ordered at syracusecenter.org, the current order is being submitted June 12!

LAST DAY FOR CLOTHING DROP OFF - FRI JUNE 4 - 5-6 pm Adult clothing only, no rips or stains, no socks or underwear. Tomorrow is the big clothing sale!

This activist is a pillar in the Syracuse Peace and Justice community. If you read his writings, you are sure to be inspired.

Thankyou Aly Wane for sharing this heartfelt tribute.

https://www.localsyr.com//traveling-thrift-store-stopping/ Sale is Sat, June 5 from 10AM - 5PM at 2013 E Genesee Street!

Please join us in signing this petition asking our elected officials to do more in fighting the Lead poisoning epidemic in our city.

Upstate Drone Action showed us what love in action looks like....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD0tcKaXe2o&feature=youtu.be

SAGE is a local organization that supports LGBTQ elders. They are having a raffle, and great presentation on Valentine's Day - The Center will be featured as a local non-profit. Come join us!

Thank you Jan Shannon.

Proud to have Black Lives Matter Syracuse at Syracuse Center for Peace and Social Justice. Two more Saturdays - and volunteers are needed to pack up supplies. Contact info below.

A step in the right direction.

From UNCHAINED - Derek Singletary and Emily NaPier-Singletary speak at a Harvard Univ. event. Carve out a piece of time and let Emily and Derek educate about the NY parole system. Listen to information about the "LESS IS MORE" act. If you've read "The New Jim Crow" - this is just another piece. Powerful!!!

Excellent resource - thank you to Andy Mager for posting.

If you can not make tonight's event, consider a donation to Cuse Action Medics.

Tonight!!! Image description: "Tonight Meet us at Clinton Square at 7PM. Black Lives Matter. Co-sponsored by BLM SYR" text on bottom left. "Join us tonight as w...e rally for Breonna & countless others killed by state sanctioned violence" text on bottom right. Image of Breonna Taylor on the right and lit candles on the left above the text. The text "Justice 4 Breonna" at the top of the image. See more

As someone wrote, Police officers killed Breonna Taylor, an innocent black woman, in her home. The only charges are for the bullets that missed.

Our "Engraved Brick" fundraiser has been a tremendous success! Because engraving takes time, only orders received by Friday Sep 25 can have a guaranteed spot in our original walkway, to be completed in late November. Be a part of this fabulous project, and leave a lasting message of hope and peace - while at the time supporting The Center and the activist organizations that call us "home." Go to syracusecenter.org to get your brick today!

"Don't be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time." - RBG Instead, get out the vote. RIP to an amazing soul who devoted her life to justice.

Keynote speakers Emily NaPier Singletary and Derek Singletary, co-founders and co-executive directors of Unchained (NY).Thur 9/17, 5 pm. UNCHAINED is an organization that we are proud to have under our roof. Register here: https://charleshamiltonhouston.org/events/its-a-crime/

Close the Camps

Thank you to those many, many people who work today, so that many of us enjoy this day as a holiday.

We are so excited to see this groundbreaking lawsuit at Batavia. Our Executive Director, Jennifer Conner, attests to the exploitative nature of AGS's employmen...t practices in the detention facility. During the COVID pandemic, people who are detained are given a small hotel sized bar of soap for a week and so must buy their own hygiene supplies from the company-owned commissary. Working for $1 a day for commissary when commissary is required to make phone calls to lawyers and family, buy stamps to mail letters and important documents, buy extra food because the portions provided in Batavia are notoriously meagre, is not a choice. This is coercion." See more