Syracuse Solidarity Network
potluck & general meeting
Tuesday, June 9th
7pm at the Women’s Info Center
601 Allen St, Syracuse, NY 13210

Come talk and get connected with other anti-authoritarians in Syracuse, bring a dish to pass around if you’d like!

Share food, announcements, news, projects, and ideas!

Some things we would like to discuss are:

- upcoming radical/community events in Syracuse and Upstate NY

- organizing future potlucks, picnics and parties

- organizing skillshares, movie showings, workshops and discussions meetings

- the Infobox project, setting up boxes full of free radical & DIY literature at different spots throughout Syracuse, one is set up at 2nd Story Books

- upcoming reading group meetings

- mobilizing against the G 20 summit in Pittsburgh in September

- the upcoming Feminist Free School at Women’s Info

- communication between radical groups in Syracuse & Upstate NY

http://SyracuseSolNet.wordpress.com
http://myspace.com/SyracuseSolidarityNetwork
http://facebook.com/group.php?gid=10440584956
SyracuseSolNet @ gmail.com

Syracuse Solidarity Network (SSN) is a network of anti-capitalist, anti-oppression, and anti-authoritarian individuals, groups and projects. Monthly meetings or general assemblies take place to share info & get plugged in to events across Syracuse. No one group or person speaks for or represents the whole network. Because we want a world without bosses or centralized power, we make decisions together and act autonomously. We want to build & support a welcoming, creative culture of resistance in Syracuse.

http://NEanarchist.net
SSN is an affiliate of the North East Anarchist Network. The Northeast Anarchist Network (NEAN) is a network of anarchists and anti-authoritarian organizations and individuals that has been meeting and collaborating since February of 2007. Our aim is to create a regional, horizontal organizing network in the Northeast, linking those committed to struggles anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist and anti-oppressive.

Upstate Uprise Against the IMF & World Bank!
Upstate NY Anarchist Consulta
Saturday, April 11th
at the Women’s Info Center, 601 Allen st
Syracuse, NY 13210
hosted by the Syracuse Solidarity Network

ANARCHISTS & ANTI-AUTHORITARIANS IN UPSTATE NY,

Come to Syracuse on April 11th to share information and strategies in preparation for the upcoming meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (WB). There will be presentations about the IMF/WB, a variety of skillshares,workshops, food, films, and networking. Come and help build a fighting anarchist community across this broken and angry expanse of stolen land called Upstate New York.

Please RSVP by April 4th with how many people are coming, any food allergies or special needs, skillshares & workshops that can be offered, if childcare is needed, and if overnight accommodations are needed.

The meeting will be from 2pm-8pm on April 11th at the Women’s
Information Center, 601 Allen St. Syracuse, NY. Open since 1973,
Women’s Info Center is one of the oldest independent women’s centers
in the Northeast and has always been a safer space for women and
allies. The space is wheelchair accessible.

Join us to create a welcoming space to share local updates, make
friends and build solidarity across our region!

Check out the consulta on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=59599583575

Syracuse Solidarity Network
SyracuseSolNet@gmail.com
http://SyracuseSolNet.wordpress.com

http://www.Myspace.com/SyracuseSolidarityNetwork
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10440584956

Syracuse Solidarity Network is an affiliate of the North East Anarchist Network
http://NEanarchist.net

Join the Upstate NY Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian listserv to build
communication, cooperation and mutual aid across our region
https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/upstateny

For more info about direct action against the IMF/World Bank, April 24-26th:
Self Described Anarchist Collective
http://selfdescribed.org

Global Justice Action
http://globaljusticeaction.org

D20 Syracuse Solidarity with the Greek Insurrection

Anarchists and anti-authoritarians from across Upstate New York hit the bitter cold streets of Syracuse, NY December 20th, 2008. As part of the Day of International Action Against State Murders, we marched with raised fists and blaring music in memory of young Alexandros Grigoropoulos and with the Greek uprising.

While our comrades in Rochester Students for a Democratic Society rushed their streets a few hours to the west, participants from the Syracuse Solidarity Network, Activists of Oswego County, and Binghamton Not Bombs gathered in the snow around a banner reading “Solidarity with the Greek Unrest, No State Murders!”

After reading a letter from friends of Alexis entitled “Our rage is a love for life,” about 15 of us took over the roads with “Fight for your right to party” blasting from a boombox. We blocked traffic and marched right through the middle of the busy downtown bus stop area. The quiet night air of our rustbelt ghost town was shattered by anti-police chants and rowdy music from KRS-ONE and the Infernal Noise Brigade.

Dancing through the lanes swinging black flags and a jolly roger, a megaphone proclaimed solidarity with Greece, with the immigrant struggles, with autonomous workers and students occupying buildings from Athens to NYC. We let people know we were there to remember victims of state murder from Alexis to Syracuse native Johnny Gammage, from Sean Bell to Amadou Diallo.

Chants included “What’s the direction? Insurrection! Whats the solution? Revolution!” “We’re tired, we’re cranky, we’ll burn your fucking banky!” “No justice, no peace!” and the popular “From Syracuse to Greece, Fuck the police!”

We circled the city Christmas tree caroling “Merry Crisis!,” where families were ice skating to holiday music and one confused cop looked on. As MIA surreally blasted through the cheer, we were met by a range of reactions by the assumed parents, but most of the children waved and laughed. A few shouts of “Recess never ends!” “Schools out forever!” and “Abolish adults!” and we returned to warm up with friends old and new.

Upstate New York is an angry, beaten-down constellation of city, town and country. We know solidarity means attacking our own oppressions and exploitations, fighting the system right here on stolen land. There’s a sense among Upstate anti-authoritarians that despite increasing visibility, new projects popping up, and connections built through the North East Anarchist Network, we’re only getting started.

Its not only Christmas trees and banks that have been set alight in Athens, but also our dreams and our imaginations. Our hearts are with our friends in Greece and across the world. From one pissed off, hopeless dot on the map to another, we are everywhere and we are not alone. We won’t forget Alexis, and we won’t forgive the present.

In solidarity, against the repression and for the coming insurrection!

participants in the Syracuse Solidarity Network, an affiliate of the North East Anarchist Network

http://SyracuseSolNet.wordpress.com

http://myspace.com/SyracuseSolidarityNetwork

SyracuseSolNet@gmail.com

North East Anarchist Network

http://NEanarchist.net

Solidarity with the Greek Uprising

International Day of Action Against State Murder

Saturday, December 20

5pm

Hanover Square

Syracuse, NY

Contact: SyracuseSolNet@gmail.com

On the night of December 6th, 16 year old Alexandros ‘Alexis’

Grigoropoulos was shot and murdered by the Greek Pig State. Almost

instantaneously, workers, students and immigrants took to the streets

to denounce the killing of Alexis. Since that murderous night on

December 6th, Greece has turned into what can only be described as a

civil war.

On December 20th 2008, people all across the world will take to the

streets to show solidarity with the Greek Uprising as an international

day of action against state murder. In Syracuse, we will respond to

this call to action by marching in solidarity with the Uprising and

against all state murders. We will not forget the friends and comrades

whose lives have been stolen by the state, a system with it’s

foundations rooted in murder and repression.

We will gather to honor Alexis and the many lives cut short; we will

gather to the poetry of the revolt, the many statements insisting that

the problems faced in Greece are the same problems across the world,

that we must struggle not only to fight for better conditions, but

also for our dreams, our imaginations, to take our lives and

creativity back from capital, the state, and oppression. The memory of

young Alexis, and all those murdered by the state to silence social

movements, deserves nothing less than we fight for a better world in

their memory.

Wear black to mourn our comrades and join us on Saturday, December

20th at 5pm in Hanover Square for this international day of action!

Syracuse Solidarity Network

affiliate of the North East Anarchist Network

SyracuseSolNet@gmail.com

Nor’Easter Issue 3 Out Now!

Please forward widely!
Issue #3 of the Nor’Easter, the quarterly of the Northeast Anarchist Network, is ready to hit the streets (or nearest computer screen)

Download the Fall 2008 issue (10.1mb PDF) – 20 pages featuring:

• Chronicle of the Battle of Saint Paul: Report from the RNC
• Report from Caravan to Chiapas: Observation and Solidarity with Zapatista Communities
• Pandamonium in the Streets of NYC
• APOCs Build It From Below: APOC Northeast and Northwest regional gatherings
• Reports from around the region and beyond

Print some off or get in touch with the Nor’Easter Collective, and spread ‘em far and wide!

Download the PDF and read online content at http://www.neanarchist.net | Contact noreaster@neanarchist.net

Sun & Solidarity: A Report Back from the August 10 National Day of Action Against Electoral Politics from Syracuse, New York
by E. Sebastian Snowflake

On August 10th 2008, participants in the Syracuse Solidarity Network, an affiliate of the North East Anarchist Network, took part in the National Day of Action Against Electoral Politics. To build support and momentum for the protests against the Democratic & Republican National Conventions, in Syracuse, New York we held a small un-permitted solidarity rally, distributed literature and had a community picnic/potluck.

The Syracuse Solidarity Network (SSN) is an anti-capitalist, anti-oppression, and anti-authoritarian network of groups, individuals and projects that has been organizing against the conventions with other anarchists state-wide through the Upstate NY Unconventional Action chapter, aka the Upstate Uprise Unconventional Action Faction. As with the North East Anarchist Network (NEaN), its been a chance for places like Syracuse to be in conversation with the larger movement.

Like the Unconventional Action Network (UA) and NEaN, the Syracuse Solidarity Network is a multi-tendency group of groups, a gathering of insurgent currents – not that it always ends up working as well as we’d like. As we’re always careful to mention, none of us speaks for all of us, we don’t claim nor want to fall into the traps of representation. The UA slogan “Representative democracy does not equal self-determination” and the anti-representative anti-politics of the radical moment finds echoes in our approach.

This is a late and lengthy report-back for a small event, but there are Syracuses everywhere, small towns and cities with active anarchists and anti-authoritarians getting ready for the conventions, whether they’ll be there or not. It was important for us to take part on August 10th to send revolutionary love to everyone taking action and to let our comrades know support and creative solidarity is coming from beyond just the usual radical enclaves. I hope comrades in other small cities and towns across the Empire see something of themselves reflected here and take encouragement. Alongside the big cities with longstanding radical institutions, its in small cities and towns like ‘Cuse that the impact of the convention protests will be decided. We are everywhere.

August 10th

“When the conventions are over, will we have more momentum, popularity, and strategic poise than before they started, or will we be caught up in massive state repression with no public support? With this in mind, let’s deepen our roots in our communities this spring so that when we are making headlines at the conventions this summer, the people around us know who we are and hear what we want from our own mouths, not just the propaganda of the State.”

- Jake Carman, “Full Speed Ahead!” The Nor’Easter #2

Despite impressive thunderstorms in our infamously dreary city, the sun came out just in time for us to take over the hill on a corner of Westcott Street. We covered the patch of green and trees with signs against the DNC & RNC and the electoral spectacle. The bench where people hang out was transformed into a literature table. A banner proclaiming the National Day of Action was hoisted alongside a pink and black flag and another large red and black flag that had been sewn by friends for the 2000 Republican National Convention protests and used as a blanket during jail support nights.

We handed out most of a huge box of False Hope vs Real Change newspapers made by Unconventional Action Voter Deregistration, stuffed with additional anarchist propaganda advocating direct action, CD’s of the RNC Welcoming Committee radio show and a flier we made explaining the National Day of Action.

Our literature recalled the state surveillance and repression at the conventions of 2000 and 2004, giving special attention to the NYPD spying on the local Syracuse Peace Council in the run-up to the protests of ‘04, a move exposed in the mainstream media. Beneath the heading “If you challenge the architects of war and poverty, they call you a terrorist” we asked people to keep an eye on the upcoming demonstrations and be prepared to respond to police crackdowns with solidarity.

While we were going up and down Westcott St asking people if they wanted a newspaper about how politicians are bullshit, one young woman laughed, “I don’t need a newspaper to tell me that, but OK!” We immediately started receiving feedback, with a voice mail message by the time we got home from a friend asking us if we knew what these papers he found against the conventions were about.

After the rally, we made our way to Thornden Park a few streets over, where we had our People’s Power Potluck & Picnic (Against Politicians). We were joined by a handful more people, sat in the sun and enjoyed some great food, laughs and excellent discussion about the RNC/DNC protests and beyond. A few people agreed to play support roles here at home in spreading info about what was happening at the protests and getting people numbers to call jails when people get arrested, etc.

With our focus for the picnic/potluck being essentially that we were inviting people to ignore the elections altogether to hang out in our neighborhood and have a fun summer afternoon, we mostly overlooked the story of the FBI seeking spies on vegan potlucks. While our potluck wasn’t specifically vegan, though vegan-friendly, this was an interesting talking point. I had some great discussions about the Green Scare at work while inviting people. The Green Scare is especially close to home for people from Syracuse. In the 1990’s a visible, fighting animal liberation movement was met with bone-breaking arrests at demos, surveillance and a media flurry of criminalization using the t-word before it came into fashion. Fresh in many of our minds, many radicals here have little doubt Syracuse in the 90’s was full of useful lessons in implementing the nationwide Green Scare today.

Circuits of Support

“We will go home to our communities after this Summer, and it is in our communities that the effects of the broadening ecological crisis, the crash of the economy and the implementation of security-as-a-way-of-life will take hold. Whether it is the right wing of capital or the left wing of capital, capitalism will continue to structure our lives and dissolve every inch of autonomy we carve out.
To the contrary of the common narrative of defeat and despair, we notice that it is also in these communities that our affects take hold. It is within these circuits of support—both material and emotional—that we produce ourselves as powerful.”
- Everything for Everyone: a Small Demand Call for an Anti-Capitalist Force at the DNC protests, a precarious workers-council of Unconventional Action

I can see why the FBI wants their informants at potlucks; a lot of the most subversive bonds between radicals, among ourselves and the people around us are made outside the meetings, having fun, with our mouths full of some damn good macaroni salad made by our neighbors. Many who didn’t make it to the picnic are planning to join us at future events. While we didn’t have a huge festival like we first envisioned, we’re definitely moving in the right direction to be able to host bigger, public events.

August 10th was all about the conversations we had with people around us and among ourselves. Thanks to the picnic, I had great discussions with people I work at a call center with about electoral politics, capitalism, and ways real change can come from below. The False Hope newspapers were eagerly read and people seemed giddy to be reading something ridiculing all the politicians. Co-workers from across the “political” spectrum have been overwhelmingly supportive and wished me and all of us luck at the convention protests. Hearing heartfelt words of encouragement from the people who help me get by at my miserable job, building that sense of connection to what’s going down at the conventions, has been really empowering. Listening when the space is opened up for people to talk about resistance in their own lives has helped me greater appreciate the courage and struggles of my friends and co-workers, often outside the view of any formal movement.

The discussions we had with each other said a lot about where the larger US anarchist movement is at, especially outside major cities; here in Syracuse we’re overwhelmed with the amount of problems to tackle, struggling with the pro’s and con’s of network organizing. We’re trying to pick campaigns, trying to think outside the dichotomy of “big” issues and “local” dilemmas, trying to find our own roles in the movement. We debated the collapse & anti-state communism, appreciated the contradictions in doing both formal and informal organizing, shared the most recent news about the fight against I-69. Like many other small town anarchists, we’re being self-critical, talking about how some of us don’t want to go to demonstrations any more, wanting more socials, and of course thinking of more ideas for events than we could ever possibly put on (or list). Like so many beaten down cities, Syracuse is small but we dream big.

Some of us discussed the recent Left Turn issue with different radical responses to how Barak Obama’s campaign will effect liberation struggles, the need to keep a commitment to fighting all forms of interconnected oppressions, keeping critical of power dynamics in the movement. Many of us are worried for the ways settler white supremacy and privilege within the anarchist movement will undermine our chance to make a dent at a critical time, especially if we’re unable to answer the Democrat’s co-optation of feminist and anti-racist opposition in ways that resonate. For us as a group rooted in and striving for anti-oppression anarchisms, with different approaches and analysis, all trying to learn from movement histories, this is particularly up front. Syracuse Solidarity Network proudly meets at one of the oldest independent feminist community centers in the northeast, the Women’s Info Center, and many of us are inspired by the recent events by Anarchist People of Color (APOC), the Bash Back! Network, and by the working class/class war caucus at the North East Anarchist Network assemblies. We hope the anarchist movement (including us) is listening, and changing into, in the words of Autonomy & Solidarity,”the enemy the enemy deserves.” We’ve been really impressed by the RNC Welcoming Committee’s sexual assault policy, by their presentation of their local history, by the breadth of different tendencies in the literature they tabled with on their tour. It all had a very small town feel, and there’s a lot we could learn from them.

August 10th was also the coming out party for the Upstate NY Bash Back! list serv to network radical anti-authoritarian trannies, queers, and anarcha-feminists across Upstate NY for the conventions and beyond. While we don’t have a regularly meeting chapter of Bash Back!, we decided to form an Upstate NY-wide Bash Back! Upstate NY has a powerful history of recent trans, queer, and feminist liberation struggle, like Rochester’s Beyond the Binary conference that many people from Rochester Unconventional Action are involved in. For more info check out https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/bashbackupstateny

The next day at a Syracuse Solidarity Network meeting, a few people wrote down messages of support and solidarity for everyone across the country getting ready to take on the electoral spectacle to be shared:

“Good luck and have fun. This is gonna be one of the most important events in years. I wish I could be more involved. Be safe!” – HS

“The peeps at home got your back – we’ll be sitting by the phones, waiting to NOT get the call from y’all in jail. Run fast, stay badass.” – anonymous

“Take care of yourselves, don’t get hurt or killed. Keep love and faith in the people in the front of your minds. We’ll do everything we can to build support for you in our community. In struggle,” – CB

“Remember the Audre Lorde quote ‘When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.’ ” – S

Upstate Anti-State

While anarchists are used to talking about global waves of struggle and their circulation, Unconventional Action and the conventions protests have been part of an impressive amount of communication and sharing in the northeast. Not a wave, but a significant ripple perhaps. For us in Syracuse, beginning with demonstrations in solidarity with Oaxaca, to the North East Anarchist Network, to the insurrectionary October Rebellion in DC screaming “Make total destroy!”, to regional organizing against the war and conventions, there has been a surge of struggles and coordination that we hope is only beginning. Its hard to say if Upstate NY anarchists are “more” connected than we were before; after all this is an area with a deep history of anti-authoritarian and radical revolt under the label “anarchist” and beyond, home to continuing indigenous resistance, stop after stop on the Underground Railroad, feminist opposition to the State and militarism from Matilda Joslyn Gage to the Seneca Women’s Peace Encampment and the Lesbian Avengers.

But Upstate NY has been in the thick of things. From cities hosting the RNC Welcoming Committee tour, to the small Northeast Unconventional Action conference in Binghamton, we’ve carved out a corner even when its just been a handful of us. Anarchists from across Upstate squeezed into their cars to trek to Pittsburgh for the North East Anarchist Network-Midwest Action Network consulta and to Chicago for Bash Back! The North East Anarchist Network anti-election campaign has supplied us with a steady flow of ideas, articles, and propaganda. New and familiar faces from Ithaca hosted a NeaN general assembly that devoted time to report backs from the Twin Cities. Rochester Unconventional Action, probably the most consistent and together group, has held regular meetings, held a movie showing of “Shut it Down” & organized the successful Burlesque For Bail fundraising event.

Upstate-wide Unconventional Action meetings, hosted in different towns and shaped by the locals putting them on, were a wonderful opportunity to meet anti-authoritarians working on every project you can imagine. What we lost in projects left unfinished we gained in communication and friendship. There was always a sense of uncertainty on what exactly we could do, what with all the things we were working on in our own towns, different and sometimes clashing tendencies/approaches, the geographical distance to the conventions. There’s a lot to be critical of, but it would be hard to deny the vital role Upstate Unconventional Action meetings have had for us in Syracuse keeping us connected, being able to extend solidarity and be kept up-to-date when our comrades in Binghamton were attacked, pepper-sprayed and arrested after blocking a major parkway during a student protest, keeping Food Not Bombs groups in contact, sharing street tactics. While I regret that we didn’t get the ambitious projects we often brainstormed done, I think they could be translated into our local and regional fights, from media ideas, to the skills that people have learned along the way. We expect to grow and deepen our ties beyond the conventions.

Its beyond the scope of this article to sum up all the motion across Upstate against the conventions, each town would have so much to say from their own varied perspectives. Hopefully we’ll hear more voices as the story unfolds. Anarchists in other small cities and towns, this is a nod to start sharing where you’re at.

If your town or city hasn’t used the conventions as a way to get anarchists in contact with each other, now is a great time to act. There are other articles and resources out there that talk about the more direct ways solidarity can take place, and remember the best solidarity is always about taking on your own oppressors.

Just a few small ideas for anarchists in smaller cities & towns interested in being part of the conventions solidarity:
- Set up dates for report backs in your area
- Have a few people agree to email list servs and talk with groups and friends about repression as it happens at the conventions
- Talk to your co-workers, pass around or post up reports of whats really happening at the convention protests and why, where to get more info
- Wear a shirt during the conventions opposing the repression and inviting people to ask you about the protests
- Students returning to school could photocopy zines or PDF’s with info about the protests and local struggles
- Find a corner to hold some signs & banners in solidarity with the conventions protest as they happen – in Syracuse, we’ll be holding signs in front of the New York State Fair during the DNC with the Syracuse Peace Council and other local anti-war groups who were already planning on sending an anti-war message
- If you don’t know many anarchists or radicals in your area, or if you wanna get closer with the ones you do know, host a get small together and share food and news about the convention protests with your friends into the night
- Organize beyond the conventions, at home and onward to the inauguration!

Original August 10th Call to Action:
http://dncdisruption08.org/?p=112

For more info about the convention protests check out:

Unconventional Action Network
http://UnconventionalAction.org
RNC Welcoming Committee
http://NoRNC.org
DNC Disruption ‘08
http://DNCdisruption08.org
Unconventional Denver
http://myspace.com/UnconventionalDenver
Bash Back! News
http://bashbacknews.wordpress.com
Bash Back! Denver
http://myspace.com/BashBackDenver
Bash Back! Chicago
http://myspace.com/BashBack
Upstate Uprise Unconventional Action Faction
http://myspace.com/UpstateUnconventional
UpstateUnconventionalAction@gmail.com

For more info about the Syracuse Solidarity Network and the North East Anarchist Network check out:
Syracuse Solidarity Network
http://SyracuseSolNet.wordpress.com
http://myspace.com/SyracuseSolidarityNetwork
Contact & article feed back at
SyracuseSolNet@gmail.com
SSN, September 29th anti-war march YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S9FymHfYfQ

North East Anarchist Network
http://NEanarchist.net
The Nor’Easter, the official quarterly of the North East Anarchist Network
http://neanarchist.net/?q=noreaster/issue2

Some References & Relevant Articles:

North East Anarchist Network Endorses RNC WC Call to Action, http://www.nornc.org/2008/01/13/northeast-anarchist-network-endorses-wc-call-to-action/

Carman, Jake, “Full Speed Ahead!” The Nor’Easter # 2, http://neanarchist.net/noreaster/issue2/article2.html
NYPD Spies on the Syracuse Peace Council, 2004 http://www.peacecouncil.net/spy/
Left Turn Issue # 29, Mailing Addess: Left Turn, P.O. Box 445 New York, NY 10159-0445 http://www.leftturn.org
Milstein, Cindy, Hope in a Time of Elections, Left Turn #29 http://www.leftturn.org/?q=node/1176
Uhlenbeck, Max, Possibilities of a Movement: Reflections on RNC Organizing 04, Left Turn # 15,
http://www.leftturn.org/?q=node/354
Twin Cities Radical Community Meeting on Sexual Assault and the RNC http://www.nornc.org/2008/07/17/twin-cities-radical-community-meeting-on-sexual-assault-and-the-rnc-2/
APOC: Build It From Below! Call http://www.ainfos.ca/en/ainfos21055.html
IllVox: Anarchist People of Color http://illvox.org/

Only One Direction, Trans & Queer Insurrection, Bash Back! Convergence Reportback, http://dncdisruption08.org/?p=59
“Becoming the Enemy They Deserve” Upping the Anti Editorial, UTA # 4, http://uppingtheanti.org/node/2691
Militant Research on call centers, Kolinko Hotlines http://nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/kolinko/lebuk/e_lebuk.htm
Rochester Indymedia http://Rochester.indymedia.org
Beyond the Binary http://myspace.com/beyondthegenderbinary
Solidarity Is A Weapon, A Murder of Crows #1, http://www.geocities.com/amurderofcrows1/issue1/solidarity.htm

Upstate NY history & info
Onondaga Nation land rights & solidarity http://www.onondaganation.org/
http://www.peacecouncil.net/NOON/landrights.html
Yorkstaters Blog http://yorkstaters.blogspot.com
Emma Goldman in Rochester history http://rocwiki.org/Emma%20Goldman
http://yorkstaters.blogspot.com/2006/11/in-november-we-remember-emma-goldman.html
http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20070709211507128
Syracuse Women’s Info Center http://www.myspace.com/womensinfocenter
Seneca Women’s Peace Encampment Herstory Project http://peacecampherstory.blogspot.com

Photos & the flyer handed out from Youth In Action’s musical anti-war protest & open mic on Westcott St June 21st. The next musical anti war protest will be Saturday, July 12th at 3pm in Hanover Square, alongside a meal share by Syracuse Food Not Bombs – see you in the streets!
E-mail contact Syracuse Youth In Action: Zachary (at) twcny.rr.com
FacebookGroup: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6375414353
http://peacecouncil.net/youth/

Youth In Action Musical Anti War Protest!
Saturday, June 21st
2-6pm
at the bench at Westcott st and Beech st
http://peacecouncil.net/youth/

OPEN MIC, pass on the word, bring music, poetry, your friends!

on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=24806851292

“On Saturday June 21, Syracuse Youth in Action will be hosting a MUSICAL PROTEST of the ongoing war in Iraq.

We will send a message to our elected officials and the people of Syracuse that we are sick and tired of this unjust war and we demand change!
The protest will follow an ‘open mic’ format (without the mic). Bring your own guitars, print out song lyrics to pass, drums are great too.
Everyone is welcome! Come add your voice and be heard!
If you have poetry or other writing to read, that is also great!
Nothing amplified please since there is nowhere to plug it in and we don’t want the police on our tail, if we can avoid it.
We will have about 10 signs, but if you have a good one you’d like to bring please do so.”

- Youth in Action on Facebook

Youth in Action are a group of Syracuse young people fighting against the war and for social justice.
During the summer they held a large un-permitted youth anti-war march that took over the Federal Building lawn to denounce imperialism, activated the un-permitted youth and anti-authoritarian feeder march at the September 29th Upstate NY Citizen & Soldier March Against the War, and have made a spirited youth presence holding anti-war signs along Westcott st and downtown, and are planning future events.

Check out a recent article about the Westcott st demo here:
http://syracusesolnet.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/youth-in-action-protest-4208/

Jamesville-DeWitt High School Acceptance Coalition Benefit Concert
Friday, June 20th
6pm to 11pm
basement of MPH Presbyterian Church, 5299 Jamesville Rd

Check out AxCo on Myspace at http://www.myspace.com/JDAxCo

on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/home.php/event.php?eid=28856156864

Support this long-running fierce and fabulous queer youth group! Their annual benefits are always filled with creativity, wit and great performances!

“Now we realize that sounds odd but it’s in the basement and it has a really good stage and a lot of room and it was free. We have a bunch on different bands including Go all out, Here for the hour, Remember tommorow, All my ambitions, Magnet 79, and a few solo artist including Matthew Kelly. We still have a few bands we are waiting to hear from.

TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS!”
- http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=109773996&blogID=404223985

“The acceptance coalition is a group committed to fighting discrimination, oppression and prejudice in our schools and community. We are the group who promotes acceptance of all people and their beliefs in order to bring them together. We recognize that racism, sexism, homophobia, classism, ageism, religious prejudice and other forms of discrimination and oppression are all connected and they are issues that need to be addressed. We wish to be a community resource to offer support and education. Also, we have broadened our horizon and focus on getting the youth active in helping others and speaking their mind.”
- http://www.myspace.com/JDAxCo

June Immigrants Rights Action – the Overground Railroad
11 AM on Saturday, June 14
(45-minutes to 1 hour) no longer
at the Regional Transportation Center (Amtrak and Greyhound Station)

Activities: High-visibility banner and sign-holding; distributing
critically important public education material on Border Patrol
arrests, material that will allow people to make INFORMED DECISIONS
about whether they want to risk having their family torn apart by the
detainment of a family member. Chants, prayers, powerful testimonies.
A peaceful but spirited assembly! Children welcome. This is a good way
to help them understand what it means to work hard for the dignity of
all people. It helps them learn more about their own immigrant
ancestors, and what they endured when they arrived in this country.
Immigrant rights are human rights!

At our first rally, there were about 50 people. Help us break that record!

WHERE to Show Up: Gather on the curved sidewalk near the big sign
labeling the RTC. The sidewalk is public property (we think), and we
therefore can use our U.S. Constitution, especially laws that protect
freedom of speech, peacable assembly, and the right to petition the
government for a redress of grievances (First Amendment); and
searches and seizures without Warrants (Fourth Amendment).

Other: bring sun screen or umbrellas or rain gear, depending on
weather; water bottles. We have found that back packs are helpful. We
can supply you with a sign.

Mark your calendar now for the July 5th Immigrant Rights Action.
Declare your independence from government policies that break up
families, incite racism, and encourage worker exploitation and modern
forms of slavery.