Presented by Jewish Voice for Peace – Syracuse and Justice for Palestine– a committee of the Syracuse Peace Council Israel’s ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and repeated invasions of the Gaza strip have triggered a fierce backlash against Israeli policies virtually everywhere in the…
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Presented in partnership with People for Animal Rights of CNY Modern farms are struggling to keep a secret. Most of the animals used for food in the United States are raised in giant, bizarre “factory farms,” hidden deep in remote areas of the countryside. Speciesism: The…
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Martin Welych-Flanagan, aged 17, created Save the Seals, a campaign to raise awareness about the plight of harp seal pups and the Arctic ecosystem as a whole. Since starting his project at age seven, he has raised over $17,000 for the Humane Society of the…
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Panel Discussion organized by the Beyond War and Militarism Committee, a joint project of the CNY Solidarity Coalition and the Syracuse Peace Council. Martin Luther King, Jr. tried to teach us that a racist war “there” (e.g. Viet Nam) is directly linked to the war…
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In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends – Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and…