Syracuse
Peace Council
2013 East Genesee St., Syracuse, NY 13210
spc(a)peacecouncil.net, (315)
472-5478
2011 Program Summary
1. US Global Agenda/Militarism
• Bring the War Money Home - a new project making the
link between the Great Recession and outrageous and counterproductive
war spending
• US out of Iraq and Afghanistan
• Ground the Drones/ End the Wars-educates
about the Reaper drones based at nearby Hancock Airfield and the dangers
of increased robotic warfare
• Military Alternatives Education
Project (MAEP) – work with young people on alternatives to
the military
• Palestine-Israel Just Peace
– provides grassroots education and generate political pressure
needed to re-orient US policy toward a just peace.
• Study Group on US Global Agenda
• Weekly Peace Outreach
• Americas Solidarity work –Caribbean
Latin America Coalition
• Annual commemoration of bombing
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
2. Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation (NOON)
– ongoing educational and advocacy to work support justice and
environmental clean up
3. Peace Newsletter – publishing
monthly to provide information and analysis on local, state, national
and international issues
4. Youth
• Bikes for Peace - promotes
healthy recreation and sustainability by teaching young people to fix
their bicycles.
5. Coalition Efforts
• United As One - Works for police accountability and a just
criminal "justice" system
• Bill of Rights Defense Campaign - works to defend civil liberties
• Partnership for Onondaga Creek - works for environmental
justice
6. General education & outreach
• Monthly educational program – make more useful/less dependent
on staff time, proposal to make every other month a film showing. Non-film
programs should either be timely for an existing SPC program priority
or SPC-affiliated projects and allies should be invited to coordinate
a program. Staff should feel free to cancel a monthly program if none
of these options are fairly readily available.
• Tabling outreach & education
• Creative Team
– create volunteer team to think up and implement creative actions/materials
for use at SPC events/campaigns
7. Media –Convene a working group to evaluate SPC’s media
work (print, web, audio/video, support for alternative media and approach
to mainstream media) and develop a plan for a more effective/cohesive
use of media
9. Breaking events/Requests for solidarity – staff should use
the IAPs to evaluate any such requests and take action as necessary