Syracuse-Area
Activist Contacts
This list of active social change groups in the Greater Syracuse
area is far from complete. For a more detailed list, see the Stonewall Committee’s
CNY Community Directory. All area codes are “315.”
Peace Council
Projects
Syracuse Peace Councit
472-5478 spc@peacecouncil.net
Bikes
4 Peace
472-5478 Jessica Maxwell, jessica@peacecouncil.net
Local Cost of War Committee
472-5478 Jessica Maxwell,
jessica@peacecouncil.net
Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation
472-5478 Carol Baum, carol@peacecouncil.net
Peace Newsletter
472-5478 Andy Mager,
andy@peacecouncil.net
Plowshares Craftsfair
472-5478 plowshares@peacecouncil.net
SPC Study Group
472-5478 Aly
Wane, aly@peacecouncil.net
SPC TV: The Peoples’ 60 Minutes
Paul Pearce, press@peacecouncil.net
Weekly Peace Outreach
472-5478 Andy Mager,
andy@peacecouncil.net
SPC-involved
Coalitions
Bill of Rights Defense Campaign
471-2821 Barrie Gewanter,
director@cnyclu.org
Caribbean/Latin America Coalition
478-1592 Paul Weichselbaum
Military Alternatives Education Project
472-5478 Eric Benner, eric@peacecouncil.net
Partnership for Onondaga Creek
478-4571
Aggie Lane, aggielane@verizon.net
Progressive Coalition
472-5478, Andy Mager, andy@peacecouncil.net
Public Power Coalition
474-7055, syracusegreens@yahoo.com
Other Community
Organizations
AIDS Community Resources
475-2430 Will Murtaugh,
event@aidscommunityresources.com
Alliance
Network
474-0922 Walt Dixie, waltdixie@aol.com
Alliance of Communities Transforming Syr.
478-0191 Rev. Davis,
donak22@gmail.com
Alternatives to Violence Project
585-526-5202 Jill McClellan, mclellan@globalcrossing.net
American Friends Service Committee
475-4822 Chrissie Rizzo, crizzo@afsc.org
Atlantic States Legal Foundation
475-1170 Sam Sage, samuel.sage@aslf.org
Beyond Boundaries
478-4571
Aggie Lane, aggielane@verizon.net
Black Voice (SU)
theblackvoice@gmail.com
CANOPY
471-4780 Larry Rutledge, lrutledge@a-znet.com
CNY Chapter NY Civil Liberties Union
471-2821 Barrie Gewanter,
director@cnyclu.org
CNY Council on Occupational Safety
& Health
471-6187 Jack Quinlan, cnycosh@cnymail.com
CNY Labor Federation, AFL-CIO
422-3363 x11 Mark Spadafore,
mark@cnylabor.org
CNY Labor-Religion Coalition
431-4040 Tim Fay, tfay@nysutmail.org
Center for Community Alternatives
422-5638 x227 Alan Rosenthal, arosenthal@communityalternatives.org
Citizen Review Board of Syracuse
448-8750 Felicia Davis
Citizens Awareness Network (CAN)
882-6689 Tim Judson, cnycan@nukebusters.org
Citizens Campaign for the Environment
472-1339 Dereth
Glance, dglance@citizenscampaign.org
CNY Colombia
Support Network & Cajibio Sister Community
478-4571 Ann Tiffany, anntiffany@verizon.net
Community Animal Project
491-4699 Shawn DeLeo,
info@communityanimalproject.org
Democracy for America
252-0947 Vicki Trojnor,
wdckqn@msn.com
Dunbar
Association
476-4269 Sharon Jack Williams,sharcol56@aol.com
Fair Housing Council of CNY
471-0420 Merrillee
Witherell, SHCCNY@aol.com
Friends of Dorothy Catholic Worker
471-6853 Michael or Nick, mdesalv1@twcny.rr.com
Gay, Straight and Questioning Youth
Group
475-2430 Elizabethe
Payne
Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance
472-5119 Pastor Bryant L. Gerald,
Sr.
InterReligious
Council of CNY
449-3552 x102 Jim Wiggins, jwiggins@irccny.org
Jail Ministry
424-1877 Melody Holmes, melody@gmail.com
LGBT
Resource Center
(SU)
443-3983 Adrea
Jaehnig, aljaehni@syr.edu
Matilda Joslyn
Gage Foundation
637-9511 Sally Roesch
Wagner, foundation@matildajoslyngage.org
The Media Unit
478-8648 Walt Shepperd
NAACP
422-6933 or 672-7085 Preston
Fagan,
fagan.preston@syr.sysco.com
National Organization for Women (NOW),
CNY
422-7700 Cher
Leszczewicz
NOW, Greater Syracuse Chapter
682-5810 Amy Doherty, amycobe@aol.com
New Environment Association
446-8009 Harry Schwarzlander
New
York Public Interest Research Group
476-8381 Francis Clark, fclark@nypirg.org
NYS Division of Human Rights
428-4633 Valerie Woods
Northeast
Community Center
472-6343 Tom Bazydlo,
sncc@a-znet.com
Onon Co.
/Syr. Commission on Human Rts
435-3567 Linda Hall, lindahall@ongov.net
Onondaga Nation Communications Office
492-1922, ononcomm@verizon.net
PFLAG-Syracuse
250 Waring
Rd., Syracuse, NY 13224, pflagbarb@yahoo.com
Pax Christi
476-0048 or 391-4877 Dick Keough,
rkeough@twcny.rr.com
Peace Action of CNY
478-7422 info@peaceactioncny.org
People Against
the Death Penalty
476-9634 Bill Cuddy
People for Animal Rights
488-7877 Linda A. DeStefano,
linpar@acmgfcu.net
People’s Environmental Network of
NY
469-5347 Vicki Baker, ennewyork@hotmail.com
Planned Parenthood
475-5540 x223 Betty DeFazio, bdefazio@pprsr.org
ReConsiDer
478-7815 Nicolas Eyle,
info@reconsider.org
SEIU 1199 Upstate
424-1743 x126 Court Bonthius,
cbonthius@1199.org
SOA Abolitionists
446-2720 Mike Pasquale, mpasqual@twcny.rr.com
Sierra Club
492-4745 Martha Loew,
marthaloew@usadatanet.net
Socialist Party
478-0793 Ron Ehrenreich,
smashstate@earthlink.net
Southwest
Community Center
474-6823 Courtney Ramirez, cramirez@swccsyr.org
Spanish Action League
475-6153
x207 Rita Paniagua, rpaniagua@laligaonline.com
Stonewall Committee
476-6226 Bonnie Strunk,
info@stonewallcommittee.org
Student Environmental Action Coalition
218-5481 Bobby Powers, bobbypowers@gmail.com
Student Peace Action Network-SU
508-596-8142 Anna Hadingham,
aghading@syr.edu
Syracuse
Alternative Media Network
852-6190 Tim Brachocki,
samn@frontiernet.net
Syracuse
Area Domestic Violence Coalition
425-0818 Loren Cunningham or Elisa
Morales
Syracuse
Community Choir
428-8151 Karen Mihayli,
kmihalyi@a-znet.com
Syracuse
Community Radio
426-0850 Paul Melnikow,
info@wxxe.org
Syracuse Coop Federal Credit Union
471-1116x201 Ron Ehrenreich,
christinasauve@syrcoopscu.org
Syracuse
Cultural Workers
474-1132 x 111 Dik
Cool, dik@syrculturalworkers.com
Syracuse
Greens
474-7055, syracusegreens@yahoo.com
Syracuse
Real Food Coop
472-1385 Joanne Grisanti,
joanne@syracuserealfood.coop
Syracuse-La Estancia Sister Community
446-6099 Shirley Novak, shirleynovak@yahoo.com
SU
Social Movements Initiative
443-3822 John Burdick, jsburdic@maxwell.syr.edu
Syracuse United
Neighbors
476-7475 Rich Puchalski,
sun@sunaction.org
Westcott
Community Center
478-8634 Steve Susman,
info@westcottcc.org
Women Transcending Boundaries
446-1694 Betsy Wiggins or 687-3551
Danya Wellmon
Women’s Information
Center
478-4636
