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