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Syracuse Cultural Workers is proud to be part of the No Kings Coalition. For over a year, millions of us have said it to...
09/08/2026

Syracuse Cultural Workers is proud to be part of the No Kings Coalition.

For over a year, millions of us have said it together: power doesn't belong to billionaires, strongmen, or politicians who think they're above the law. It belongs to the people, but only if we use it.

Today, we're announcing the next step. On October 17, No Kings: Vote Early will bring communities together nationwide: block parties, rallies, walks to the polls, and everything in between, all working toward one goal: making sure every eligible voter has a plan, knows their options, and is ready to make their voice count.

Efforts to undermine trust in our elections, weaken voting rights, and make it harder for people to be heard are happening across the country right now, not sometime down the road. That's exactly why we're not waiting for Election Day. Voting early means making our voices heard on our own terms: before Election Day, before the last-minute chaos, before anyone else decides what happens next.

This isn't a protest. It's a nonpartisan day of voter participation, and it's for everyone. New events are being added to the map every day, save the date, find your event, or sign up to host one in your own community. Join us Thursday night, September 10 at 8 pm EST for the initial Kickoff Call for October 17. You'll hear about the thinking behind the campaign, what you can do and how to involve others.

No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.

https://syracuseculturalworkers.com/collections/no-kings

Register for No Kings Mass Call – September 10: https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/1012262/?utm_source=syracuseculturalworkers

Please join us for great music and community tomorrow night to begin the celebrations of the Syracuse Peace Council's 90...
09/02/2026

Please join us for great music and community tomorrow night to begin the celebrations of the Syracuse Peace Council's 90th anniversary!

The action starts at 6 pm at the corner of Westcott and Dell Sts in the Westcott Nation. Featured band Root Shock starts at 7:30 with Kambuyu Marimba Ensemble beginning the live music at 6:30. Be sure to check out the vendors including the Peace Council table and a table of Syracuse Cultural Workers Merch which will benefit SPC.

Thanks to the 315 Thursdays crew for sharing this celebration with us!

The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, more than 250,000 people filled the National Mall; teach...
08/28/2026

The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, more than 250,000 people filled the National Mall; teachers and steelworkers, elders and students; risking paychecks and comfort to demand racial and economic justice. Guided by A. Philip Randolph, Bayard Rustin, and countless local organizers, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom turned courage into collective power.

From that stage, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” rang out; not as a finale, but as a spark. The months that followed brought heartbreak in Birmingham and hard-won victories like the 24th Amendment (making a poll tax illegal), the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act the following year; proof that relentless organizing can move a nation.

We honor the march, and ongoing organizing by the civil rights movement, by continuing that work. It involves many hands and many kinds of work – education, caretaking, resistance, creative arts, cultural empowerment, building independent institutions and much more. Together we can do this.

The summer of my sophomore year of high school, I interned at the Matilda Joslyn Gage Center, working the front desk, gi...
08/28/2026

The summer of my sophomore year of high school, I interned at the Matilda Joslyn Gage Center, working the front desk, giving tours, and learning much about Gage's work with the suffrage movement.

Matilda Joslyn Gage was born in 1826 in Cicero, New York. She spent her life fighting for a cause she never got to see fulfilled. Gage dedicated herself to women's suffrage and the right to vote for all women. She was a crucial member of the Underground Railroad and worked alongside Frederick Douglass in the fight for Black Americans' rights. Gage wasn't afraid to be different: while many suffragists of her time limited their cause to white women, Gage pushed beyond that and fought for all women.

Much of Gage's vision for equality came from her relationship with Haudenosaunee people, whose confederacy she saw firsthand near her home in central New York. She said of the Haudenosaunee: “Never was justice more perfect; never was civilization higher.” In Haudenosaunee society, women had responsibility for land and family, and played a critical role in selecting male leaders. This was completely different from the situation facing white women. Gage studied and wrote about this matriarchal structure. She understood that the fight for women’s rights wasn’t singular, it belonged to Black women, Indigenous women, immigrant women, disabled women, and every woman left out of the conversation.

Despite her contributions, Gage was pushed to the margins of a movement she helped build, and much of her work was nearly lost to history. It survives today only because of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Center, founded by Sally Roesch Wagner to make sure her story wasn't forgotten.

As you think about Women's Equality Day, I urge you to keep learning about the struggle of all women. Visit a museum, read an article, and keep fighting for the rights of all women.

Mary Kate Coughlin
Mary Kate is a Syracuse University student interning with Syracuse Cultural Workers
this summer.

https://syracuseculturalworkers.com/collections/suffrage-centennial

Failure to learn about the past does not erase it; it just makes us ill-informed and unable to interrogate our history a...
08/20/2026

Failure to learn about the past does not erase it; it just makes us ill-informed and unable to interrogate our history and craft our future. When we also minimize or distort the critical impact of resistance and protest in our past – and do not learn about the histories of the Civil Rights’ Movement, The Women’s Movement, the fights for Gay Liberation and Disability Rights – we weaken our collective energy and commitment to continuing to fight against injustice. Mara Sapon-Shevin

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