By Adrianna Adame Last week, hundreds walked in solidarity for indigenous victims of residential boarding schools. Protesters marched from the Onondaga Nation Arena to downtown Syracuse’s Columbus Circle — nearly 6 miles.  Speakers, including the eight organizers of the July 31 Every Child Matters: Walk for Justice for Our Ancestors, told stories about the horrors done by the Catholic-run schools …

By Eddie Velazquez Dozens of eviction defense activists gathered Wednesday outside Ballantyne Garden Apartments to rally its tenants to protest the grim living conditions in some of the buildings. The protest, organized by the Syracuse Tenants Organizing for Power (STOP!) Coalition and Rebirth SYR, followed a scathing report published on Syracuse.com that detailed the unsanitary state of some of the …

By Adrianna Adame Some local Cuban and Cuban Americans are actively protesting against the Cuban government, urgently calling for freedom as people continue to starve and suffer from the country’s lack of medical resources. They vocally showed their sympathy towards the dire and oppressive conditions that protesters have to live with, such as imprisonment for challenging the government, during a …

By Nolan Hughes After collecting nearly 350 firearms at a Syracuse gun buyback, state and local officials were quick to call the event a success — but researchers are not as convinced. The event was held at St. Lucy’s Church’s food pantry on Gifford Street July 24. When the final results were calculated, Jon Wood, who works for the Attorney …

The 2021 Summer Photo Contest organized by The Stand newspaper is underway and will continue to accept photo entrees until midnight Aug. 1. “Last year, because of COVID-19 restrictions, we rethought our annual Photo Walk plans,”  said Ashley Kang, director of the project. “I still wanted to find a way to capture this moment and how life continued in the …

Staff Report A Community Gun Buyback program will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, July 24, at the St. Lucy’s Food Pantry, 425 Gifford St. People who return hand guns and assault rifles under the amnesty program will be eligible to receive a financial payment and an iPad, on a first come-first served basis. No identification is …

Forced to skip 2020’s Photo Walk due to restrictions from the COVID-19 pandemic, our project’s most popular community training is back along with another citywide Photo Contest to capture often overlooked places in Syracuse, as well as the faces that call those places home. This month, a dozen photographers and community members have volunteered their time to lead five separate …

Tre’Coy Boyd takes on new role to help inform renters of their rights By Eddie Velazquez Onondaga County’s Volunteer Lawyers Project Eviction Defense has expanded its roster of community advocates. The nonprofit, which specializes in providing legal aid to residents who are unable to seek paid legal services, recently hired Tre’Coy Boyd as its new legal assistant and community educator …

Daughter schedules memorial to remember Syracuse street musician

By Carole Horan Market. Definition: A market is a place where two parties, usually buyers and sellers, can gather to facilitate the exchange of goods and services. Oh but the Brady Market is so much more than that! According to their website “Brady Market is a grocery store with retail, deli/catering, wholesale grocery operations, job training, and wrap-around healing support …