I am hap­py to announce these three images are now avail­able at Syra­cuse Cul­tur­al Work­ers in var­i­ous for­mats. Sol­i­dar­i­ty and Night Sky are avail­able as posters, post­cards, but­tons, and mag­nets. Night Sky is also a hol­i­day card. Hands Off Iran is avail­able as a free down­load­able poster. Go to https://www.syracuseculturalworkers.com/products?text=leslie+dwyer&sort_by=search_api_relevance&sort_bef_combine=search_api_relevance+DESC

The U.S. needs to join the respon­si­ble human race and sign the Unit­ed Nations nuclear ban treaty. For infor­ma­tion, check out The nuclear ban treaty: a missed US oppor­tu­ni­ty that can be redeemed in Sep­tem­ber, by the Bul­letin of Atom­ic Sci­en­tists: https://thebulletin.org/2017/07/the-nuclear-ban-treaty-a-missed-us-opportunity-that-can-be-redeemed-in-september/ 

We need our forests to breathe. Accord­ing to Amer­i­can Forests, two mature trees pro­vide enough oxy­gen for one per­son to breathe over the course of a year. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. Oh, wait. Forests also improve our health by remov­ing dust, ash, pollen, and smoke. Check out oth­er for­est facts and spread the word. As we work to pro­tect our forests, we also need to pay atten­tion to the safe­ty con­di­tions of our for­est work­ers who suf­fer nine times the fatal­i­ties of the gen­er­al US work pop­u­la­tion. For more infor­ma­tion on for­est work­er safe­ty check out http://lohp.org/forestry-workers/

Imag­ine being 7 or 12 or 15 and being afraid to leave your house for school, play, errands, life. Imag­ine your par­ents equal­ly fright­ened, des­per­ate, being forced to leave you or send you away in a scram­ble to help you sur­vive. No par­ent, no child would under­take the very dan­ger­ous jour­ney across bor­ders to an unknown, haz­ard­ly mount­ing a train called la bes­tia — the beast. Eco­nom­ic, polit­i­cal injus­tice push­es chil­dren out. Injus­tice sends them back.