Gene Marner of Franklin was among those protesting at the March 28 No Kings rally, held on Market and Main streets in Oneonta.…
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Approximately 2,000 area residents participated in demonstrations across Otsego and Schoharie counties on Saturday, March 28 as part of the third grassroots “No Kings” protest.…
“We gather today to protest Otsego County’s affiliation with an unchecked, unaccountable and unhinged ICE,” chapter founder Khalil Jade Carney of Gilbertsville told demonstrators. “We’ve all seen how ICE has been terrorizing our country and community.”…
Carney will further hone her skills as an SR leader while seeking to increase local participation in SR on two upcoming occasions. On Wednesday, February 25 from 5:30-8 p.m., she will conduct a workshop at The Sherburne Inn in Chenango County, followed by another on Thursday, February 26 from 4-6 p.m. at the Gatehouse Coffee Shop in Morris, her hometown. …
Organized by CooperstownOneonta Indivisible, Butternut Valley Indivisible, and the Otsego County Democratic Committee, local demonstrators again gathered to oppose Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s actions nationwide and a recently-signed Warrant Service Officer agreement between the agency and the Otsego County Sheriff’s Office.…
The Cooperstown protest was scheduled before news of the Minnesota shooting broke, and was focused on opposing the Sheriff’s Office’s 287(g) agreement. The agreement allows the Sheriff’s Office to hold detainees in criminal custody with immigration warrants for an additional 48 hours to facilitate transfer to ICE.…
It is relatively easy to go to a protest but the only thing that will really work with the current crowd in power is to defeat them at the ballot box. Please, if you really want a change back to a constitutional democracy...…
Although keeping track of what is happening in our country overwhelms most of us, it’s important to remember that terrible things are being done in our names and with our dollars. It’s also important to raise our voices in protest.…
“We are not out here today for ourselves,” CooperstownOneonta Indivisible leader Virginia Kennedy said from the stage in Oneonta. “We are out here today because we care about our country.”…
July 17 marked the fifth anniversary of the death John Lewis, the 1960s civil rights leader and, eventually, Georgia Congressman. In 1965, Lewis was brutally beaten by Alabama State Troopers while attempting to march across the Edmund Pettis Bridge in Selma, Alabama with 600 others.…
