Dozens of Syracuse residents filled the pews of May Memorial Unitarian Universalist Society Wednesday evening, their voices joining in a single, echoed phrase: “No one is getting left behind this time.”
The Syracuse Community Choir hosted a “Songs of Hope and Resistance” benefit concert brought amid heightened U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement tactics across the country. Together musicians, activists and writers showed their support for the Syracuse Immigrant and Refugee Defense Network and the Workers’ Center of CNY, two of the event’s sponsors.
This wasn’t a typical concert. It was a call for change…