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Protesters rally at Albany airport against Avelo Airlines’ ICE contract

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May 31, 2025

Over 100 protesters gathered in the rain near Albany International Airport on the corner of Albany Shaker Road and Wolf Grove to demand that Avelo Airlines sever its ties with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The protest was part of a nationwide demonstration in nearly 30 cities against the airline’s involvement in deportation flights.

Earlier this week, Senator Pat Fahy introduced the Safe Air Act, which aims to ban deportation flights in New York State on commercial airlines contracted by ICE without a judicial warrant, legal counsel, and an immigration hearing. The act would also remove an existing sales tax exemption on jet fuel for airlines that participate in such flights.

Senator Fahy noted that Avelo operates at four New York airports and mentioned that, to her knowledge, Avelo deportation flights are currently taking off from Texas and Arizona.

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New York State Corrections buses in Cayuga County lit on fire and vandalized

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The New York State Police were called to a vandalism of buses belonging to the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision in Cayuga County.

State police were called to a storage lot on State Route 370 in the Town of Victory on Feb. 19. They found that two DOCCS buses had been vandalized, with one of them being lit on fire.

The bus that was lit on fire suffered heavy fire damage in its rear portion, state police said.

Another bus was spray-painted with the message, “Can you hear us now.”

Photos of the buses can be seen below:

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New York Prison Uprisings

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As reported in mainstream media, all outside visits have been cancelled to New York state prisons.

Around midnight on Thursday, there was a militant uprising at Riverview Correctional Facility in Ogdensburg, forcing correctional officers to retreat, vacate their posts, and call in police and emergency response teams to gain control of the situation. Last week there was another prison uprising at Collins Correctionnal Facility in Erie County.

Correctional officer pigs are currently on strike in 36 facilities across the state, so Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday signed an executive order calling up 3,500 members of the National Guard for service in the remaining unmanned prisons.

A statewide prison uprising is brewing in New York. Long live the spirit of Attica! Attica means fight back!

Source: Unity of Fields

Here’s why Micron is running behind in New York, and what it means to historic project

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Just over two years ago, Micron Technology announced it would build, with substantial help from taxpayers, the nation’s largest chipmaking complex in the northern suburbs of Syracuse.

Construction was scheduled to start in June 2024. That was pushed back to early 2025. And now, groundbreaking won’t start until at least November 2025, nearly a year and half behind the original schedule.

At the same time, all of the other major chipmakers that have won big awards from the federal CHIPS Act are putting up factories and installing equipment across the country. Even Micron is pouring 30,000 tons of concrete a week at a chip plant it’s building — in Idaho.

In the town of Clay, however, the 1,400-acre site where Micron proposes to build four massive factories remains heavily forested and brimming with wetlands. Micron’s only presence there are several plywood signs.

The main reason for the holdup? Micron hasn‘t finished the massive environmental impact report required by the state and federal governments to move the project forward.

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Ancestral land returned to Onondaga Nation in upstate New York

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The Onondaga Nation has regained 1,000 acres (405 hectares) of its ancestral land in upstate New York, a tiny portion of the land members say was unjustly taken by the state beginning in the 18th century.

The heavily forested land is south of Syracuse and near the Onondaga’s federally recognized territory. The land, which includes headwaters of Onondaga Creek, was transferred by Honeywell International on Friday under a federal Superfund settlement related to the contamination of the environment, according to the Onondaga Nation.

The land is part of an expanse of 2.5 million acres (1 million hectares) in central New York the Onondagas say was taken over decades by New York beginning in 1788 through deceitful maneuvers that violated treaties and federal law.

Sid Hill, the Tadodaho, or chief, of the Onondaga Nation, said Monday they were grateful to federal and state officials for working with them to return “the first 1,000 acres of the 2.5 million acres of treaty-guaranteed land taken from us over the centuries.”

“This is a small but important step for us, and for the Indigenous land back movement across the United States,” Hill said in a prepared statement.

Rebuffed in U.S. courts, the Onondagas are now pursuing their claim before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which is part of the Organization of American States.

The nation’s case involves a roughly 40-mile-wide (65-kilometer-wide) strip of land running down the center of upstate New York from Canada to Pennsylvania. The Onondagas hope the case spurs negotiations that could lead to the return of some land.

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