SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- After 36 years on Burnet Avenue, the Syracuse Peace Council is moving its offices. They began the move to the new offices on East Genesee Street Saturday. The new location will give the Council a larger office and more visibility in the community.

It will also allow them to work closely with the Center for Peace and Social Justice, which is in the same building. And Peace Council members said it will allow both groups to pool their efforts on major issues.

"We are engaged in a war that is overwhelmingly opposed by the people of this country now. If it weren't for organized peace organizations, that war would continue indefinitely. But through the work of the Peace Council and many other groups around the country, we are going to end this war much more quickly then it would otherwise,” said Andy Mager, Peace Council member.

The Peace Council was founded back in 1931 and is the oldest independent peace organization in the nation.