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November 21, 2024: Trade Justice Power Hour: Where is trade policy headed under Trump?
3 PM ET
online
 
Join this month’s Trade Justice Power Hour briefing to hear from Lori Wallach of Rethink Trade and Arthur Stamoulis of the Trade Justice Education Fund about trade issues on the immediate horizon when President-elect Trump takes office — from potential tariff increases to renegotiation of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (aka, “Trump’s NAFTA”).
 
As part of the briefing, we’ll hear about the importance of pushing for alternatives to both the business-as-usual, corporate-driven “free trade” neoliberalism that has failed our communities and the corporate-driven “America first” nationalism that stokes hatred while offering only false solutions.
 
Please send an email to info@tradejusticeedfund.org to register.
November 25, 2024: Nonviolence Training
2:30-5:30pm
Pilgrim Congregational Church 2592 W 14th St, Cleveland

In preparation for the Black Friday the Cleveland Nonviolence Network and Cleveland Peace Action are hosting a Nonviolence Training. The training will take place at the Pilgrim Congregational Church in Tremont. A registration is not required.

 

 

November 29, 2024: Black Friday Walk/Fast for Humanity
12:00 noon
Fountain of Eternal Life 1351 W Mall Dr, Cleveland, OH 44114-13ND

12-2pm: The Walk & Fast for Humanity will convene at  the Fountain of Eternal Life at 120 Public Square on "Black Friday," November 29, 2024, Noon - 2pm. This is to name four world famines and food insecurity in Cleveland, Ohio. We emphasize the huge Pentagon budget and campaigns that foment poverty and famine in proxy war zones of our government. Famine in Gaza, Haiti, Sudan, and Yemen are our focus. We ask that participants everywhere fast from food, fuel and consumerism on "Black Friday." Readings and songs will be offered. From there we will walk to a public building to address our legislators. We invite you to join us and, if you wish, assist with a reading or song. Please reply to this email maria.smith9907@gmail.com if you'd like to be part of the program, or call Don Bryant at 216.255.1576

November 30, 2024: Solidarity Bazaar and State of Nonviolence 2024
11:00am-16:00pm EST
Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry 4515 Superior Ave, Cleveland, OH 44103-1215, United States
Gather for solidarity to overcome our violent nation and build nonviolence together. There will be an unveiling of a peace & justice poster by a local artist. Vendors will offer their wares. Presentations to be made regarding nonviolent struggles.
Our esteemed speaker: Larry Clark is a United Methodist pastor and a sociologist. He has a Master of Divinity and Master of Arts in Christian Education from the Methodist Theological School in Ohio. He received a Ph.D. in Sociology of Conflict from Bowling Green State University. In retirement he has been filling in a various churches who are without pastors. He is the project director for Bluff Street Village – a tiny home community for low income persons. Larry has facilitated a weekly clergy study for twenty years and has taught Sociology at the University of Toledo. For forty years he has been studying and leading groups in the Holy Land of Israel/Palestine/Jordan
 
December 5, 2024: Post-Election Direction: what do we do now?
7:00 pm EST
Pilgrim Church Fellowship Hall 2592 W 14th St, Cleveland, OH 44113 & online

It’s been an election like no other: polarizing, ugly, passionately contested. The results suggest a realignment of U.S. politics and a rightward shift in national policies and priorities. Yet most our greatest concerns were invisible during the campaigns.

Join Cleveland Peace Action for a panel and audience discussion, in-person and on Zoom, of the election and its implications for our work. They will address Palestine, the growing risk of nuclear war, the iron grip of the military-industrial complex, climate change, Latin America and immigration, and party politics.

register here for the online version: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMscO2pqTMvGdLzi1Afgi0RwdSyNiHeQb5y#/registration