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IRTFDonate – use this code and Equal Exchange donates 10% of your purchase to IRTF

We’re excited to announce that Equal Exchange will be donating a portion of their sales to IRTF when you shop their online store. 

To shop Equal Exchange click here. Find organic and fairly traded coffees, teas, chocolate, cocoa, nuts, dried fruits, and even olive oil—all from small farmer co-ops, available by the case for stocking up.

Promo code:  IRTFDonate . Enter this code when you check out and Equal Exchange will donate 10% of your purchase back to IRTF!

Equal Exchange was founded as a solidarity organization in 1986 to support small farmers in Nicaragua by importing their coffee despite the US embargo.  Forty years later, this worker-owned co-op continues to prove that a more democratic food system is possible.

To shop Equal Exchange click here

In addition to joining us for an evening of music, dance, appetizers and refreshments at IRTF’s annual Latin Dance, participate in the oppurtunity to win wonderful and specially curated raffle prizes. By purchasing an entry ticket you are actively contributing to IRTF's mission of promoting human rights and solidarity with the people of Central America and Colombia.

to purchase ticket now click here

Hello Cooperators and friends! 

Please join us for an evening of discussion and reflection on Cooperative Culture!

The world we live in greatly favors domination culture. We see this culture in our work places, in our government, in our schools, and even in some of our houses of worship. We are constantly presented with organizational structures that divide, and alienate us. Ways of living and working that focus on control, authority, and management.

But is this domination culture really the only way we can organize our work, our communities and our lives? For many people, it is hard to imagine what a truly cooperative organization might look like and how it might function. We see building a Cooperative Culture as critical to not just resisting domination and unjust authority but creating the foundation for the new world we want to live in!  

It’s up to all of us to decide what Cooperative Culture is! So come join us for an evening of brainstorming, discussion, and reflection, and let us start the process of imagining what a different society could look like.

Food and childcare are provided. Masks are provided and encouraged. This event is hosted by Co-op Circles – an event series organized cooperatively by many co-op groups in Cleveland.

As the world faces an out-of-control diversion of energy and human resources into warmaking, and with United states planning a long and costly upgrade of nuclear weaponry , Dr. Helfand will outline the work from Back from the Brink. This organization brings communities together to prevent the growing threat that nuclear weapons pose to our health, environment, and all we hold dear transmuting fear and anxiety over the threat of a nuclear holocaust into meaningful action. 

On Dr. Ira Helfand:

● Past president, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), the recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize

● Co-founder and past president, Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), the US affiliate of IPPNW

● Member, International Steering Group of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), the recipient of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize

Dr. Helfand has represented ICAN at historic intergovernmental meetings to address the humanitarian impacts of nuclear war and at key United Nations assemblies that led to the successful negotiation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

The recipient of numerous leadership awards, Dr. Helfand has published studies on the medical consequences of nuclear war in the New England Journal of Medicine, the British Medical Journal, the Lancet and the World Medical Journal, and has delivered countless lectures around the world on the health effects of nuclear weapons. He represented PSR and IPPNW at the Nobel ceremonies in Oslo in December 2009 honoring President Obama, and presented their new report, Nuclear Famine: One Billion People at Risk, at the Nobel Peace Laureates Summit in Chicago in April of 2012.

Dr. Helfand was educated at Harvard College and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is a former chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine and president of the medical staff at Cooley Dickinson Hospital. He is a retired internist and urgent care physician at the Family Care Medical Center in western Massachusetts.

Free and open to the public. For more info…clevelandpeaceaction@gmail.com... 440.703.0215