Join us to learn more about CatholicSocial Teaching and immigration and the work already being done in the Cleveland area to support our immigrant and refugee neighbors.
“Neighboring the Dear Neighbor: A Catholic Response to Immigration in Cleveland” is being held on Saturday, June 13, 10am-12pm at the St Joseph Center, 3430 Rocky River Dr., Cleveland 44111.
Free and open to the public.
Registration is suggested: http://tinyurl.com/csjneighbor
*We smash authoritarianism through organizing and movement building, we don't condone smashing actual things you don't own. We are committed to strategic non-violence. Also, we just like the word SMASH =)
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Between May 23 and May 30, communities across Ohio are coming together for a statewide week of interfaith vigils in solidarity with people held in civil immigration detention (a.k.a. ICE jail). Faith leaders, organizers, and community members will raise their voices, hold space for reflection, and stand in collective action. This coordinated week of action calls for:
An end to ICE detention
Transparency on detention facility funding
An end to 287(g) agreements
https://ohioimmigrant.org/blog/2026/5/19/interfaith-vigils-at-all-six-ic...
Join us Saturday morning, via Zoom, May 30th (10:30 am to Noon) when we will discuss the above revelatory book, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Wesley Lowery.
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People of faith, interfaith clergy, and allies will gather in prayer, song and reflection outside the Core civic ICE prison to demand that all its detained immigrants and asylum seekers receive their due process rights and have spiritual counsel while detained.
Detainees in Newark's detention center, Delaney Hall, are subject to work grueling jobs for only 1 dollar a day, if they are even paid at all. Despite the many demands for change, the GEO group refuses to take any action to improve the work conditions in Delaney Hall. This mistreatment has led to a labor and hunger strike of 300 migrants within the detention center. With the strike in effect, the guards have imposed both physical and mental torture to those imprisoned. When these conditions were revealed to the public through a letter by the migrants, a group of protesters gathered around Delaney Hall; they are still continuing their efforts to have the workers' conditions improved.
Join Like-Minded (Lake and Geauga Counties) and others for a vigil at the Geauga County ICE Detention Facility on May 28 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM as part of the statewide Week of Interfaith Vigils across Ohio.
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Join us to learn more about struggles for community self-determination and subsistence in southern Honduras, demands for corporate accountability, an end to ISDS, and the need for real energy democracy and climate justice.
President Trump's deportation demands throughout his second term in office have caused an 80 percent increase in deportation flights, leading to mass carbon dioxide emissions. ICE's flight operations have accelerated the already imminent climate crisis. In fact, there was an 88 percent increase in ICE flight emissions from 2024 to 2025. In addition to the harmful impact on the environment, ICE imposes dangerous tactics to the detainees on board; they are often chained or placed in body-restraint suits. After the suffering endured while in flight, ICE has been sending detainees to cities and countries that are dangerous and are known to pose a threat to them upon arrival.
Last month, approximately 300 students at the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH) in Tegucigalpa gathered to protest proposed reductions to the university budget and to demand compliance with the constitutional mandate guaranteeing funding for public higher education. During the protest, police forces deployed tear gas, armored vehicles, and rubber bullets against demonstrators. As a result of this repression, at least one student suffered severe injuries, including the loss of an eye.
Witness accounts indicate that the protest began as a peaceful demonstration and that students were exercising their legitimate democratic right to advocate for the protection of public education. Instead of facilitating and safeguarding this constitutional right, authorities responded with disproportionate force that endangered the lives and safety of young people.
The violent response to these demonstrations reflects a broader pattern in which public dissent is met not with dialogue, but with intimidation and violence. The right to education and the right to peaceful protest are fundamental pillars of any democratic society, and attempts to silence students through force undermine both democratic participation and public trust in state institutions.
