Join us with Witness against Torture members, faith communities, university students and others on Monday January 12th, for a witness at the Celebreeze Federal Building at East 9th & Lakeside from Noon to 1:30 pm. We will witness with signs, banners, and flyers inside and outside the Federal Building.
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This list of 17 lawsuits filed over immigration issues in Ohio in2025 provides insight on the obscurity of reasoning that leads to people being detained.
So if you missed Parts 1 and 2 of the series that were presented in November and December at our Chapter Gatherings, you will have an opportunity to experience both of them
January Monthly SURJ NEO Chapter Gathering: The Cleveland Mediation Center will teach us about De-Escalation with opportunities to practice the skills
Make your new year's resolution to be a revolutionary! Please join the Cleveland Palestine Advocacy Community for our Palestine Advocacy 101 event
The Trump administration aims to send thousands of immigrants to the Guantánamo Bay Detention Center where fifteen men remain in indefinite detention, 24 years since the abusive and torture prison opened.
Due to the dramatic and chaotic ending to the recent presidential election in Honduras, an international human rights organization called Global Exchange and the Center for the Study of Democracy wrote a report stating that Honduras is navigating the collision of corporate lawsuits, historical corruption, and the urgent struggle for democracy.
Most of the Americas have suffered from interference from their powerful northern neighbour – and are usually the worse off for it. The US bombardment of Venezuela and the capture of its president, Nicolás Maduro, follow a long history of interventions in South and Central America and the Caribbean over the past two centuries. But they also mark an unprecedented moment as the first direct US military attack on a South American country.
The tensions between the U.S and Venezuela have only intensified as the U.S. uses political, economic, and escalating military strategies to target the Venezuelan government, who they accuse of corruption and drug trafficking into the U.S. This has caused immense hardships against the Venezuelan people; however they continue to stand strong and urge for just and lasting peace.
In her 2024 book Sanctuary People: Faith-Based Organizing in Latina/o Communities, Dr. Gina Pérez, Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Oberlin College, presents a practical political strategy to cultivate safety, trust and belonging in all communities. It includes both physical sanctuary, where sacred space becomes a place of refuge, and a broader commitment to accompaniment and public advocacy.
Here Dr. Pérez reflects on the Catholic Church’s Year of Jubilee of Hope. Pope Leo XIV frames migrants and refugees as “messengers of hope”—a powerful challenge to the stigmatizing narratives that characterize migrants and global migration in our world today.
Dr. Pérez also highlights essays by two young IRTF student interns who are living out their commitment to “welcoming, protecting, promoting and integrating the most fragile, unprotected and vulnerable…” By participating in acts of accompaniment and collaboration across faith and secular communities, they credit IRTF with playing a significant role in their formation to become leaders in a new generation for social justice. Student intern Lucia reflects: “IRTF has been an indispensable part of discerning the world I want to live in, the role I will have in that, and the way I hope to go about it.”
