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Anti-Militarism: News & Updates
RRN Letter
February 12, 2015
armed attack on Jesús Flores Satuye (shot in the head and arm), a member of the Afro-descendant Garífuna community of Nueva Armenia in Atlántida Department, and concurrent attack on the offices of La Via Campesina in Tegucigalpa.
RRN Letter
February 1, 2015
threats towards José Humberto Torres, Franklin Casteñada (members of CSSP, Political Prisoners’Solidarity Committee) and Martha Díaz, Rosario Montoya, Ingrid Vergara Chávez, Lilia Peña Silva, Carmen Mendoza (members of MOVICE, Movement of Victims of State Crimes) by the paramilitary group AGC (Gaitanistas de Colombia)
RRN Letter
January 26, 2015
assassination of Carlos Alberto Pedraza Salcedo of Bogotá, a member of the Movement of Victims of State Crimes (MOVICE) and the Never Again Project of Colombia
RRN Letter
January 24, 2015
threats against human rights defender Blanca Nubia Díaz, a member of the National Movement of Victims of State Crimes (MOVICE), in Riohacha, La Guajira Department.
RRN Letter
January 23, 2015
death threats and security incidents against defenders of Afro-Colombian territorial, labor, and civil rights Francia Marquez
Lisifrey Ararat, Luis Ernesto Olave Valencia, Senator Piedad Cordoba and Jesús Enrique Andrade (shot 3 times in the head)
RRN Letter
January 22, 2015
threats to trade unionist, women’s human rights defender, peasant farmer association leader Juan Martínez, MOVICE (Movement of Victims of State Crimes) members Martha Díaz and Ingrid Vergara Chávez by the paramilitary group Black Eagles-Northern Bloc Atlantic Coast in Atlántico Department.
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We would like to invite you to a three-part webinar series in August that will delve into topics regarding the intersections of environmental justice, racism, and classism. These webinars will discuss work being done by progressive people and organizations internationally, nationally, as well as locally in Cleveland. We are offering this program to educate people on how the unification of these progressive movements are critical in creating a Green New Deal that works for all people.
Webinars will launch on:
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Join IRTF Co-Director Chrissy Stonebraker-Martínez and other panelists for a conversation about building compelling stories that create a sense of urgency and promote understanding of the challenges that organizations face in serving their communities during the COVID-19 era.
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SINCE THE SPRING OF 2019, IRTF HAS...
IRTF has given dozens of presentations and workshops for community groups, congregations, high school and college classes, clubs, and organizations.
IRTF has organized 11 events for our community--from cozy “coffeehouses” to the Social Justice and Fair Trade Teach-Ins with hundreds of attendees.
Through these events and presentations, we have been fortunate to share our values with 3,199 people (just in the past year), 1,209 of whom engaged with IRTF for the first time!
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Normalcy.
For the people of Colombia and Central America, normal means extreme inequality, suppression of workers’ rights, and crackdowns on civil liberties.
Normal means catastrophic climate shocks like prolonged droughts that destroy land and the subsistence livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of campesinos.