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.
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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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 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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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.
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.
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.
The risk to human rights defenders and community leaders in Cauca department is exacerbated by the presence of armed groups such as the “Iván Mordisco” dissident faction of the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) and the ELN (National Liberation Army), which are vying for control of territory and the illegal economy in the region.
Two social leaders were killed on April 22. Milton Penagos and Edwar Rubiano Álvarez, two social leaders who were both killed on April 22, 2026.
Milton Penagos was a union leader and public official from Sandtander de Quilichao in northern Cauca. He was in charge of planning for the public services company Emquilichao, a former secretary to the mayor, and vice president of the Sintraemquilichao union. He was murdered in his home on April 22 under unknown circumstances.
Edwar Rubiano Álvarez, age 34, was a leader of the Micay Canyon Peasant Association and president of the Community Action Board of the Los Tigres village in northwest Cauca. His body was found on a rural road between El Estanguillo and La Fonda in the municipality of El Patia on April 22. Rubiano was promoting organizational processes with cocoa farmers, seeking the voluntary substitution of illicit crops in one of the most conflict-ridden areas of southwestern Colombia.
On April 19, the National Police used a local school as a staging center for armed maneuvers in the La Esperanza neighborhood of Saravena, Arauca Department. On that Sunday afternoon, the armed rebel group National Liberation Army (ELN) attacked Colombian state security forces with explosives, injuring eight police officers. According to Municipal Ombudsman José Luis Lasso Fontecha and several community residents, about 30 minutes later law enforcement indiscriminately fired on a pickup truck carrying teacher union member Paola Infante Jaimes, causing injuries to her skull, chest, and upper extremities. She was treated at the same hospital but died on the morning of April 20 due to the severity of her injuries.
The Cauca Network for Life and Human Rights issued an early social and community alert urging the government, state institutions and international organizations to take action against the increasing violence in the department. In the first half of April alone, 22 people were murdered in the region, and the situation is becoming increasingly dangerous to the local community. Civilian communities in Cauca have further been threatened by videos of firearms and pamphlets announcing possible plans for a “social cleansing” in the region.
