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
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.
See the Facebook event here
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Make your new year's resolution to be a revolutionary! Please join the Cleveland Palestine Advocacy Community for our Palestine Advocacy 101 event
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.
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.”
This article by The Guardian illustrates how the act of protesting is despite the societal scepcism that often dominates its image a very powerful thing to indulge in and that historically proves to reshape the political landscape.
The Ohio Immigrant alliance published an article exposing ICE's "Operation Buckeye" a large-scale immigration enforcement operation carried out by ICE in Ohio, how violently it has been carried out and how the numbers expose a methodology of profiling and arbitrary enforcement.
This underlined by quotes and reports of the episcopal clergy, civil and human rights activists and indigenous leaders
