May Day March 2026
Workers Over Billionaires! MAY DAY. Together We Stand.
March for workers’ rights!
Stand up against ICE!
Friday, May 1, 4-6pm
Gather at Public Square (southwest quadrant in front of Terminal Tower)
Organizer: May Day Coalition-Cleveland. https://maydaycoalitionproject.substack.com/about
Link to the event here: https://www.mobilize.us/mayday/event/921516/
See the Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/share/17N3UFGmDv/
IRTF’s sister organization in Chicago (Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America) is organizing an election observer delegation to Colombia for the end of May 2026. Please consider applying for this delegation.
May 24–June 1, 2026, during the country’s general elections on May 31.
See the information and application here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSelym2HM5T7u2vCbeGmzC1rYFaexLWH9ERMUgGSaDV6WguTzw/viewform?pli=1
This year, SOAW will once again join the Migrant Trail Walk, an annual interfaith pilgrimage through Arizona's Sonoran Desert honoring the lives of migrants who have died crossing the border. We invite you to walk with us in remembrance this May 25 - May 31, 2026, from Sásabe Sonora to Tucson, Arizona.
to register click here
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.
To register, click here
Drone warfare is terrorizing civilian populations in Sudan and the occupied Palestinian territories. Hear from a panel of experts to better understand the problem and possible solutions.
Register here.
An intimate gathering with Professor Mark Joseph at Forest Hill Church, where we can learn about his new venture, writing anti-racist fiction stories.
Light lunch will be served
to RSVP: racialequitybuddies@gmail.com
Since September 2025, the U.S. armed forces have killed more than 175 people aboard small boats in operations that the Trump administration characterizes as attacks against “narco-terrorists.” The newly formed Shield of the Americas coalition brings together 17 states, including Argentina, Costa Rica, and Paraguay, in a U.S.-led effort to coordinate military pressure against the cartels — a move that critics fear will further institutionalize these extrajudicial killings.
A new international outcry—a global coalition of 125 organizations issuing an urgent public appeal to all states to immediately cease all forms of support for US extrajudicial killings—underscores a shift from directly condemning U.S. actions to also holding third-party countries accountable for their role in these deadly attacks.
Join Cleveland Peace action in a free concert featuring music activist Tom Neilson !
When Donald Trump returned to office on 20 January last year, he began rolling out a draconian migration policy that has effectively ended access to asylum at the US-Mexico border and shaken up migration dynamics throughout Latin America.
One of the first moves the Trump administration made was to shut down a pathway to seek asylum in the US for people in Mexico using a cellphone application called CBP One. In a matter of minutes, about 300,000 people in the app’s pipeline, including Mario Torres, found themselves stranded.
Mario left South America in September 2024. He traversed the Darién Gap – the lawless and dangerous stretch of jungle connecting Colombia and Panama. In Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala, his money ran low and travelling wore him down. In Veracruz, Mexico, he was shot by men who wanted to rob or kidnap him. Mario eventually made it to the northern Mexican city of Monterrey in January 2025, but by then it was already too late.
The New Humanitarian has spent much of the past 15 months reporting throughout Latin America, trying to piece together an answer to one pressing question: what happened to the 300,000 people who saw their dreams of a better life suddenly rebuffed when Trump returned to office?
The picture that emerged is of a situation very much still in flux: some people have returned home, others have run out of resources and have ended up stranded in various countries, while many are still searching for a place where they can find stability.
Join us in Washington D.C., April 20–22, 2026, as we draw on our shared faith traditions to inspire one another, and call on Congress to commit to Protecting People, Peace, and Planet!
to register click here
