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IRTFDonate – use this code and Equal Exchange donates 10% of your purchase to IRTF

We’re excited to announce that Equal Exchange will be donating a portion of their sales to IRTF when you shop their online store. 

To shop Equal Exchange click here. Find organic and fairly traded coffees, teas, chocolate, cocoa, nuts, dried fruits, and even olive oil—all from small farmer co-ops, available by the case for stocking up.

Promo code:  IRTFDonate . Enter this code when you check out and Equal Exchange will donate 10% of your purchase back to IRTF!

Equal Exchange was founded as a solidarity organization in 1986 to support small farmers in Nicaragua by importing their coffee despite the US embargo.  Forty years later, this worker-owned co-op continues to prove that a more democratic food system is possible.

To shop Equal Exchange click here

IRTF is one of many co-sponsors of this nonviolent noncooperation training on Saturday, January 24, 2026

Registration:  http://bit.ly/Jan24Info

Suzanne Zilber from SURJ NEO (Showing Up for Racial Justice) and Josiah Quarles from NEOCH (Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless) will co-faciitate this event sponsored by Racial Equity Buddies.   

This training is informed by successful international movements to resist dictators and authoritarian rule.

 Participants will learn

-How to identify institutions that uphold regimes

-Strategies for how to make demands and then encourage cooperation, or impose costs on those institutions.

The emphasis is on nonviolent noncooperation tactics. The training is interactive and we will practice the application to local threats.