The Share Foundation and U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities (USESSC) would like to invite you to our upcoming webinar: Rural youth and the state of exception in El Salvador. We will have the participation of three young persons from the regions of UCRES, La Libertad and Chalatenango. They will share what the state of exception has been like for them and the regions where they live since it was enforced in El Salvador on March 27.
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May 22, 2022
Please join us for this 75-minute webinar about the continuing legacy of Ben Linder in community-led projects of El Cuá-San José de Bocay, Nicaragua, as well as nationwide progress. The “Light & Legacy” delegation will report their recent observations of hydroelectric and rural development projects, universal health care, the vaccination program, COVID-19 response, and 99% electrification of the country (with over 75% renewable energy generation).
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May 15, 2022
St. Paul’s Youth Group is hosting a Fair Trade Fair on May 15 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Several Fairtrade Certified vendors from Northeast Ohio, including One World Shop and Esperanza Threads, will sell their goods and wares in Tucker Hall.
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May 15, 2022
Join our PB In Action Event on May 15th at 2:30pm @ ThirdSpace Action Lab!
We’ll share food, explore the phases of PB, and talk about next steps to ensure that we get participatory budgeting here in Cleveland.
Click here to register for in-person attendance!
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See you there!
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May 14, 2022
Hear from current representatives of historic solidarity organizations about their recent experiences following a Spring 2022 congressional delegation to Central America which included Representatives Cori Bush, Ilhan Omar, Jamaal Bowman, Jesús "Chuy" García, and a staff member of Representative Jan Schakowsky.
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May 13, 2022
The Associated Press reports: “A plan to create special self-governing zones for foreign investors in Honduras has been thrown into limbo with the new government’s repeal of a law many criticized as surrendering sovereignty. [The zones for employment and economic development known as ZEDEs are] free from import and export taxes, but could set up their own internal forms of government, as well as courts, security forces, schools and even social security systems." The article refers to the zones already being developed, including Prospera (a 58-acre development on the island of Roatan) and Orquidea (an agro-industrial park near the city of Choluteca that produces peppers and tomatoes for export).
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May 12, 2022
The Biden Administration expelled 450 people to Haiti, including 44 children, 20 of whom were infants, on three flights this week. These flights bring the total to 235 expulsion flights to Haiti since Biden took office, more than 23,000 people in total, and 21,000 in the eight months since the debacle in Del Rio last September. Another 8,000 people were summarily expelled into Mexico during the Del Rio crisis. Over the last few months, the number of people attempting to flee Haiti by boat has also increased dramatically, as measured by those captured and returned to Haiti by the Coast Guard. Within Haiti there is political stagnation and spiraling violence. At last 39 people have been killed in gang violence in the Port au Prince metro area since the end of April, and 10,000 people have been forced from their homes. This humanitarian disaster is what Biden is expelling people into; hundreds of people every week are caught in a relentless campaign of mass expulsions.
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May 12, 2022
A Guatemala judge who last week ordered nine former police and military officers to stand trial for alleged crimes during that country’s civil war, said Wednesday that death threats against him had increased since announcing his decision. “They send me messages, they call me on the phone, there’s vehicles following; all of that is happening,” Magistrate Miguel Ángel Gálvez said. Gálvez is no stranger to high-profile cases. He once ordered former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt to be tried. “Before they had threatened me, but now they even come to hearings to photograph me,” he said. Meanwhile, Gálvez fears the government is trying to build a case against him, as has been the case with other judges and prosecutors who have worked on sensitive corruption cases, which are also sometimes part of his docket.
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May 12, 2022
We're at a unique moment in the movements for trade justice and a fair food system. Over the past two years, the global pandemic has made even more visible the injustice baked into our current systems. But we've also seen communities come together to build a more fair world. This year, to mark World Fair Trade Day, we're excited to bring together some of the people who have been leading that work in a free webinar.
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May 12, 2022
The municipality of Buenaventura, in the department of Valle del Cauca, is made up of 31 Community Councils and 19 Indigenous Reservations. Due to its geographic location and the presence of the most important port in the Pacific, Buenaventura is a strategic corridor for the commercial chain of drug trafficking and the export of cocaine to the United States, the main destination of cocaine from Colombia, as confirmed by the latest UNODC World Drug Report. The relationship between the growing violence in the Pacific and cocaine trafficking that PARES noted in its 2020 report has been getting worse, as reflected in the forced displacement of rural communities in Bajo Calima. Join us for an update on the humanitarian crisis situation of the Afro-Colombian and Inigenous communities of Bajo Calima, Buenaventura, Colombia.
