Event
Ohio Fair Trade Teach-In & Expo
October 20, 2018

REGISTER HERE:
Teach-In & Expo 2018 — Registration Form

Initiated in 2005, The Teach-In & Expo brings people together from across the state to learn about and become more involved in supporting FAIR TRADE – a model for socially and environmentally conscious consumerism.

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38th Annual Commemoration of the Martyrs
November 4, 2018

Reserved seats: $35
Group tables for 8 or more: $30 per person
Walk-ins: $45 at the door
Keynote speaker only: $10 advance/ $15 at the door

Call 216.961.0003 and leave a message with your name and phone, or reserve at http://commemoration2018.eventbrite.com/

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Event
IRTF receives Corrigan Peace & Justice Award
September 22, 2018
Presented by the Tyrian Network, the award is named for Bill and Judy Corrigan, who have fought for peace and justice through action their entire lives.
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Guatemala 8/26/2018
August 26, 2018
Attack on Rolanda de Jesús García Hernandez, an indigenous Mayan K'iche journalist working for teleSUR, an international television network, who was reporting on environmental destruction.
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Guatemala 8/24/2018
August 24, 2018
Beating, arrest, and arbitrary detention on August 14 of Edwin Choc and Martín Chub, local leaders of the Farmer’s Committee of the Highlands (CCDA). Police detained them in Cobán, Alta Verapaz Department, after they attended a meeting with government authorities that was part of the Permanent Dialogue between authorities, campesino and indigenous communities.
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Guatemala 8/23/2018
August 23, 2018
Murder of Ángel Estuardo Quevado on July 12 in the municipality of Santa Rosa de Lima, Santa Rosa Department, Guatemala. He resided in the municipality of Casillas and was a member of the Peaceful Resistance movement of Santa Rosa, Jalapa, and Jutiapa that is demanding the permanent closure of the Escobal silver mine, owned by your company and operated by your subsidiary, Minera San Rafael, S.A.
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Guatemala 8/2/2018
August 2, 2018
Assassination of Juana Raymundo, age 25, a nurse and member of the Campesino Development Committee (CODECA). She disappeared the night of July 27 from Nebaj in Quiché Department. On July 28 neighbors found her dead body, showing signs of torture, near a small river between the Nebaj and Acambalam communities.
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Guatemala 8/1/2018
August 1, 2018
assassination of indigenous and environmental human rights defender Ángel Estuardo Quevedo in Santa Rosa de Lima, Santa Rosa Department, on July 12. He was a member of the Peaceful Resistance of Santa Rosa, Jalapa and Jutiapa. The group has been organizing community opposition to the Escobal silver mine, owned by Canada-based Tahoe Resources and operated in partnership with Guatemala-based Minera San Rafael, S.A.
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Honduras, 7/26/2018
July 26, 2018
Three journalists; Nincy Perdomo, Javier Edgardo Rodrígues, and Mai Ling Coto, were recently attacked by the police.
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Mexico, 7/25/2018
July 25, 2018
Indigenous community leader Rolando Crispin López has been assassinated in the community of Álvaro Obregón in the municipality of Juchitán de Zaragoza in Oaxaca State. He was a member of the Assembly of Indigenous People of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Defense of Land and Territory (APIITDTT), the Peoples' Assembly of the Juchiteco People (APPJ), and the Peoples' Assembly of Álvaro Obregón.
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