Join us for this unique opportunity to interview the filmmakers of Missing in Brooks County, one of the documentary entries of the Cleveland International Film Festival 45. The haunted landscape of Brooks County, Texas, is littered with the bodies and belongings of an unknown number of lost souls. All the while, the national immigration debate drags on, rarely taking into account the very real life and death consequences that are felt in the farmlands of Brooks County and elsewhere. And on both sides of the border, heartbroken families are left devastated, desperate to find out what happened to their disappeared loved ones. Mysteries unfold as two of the families search for answers--and the severity of this broken immigration system becomes more and more apparent.

There are four bills in the Ohio legislature that can lead to imprisonment for protesting. If these bills are passed, Ohio residents who are exercising freedom of speech and freedom of assembly could be imprisoned for any of the following offenses and more: blocking streets or sidewalks during a protest, yelling at a police officer, providing support to groups that are organizing a protest, and more. Please wear your mask when you join us.

Desmond Franklin was murdered April 9, 2020, by Cleveland police officer Jose Garcia. This Friday we will celebrate the life of Desmond and stand in solidarity with his family as they unveil a loving banner created to honor the life of Desmond Franklin. Location: Riverside Cemetery, 3607 Pearl Rd, Cleveland, OH 44109

Dr. Dana Frank, a history professor at UC Santa Cruz, is an expert on Honduras and Honduras/US relations. She explains the current situation: why people are fleeing, the role of the US in supporting the narco-dictatorship, and legislative proposals pending in the US House and US Senate that would cut support to Honduran police/military, as well as to President Juan Orlando Hernández. She is author of Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America (2005) . She is currently researching the AFL-CIO’s Cold War in Honduras, 1954-1979.

We invite you to join us for an intersectional NE Ohio event to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Time to Break the Silence” speech of April 4, 1967 at Riverside Church in New York City. This historic speech condemned US militarism, racism and extreme materialism/poverty, and represented a significant expansion of Dr. King’s thinking on the root causes of the challenges facing U.S. society. We will read excerpts from Dr. King’s speech, then discuss the implications for NE Ohio today.