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Anti-Militarism: News & Updates
RRN Letter
January 23, 2015
death threats and security incidents against defenders of Afro-Colombian territorial, labor, and civil rights Francia Marquez
Lisifrey Ararat, Luis Ernesto Olave Valencia, Senator Piedad Cordoba and Jesús Enrique Andrade (shot 3 times in the head)
RRN Letter
January 22, 2015
threats to trade unionist, women’s human rights defender, peasant farmer association leader Juan Martínez, MOVICE (Movement of Victims of State Crimes) members Martha Díaz and Ingrid Vergara Chávez by the paramilitary group Black Eagles-Northern Bloc Atlantic Coast in Atlántico Department.
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We would like to invite you to a three-part webinar series in August that will delve into topics regarding the intersections of environmental justice, racism, and classism. These webinars will discuss work being done by progressive people and organizations internationally, nationally, as well as locally in Cleveland. We are offering this program to educate people on how the unification of these progressive movements are critical in creating a Green New Deal that works for all people.
Webinars will launch on:
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Join IRTF Co-Director Chrissy Stonebraker-Martínez and other panelists for a conversation about building compelling stories that create a sense of urgency and promote understanding of the challenges that organizations face in serving their communities during the COVID-19 era.
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SINCE THE SPRING OF 2019, IRTF HAS...
IRTF has given dozens of presentations and workshops for community groups, congregations, high school and college classes, clubs, and organizations.
IRTF has organized 11 events for our community--from cozy “coffeehouses” to the Social Justice and Fair Trade Teach-Ins with hundreds of attendees.
Through these events and presentations, we have been fortunate to share our values with 3,199 people (just in the past year), 1,209 of whom engaged with IRTF for the first time!
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Normalcy.
For the people of Colombia and Central America, normal means extreme inequality, suppression of workers’ rights, and crackdowns on civil liberties.
Normal means catastrophic climate shocks like prolonged droughts that destroy land and the subsistence livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of campesinos.
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On Friday, May 29, IRTF hosted a webinar focused on the prison pandemic and the call for decarceration that has risen in response to the quick spread of Covid-19 in detention centers, specifically those in Ohio.
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For access to the webinar recording, the presentation report, or the report on our community dialog which followed, please contact irtf@irtfcleveland.org!
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Take 2 steps for peace in Colombia
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In honor of the victims
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Advocates have said that being LGBTQ substantially increases vulnerability to violence, with transgender individuals facing the highest risk. Neither El Salvador, Honduras, or Guatemala have laws protecting people from violence or discrimination on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity. For this reason we have seen many LGBTQI individuals make the difficult choice to migrate. This report explores the exacerbated risks that LGBTQI individuals face in their home countries, along the path of migration, and especially within U.S. immigration detention camps.