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30 year jail sentence for one of the assassins of Berta Caceres, killed March 2, 2016 in Honduras
February 26, 2025
The honduran human rights and environmental activist Berta Cáceres was assassinated on the morning of March 3 in 2016.
 
Now, after many years of waiting, the full bench of the Honduran Supreme Court of Justice has confirmed the conviction of Sergio Ramón Rodríguez Orellana, ratifying his guilt of aggravated murder for the role he had in Cáceres assasination. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
 
Sergio Rodríguez is part of the criminal structure that has terrorized the Lenca community of Río Blanco since 2013, with the intention of imposing the illegal Agua Zarca hydroelectric project, for the economic benefit of the Atala Zablah family.
 
 
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Migrants and Muslims at Guantanamo: A history of demonization, social control and resistance
January 15, 2025

Join the Muslim Counterpublics Lab for their online event on the occasion of the 23rd anniversary of the opening of Guantanamo bay prison.

register here: https://form.jotform.com/250055245890153

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Honduras Will Reconsider u.s. Military Bases in the Country
January 3, 2025
 
Since 1982 the U.S. has maintained a Military Air Base, known as Palmerola. They have and still are using hounduran ground without ever paying for it.  
 
Now, on January 1, Honduran President Xiomara Castro critically addressed, among other things, the continued existence of the u.s. military bases in her New Year's message. She warned that these facilities would lose their justification if measures were implemented that harm Honduran citizens. Castro also expressed her desire to maintain a “constructive and friendly” dialogue with the new Trump administration; however, she made it clear that any attempt at mass deportation of Honduran migrants would be considered a hostile action.
 
 
 
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Trump and the Latin American Left, Central America on The Dig podcast, CPAC in Buenos Aires, and more
December 7, 2024

NACLA editorial committee members Jorge Cuéllar and Hilary Goodfriend recently wrapped a marathon, three-episode podcast series on Central America with The Dig, a podcast hosted by Daniel Denvir through Jacobin Radio. This sweeping conversation on the region’s history, political economy, and present conjuncture is intended to serve as an accessible yet comprehensive tool for scholars and activists, beginning with Central American state formation and the imperialist interventions of the late 19th century and concluding with reflections on the far-right demonization of migration in the United States today. 

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Post-Election Direction: what do we do now?
December 5, 2024

It’s been an election like no other: polarizing, ugly, passionately contested. The results suggest a realignment of U.S. politics and a rightward shift in national policies and priorities. Yet most our greatest concerns were invisible during the campaigns.

Join Cleveland Peace Action for a panel and audience discussion, in-person and on Zoom, of the election and its implications for our work. They will address Palestine, the growing risk of nuclear war, the iron grip of the military-industrial complex, climate change, Latin America and immigration, and party politics.

register here for the online version: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMscO2pqTMvGdLzi1Afgi0RwdSyNiHeQb5y#/registration

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Solidarity Bazaar and State of Nonviolence 2024
November 30, 2024
Gather for solidarity to overcome our violent nation and build nonviolence together. There will be an unveiling of a peace & justice poster by a local artist. Vendors will offer their wares. Presentations to be made regarding nonviolent struggles.
Our esteemed speaker: Larry Clark is a United Methodist pastor and a sociologist. He has a Master of Divinity and Master of Arts in Christian Education from the Methodist Theological School in Ohio. He received a Ph.D. in Sociology of Conflict from Bowling Green State University. In retirement he has been filling in a various churches who are without pastors. He is the project director for Bluff Street Village – a tiny home community for low income persons. Larry has facilitated a weekly clergy study for twenty years and has taught Sociology at the University of Toledo. For forty years he has been studying and leading groups in the Holy Land of Israel/Palestine/Jordan
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Black Friday Walk/Fast for Humanity
November 29, 2024

12-2pm: The Walk & Fast for Humanity will convene at  the Fountain of Eternal Life at 120 Public Square on "Black Friday," November 29, 2024, Noon - 2pm. This is to name four world famines and food insecurity in Cleveland, Ohio. We emphasize the huge Pentagon budget and campaigns that foment poverty and famine in proxy war zones of our government. Famine in Gaza, Haiti, Sudan, and Yemen are our focus. We ask that participants everywhere fast from food, fuel and consumerism on "Black Friday." Readings and songs will be offered. From there we will walk to a public building to address our legislators. We invite you to join us and, if you wish, assist with a reading or song. Please reply to this email maria.smith9907@gmail.com if you'd like to be part of the program, or call Don Bryant at 216.255.1576

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IRTF is grateful to all who gathered for our annual Commemoration of the Martyrs
November 7, 2024

IRTF is grateful to the 200 supporters who gathered on October 27 at Pilgrim Church in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood for IRTF’s annual Commemoration of the Martyrs. In addition to marking the 44th anniversary of the martyrdom of Cleveland’s missioners in El Salvador (Jean Donovan and Sister Dorothy Kazel, alongside Maryknoll Sisters Ita Ford and Maura Clarke), we commemorated 36 human rights defenders killed in Central America and Colombia this past year because they dared to speak truth to power.

Our keynote speaker, Lorena Araujo of the largest campesino organization in El Salvador (CRIPDES), held the crowd’s attention with horrific stories of mass arrests, detentions and deaths currently happening under their government’s State of Exception, now in its third year. With more 88,000 imprisoned (and more than 300 deaths in prison), El Salvador now has the highest incarceration rate in the world—surpassing the astronomical rate of incarceration in the United States. 

As the people of El Salvador face the greatest challenge to their democracy since the end of the civil war in 1992, they invite us to renew and deepen our solidarity.

If you would still like to make a donation:

https://bit.ly/3YDmETj     via Zeffy platform

irtfcleveland.org/donate  via Network for Good

facebook.com/IRTF1981

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#NoWar2024 Conference: Resisting the USA’s Military Empire
September 20, 2024 to September 22, 2024

Register for #NoWar2024 - World BEYOND War

A global 3-day conference, streamed virtually, with in-person events in Sydney, Australia; Wanfried, Germany; Bogotá, Colombia; and Washington, DC, U.S.

Ending all wars means closing all military bases. The United States of America, unlike any other nation, maintains a massive network of foreign military bases around the world, over 900 bases in more than 90 countries and territories.

These bases are costly in a number of ways: financially, politically, socially, and environmentally. U.S. bases in foreign lands often raise geopolitical tensions, support undemocratic regimes, and serve as a recruiting tool for militant groups opposed to the U.S. presence and the governments its presence bolsters.

 

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Downwind: documentary on the long-term effects of nuclear testing in the US
September 3, 2024

source: Cleveland Nonviolence Network

 

The Untold Dangers of Nukes

Learn  about the  long-term effects of nuclear  testing in the U.S.

Attend a one-time screening of the documentary fim  Downwind. (2023, 93 minutes)

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