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Join IRTF on Friday, August 7 as we gather lots of IRTF friends at our annual Summer Solidarity Social. Join us for live music, spoken word, light refreshments, reports from IRTF staff and friends, including updates on local campaigns for liberation.
Special Guest from San Salvador: Leslie Schuld from CIS (Centro de Intercambio y Solidaridad)
Live Zoom Event
Equal Exchange and the Midterms:
A first in 40 years
The U.S. democratic system is under sustained, ongoing, historical threat from one party that has been captured by a cult of personality. Many of our major institutions (media, political parties, corporations, universities) have shown themselves to be unwilling or unable in the task of defending democracy. Smaller institutions therefore need to do this work.
For decades, wealthy Honduran elites and the global tourism industry have been violently destroying ancestral Garifuna lands along the Carribean shoreline in Honduras. Following U.S. intervention in Honduras' election in November 2025, violent disposession of Garifuna communities has spiked, including the July 6 illegal detention of five Garifuna land defenders.
This article by WIRED examines the phenomenon of economic enclaves in HONDURAS the ZEDE's specificcaly the development on Sillicon Valley funded Prospera on the Island of Roatan.
Please join us for an evening of discussion and reflection on Cooperative Culture!
The world we live in greatly favors domination culture. We see this culture in our work places, in our government, in our schools, and even in some of our houses of worship. We are constantly presented with organizational structures that divide, and alienate us. Ways of living and working that focus on control, authority, and management.
We’re excited to announce that Equal Exchange will be donating a portion of their sales to IRTF when you shop their online store during 2026.
To shop Equal Exchange click here. Find organic and fairly traded coffees, teas, chocolate, cocoa, nuts, dried fruits, and even olive oil—all from small farmer co-ops, available by the case for stocking up.
Promo code: IRTFDonate . Enter this code when you check out and Equal Exchange will donate 10% of your purchase back to IRTF!
Equal Exchange was founded as a solidarity organization in 1986 to support small farmers in Nicaragua by importing their coffee despite the US embargo. Forty years later, this worker-owned co-op continues to prove that a more democratic food system is possible.
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Celebrate 7 years of Cleveland Owns at our Annual Celebration: Growing the Fruits of our Labor!
How can members of a community take back control of the resources that shape their lives? Join us on Wednesday, April 22, 2026, 7:00-8:30pm ET, for a free webinar with co-op developer and community organizer Jonathan Welle to explore this question.
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