Webinars: News & Updates

The COAR Peace Mission invites you to their St. Romero Day Prayer Service

Our next open meeting is March 24th from 12:00 - 1:00pm ET on zoom.  This is a great meeting to attend if you'd like to learn more about the Northeast Ohio Worker Center and would like to start getting more involved!  We will be introducing you to the new members of our first board, providing an overview of our committee work for 2022, and updating yall on the Guardians for Fair Work campaign. And on March 30th, the Guardians for Fair Work are hosting a community meeting at Cornucopia Place. The purpose of this meeting will be to build support for the campaign and lift up our experiences as workers while sharing a meal. We'd love to have you join us in-person at Cornucopia Place!  See the attached flyer for additional details. 

Continuing in the annual tradition of celebrating our favorite fruit, the one that launched it all, we're kicking off Banana Month next week. This year we're providing more opportunities to connect with the unique Equal Exchange Banana supply chain and learn more about Fairtrade, small-scale farmer cooperatives.

We will be connecting the supply chain and hope you will join us! In this webinar we will hear from some of the important people whose work brings bananas to your stores and countertops. We'll hear about their day-to-day growing, harvesting, managing, and ripening, and about how they pivoted their businesses amidst pandemic challenges. 

This year’s “Water & War” festival from March 15-22, 2022 explores the intersection of militarism & water, survival & resistance, in the lead-up to World Water Day on March 22. A unique mix of films explores this theme, from PFAS pollution on a military base in Michigan and the infamous Red Hill fuel leak in Hawai’i poisoning groundwater, to Syrian war refugees fleeing violent conflict by boat to Europe and the story of the assassination of Honduran Indigenous water activist Berta Cáceres.

The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement at age seventeen has proved to be so successful that U.S. and Israeli imperialist and Zionist leaders have lobbied states in the U.S. and the federal government to enact anti-boycott laws. Ohio is one of those states that has limited constitutionally protected Free Speech. Panelists include Dr Nahida Halaby Gordon (CWRU), Dr mazin Qumsiyeh (Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities), Terry J. Lodge (Ohio Free Speech Coalition) and Eric Reisnick (Ohio Free Speech Coalition, Jewish Voice For Peace Cleveland)

 The 22nd Annual Social Justice Teach-In is a great opportunity for high school and college students--as well as  people of all ages-- to learn about critical human rights issues.  The theme for the 2022 Teach-In is Liberation Lab: A Social Justice Teach-In on Abolition and Environmental Justice. Attendees will be invited to attend different sequential panels that focus on grief, empathy, apathy, and, of course, liberation–and much more. Between the main sessions of panel presenters, participants will go into small breakout rooms so that they can share and reflect on what they’ve just heard. We are training volunteers to facilitate these break-out sessions.  

This webinar is organized on the occasion of the 49th session of the UN Human Rights Council and will focus on the nonviolent experience of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó. It will address the local context, the principles and organization of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó and the constant threats of their living because of their choosing to refuse violence and will explore more on human rights issues in the Colombia context.