Webinars: News & Updates

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.

Please join us for a 90-minute webinar focused on labor relations in Nicaragua, including questions such as:  How does the current situation compare with the previous neoliberal years?  How have trade union rights been restored since 2007?  How are wages and benefits negotiated? 

Bring your own questions!  There will be ample time for discussion following our featured speakers.

On Thursday, March 10, join the PB CLE coalition and residents across Cleveland to celebrate Participatory Budgeting and to imagine what PB could look like in your neighborhood.