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Mark Your Calendar
- Jan 20 - May 20Promo code: IRTFDonate . Enter this code when you check out and Equal Exchange will donate 10% of your purchase back to IRTF!
- May 1Friday, May 1, 4-6pm. March for workers’ rights! Stand up against ICE! Gather at Public Square (southwest quadrant in front of Terminal Tower). Organizer: May Day Coalition-Cleveland.
- May 2Bus trip from Cleveland to Oberlin. Guided tour of the Oberlin Heritage Center, abolitionist history walking tour, prayer and reflection in Tappan Square
- May 2The Intractable Problem of Poverty, Its Human Costs, and Possible Solutions with Chris Knestrick (NEOCH) and Will Fenton-Jones (United Methodist Church-Multi-cultural Ministries).
- May 3Festival Cinco de Mayo. The Comité Mexicano invites all of Cleveland to come together for a day filled with music, food, and comunidad, created with love by our Latinx community. We’ll be celebrating la cultura the way it’s meant to be.
- May 7Join the United Church of Christ National Setting for an engaging and timely webinar exploring our "Love Knows No Borders" resource, a powerful witness and resource offered to equip congregations to respond to the continued attacks on immigrants, refugees
- May 9 Celebrate 7 years of Cleveland Owns at our Annual Celebration: Growing the Fruits of our Labor!
- May 9We the People rally in Parma. Tell our legislators who voted in favor of the Big Bad Ugly Budget Bill last year how their votes are harming our communities. Demand cuts to ICE and the inflated Pentagon war budget.
- May 9Hear from a panel of experts to better understand the problem of drone warfare terrorizing civilian populations in Sudan and the occupied Palestinian territories. What are some possible solutions?
- May 16 - May 28The Great Ohio Climate March will walk past fracking pads, compressor stations, and injection wells. Learn how the fracking industry is poisoning our air and waters, while Ohio’s politicians welcome them with open arms.
- May 16Join Equal Exchange rep Rachel Dana at One World Shop in Rocky River. Stick around for a tasting session where you can sample some amazing fair trade coffee & chocolate.
- May 24 - Jun 1Election Observer Delegation to Colombia. Examine what the electoral process means for historically excluded communities and deepen your understanding of Colombia’s current political and human rights landscape.
- May 25 - May 31This year, SOAW will once again join the Migrant Trail Walk, an annual interfaith pilgrimage through Arizona's Sonoran Desert honoring the lives of migrants who have died crossing the border. We invite you to walk with us in remembrance this May 25 - May
- May 28Join us for a vigil at the Geauga County ICE Detention Facility as part of the statewide Week of Interfaith Vigils across Ohio. Let's rid Ohio of immigration detention!
- Jun 12Free registration for annual Equal Exchange Summit. Keynote is Santiago Paz López, commercial manager for Norandino Coffee Cooperative, which has expanded to bring co-op representation and infrastructure to sugar and cacao growers in Peru.