Please join us for an interfaith service at Trinity Cathedral to pray and witness our public support for migrant/refugee families whose human and civil rights are being violated by forcible deportation and incarceration without due process.
We’re proud to announce our 2025 Movement Builder Award honoree C Stonebraker Martinez!
As Co-Director of the IRTF - The InterReligious Task Force on Central America, C. has been a tireless force for human rights and collective liberation. From Cleveland to Colombia, their work uplifts those most impacted by state violence—including Afro-Indigenous communities, LGBTQ+ folks, workers, and people with disabilities.
Rooted in a legacy of solidarity, C. leads with courage and conviction—mobilizing our communities through popular education, mutual aid, and direct action.
C. reminds us that building movements means centering the people, standing in solidarity, and never backing down.
Join us in celebrating C. at Noche de Guayabera 2025!
Get your tickets now at: ylncle.org/noche-2025
The Interfaith Action for Palestine (IAP) is bringing together a coalition of faith-rooted activist organizations for a critical intervention this summer: we’re coming together to counter Christians United for Israel (CUFI) — the largest “pro-Israel” organization in the United States — during their Annual Summit June 29-July 1, 2025 in National Harbor, Maryland, and Washington, DC. If you would like to participate, either in-person or online, please fill out this form.
The Cleveland NETWORK Advocates Team invites you to join us for a prayer walk to support our immigrant neighbors and oppose funding for detention and deportation in the Budget Reconciliation bill!
Please join the Rochester Committee on Latin America for this 90-minute webinar featuring a recent official Veterans for Peace delegation to Nicaragua. They will share their experience and the knowledge they gained.
Register here: bit.ly/NicaJune22
The arrest of López, a prominent lawyer in El Salvador who helped uncover alleged government corruption, has become emblematic of the increasing authoritarianism of President Nayib Bukele.
The arrests are part of an escalating crackdown by Bukele on the last bastion of dissent in a country where he already controls all state institutions, analysts and activists say. López’s arrest and a new law targeting nongovernmental organizations have accelerated an exodus of civil society: In recent weeks, dozens of academics, lawyers, researchers, human rights defenders and journalists have fled the country.
Their departures resemble the flights of critics from autocratic regimes in Nicaragua and Venezuela, but with a key difference. This time, the United States isn’t condemning the repression — it’s deepening ties with its author.
The Trump administration, which is paying Bukele’s government to imprison migrants deported from the U.S., is praising his leadership and holding him up as a model for the region. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau traveled to El Salvador last week as part of his first foreign trip, the purpose of which was to “further strengthen diplomatic ties and cooperation.”
Members of the LGBTIQ+ community are among the most vulnerable of all populations in the Americas. Often they must migrate due to persecution, further increasing their vulnerability because of the marginalization migrants frequently endure, especially if they are Black, Indigenous, or otherwise non-White.
States’ responses to LGBTIQ+ migrants are vastly deficient throughout the hemisphere, including in the United States. They constitute a growing human rights crisis and a major lost opportunity for progress and prosperity.
“Ruth has dedicated her life to the defense of human rights and the fight against corruption,” Cristosal said in a statement last week. “Hers is not an isolated case: it is part of a pattern of criminalization against critical voices.”
As she entered the court for her initial hearing on June 4, Ruth said "'¡No me van a callar, un juicio público quiero!", ("they won't silence me; I want a public trial). She was remanded into pretrial custody for an additional six months. Read this update here: https://www.laprensagrafica.com/elsalvador/Ruth-Eleonora-Lopez-enfrenta-audiencia-inicial-por-enriquecimiento-ilicito-20250604-0022.html
More than one hundred national, international, and solidarity organizations, with a presence in Canada, Europe, the United States, Mexico, Central America, and South America, signed an open letter addressed to the Attorney General's Office of the Republic of El Salvador to demand the immediate release of environmental lawyer Alejandro Henríquez and community leader Ángel Pérez, president of the El Bosque Agricultural Cooperative, who were arbitrarily detained on May 12 and 13, 2025.
In the letter, the organizations condemn the use of security forces to repress the families of the El Bosque community, who were exercising their legitimate right to peaceful protest due to a planned eviction, when they were dispersed by riot police, resulting in the arrest of Ángel Pérez and, subsequently, of lawyer Alejandro Henríquez, who was providing legal advice to the affected families.
