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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)
This Wola article is reviewing notable legal victories across the Americas: Mexico, Colombia and Brazil that show a positive trend of improved recognition about gender and sexuality based violence in those counteries...
One week after the Colombian elections, Community Peacemaker Teams met with local leadership in El Guayabo to collectively reflect on emerging risks, evaluate past strategies, and adapt their approach to defending their territory. Despite the exhausting challenges of ongoing resistance, the community drew strength from their shared experience, international support, and mutual care, reaffirming that their collective organization is what keeps hope and resilience alive.
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.
Threats of social cleansing that have been circulating in pamphlets in the departments of Valle del Cauca (Yumbo, Vijes, Yotoco) and Cesar (Valledupar, Pueblo Bello, Codazzi, and La Paz), spreading hate towards certain groups, explicitly threatening the LGBTIQ+ community. Many of the pamphlets are attributed to armed groups vying for territorial control.
These pamphlets have been accompanied by in-person actors threatening transwomen in Santa Marta (Magdalena Department). In April, several transgender women were approached by male members of an armed group, demanding payment of “security fees” to allow them to work (and threats if they did not pay). The armed men’s nightly patrols resulted in displacement, widespread fear, and the loss of work.
The stigmatization and dehumanization of LGBTIQ+ people expressed in these pamphlets is set in the context of a protracted and violent social climate for LGBTIQ+ persons that includes homicides, forced displacement, and systemic threats.
Join 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, and LGBTQIA siblings.
to register click here
Join us for the screening of "Yanuni" with the Cleveland International Film Festival on april 17th at Playhouse Square
to purchase tickets for the creening click here
Promo Code: IRTF
$1 off any ticket, with the exception of Opening Night, 7x7 Retrospective and Day Pass purchases.
Join us for the screening of "Yanuni" with the Cleveland International Film Festival on april 17th at Cedar Lee Theatre
to purchase tickets for the creening click here (ticket sale will start on march 18th)
Promo Code: IRTF
$1 off any ticket, with the exception of Opening Night, 7x7 Retrospective and Day Pass purchases.
$1 off any ticket, with the exception of Opening Night, 7x7 Retrospective and Day Pass purchases.
IRTF initiated our annual Social Justice Teach-In (aka Liberation Lab) in 1999. This spring we feel a great need to call together justice-minded folks who are committed to human rights, liberation, and respect and dignity for all people.
Every year for the past 26 years, this event has been an informative and inter-generational day of community building and education for high school and college students and other community members seeking ways to take positive action for social justice.
To buy tickets or become a sponsor, click here. To sign up for a volunteer shift, click here.
The Civil Disobedience + Resistance Training will provide historical grounding, practical skills and nonviolent discipline strategies anyone who wants help navigating the current landscape. Participants will leave the training with a deeper understanding of direct action, policy change and solidarity building strategies for sustaining long-term movements for justice.
To register for this training being organized by Cleveland Votes, click here
