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Delegation to El Salvador & Honduras: Pilgrimage to Walk with Deported Women and Their Families
November 28, 2025 to December 10, 2025

Pilgrimage to Walk with Deported Women and Their Families in El Salvador and Honduras

(celebrating the lives of Ita, Maura, Jean, and Dorothy on the 45th anniversary of their martyrdom in El Salvador)

2025 December Delegation - SHARE Foundation

Apply here to join this delegation.

The SHARE Foundation and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) warmly invite us to join us in a celebration of the 45th anniversary of the martyrdom of Ita, Maura, Dorothy and Jean.

We want to remember our sisters as they were then, and they are now -- alive in the struggle for a better world. We remember them by continuing to walk with the people of God in El Salvador.

Join our Pilgrimage to El Salvador (November 28 to December 6) and to Honduras (December 6-10). Walk on sacred land with the people of Ita, Maura, Dorothy, Jean, and Oscar Romero… The People of God.

The pilgrimage will include visiting the site of the assassination of Ita, Maura, Dorothy and Jean (Dec 2 1980), as well as the sites where Monseñor Romero (Mar 24 1980) and  Elba, Celina and the 6 Jesuits were killed (Nov 16 1989).   We will visit a women’s health and cancer prevention project; we will have an opportunity to embrace and walk with deported women and their families in El Salvador and Honduras.

Contact us with any suggestions or questions: Jose Artiga: jose@share-elsalvador.org telephone + 1 510 848 8487 and Bridget Bearss: bbearss@lcwr.org Visit www.share-elsalvador.org

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Migrant Justice: Ohio Center for Strategic Immigration Litigation and Outreach (OCSILiO)
November 12, 2025

Disappeared in America
Join immigration attorney Brian Hoffman, executive director of the Ohio Center for Strategic Immigration Litigation and Outreach (OCSILiO), for an eye-opening conversation on what happens when immigrants are detained in the U.S. Learn about the legal struggles, human impact, and efforts for justice behind detention walls.

to register click here

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Fair Trade: St Basil fair trade holiday boutique
November 9, 2025

Shop with Purpose this Holiday Season!
Join the parishioners of St Basil for the 21st Annual Fair Trade Fair & Christmas Boutique on Sunday, November 9, 2025 (8 AM–1 PM) at the parish Family Life Center, 8700 Brecksville Rd., Brecksville OH 44141.

🌍 Find unique, handcrafted gifts from around the world—olivewood from Bethlehem, recycled sari apparel from India, jewelry from Guatemala, and more—while supporting ethical trade and artisans worldwide.

Stop by and visit the IRTF booth. If you would like to volunteer at the IRTF booth, please see https://signup.com/go/GopkjpB 

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Commemoration of the Martyrs: Historic Memory & Art
November 9, 2025

Join us Sunday November 9 to mark 45 years since the martyrdom of four U.S. women in El Salvador and honor today’s fallen human rights defenders. Featuring Sebastián Torogóz, on tour with his book and music celebrating resistance, collective memory, and solidarity. Social hour (refreshments, music, raffle), commemoration service, speaker/music program, sit-down Central American dinner.

Share the Facebook event here 

For tickets or sponshorship opportunities, click here.

To sign up to volunteer (either set-up on November 8 or during the event on November 9), click here: https://signup.com/go/dbvKrme

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News Article
María Corina Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize: A Reading from the Left Opposition
October 29, 2025

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work promoting democracy and human rights. However, her record and political alliances tell a different story. Machado has expressed support for U.S. military intervention in Venezuela, aligned herself with Trump, Netanyahu, and far-right groups in Europe, and used anti-migrant and nationalist rhetoric to advance her cause. Her positions raise questions about what kind of “peace” and “democracy” she represents, and how her leadership affects the broader Venezuelan struggle against dictatorship and foreign interference.

 

 

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Human Rights: global struggle against authoritarianism, practical strategies to safeguard democracy amidst rising autocracy
October 29, 2025

 

Attend WOLA's virtual keynote address with Dr. Steven Levitsky, author of How Democracies Die, director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the Kettering Foundation.

to register click here

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News Article
Migrant Justice: The Rise of Digital Authoritarianism & Why ICE's A.I.-Powered Deportation Tools Echo Chinese Government Tactics
October 28, 2025

As ICE expands its use of A.I. surveillance tools from Palantir, Graphite, and Zignal Labs, scholar Austin Kocher warns that the U.S. is adopting “digital authoritarianism with American characteristics.” In his new article for Dialogues on Digital Society, Kocher argues that ICE’s tech-driven deportation machine mirrors tactics once seen only in China—raising urgent questions about power, accountability, and how far democracy can bend before it breaks.

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Anti-Militarism: Extend Voices from the Ground
October 26, 2025

You're invited to the launch of Extend Voices From the Ground, a powerful new virtual series amplifying grassroots voices from Israel-Palestine.

As we reflect on the High Holy Days and two years since October 7, we’re called to act on our values of peace, democracy, and human rights.

Join us on October 26 for our first conversation with Ejdea3 Hathaleen, an activist from Umm al-Kheir, who will share about his late brother-in-law Awdah Hathaleen’s legacy of nonviolent resistance and the urgent realities facing his community.

Hosted by Extend, this free bimonthly series brings local voices and stories directly to you—wherever you are.

to register click here

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News Article
Migrant Justice: As Trump cracks down, faith groups step up for immigrants: ‘What has happened to our heart?’
October 26, 2025

As immigration raids sweep through Latino neighborhoods across the U.S. Southwest, Catholic and interfaith communities are stepping up as lifelines of faith and resistance. In Coachella, California, parishioners deliver food to immigrants too terrified to leave their homes. In Nogales, Mexico, nuns and volunteers cook daily meals for deportees. And in El Paso, faith groups pray outside federal buildings as they watch asylum seekers’ cases—most ending in denial.

While politicians defend the crackdown as “the Lord’s work,” church leaders are calling it what it is: a moral crisis. Pope Leo XIV has condemned mass deportations as “inhuman,” urging U.S. bishops to speak louder for compassion. Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso and others have taken that call to heart, demanding solidarity and reminding the faithful of America’s founding ideals of justice and welcome.

Across border cities, fear runs deep—families skipping Mass, children too afraid to go to school, priests celebrating online to reach those in hiding. Yet amid raids, trauma, and despair, faith endures. From Texas to California, believers continue to feed, shelter, and stand with the persecuted, transforming prayer into quiet defiance against a system that criminalizes hope.

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Annual World Beyond War Conference #NoWar2025
October 24, 2025 to October 26, 2025
Join World Beyond War for their annual conference.
 
How do we move towards a world without wars, weapons, police, prisons, the death penalty, and borders? How can we work towards our collective liberation, recognizing that oppressions are interconnected? Come to #NoWar2025 to explore how we can join in solidarity across movements and borders to abolish these interwoven systems and build a world based on common security — “no one is safe until all are safe.”

There are successful examples of abolition throughout history that we can learn from. Virtually no one in societies that have abolished such things wants to bring back dueling, slavery, serfdom, human sacrifice, cannibalism, child labor, or other evils that are understood as beyond reform. As we envision and struggle to bring forth a world free of war, we need to come together and learn from other abolition movements such as those working to abolish police, prisons, and the surveillance state. When is the moral and strategic approach properly to “end it, not mend it,” and how does such an approach differ from one aimed at reforming or “modernizing”? What can we learn from past and current abolitionist movements? How can we advance the cause of war abolition from being understood as overwhelming, to being recognized as necessary?

#NoWar2025 will make the case for abolition, explore intersections between abolitionist movements, learn from successful case studies of abolition, and strategize about how we can truly move towards a world beyond war.

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