Activist Cleveland

Pilgrim Church is hosting a Fall Arts fest on Sunday 10/30/11. We have a few tables that we can offer artists to display and sell as part of this event and would be thrilled if your members would consider being part of the day's events.

For those who wish to attend, included in this afternoon of the arts are performances by Cleveland's ANTAEUS DANCE company and Pittsburgh based singer songwriters MOLLY RAE and JEREMIAH CLARK. All of this culminates with an afternoon artist's reception featuring the Food Network's 'Cupcake Wars' winner BONBON BAKE SHOP.

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CLEVELAND—Warren Clark, executive director of Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP) leads this Sept. 17 workshop from 9 a.m.–Noon at Trinity Cathedral. CMEP encourages U.S. government policies that actively promote a just, lasting and comprehensive resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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West Shore Film Series to host Michael Moore’s “SiCKO”

The words "health care" and "comedy" aren't usually found in the same sentence, but in Academy Award winning filmmaker Michael Moore's movie 'SiCKO,' they go together hand in (rubber) glove.

'SiCKO' is a straight-from-the-heart portrait of the crazy and sometimes cruel U.S. health care system, told from the vantage of everyday people faced with extraordinary and bizarre challenges in their quest for basic health coverage.

A grassroots groups of sisters from various religious communities working in the Cleveland diocese, who strive to respond to pertinent issues such as global warming, anniversary of Iraq war, death penalty, justice issues and ecological issues.

The Interfaith Hospitality Network of Greater Cleveland is a private, non-profit organization providing hospitality, meals, and support to homeless families through a network of religious congregations. IHN mobilizes Greater Cleveland’s religious community to respond to the needs of our community’s most vulnerable: homeless families. The mission of the Interfaith Hospitality Network of Greater Cleveland is to provide hospitality to homeless families. IHN offers compassionate care to homeless families, alleviates the trauma of homelessness and assists families in securing a stable home.

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The Cleveland Coalition Against the Death Penalty (CCADP) is a diverse group of religious and secular organizations, and individual citizens, working to oppose all Ohio and federal executions and to abolish capital punishment in Ohio and the United States. We believe that no one should be put to death at the hand of any government. We bring this message to the public, and to public officials, through sidewalk protest vigils, leafleting, petitioning, media contact, an e-mail network, and our speakers' bureau.

The Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is America’s largest Islamic civil liberties group. Established in 1994 as a non-profit, grassroots civil rights organization, CAIR is dedicated to presenting an Islamic perspective on issues of importance to the American public. In offering that perspective, CAIR seeks to empower the Muslim community in America through political and social activism. The national headquarters is located on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., and is assisted by 28 regional offices in the United States and Canada—including CAIR-Ohio, based in Columbus.

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The InterReligious Task Force on Central America (IRTF) is a Cleveland-based interfaith group that promotes peace and human rights in Central America and Colombia. People of faith and conscience founded IRTF after the 1980 execution of four U.S. church women in El Salvador by U.S.-trained soldiers. (The Cleveland mission team lost Jean Donovan and Sister Dorothy Kazel.) Carrying on the legacy of the martyrs, IRTF educates, advocates, and organizes for peace and human rights, economic justice, and aid to Central Americans and Colombians. IRTF works to change U.S.

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The Interfaith Council for Peace in the Middle East is a faith based organization based in Northeast Ohio. We utilize education, peaceful activism and dialogue as the means for raising awareness about the situation in Palestine, Israel and the Middle East. We are an organization of Christians, Muslims and Jews dedicated to working for a peaceful resolution to the various conflicts in the Middle East. We aim to put a human face on the suffering and hardships of its people and to help bring to life their aspirations for peace, justice, dignity and freedom.

Deeply convinced of the radical truth of the Gospel, we strive to follow a Catholic Worker philosophy. We emphasize the corporal works of mercy—identifying with and ministering to the homeless, poor, sick, imprisoned—and radical action against the causes of poverty and oppression. We seek to be nonviolent and opposed to all war and to answer Jesus' call to be peacemakers. We recognize the continual need to clarify our thought through prayer, reflection, dialogue, and action.

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