Activist Cleveland

The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland will host a legal clinic at the St. Martin de Porres Family Center, 1264 East 123rd Street, Cleveland. Volunteer attorneys from Thompson Hine will provide FREE legal advice for low-income individuals and their families. The attorneys staffing the clinic will provide brief legal advice and possible referrals concerning civil legal issues (not criminal). Doors will open at 9:45 a.m. for intake and the clinic ends at 12 noon.

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The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland will host a legal clinic at the West Side Catholic Center, 3135 Lorain Avenue, Cleveland. Volunteer attorneys from Roetzel & Andress will provide FREE legal advice for low-income individuals and their families. The attorneys staffing the clinic will provide brief legal advice and possible referrals concerning civil legal issues (not criminal). Doors will open at 9:45 a.m. for intake and the clinic ends at 12 noon.

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Since 1905, The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland has provided high quality legal assistance to low income clients. The mission of Legal Aid is to secure justice and resolve fundamental problems, for those who are low income and vulnerable, by providing high quality legal services and working for systemic solutions.

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The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland will host an advice clinic for those seeking legal assistance. Volunteer attorneys will provide free legal advice for low-income individuals

Volunteer attorneys from Hahn Loeser will provide legal advice for low-income individuals and their families. The attorneys staffing the clinic will provide brief legal advice and possible referrals concerning civil legal issues (not criminal). Doors will open at 5:00 pm. for intake and the clinic ends at 7 pm.

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4000 US troops have died in Iraq as of today. Over 1 million Iraqis have died from the war and occupation. We will commemorate these tragedies by holding up (if we can recruit enough people) a string almost 1 mile in length of names of killed US soldiers in Iraq. Each name is on a sheet of paper with a border of 250 doves (to represent dead Iraqis). The sheets of paper are encased in a plastic protector. There will also be 4000 white lights. The project is a mammoth undertaking requiring the help of at the very least one hundred people to pull it off.

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On behalf of the Coordinating Committee of the National Assembly to End the Iraq War and Occupation, we are pleased to announce an Open National Conference to Stop the War in Iraq and Bring the Troops Home Now, scheduled for Cleveland, Ohio, June 28-29, 2008. The purpose of the conference is to place on the agenda of the entire U.S. antiwar movement a proposal for the largest possible united mass mobilization(s) in the future to stop the Iraq War and end the occupation.

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Merrick House and Pilgrim Congregational Church are hosting New Priorities Vigil run by MoveOn.org Political Action.
The war in Iraq has gone on for nearly five years. The unbearable costs at home and abroad keep mounting. It's clear that Americans are ready for a real change in direction.

On March 19th, tens of thousands of people across the country will gather to observe the fifth anniversary of the war with candlelight vigils. We'll commemorate the sacrifices too many families have made, and the billions of dollars wasted in Iraq that could have been better invested at home..

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Women Speak Out For Peace And Justice (WSO) is the Cleveland Branch of Women's International League for Peace And Freedom. WSO was formed by a group of women to combat the Viet Nam War after they had participated in the Jeanette Rankin Brigade. Soon thereafter, they joined the national group which has a history going back to World War I and the efforts to stop that conflict. In the 40 years since its founding, WSO has been involved in many social justice and peace issues.

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We, having dutifully served our nation, do hereby affirm our greater responsibility to serve the cause of world peace. To this end we will work, with others, toward increasing public awareness of the costs of war; to restrain our government from intervening, overtly and covertly, in the internal affairs of other nations; to end the arms race and to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons; to seek justice for veterans and victims of war; and to abolish war as an instrument of national policy.

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Rainey Institute is dedicated to social change for Cleveland’s economically disadvantaged youth through education and participation in the performing and visual arts. One hundred years ago, the Rainey Institute was founded by a pioneering social worker, Anna Edwards, and a philanthropist, Eleanor B. Rainey. Mrs. Rainey, deeply impressed by the work being accomplished, financed Miss Edwards’ program, and paid for the construction of a building to house its operations.

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