InterReligious Task Force
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Contact: irtf@irtfcleveland.org
3606 Bridge Ave
Cleveland, Ohio 44113
Promoting political, economic and social justice for the peoples of Central America and Colombia through education and advocacy. www.IRTFCleveland.org When the violence exploded in El Salvador in 1980 with the March assassination of Archbishop Romero followed in December by the murder of four US Catholic missionary women--two of them from Cleveland--several people active in Central America solidarity work formed the InterReligious Task Force to focus Central America education and support in local faith communities. 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.) 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. IRTF educates, advocates, and organizes for peace and human rights, economic justice, and aid to Central Americans and Colombians. We work to change U.S. policies, corporate actions, and consumer behaviors that undermine these aspirations, both here and abroad. We do all this through solidarity, advocacy, and education (particularly among high schools, Colleges and Universities). Visit us at our annual Fair Trade Expo at John Carroll University on October 12th, at our annual Social Justice Teach-In in Feb (last year's was held at Case Western Reserve University - will your school be next?), have your group visit Ohio City in Cleveland's Near West Side for an Urban Plunge or join us for a delegation to Central America! Contact: Co-Director, Chrissy Stonebraker
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