Hiroshima 80th Anniversary Silent Peace Walk
August 6th, 2025 marks the 80th Anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. We will commemorate this day with a Silent Peace Walk through downtown Cleveland. Eighty people dressed in white, the color of mourning in Japan, will solemnly and meditatively proceed from St. John’s Cathedral, down E. 9th St. to Lake Erie, as the Hibakusha, the “bomb-affected people,” sought water to ease their suffering. At sunset, we will light candle lanterns in remembrance of them. We will declare our intention that there will never be another nuclear war. No more Hiroshimas! No more Nagasakis! No More Hibakusha! We…
No Other Land: Film Screening
2025 Academy Award Winner for Best Documentary June 8th – 2:30 PM – Pilgrim Congregational Church, West 14th St. Cleveland This is a fundraiser for the communities of Masafer Yatta
Cleveland Peace Action Annual Membership Meeting 2025
View recording of the Annual Meeting Unite and Empower! Raising Our Voices for Peace and Justice June 4, 2025 at 7 PM on Zoom – register here Speaker: Kevin Martin, President, National Peace Action We invite you, our members and supporters, to an open conversation about the future of our movement locally and nationally. Kevin Martin, President of National Peace Action, will talk about nuclear weapons, Palestine, Yemen, and Iran, as well as how other Peace Action local affiliates are managing these difficult times. CPA President Don Bryant will talk briefly about his recent visit to Bethlehem and the…
Let’s Work Together for Peace & Justice
What a mess we’re in! if you want to channel your anguish and frustrations into making change… we need you! -Resist those who sow division, enforce tyranny, and serve the few -Justice for Palestine – Stop Gaza genocide – End occupation of the West Bank -Stand up to the Military-Industrial Complex in Ohio -Stop nuclear proliferation and the new global arms race To get more involved click here
CIFF49 Mar 27-Apr 5 / Sudan, Remember Us screens April 3
Film friends! Tickets to the 49th Cleveland International Film Festival are now on sale to the public! Cleveland Peace Action is once again a proud Community Partner for CIFF49. This year’s film is Sudan, Remember Us. It screens Thursday, April 3rd at 12:20 pm. Tickets are now on sale. Use the discount code “CPA” for $1 off each ticket purchase. Check out CIFF’s full lineup of 300 exceptional films from arount the globe. ABOUT THE FILM – VIEW TRAILER The youth of Khartoum lived their whole life under Omar al-Bashir’s despotic rule, but in 2019 they started a revolution…
Sudan Solidarity Teach-In
Wednesday, March 5th at 5 PM Location: The Root Café 15118 Detroit Avenue, Lakewood, Ohio 44107 Sudan Solidarity Teach-In If you are not able to attend, please visit the QR code on the flyer for Sudan Solidarity Collective contribution information Cleveland Peace Action, the Sudan Solidarity Collective, and the Root Café invite you to a community teach-in to gain perspective on the crisis in Sudan. The US has a hand in it by supplying weapons to one of the warring parties and not “the good guys.” Three local Sudanese Americans will lead the teach-in about Sudan’s history to contextualize the…
