Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace

08/26/2026

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08.28.26 Fri. Forum - How Immigrants Are Resisting Trump's Anti-Immigrant Repression
As the oppression from our current administration increases, immigrants and support groups have had to get creative in how they oppose this regime.

Find out how one great organization in Northern California is standing up to the challenge.

Raizes Collective is an organization based in Santa Rosa which launched in 2015. Its mission is to empower and mobilize communities through the arts, culture, leadership development and community education.

Anthony Manousos
Jewish Voice for Peace
ANSWER Los Angeles
CAIR - Greater Los Angeles

Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice
Muslim Public Affairs Council - MPAC
World BEYOND War
Los Angeles Catholic Worker
Pax Christi Southern California
CODEPINK: Women For Peace
California Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
National Day Laborer Organizing Network
ICUJP Linktree: https://linktr.ee/icujp

08/21/2026

https://www.facebook.com/100059352919301/posts/1431992058789211/?mibextid=Nif5oz

A man dressed as the iconic “Star Wars” villain Darth Vader appeared to defend the use of Flock cameras before the San Diego City Council, assuring that “this is what the emperor needs.”

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/6042349-darth-vader-flock-surveillance/

08/19/2026

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08.21.26 Fri. Forum - Physicians for Social Responsibility: The High Cost of Nuclear Power(s)

In the 65 years since the founding of Physicians for Social Responsibility Los Angeles, the combined effects of predatory capitalism and the dismissal of scientific evidence has brought us closer to disaster, with the potential for irreversable global destruction increasing exponentially.

Nuclear power is incredibly dangerous - nuclear powers treating atomic weapons as pistols in a duel is idiotic and insane.

Join Maylene Hughes, the Senior Coordinator for the Nuclear Threats Program at PSR, as she informs us on ways that we can push back on the use of deadly nuclear power in war and in our power grid.

Anthony Manousos
Jewish Voice for Peace
ANSWER Los Angeles
CAIR - Greater Los Angeles

Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice
Muslim Public Affairs Council - MPAC
World BEYOND War
Los Angeles Catholic Worker
Pax Christi Southern California
CODEPINK: Women For Peace
California Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival

ICUJP Linktree: https://linktr.ee/icujp

08/12/2026

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08.14.26 Fri. Forum, 7:30 - 9:30 am Pacific - Brave New Films: Documentaries for Social Change

Join us for a special presentation with Brave New Films featuring clips from several of our documentaries and a conversation about how film can expose injustice and inspire people to take action. The program will highlight Brave New Films’ work across some of today’s most urgent issues, followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.

Anthony Manousos
Jewish Voice for Peace
ANSWER Los Angeles
CAIR - Greater Los Angeles

Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice
Muslim Public Affairs Council - MPAC
World BEYOND War
Los Angeles Catholic Worker
Pax Christi Southern California
CODEPINK: Women For Peace
California Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
ICUJP Linktree: https://linktr.ee/icujp

08/05/2026

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08.07.26 Fri. Forum: Documentary - "Mom's Club": Parents push back on anti-LGBTQ+ hate groups

Mom's Club, a new documentary from Romano and co-director Miranda Winters, tells the story of a group of mothers who came together to find out who kept showing up to protest and disrupt Southern California school boards in 2022 and 2023.

By his recollection, Romano covered almost 300 protests in and around Los Angeles after the June 2020 murder of George Floyd.

The right-wing backlash to the Black Lives Matter protest movement that followed — against BLM, then masks, then vaccines — by 2022 had coalesced around protesting inclusive LGBTQ+ policies in schools.

The documentary reveals how well-funded Christian Nationalist groups, such as the Heritage Foundation, the Koch brothers, and the DeVoss family, use their money to target small towns and rile up locals against people who are not straight, white, or even adults.

Join us for this important forum, especially those who are parents, grandparents, or just concerned about public education.

https://www.instagram.com/momsclubfilm
Anthony Manousos
Jewish Voice for Peace
ANSWER Los Angeles
CAIR - Greater Los Angeles

Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice
Muslim Public Affairs Council - MPAC
World BEYOND War
Los Angeles Catholic Worker
Pax Christi Southern California
CODEPINK: Women For Peace
California Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
ICUJP Linktree: https://linktr.ee/icujp

07/29/2026

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07.31.26 Fri. Forum - The People of Pompeii: What Emerges From the Ashes of Altadena?

Fires have come before. More will come again. And still, people stay—for love of place, for their children, for the promise of community. Bernardo Cubría's dark, incisive new comedy, set in the aftermath of the 2025 Los Angeles fires, refuses to romanticize that choice.

Fast, biting, and wickedly observant, "The People of Pompeii" uses razor-sharp dialogue to reveal a deeper longing: the search for connection, home, and belonging that is neither fragile nor performative. At a moment when so many of us feel unmoored, the play asks what "home" truly means—and whether we are willing to do the difficult work of building it together before the next fire comes.

The People of Pompeii opens August 1st at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum.

Anthony Manousos
Jewish Voice for Peace
ANSWER Los Angeles
CAIR - Greater Los Angeles

Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice
Muslim Public Affairs Council - MPAC
World BEYOND War
Los Angeles Catholic Worker
Pax Christi Southern California
CODEPINK: Women For Peace
California Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
ICUJP Linktree: https://linktr.ee/icujp

07/22/2026

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07.24.26 Fri. Forum - Emmaia Gelman: The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State

The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State (University of California Press) is the first-ever history of the ADL and its determined, century-long alliance with Western empire.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is a major US political organization, yet its politics have gone largely unexamined. While the ADL is often portrayed as a defender against antisemitism and racism, its history shows that it is better understood as a proponent of the racial state and US empire.

Emmaia Gelman's book presents the ADL’s history through its conflicts with social justice movements, illuminating the ADL’s outsize role in shaping the ideas about race and rights that have underwritten US empire.

Anthony Manousos
Jewish Voice for Peace
ANSWER Los Angeles
CAIR - Greater Los Angeles

Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice
Muslim Public Affairs Council - MPAC
World BEYOND War
Los Angeles Catholic Worker
Pax Christi Southern California
CODEPINK: Women For Peace
Center on Conscience & War
ICUJP Linktree: https://linktr.ee/icujp

07/15/2026

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ICUJP Friday Forum July 17th 7:30-9:30 am Pacific
The Immense Danger of Christian Nationalism in the U.S. Military
When you mix Christian nationalism with the most technologically lethal organization ever created by humankind, it becomes an international security threat of indescribable propositions. Join us as we speak to Mikey Weinstein of the The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) as we discuss this important subject.
MRFF: https://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/

Anthony Manousos
Jewish Voice for Peace
ANSWER Los Angeles
CAIR - Greater Los Angeles

Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice
Muslim Public Affairs Council - MPAC
World BEYOND War
Los Angeles Catholic Worker
Pax Christi Southern California
CODEPINK: Women For Peace
Center on Conscience & War
ICUJP Linktree: https://linktr.ee/icujp

07/08/2026

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07.10.26 Fri. Forum - The Poor People’s Campaign: A Revolution Of Values
In 1968, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and many others called for a “revolution of values” in America. They sought to build a broad, fusion movement that could unite poor and impacted communities across the country. Their name was a direct cry from the underside of history: The Poor People’s Campaign. The California Poor People’s Campaign is part of a national nonviolent movement that strives to carry on Dr. King’s legacy.

In October 2021 the national campaign released a landmark report, Waking the Sleeping Giant: Poor and Low-Income Voters in the 2020 Elections, that demonstrated that if poor and low-income voters voted at a similar rate as higher income voters in 2016, they would have matched or exceeded the margin of victory in the presidential election.

California PPC has just launched its 2026 midterm voter outreach campaign. Join Nancy Berlin from the California Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival and find out strategies and lessons learned in the last two election cycles and how you can be involved.

Anthony Manousos
Jewish Voice for Peace
ANSWER Los Angeles
CAIR - Greater Los Angeles

Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice
Muslim Public Affairs Council - MPAC
World BEYOND War
Los Angeles Catholic Worker
Pax Christi Southern California
CODEPINK: Women For Peace
ICUJP Linktree: https://linktr.ee/icujp