World Refugee Day
Refugee, noun: a person who flees to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecution. Today is World Refugee Day, and given the news in the last days and weeks it is easy to become inundated, numb, desensitized to the plight of those fleeing their homes to...
COWC Update: US Government Separating Immigrant Children and Parents at the Border
In 2017, the US Department of Homeland Security began separating refugee mothers from their children at the US-Mexico border. This is an attack on basic human rights and family values. In our response to this crisis, we must remember the individual lives that are...
New Program Giving House Cleaners Access to Benefits!
House cleaners deserve benefits like paid sick time, disability insurance, accident/illness insurance and more. Alia is a new program created by Fair Care Labs and National Domestic Workers Alliance that allows employers to chip in for these benefits. To learn more...
Report Back: Deportation Defense Training in Athens, Ohio
On Sunday, April 22, the COWC presented the deportation defense training in Athens, Ohio. This was an important step for us. So far we have presented in Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Ohio – all places with large, recognizable immigrant populations and established...
Deportation Defense Training on OSU Campus
In our attempt to expose as many people as possible to the deportation defense training, OSU social work major and COWC Board Member Jessica Camacho (pictured here) hosted a training on campus with the support of Patrick Cleary, an OSU geography major, a member of...
Human Rights Abuses of Immigrants in Ohio
Imagine fleeing the Congo with your 7-year old daughter out of fear of being killed for being Catholic. Then imagine that when you arrive in the United States, the ICE arrests you and sends you to facility in San Diego but keeps your daughter in a facility in Chicago....
Upcoming Events
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Immigration Courts Suffer Under Trump
The following online article takes a closer look at how the Trump administration is affecting the immigration courts. Special thanks to the University of Oxford Border Criminologies project for their work to advance awareness and research about immigrant issues. Read...
MLK, Jr. Would Have Been With Us
This article was originally written and published for MLK, Jr Day in 2018, and reposted from Medium. ... As CEOs and corporate politicians recite the accomplishments of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., it is especially important during this troubled time in our nation’s...