Author: Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity

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Sun’s Out, Values Out: Summer Merch Sale is Here! 

[ Shop for Summer Merch here]

Wear Your Values. Support Immigrant Families.

We’re thrilled to launch our summer merch collection! Weave your values into what you wear and wrap yourself in comfort this summer.

Partner with us in reshaping how we understand immigration and public safety — moving from punishment and exclusion toward dignity, care, and the belief that every person is sacred. IM4HI’s summer merchandise is more than fabric; it’s a statement stitched with purpose.

Every faith tradition calls us to care for the stranger, protect the vulnerable, and honor the dignity of all. Join us in uplifting everyone touched by incarceration and immigration enforcement.

Every piece you wear is a small act of solidarity — and every purchase powers our movement all season long.

Sale runs through [August 21] — order today, quantities are limited on several items.

Shop with purpose. Wear your values. Support immigrant families.

COLLECTIONS 

All People are Sacred Signature Collection 

Get your hands on our signature IM4HI t-shirt and sweatshirt, showcasing original artwork by Bay Area artist Alex Rae Phelps. These fair trade organic cotton sweatshirts, available in a beautiful light green, feature our slogan, “All People Are Sacred Across Bars and Borders.” Choose between a yellow or pink flower — and act fast, because these beauties won’t last!

Love Over Fear Collection 

Our exclusive golden yellow Love Over Fear campaign t-shirt, launched during our Love Over Fear Oakland Campaign that lifted up stories of community members creating spaces of love for the Town. This t-shirt features the incredible artwork of Oakland artist, Francis Mead. When you wear this shirt, you’re choosing to replace fear, xenophobia, and racism with love, forgiveness, and shared humanity — contributing to the creation of safe and thriving communities.

Pilgrimage Collection 

Carry a piece of our collective journey with you. These limited-editions commemorate our pilgrimages in the Central Valley, where faith allies and community members gathered to advocate for an end to detention and deportations and to uplift the dignity of all families.

Convergence for Our Dignity (Pilgrimage 2025) 

Wear a soft lilac cotton that carries the memory of last year’s encuentro — the gathering where our community came together in solidarity and dignity. Over three transformative days, more than 200 people bore witness, honored lives impacted by detention and incarceration, and demanded an end to the harm caused by private prison corporations like GEO Group and CoreCivic.

Journey to Freedom (Pilgrimage 2024)

Guillermo Medina Reyes, a directly impacted member of our community, created the original artwork for this cerulean blue shirt. Our community wore it as a prayer on our 2024 pilgrimage to end detention. Wear it as a piece of living history — a way to walk alongside a movement, even on days you’re just walking to work.

Pathways of Hope Collection 

A community cooking showcase inspired this collection, where IM4HI families brought their cultures and cuisines to the table — from Nigeria, Haiti, Laos, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, China, and beyond — celebrating the way a shared meal builds beloved community. The turtle design at its center symbolizes resilience, migration, and perseverance: slow, steady, always moving forward, always carrying home along with it. Tie on the apron for your next family dinner or potluck, and let it spark the story-telling — a beautiful way to bring the spirit of the movement into your kitchen.

Limited Edition: 2026 Interfaith Soccer Tournament Jerseys 

This limited edition jersey for justice was designed for the IM4HI soccer team that played in the annual California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice’s Just Goals “Soccer Tournament for Liberation.” The team included  formerly detained leaders, faith leaders, and families who’ve turned soccer into a platform for advocacy. 

As the World Cup winds down, keep that energy going. Grab your own jersey for justice and represent a community fighting to end ICE detention, one match at a time.

Get yours today and wear your support for immigrant justice on and off the field.

Pre-Order & Pickup Details

Summer merch is limited — order quickly through [square] to receive your items in August.

Pick up: IM4HI Office pickup is available in-person ONLY on 

August 18 from 12pm – 6pm or August 20 from 10am – 6pm 

Shipping: Prefer not to pick up? Shipping is also available on our Square site for an additional fee. 

Email office@im4humanintegrity.org for questions or more information. 

Thank You for Supporting Our Movement

Visit our shop now, choose your favorites, and let your style reflect your commitment to equity, justice, and beloved community.

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Media Updates

Statement on the Deaths of Johan Sebastian Guerrero, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, and the Many Other Lives Lost at the Hands of ICE 

Image by Peg Hunter

We are heartbroken and deeply saddened by the unjust killings of Johan Sebastian Guerrero, 26, who was fatally shot by ICE in Maine July 13th,  and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52,  who was shot in Texas on July 7, 2026. 

Our heartfelt condolences go out to the family, friends, and communities of Johan Sebastian Guerrero and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo as they navigate these devastating losses. Guerrero was a hardworking and devoted father of a 3-year-old daughter, and Salgado was a loving husband, father of 3, and a valuable member of his community.

Unlike the ICE killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, the video footage of Araujo’s death has not been released and has not received the same public attention or media coverage.

We uplift  the demands from the families and leaders in Houston and Maine and urge you to contact your Member of Congress.
They are calling for:

1. A full and independent investigation into Lorenzo’s and Johan’s killing. 

2. The immediate release of the three men detained with Lorenzo, including his brother, and protection for all witnesses from intimidation, coercion, or deportation.
 
3. An end to local collaboration with ICE in EVERY city and state they occupy.

Our faith traditions say, Do not kill and take the life of another. Our faiths cherish peace, calling us to resist the empire and care for the vulnerable. Across our faith traditions, we share a common moral vision: Every human is sacred and deserves to be treated with dignity, compassion, and respect. Every family should not have to live in trauma stemming from needless and preventable violence. We are called to support one another, grieve together, and resist systems that devalue human life. No family should have to face such a tragedy.  We believe that community and moral courage are more powerful than fear.  We reject the normalization of war, state violence, surveillance, deportation, and detention as tools of social control — in our neighborhoods, at our borders, and across the world.

Since the beginning of Trump’s 2nd term, there have been at least 21 shootings, 10 of them fatal. This horrific moment recalls a very similar incident on April 7 of this year, in the Central Valley of California, when ICE officers shot Carlos Ivan Mendoza, a member of the Modesto community, leaving him critically injured with seven bullets lodged in his body.  Today Carlos is being imprisoned in California City, facing federal charges, with three bullets still remaining in his body.  Last week, a team of IM4HI volunteers were able to visit Carlos in the CoreCivic detention center across a glass window pane, since contact visits are prohibited at the California City facility.     

Despite this layer of separation, volunteers were touched by his deep warmth, kindness and sense of faith, even while suffering excruciating pain due to the facility’s widespread medical neglect. Carlos had heard about Lorenzo Salgado’s killing from inside California City that same day. He shared his belief that God granted him the opportunity to live so he could be a witness to the injustice of detention and work to make the world better by helping others facing criminalization.

As we stand with Houstonians fighting for justice for Lorenzo and community members in Maine outraged by the latest shooting, join us here in California in supporting Carlos as he continues to be persecuted and prosecuted by the federal government.  Please join us at his next federal court hearing in Sacramento, July 27th, at 9:00 am to support him and his family.  To get more information about this court hearing, join the Faith Signal group to support Carlos.  

We commit to leading with love, hope, and community, and must not allow indiscriminate ICE killings and detentions to continue. The IM4HI staff, board and community refuses to look away, to accept excuses, or to sanitize our language. ICE and Border Patrol are fascist, para-military forces committing acts of harm and evil in our country. 

Please collectively pray. We pass along this Litany of Confession for Araujo, written by Texas pastor Rev. Dan de Leon, which we’ve placed here. 

We acknowledge, honor and pray for the many others who have lost their lives due to ICE and Police violence: Alex Jeffrey Pretti, Renee Nicole Good, Keith Porter Jr., Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, Ruben Ray Martinez, Eric Gardner, George Floyd, Trayvon Martin, Breonna Taylor. 

We remember their lives, pay tribute to their families, and stand in solidarity with the communities as they bear the burden of these losses. May their lives not be forgotten. This vicious cycle of violence must come to an end and we say, “ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!”

The IM4HI staff, board and community urge the following demands: 

  • Defund ICE: We demand accountability and transparency for their deaths and urge ICE agents and officials to stop participating in the persecution of our communities. We call on our elected leaders to act with compassion, courage and urgency.
  • Invest in Community Care: True safety does not come from intimidation or force—it comes from communities that look after one another and practice mutual care. 
  • Show up in solidarity with one another: Vigils, gatherings and collective witness affirm to those most impacted that their lives matter and their experiences are seen.  Visibility breaks through the normalization of state violence to raise awareness about the human cost of immigration enforcement. 

In solidarity, Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity

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Events Updates

Interfaith Pilgrimage for Palestine: Divest from War, Invest in Life

Interfaith Pilgrimage for Palestine 2026 flyer ( available in English & Spanish)Download

Register Now for Interfaith Pilgrimage 2026 

(Si solo hablas español y estás interesado, ponte en contacto con la oficina en office@im4humanintegrity.org )

On May 9, 2026, join the Interfaith Pilgrimage for Palestine, a public witness calling for an end to military cargo shipments from Oakland to Israel. As the drumbeat of war and profiteering grows louder, we deepen our commitment to non-cooperation with harm and support the Oakland People’s Arms Embargo to proclaim: Divest from war. Invest in life.

This Mother’s Day, join us and be a voice for a different future, a future that sees children as our greatest inheritance.  Children are sacred. As parents, aunties/uncles, grandparents, educators, healers and people of faith, let us put our values into actions that save lives and end the horror of the US and Israel’s war on children. For the sake of the future, let us create the world we want to see by demanding an end to the shipping of arms from Oakland. 

Together,  we will journey 12 miles through Oakland and Alameda, walking our prayers and embodying our shared conviction that every human life is sacred, and that peace with justice cannot be built through militarism. Participants are invited to join us for the entire 12 miles, or for one of the 5 legs (1-4 miles long).

This pilgrimage grows out of the global Gaza Ceasefire Pilgrimages of 2024 and local collaborations such as the Right of Return Pilgrimage in 2025. In this third year, we renew our collective call for an immediate arms embargo—locally and nationally.

Event details:

Date & Time: Saturday, May 9, 8am – 7pm

Location: East Bay, CA (from downtown Oakland, through Alameda, to the Oakland Airport)

Distance: 12 miles (the route will be segmented into 5 shorter legs (1-4 miles each) that participants can choose from; see below in schedule section)

Registration

Register Now for Interfaith Pilgrimage 2026

Si solo hablas español y estás interesado, ponte en contacto con la oficina en office@im4humanintegrity.org 

Purpose:

The Interfaith Pilgrimage for Palestine invites all participants to journey and pray for an end to the US complicity in war and grieve the impact of war on children in Palestine, Lebanon, and Iran.

Objectives:

The Interfaith Pilgrimage for Palestine aligns with the Oakland People’s Arms Embargo, and advocates to

  • Recenter the sacredness of all children.
  • End the genocide, ethnic cleansing and torture of the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank.
  • Cease all military cargo shipments from Oakland Airport to Israel.
  • Implement a permanent policy to prohibit the use of Oakland’s public infrastructure and finances for military transfers to any country committing war crimes.
  • Support Block the Bombs legislation nationally.

Schedule and Route highlights:

Participants are invited to join for the entire 12 miles, or specific legs below. Note: times include pauses for programming plus the journey. 

8:00am – 9:00am Leg 1: Oakland City Hall to Oakland Ferry Terminal (1 mi)

Start at City Hall to call in our local elected officials to support the campaign: stop the flow of deadly military cargo from Oakland. Travel to the Port of Oakland, calling on our port commissioners for their support.

9:00am – 11:45am Leg 2: Oakland Ferry Terminal to Union Point Park (3 mi)
Start on the grassy lawn in front of the Ferry Terminal, in view of the cargo vessels and machinery of the port. Acknowledging the 1990s protests of shipments to apartheid South Africa, we call on our movement ancestors to help us stop military shipments to Israel.

Proceed along the Oakland waterfront, the Embarcadero, and out past Coast Guard Island Bridge, where last October faith and other protesters opposed the government’s attempt to bring a surge of ICE officers to the Bay Area and were met with violence.

11:45am – 12:45pm Lunch break, , program and start of Leg 3
Speakers, music, and a special ritual “flipping the tables of injustice.”

12:45pm – 2:15pm Leg 3: Union Point Park to Shoreline Drive in Alameda  (2 mi)

Travel to and across the Park St. bridge into Alameda, down the length of Park St. to the water. Garner visibility on this leg through the heart of Alameda. Pause at a Chevron station to uplift the anti-Chevron campaign.

2:15pm – 5:15pm Leg 4: Shoreline Drive to FedEx (4 mi)
Engage in ritual to connect with the sacred water and draw spiritual sustenance for the rest of our journey. Take the Bay Trail to Bay Farm Island. Continue down a smooth but unshaded length towards the outskirts of the airport. Note the presence of Flock (AI surveillance). 

5:15pm – 7:00pm Leg 5 and Closing:  FedEx to OAK Airport (1.5 mi)

At the intersection of Ron Cowan Parkway and Air Cargo Way, witness FedEx operations – where the company carries fighter plane parts to Israel – and other corporate complicity with genocide. Experience Buddhist chanting and mindfulness meditation before traveling to OAK airport. There will be an opportunity to flyer and raise awareness among travelers both in and outside the airport. Closing blessings; easy access to BART.

Volunteer

This is a joint effort! We need volunteers for roles from art to logistics, safety, clergy, comms, fundraising, and music.

Please indicate your interest in the registration form. Note that the safety team (which is fun and fulfilling) will require an additional online orientation May 6 at 7pm and move on a slightly different schedule the day of.

We are also offering an in-person Safety Training for new folks on April 26, 2-4pm.

Safety Team schedule

7:30am – 12:15pm — Legs 1 & 2 Combined: Oakland City Hall to Union Point Park (4 mi)

12:15pm – 2:15pm — Leg 3: Union Point Park to Shoreline Drive (2 mi)

2:15pm – 5:15pm — Leg 4: Shoreline Drive to FedEx (4 mi)

5:15pm – 7:00pm — Leg 5 and Closing: FedEx to OAK Airport (1.5 mi)

Donations: 

In various pilgrimage traditions, generosity is specifically invited and cultivated as a practice. Offerings are made to express gratitude, seal vows, seek repair, or pay penance for our complicity. Rooted in these traditions we invite your generosity. 

Individuals

  • Donate when you register. This gift will go towards humanitarian needs for children and families in Gaza and Iran, and the Oakland People’s Arms Embargo campaign. Suggested: $10 – $1000. 

Organizations and community groups

  • Sponsor the pilgrimage to help underwrite the cost of the event – a total of $10,000 for materials, banners and art, supplies for security and medics, snacks, water, and stipends to community leaders. Suggested: ($1000, $500, $300, $100).

    Please give what is a meaningful gift for you and/or your organization. 

How to donate

  • Check mailed to: IM4HI, 310 8th Street, Suite #310, Oakland, CA 94607
    • Individuals, write checks to IM4HI (memo: “I4P”)
    • Organizations, write checks to IM4HI (memo: “I4P sponsor”)
  • Online –

How to Prepare:

  • Join our next Art Build – May 6, 4-8pm
REgister for art build here!
  • Orientation – April 29, 7pm

Community agreements 

This Pilgrimage is a sacred journey in solidarity with Palestinians and other targeted communities. In that spirit, we ask for agreement on the following:

  • We will come together to express love and solidarity, embody remembrance and resistance, and channel our grief and anger into action.
  • We will participate prayerfully knowing that we all pray in different ways. We strive to be respectful and be on the journey together. We will find a way to support and care for one another. 
  • There will be trained safety teams, de-escalators and police liaisons. I agree to follow all safety instructions given by event organizers and safety team volunteers while participating in the Pilgrimage and to move in the spirit of nonviolence. In case of need, I will reach out to one of these team members. We keep each other safe.
  • We will carry the art we co-create at the Art Build in order to be a unified voice to uplift the faith-rooted themes for the pilgrimage.

Participating Organizations:

Alameda Families and Friends for Collective Liberation

Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists Social Justice Committee 

Bethel Community Presbyterian Church

Beyt Tikkun Synagogue

Buddhist Peace Fellowship

Cal-Nev Palestine Task Force

Ceasefire Circle, Or Shalom Jewish Community

Chavurah for a Free Palestine

Church of the Sojourners

City Church of San Francisco

Congregation Beth El

Earth Justice Ministries

East Bay Church of Religious Science

East Bay Mediation Center

First Mennonite Church of San Francisco

Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA)

Friends of Wadi Foquin

Haven Berkeley Faith Community

Heart and Soul Center of Light, Imagining Justice

Hindus for Human Rights

IEB Indy Gaza Action Squad

Japanese American Families for Justice

Jewish Voice for Peace – Bay Area

JeWitch Collective

Kehilla Community Synagogue

Lakeshore Avenue Baptist Church

Lake Merritt United Methodist Church’s Peace in Palestine—Friends of Wad Foquin Solidarity Group

Loretto Link

Mennonite Action Bay Area

Oakland Peace Center

Oakland People’s Arms Embargo

Oaklife Church

Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary

Pacific School of Religion

Palestine Task Force UMC

Plymouth UCC Jazz and Justice

Richmond Jews 4 Palestine

Sacred Mountain Sangha

SF Bay Area Friends of Standing Together

SF Interfaith Council

Shomeret Shalom

Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) Bay Area’s Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Skyline UCC

St. Columba Catholic Church

Tsuru for Solidarity

Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley

Weirdo Queerdo Monastery

And more coming….

Register Now for Interfaith Pilgrimage 2026

Si solo hablas español y estás interesado, ponte en contacto con la oficina en office@im4humanintegrity.org