MITF
conducts public education events and publishes a
quarterly newsletter. We monitor the U.S. role -
military, economic and political in our areas of
concern and respond to human rights violations with
appropriate actions, which include an urgent action
network

Working together with other groups such as
School of the Americas Watch, Pastors for Peace, Global
Exchange, Let Haiti Live, and the
Latin America Solidarity Coalition, we increase our outreach
and our impact.
Our volunteers seek to educate and inform
the community
through monthly public events and forums. Topics have
ranged from structural adjustment and fair trade in the Americas
to closing the SOA to ending the embargo against Cuba. Past
speakers include noted linguist Noam
Chomsky,
Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta
Menchu, Guatemala activist Jennifer
Harbury, Pastors for Peace founder Rev. Lucius Walker, School of
the Americas Watch activist Fr. Rou Bourgeois, and Dr. Paul
Farmer, founder of Partners in Health (Haiti).
MITF
has hosted West Coast premieres of important
documentary films such as The School of Assassins,
The Victims of the War in Chiapas, and Haiti: Harvest of
Hope.
Our members have organized and participated in fact finding
tours and election-monitoring delegations to El Salvador,
Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Haiti, Brazil, Colombia,
Uruguay, and Venezuela.
Early
projects included providing continuous accompaniment to the
Nongovernmental Human Rights Commission of El Salvador (1986-1991)
and publication of a report detailing torture in El Salvador.
Our
recent projects include: support for an accompaniment program
for witnesses of genocide in Guatemala; financial aid to schools in
Chiapas, El Salvador, and Haiti; and support for a hospital in rural
Haiti, a women's clinic in Nicaragua, and women's cooperatives in
Chiapas, Mexico.
Most recently,
MITF delegations delivered medical aid in Cuba and supplies to Cuban
doctors working in Venezuela. MITF provided funds to cocoa farmers
devastated by floods in the Dominican Republic, supported grassroots
groups in Honduras, participated in the Haiti Accompaniment Project,
and fiscally sponsored three others: SOPUDEP School, Haiti
Information, and Haiti Victims assistance projects.