Events
03 / 7
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm
Join CRLN and Chicago-Cinquera Sister Cities Group as we bowl to raise money to help the town of Cinquera, El Salvador! Spots are available for $25-50 (sliding scale). Timber Lanes
1851 West Irving Park Road Please contact Gary at gcozette@crln.org or (773) 293-2964 for more information. | ||
03 / 8
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03 / 10
Start: 11:00 am
End: 4:00 pm
"National Coming Out Of The Shadows Day"Immigrant Rights March and RallyWednesday, March 10, 2010 11am Rally at Union Park (Ashland & Lake) March Step-off at 1pm to arrive at Federal Plaza at 3pm (Dearborn and Jackson) Look for the CNSC banner at Union Park Call Stephanie at 773-960-3325 to meet up with the CNSC group
Chicago will come out of the shadows for a mass mobilization on March 10th, 2010.
IYJL members have been coming out or openly identifying as undocumented immigrants, and speaking about our stories, as a strategy to get the issue of immigration in peoples minds, and on the national agenda. In collaboration with the national youth-led network United We Dream, students and youth from around the country will be organizing coming out of the shadows actions between March 10th and March 21st, starting right here in Chicago. The Chicago New Sanctuary Coalition is endorsing the event For more information visit: http://iyjl.wordpress.com/ | ||
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03 / 19
Start: 6:00 am
End: 7:00 am
March 19 - 27, Romero Vive! 30th Anniversary Delegation - email espilde@crln.org or call 773-293-2964
Start: 9:00 am
Start: 03/19/2010 - 9:00am
End: 03/22/2010 - 5:00pm
Join CRLN for Ecumenical Advocacy DaysThe theme this year is "A Place Called Home: Immigrants, Refugees, and Displaced Peoples," and is an exciting fit with the work CRLN is doing in regards to Mexico, Colombia, and the Chicago New Sanctuary Coalition! Click here for more information: http://www.crln.org/Ecumenical_Advocacy_Days_2010
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03 / 20
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Start: 03/19/2010 - 9:00am
End: 03/22/2010 - 5:00pm
Join CRLN for Ecumenical Advocacy DaysThe theme this year is "A Place Called Home: Immigrants, Refugees, and Displaced Peoples," and is an exciting fit with the work CRLN is doing in regards to Mexico, Colombia, and the Chicago New Sanctuary Coalition! Click here for more information: http://www.crln.org/Ecumenical_Advocacy_Days_2010
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03 / 21
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Start: 03/19/2010 - 9:00am
End: 03/22/2010 - 5:00pm
Join CRLN for Ecumenical Advocacy DaysThe theme this year is "A Place Called Home: Immigrants, Refugees, and Displaced Peoples," and is an exciting fit with the work CRLN is doing in regards to Mexico, Colombia, and the Chicago New Sanctuary Coalition! Click here for more information: http://www.crln.org/Ecumenical_Advocacy_Days_2010
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 2:00 pm
Breaking Bread with America’s Families: Setting the Table for Immigration ReformPeople of faith can make a difference for immigration reform! At the high point of debate, we will gather from faith communities across the country for a witness for just, humane immigration reform on West Lawn of the US Capitol!For more information visit: www.interfaithimmigration.org or http://breakingbread.ogravitymedia.com/
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03 / 22
End: 5:00 pm
Start: 03/19/2010 - 9:00am
End: 03/22/2010 - 5:00pm
Join CRLN for Ecumenical Advocacy DaysThe theme this year is "A Place Called Home: Immigrants, Refugees, and Displaced Peoples," and is an exciting fit with the work CRLN is doing in regards to Mexico, Colombia, and the Chicago New Sanctuary Coalition! Click here for more information: http://www.crln.org/Ecumenical_Advocacy_Days_2010
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03 / 31
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
DePaul University, Cortelyou Commons 2324 N. Fremont Street For more information please contact Dale.Depaul@gmail.com After a decade marked by frequent visa denials, Cuban students will arrive this week to speak in Chicago on issues affecting young people in Cuba . Yenaivis Fuentes Ascencio, 23, was born in Guantánamo , Cuba . Fuentes completed five years of study at the School of Medical Sciences in Guantánamo and is finishing her sixth and final year of undergraduate medical studies in Havana . Fuentes is serving as the National Public Health Education Coordinator of the Federation of University Students. Aníbal Ramos Socarrás, 30, was born in Manzanillo , Cuba . Ramos is a third-year graduate student in surgery at the Manzanillo School of Medical Sciences at the University of Granma . Ramos served one year in Haiti with a volunteer medical brigade. He is a leader of the Federation of University Students at the School of Medical Sciences in Manzanillo. | ||
04 / 1
Start: 1:40 pm
End: 2:40 pm
Northeastern Illinois University , Science Building Room 101Northeastern Illinois University's main campus is bordered by Bryn Mawr (5600 N) on the north, Foster (5200 N) on the south, Kimball (3400 W) on the east, and Pulaski (4000 W) on the west. For a campus map visit: http://www.neiu.edu/Getting%20to%20NEIU/Getting_to_NEIU.html
After a decade marked by frequent visa denials, Cuban students will arrive this week to speak in Chicago on issues affecting young people in Cuba . Yenaivis Fuentes Ascencio, 23, was born in Guantánamo , Cuba . Fuentes completed five years of study at the School of Medical Sciences in Guantánamo and is finishing her sixth and final year of undergraduate medical studies in Havana . Fuentes is serving as the National Public Health Education Coordinator of the Federation of University Students. Aníbal Ramos Socarrás, 30, was born in Manzanillo , Cuba . Ramos is a third-year graduate student in surgery at the Manzanillo School of Medical Sciences at the University of Granma . Ramos served one year in Haiti with a volunteer medical brigade. He is a leader of the Federation of University Students at the School of Medical Sciences in Manzanillo.
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04 / 8
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Ms. Sis Cafe / Sankofa Fight-back Center - 1401 E. 75th St., Chicago.
Come hear Dr. Luther Castillo and Dr. Juan Armendariz speak about conditions in Honduras after the June 28, 2009 military coup, November election, and January inauguration of President Porfirio Lobo.
Dr. Luther Castillo is a young Garifuna medical doctor and community organizer who directs the Luaga Hatuadi Waduheñu (Garifuna for "For the Health of our People") Foundation, dedicated to bringing vital health services to isolated indigenous coastal communities. After his 2005 graduation from the Latin American Medical School in Havana, Dr. Castillo returned to the Honduran coast, where he led the Foundation's construction of Honduras' first Garifuna Rural Hospital, now serving some 20,000 in the Dr. Juan Almendares is an internationally known Honduran medical doctor, human rights activist, environmental leader and alternative medicine practitioner. He holds a medical degree from the University of Honduras, an M.S. degree in Physiology from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, and is the co-founder of the Honduras Academy of Sciences. A torture survivor who has been targeted by death squads himself, he was internationally chosen to receive the Barbara Chester Award in 2001 for his groundbreaking and outstanding work with prisoners, victims of torture, the poor, and indigenous populations. In 2004, the World Health Organization recognized him for his efforts on tobacco control in Honduras. He has publicly addressed the impact and effects of mining on the Central American environment and people and has devoted considerable effort to reducing the prevalence of violence against women. Also a poet, short-story writer and free-lance journalist and author, Dr. Almendares received Honduras’ highest journalism award from his peers in 2003. | ||
04 / 9
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04 / 10
Start: 10:30 am
End: 12:00 pm
RALLY FOR AMERICA with Senator Durbin
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04 / 11
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Benefit Event for Casa Migrante in Ciudad JuarezSunday, April 11, 6 PM, the Casa Migrante in Ciudad Juarez fundraiser at Galvin Hall in the Sullivan Building (6339 N. Sheridan Road) of Loyola University's Lake Shore Campus A silent auction will begin the evening (see "events" in Craig's List for a peek at the items offered) Followed by a screening of the award-winning documentary, Anatomy of Hate: Dialogue for Hope Tickets are $10 for students and $15 for the general publicTo RSVP or for more information please call Rachel 847-491-6640Click below to download the flyer. | ||
04 / 12
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04 / 15
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
MEXICO'S DRUG WAR April 15 at 4:00 in Finnegan Auditorium
18,000 people killed since January 2006. 536 executions reported in just 7 days this March. 10,000 Mexican troops occupy Juárez. Washington just proposed a $331 million plan. UTEP anthropologist, Dr. Howard Campbell, discusses his new book Drug War Zone: Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juárez (2010). Book sale and singing will follow. Co-Sponsored by the Departments of Criminal Justice and Anthropology, the Latin American Studies Program, and CARTE. Contact Prof. Dina Berger, Department of History, with questions at dberge2@luc.edu. Start: 6:30 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Collins Hall / 624 S Michigan / Room 602
Gloria Rolando has been making films for more than 20 years at ICAIC (the Cuban National Film Institute) and is a founding member of Images of the Caribbean, a film collective dedicated to developing projects that focus on Afro-descendant communities in Cuba. On Thursday, she will screen and discuss the first chapter of her new work-in-progress Breaking the Silence, a project consisting of three chapters dedicated to the history of the Party of the Independents of Color (PIC) in Cuba. The first chapter documents the history of Afro-descendant Cubans’ struggles from colonial times through 1902, when Cuba achieved its independence from Spain.
For more info on Breaking the Silence see: http://www.afrocubaweb.com/gloriarolando/breakingthesilence.htm
For a list of other films by Gloria Rolando see: http://www.afrocubaweb.com/gloriarolando/gloriarolando.htm
2006 Interview with Gloria Rolando by Adventure Divas http://www.adventuredivas.com/divas/cuba/gloria-rolando/ | ||
04 / 16
Start: 12:00 am
Start: 04/16/2010 - 12:00am
End: 04/29/2010 - 12:00pm
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
Join CRLN and our partners, 8th Day Center for Justice and US Labor Education in the Americas Project (USLEAP), for an evening of making posters featuring some of Colombia's Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). These posters will be displayed in Federal Plaza on April 19th and then sent on the Washington with the message that it is time to change US policy toward Colombia. For more info, go to www.crln.org/DOPA_2010 Where: 8th Day Center for Justice, 205 W Monroe, 5th Floor
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04 / 17
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Start: 04/16/2010 - 12:00am
End: 04/29/2010 - 12:00pm
Start: 8:00 am
End: 4:00 pm
Illinois Maya Ministry Forum - "Immigration Stories"Saturday, April 17Our Savior's Lutheran Church, Rockford, Illinois, Registration: $35.00 Presenter, Rev. David Vásquez, Campus Pastor, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa,Our Savior's Lutheran Church, Rockford, IL Rev. Vásquez is presently the campus pastor at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. During this, his sabbatical year, he has been focusing on migration narratives--in the Bible and in people's lives today--exploring how the immigrant experience mighthelp us better understand our sacred texts while engaging our faith communities in the contemporary conversation about immigration reform. Pastor Vásquez was pivotal in providing support and advocacy for the immigrant community in Postville and Decorah, Iowa, after the largest (to that date) Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid in May 2008. A play recounting the experience of the Guatemalan and Mexican workers of the May 12, 2008, raid in Postville, Iowa, will be presented that was originally acted out by people who were detained awaiting deportation. Send check to: Rev. Mike Mulberry; P.O. Box 927; Byron, IL 61010 | ||
04 / 18
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Start: 04/16/2010 - 12:00am
End: 04/29/2010 - 12:00pm
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04 / 19
(all day)
Start: 04/16/2010 - 12:00am
End: 04/29/2010 - 12:00pm
Start: 11:30 am
End: 2:00 pm
Join CRLN and our partners at Federal Plaza to display the faces and stories of some of Colombia's 5 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). Help raise awareness as we call on our Members of Congress and our President to start a new chapter in US-Colombia Policy.
Federal Plaza is located at Dearborn and Washington, in the Loop. | ||
04 / 20
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Start: 04/16/2010 - 12:00am
End: 04/29/2010 - 12:00pm
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04 / 21
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Start: 04/16/2010 - 12:00am
End: 04/29/2010 - 12:00pm
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04 / 22
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Start: 04/16/2010 - 12:00am
End: 04/29/2010 - 12:00pm
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04 / 23
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Start: 04/16/2010 - 12:00am
End: 04/29/2010 - 12:00pm
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04 / 24
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Start: 04/16/2010 - 12:00am
End: 04/29/2010 - 12:00pm
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04 / 25
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Start: 04/16/2010 - 12:00am
End: 04/29/2010 - 12:00pm
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04 / 26
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Start: 04/16/2010 - 12:00am
End: 04/29/2010 - 12:00pm
Start: 7:00 pm
Start: 04/26/2010 - 7:00pm
End: 04/27/2010 - 8:00am
Join us April 26th and 27th for an Interfaith Vigil at Broadview Detention Center Calling on President Obama and Congress to Stop Destroying Families
Last year almost 400,000 immigrants were detained and forcibly removed from the US by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Students, Faith and Community will join together for an overnight vigil calling on President Obama and Congress to stop the deportations that are destroying our families and our communities. | ||
04 / 27
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Start: 04/16/2010 - 12:00am
End: 04/29/2010 - 12:00pm
End: 8:00 am
Start: 04/26/2010 - 7:00pm
End: 04/27/2010 - 8:00am
Join us April 26th and 27th for an Interfaith Vigil at Broadview Detention Center Calling on President Obama and Congress to Stop Destroying Families
Last year almost 400,000 immigrants were detained and forcibly removed from the US by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Students, Faith and Community will join together for an overnight vigil calling on President Obama and Congress to stop the deportations that are destroying our families and our communities. | ||
04 / 28
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Start: 04/16/2010 - 12:00am
End: 04/29/2010 - 12:00pm
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04 / 29
End: 12:00 pm
Start: 04/16/2010 - 12:00am
End: 04/29/2010 - 12:00pm
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05 / 1
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
 Come Join the Annual Immigrant Rights March
You are all invited to join with us in a family-friendly, peaceful and faithful Immigrant Rights March this Saturday, May 1, 2010 at 1:00 pm beginning at Union Park in Chicago (Lake and Ashland) and then the march will step off at 3pm to Daley Plaza in downtown Chicago.
As people of faith, we are called to welcome the stranger, to support family unity, and to build communities where all people are respected.
Look for the banners of the Chicago New Sanctuary Coalition (CNSC) and Wellington Avenue UCC; or call the cell phone for Jenny Dale, Coordinator of CNSC at 773-551-1057. Start: 1:00 pm
End: 8:54 pm
At the St. Charles Pastoral Center in Romeoville. Please contact the Diocese of Joliet for more information.
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05 / 22
Start: 10:00 am
Start: 05/22/2010 - 10:00am
End: 05/23/2010 - 6:00pm
At Navy Pier. Fair Trade and trade policies deeply impact environmental issues. For more info go to http://www.greenfestivals.org/chicago/
Start: 5:30 pm
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05 / 23
End: 6:00 pm
Start: 05/22/2010 - 10:00am
End: 05/23/2010 - 6:00pm
At Navy Pier. Fair Trade and trade policies deeply impact environmental issues. For more info go to http://www.greenfestivals.org/chicago/
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06 / 14
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
Gary Cozette will speak at a luncheon hosted by the Methodist Federation for Social Action (MFSA) at the Northern Illinois Conference of the United Methodist Church's 2010 Annual Conference. At the luncheon, the MFSA will recognize CRLN with its 2010 Justice award. For more information,download the attached flier (below) or contact the Reverend Lisl Heymans Paul at revlisl@uic.edu or 847-345-0169.
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06 / 22
Start: 1:00 am
Start: 06/22/2010 - 1:00am
End: 06/26/2010 - 1:00am
National Gathering in Detroit
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06 / 23
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Start: 06/22/2010 - 1:00am
End: 06/26/2010 - 1:00am
National Gathering in Detroit
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06 / 24
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Start: 06/22/2010 - 1:00am
End: 06/26/2010 - 1:00am
National Gathering in Detroit
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06 / 25
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Start: 06/22/2010 - 1:00am
End: 06/26/2010 - 1:00am
National Gathering in Detroit
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06 / 26
End: 1:00 am
Start: 06/22/2010 - 1:00am
End: 06/26/2010 - 1:00am
National Gathering in Detroit
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07 / 1
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Where: 7575 Lake St., #2B River Forest, IL 60305 | ||
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Upcoming events
- Delegation to Colombia - Presbyterian Peace Fellowshipon Friday, 03 Feb 2012
- Travel to Cubaon Monday, 06 Feb 2012
- Pedro Pulido's Work Featured at Gallery Swarmon Friday, 17 Feb 2012
- HOME LAND - Albany Park Theater Projecton Friday, 17 Feb 2012
- Be an Election Observer in El Salvador!on Monday, 05 Mar 2012
- Ecumenical Advocacy Days Conference on Friday, 23 Mar 2012
- Detention and Deportation: A Faith Responseon Saturday, 31 Mar 2012
- Forced Out: A Teach-In About Immigration and Incarceration on Thursday, 05 Apr 2012
- Good Friday Walk For Justiceon Friday, 06 Apr 2012
- 4th Annual El Pueblo Canta: A Concert to Celebrate the Movement for Immigrant Justice. on Saturday, 14 Apr 2012
