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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.
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.
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.
We are marching because:
Our immigrant neighbors are under increasing attacks.
- Deportations increased during President Obama's first year in office, compared to the previous year.
- Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed on April 23 what is now the most punitive and sweeping anti-immigrant state law in the nation, making it a crime to be undocumented, and even to solicit work on a street corner.
- Nationwide, the number of hate crimes committed against Hispanics and those perceived to be immigrants has increased each of the past years for which FBI data is available since 1990, according to a 2009 report by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund.
We can fix our broken immigration system this year if we stand together in unity. - The momentum is there for Comprehensive Immigration Reform legislation to be passed in the coming months, before the mid-term elections. Proposals include a tough but fair path to citizenship for non-criminal undocumented immigrants, paired with increased security at the border and enforcement of employment law. But we need to call on our elected officials to take courageous action!
As people of faith, we are called to welcome the stranger, to support family unity, and to build communities where all people are respected.
Please join us!
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.
The march steps off at 3:00 pm and ends at Daley Plaza in downtown Chicago
We hope you can join us! For more information, call Jenny Dale at 773-551-1057.
Rice and Beans Dinner on Saturday May 22nd at 5:30 pm
Come see and hear about the recent delegation of the Guatemala Partnership Group, one of the groups that receives funds from CRLN's Pedal for Peace event every year. The evening will include updates on:
- women's micro-credit groups formed in the highlands of Guatemala by Accion Cultural Guatemalteca (Guatemalan Cultural Action, or ACG), a Mayan community organizing association working in over 50 communities in the Guatemalan highlands;
- Gloria Vicente, a Guatemalan Mayan who came to Chicago in 1985 with her family to be in sanctuary at University Church. Now she is working with ACG in a position funded by the UCC-Disciples Board of Global Ministries;
- developments in Saq Ja', a rural community in the department of El Quiche that was the boyhood home of Gloria's father. It was destroyed in the 1980's by the army during the Guatemalan civil conflict, and was resettled in the mid to late 1990's by the community members who survived the attack.
The dinner and presentation will be at University Church, 5655 S. University Ave.,in Chicago. Email shunter-smith@crln.org for more information.
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.
National Gathering in Detroit
The US Social Forum (USSF) is a movement building process. It is not a conference but it is a space to come up with the peoples’ solutions to the economic and ecological crisis. The USSF is the next most important step in our struggle to build a powerful multi-racial, multi-sectoral, inter-generational, diverse, inclusive, internationalist movement that transforms this country and changes history.
We must declare what we want our world to look like and we
must start planning the path to get there. The USSF provides spaces to learn
from each other’s experiences and struggles, share our analysis of the problems
our communities face, build relationships, and align with our international
brothers and sisters to strategize how to reclaim our world.
Join CRLN staff Gary Cozette, Marilyn McKenna and Jenny Dale at the gathering. For more info, go to http://www.ussf2010.org/ or contact Jenny at jdale@crln.org
National Gathering in Detroit
The US Social Forum (USSF) is a movement building process. It is not a conference but it is a space to come up with the peoples’ solutions to the economic and ecological crisis. The USSF is the next most important step in our struggle to build a powerful multi-racial, multi-sectoral, inter-generational, diverse, inclusive, internationalist movement that transforms this country and changes history.
We must declare what we want our world to look like and we
must start planning the path to get there. The USSF provides spaces to learn
from each other’s experiences and struggles, share our analysis of the problems
our communities face, build relationships, and align with our international
brothers and sisters to strategize how to reclaim our world.
Join CRLN staff Gary Cozette, Marilyn McKenna and Jenny Dale at the gathering. For more info, go to http://www.ussf2010.org/ or contact Jenny at jdale@crln.org
National Gathering in Detroit
The US Social Forum (USSF) is a movement building process. It is not a conference but it is a space to come up with the peoples’ solutions to the economic and ecological crisis. The USSF is the next most important step in our struggle to build a powerful multi-racial, multi-sectoral, inter-generational, diverse, inclusive, internationalist movement that transforms this country and changes history.
We must declare what we want our world to look like and we
must start planning the path to get there. The USSF provides spaces to learn
from each other’s experiences and struggles, share our analysis of the problems
our communities face, build relationships, and align with our international
brothers and sisters to strategize how to reclaim our world.
Join CRLN staff Gary Cozette, Marilyn McKenna and Jenny Dale at the gathering. For more info, go to http://www.ussf2010.org/ or contact Jenny at jdale@crln.org
National Gathering in Detroit
The US Social Forum (USSF) is a movement building process. It is not a conference but it is a space to come up with the peoples’ solutions to the economic and ecological crisis. The USSF is the next most important step in our struggle to build a powerful multi-racial, multi-sectoral, inter-generational, diverse, inclusive, internationalist movement that transforms this country and changes history.
We must declare what we want our world to look like and we
must start planning the path to get there. The USSF provides spaces to learn
from each other’s experiences and struggles, share our analysis of the problems
our communities face, build relationships, and align with our international
brothers and sisters to strategize how to reclaim our world.
Join CRLN staff Gary Cozette, Marilyn McKenna and Jenny Dale at the gathering. For more info, go to http://www.ussf2010.org/ or contact Jenny at jdale@crln.org
National Gathering in Detroit
The US Social Forum (USSF) is a movement building process. It is not a conference but it is a space to come up with the peoples’ solutions to the economic and ecological crisis. The USSF is the next most important step in our struggle to build a powerful multi-racial, multi-sectoral, inter-generational, diverse, inclusive, internationalist movement that transforms this country and changes history.
We must declare what we want our world to look like and we
must start planning the path to get there. The USSF provides spaces to learn
from each other’s experiences and struggles, share our analysis of the problems
our communities face, build relationships, and align with our international
brothers and sisters to strategize how to reclaim our world.
Join CRLN staff Gary Cozette, Marilyn McKenna and Jenny Dale at the gathering. For more info, go to http://www.ussf2010.org/ or contact Jenny at jdale@crln.org
AmericaSpeaks: Our Budget, Our Economy is a national discussion to find common ground on tough choices about our federal budget. Americans from across the country will come together to weigh-in on strategies to ensure a sustainable fiscal future and a strong economic recovery. As a part of this national discussion, on June 26, 2010, thousands of Americans across the country will participate simultaneously in an unprecedented National Town Meeting. The Chicago Meeting will take place at Navy Pier.
Go to http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5874/p/salsa/event/common/public/index.sjs?event_KEY=19959 to register and for more information.
River Forest, IL 60305
This delegation is for members of the Congregations in Solidarity with Latin America (CSLA)group of the Chicago Presbytery. For more information about CSLA please contact Gary Cozette at gcozette@crln.org For information about other delegations to Colombia, please contact Erica Spilde at espilde@crln.org
This delegation is for members of the Congregations in Solidarity with Latin America (CSLA)group of the Chicago Presbytery. For more information about CSLA please contact Gary Cozette at gcozette@crln.org For information about other delegations to Colombia, please contact Erica Spilde at espilde@crln.org
This delegation is for members of the Congregations in Solidarity with Latin America (CSLA)group of the Chicago Presbytery. For more information about CSLA please contact Gary Cozette at gcozette@crln.org For information about other delegations to Colombia, please contact Erica Spilde at espilde@crln.org
This delegation is for members of the Congregations in Solidarity with Latin America (CSLA)group of the Chicago Presbytery. For more information about CSLA please contact Gary Cozette at gcozette@crln.org For information about other delegations to Colombia, please contact Erica Spilde at espilde@crln.org
This delegation is for members of the Congregations in Solidarity with Latin America (CSLA)group of the Chicago Presbytery. For more information about CSLA please contact Gary Cozette at gcozette@crln.org For information about other delegations to Colombia, please contact Erica Spilde at espilde@crln.org
This delegation is for members of the Congregations in Solidarity with Latin America (CSLA)group of the Chicago Presbytery. For more information about CSLA please contact Gary Cozette at gcozette@crln.org For information about other delegations to Colombia, please contact Erica Spilde at espilde@crln.org
This delegation is for members of the Congregations in Solidarity with Latin America (CSLA)group of the Chicago Presbytery. For more information about CSLA please contact Gary Cozette at gcozette@crln.org For information about other delegations to Colombia, please contact Erica Spilde at espilde@crln.org
This delegation is for members of the Congregations in Solidarity with Latin America (CSLA)group of the Chicago Presbytery. For more information about CSLA please contact Gary Cozette at gcozette@crln.org For information about other delegations to Colombia, please contact Erica Spilde at espilde@crln.org
Say Yes to Civil Rights!
July 29th in Chicago's City Hall
One Thousand and more, against the Deportations
This delegation is for members of the Congregations in Solidarity with Latin America (CSLA)group of the Chicago Presbytery. For more information about CSLA please contact Gary Cozette at gcozette@crln.org For information about other delegations to Colombia, please contact Erica Spilde at espilde@crln.org
This delegation is for members of the Congregations in Solidarity with Latin America (CSLA)group of the Chicago Presbytery. For more information about CSLA please contact Gary Cozette at gcozette@crln.org For information about other delegations to Colombia, please contact Erica Spilde at espilde@crln.org
This delegation is for members of the Congregations in Solidarity with Latin America (CSLA)group of the Chicago Presbytery. For more information about CSLA please contact Gary Cozette at gcozette@crln.org For information about other delegations to Colombia, please contact Erica Spilde at espilde@crln.org
From June 26-July 4th twelve people, including CRLN Program Director Gary Cozette and CRLN Board member Sidney Hollander, traveled with the La Voz de los de Abajo delegation to Honduras for the mobilizations protesting one year of the military coup and celebrating the birth of the new resistance movement in Honduras. The delegation traveled throughout the country observing and interviewing political prisoners, campesinos, journalists, human rights and indigenous leaders, and members and leaders from the National Front of Popular Resistance. Join us for our report back, which will include analysis and commentary from members of the delegation, video, photos and plenty of discussion.
When: Friday, August 6th, 8pm-11pm
Where: Decima Musa Restaurant, 1901 South Loomis (Pilsen)
For more information, call (312) 656-8655.
Where: St. Augustine College Student Center, 1345 W. Argyle St.
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Upcoming events
- NATO Rally and Marchon Sunday, 20 May 2012
- Migrant Trail Walkon Thursday, 31 May 2012
- Robert H. Kirschner, M.D., Memorial Human Rights Lecture on Thursday, 31 May 2012
- Immigrant Welcoming Congregations Quarterly Gatheringon Monday, 04 Jun 2012
- Heidkamp, Honduras and Hopeon Thursday, 14 Jun 2012
- Bridges to Communityon Friday, 15 Jun 2012
