Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America - Events Feed

Delegation to Colombia - Presbyterian Peace Fellowship

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:34:28 -0500

Start: 02/03/2012 - 1:00pm

End: 02/13/2012 - 1:00pm

Exploring Nonviolence, Practicing Peace

For more information: http://www.crln.org/delegations/PPF2012

Travel to Cuba

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:35:32 -0500

Start: 02/06/2012 - 1:00pm

End: 02/17/2012 - 1:00pm

Faith and Healing in Cuba

For more information: http://www.crln.org/delegations/Cuba2012

Pedro Pulido's Work Featured at Gallery Swarm

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:58:26 -0500

Start: 02/17/2012 - 7:00pm

End: 02/17/2012 - 7:00pm

Gallery Swarm will exhibit the artwork of Pedro Gonzalez Pulido on February 17, 2012 at 7pm.

Gallery Swarm is located at 2902 N. Clark Street, Lakeview.

For more information, click here.

HOME LAND - Albany Park Theater Project

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:46:11 -0500

Start: 02/17/2012 - 8:00pm

End: 02/18/2012 - 8:00pm

HOME LAND, a production by Albany Park Theater Project

In partnership with the Albany Park Theater Project (APTP), CRLN is organizing a fundraiser around APTP's upcoming production entitled Home/Land! In this show, the award-winning APTP ensemble brings to vivid theatrical life stories of desire, risk, resilience, heroism, love, and hope as immigrant families strive to stay together and make a better life in the land they've come to call home.

CRLN is organizing a group to attend the 8pm performance on Friday, Feb 17th at The Laura Wiley Theater, Eugene Field Park, located at 5100 North Ridgeway in Chicago. Tickets with the CRLN group will be sold for $36 and include a pre-show reception with light refreshments, a group of great people with whom to watch and reflect upon the show, as well as a post-show discussion hosted by the Albany Park Theater Project.
To purchase tickets, please call or e-mail Erica Spilde atESpilde@crln.org or 773-293-3680.

About the Play: A brother sings his sister to sleep with the tale of a glorious tree whose roots grow on both sides of a border… A pair of young lovers dance on their wedding night, then wade across the Río Grande hand-in-hand as their honeymoon… A precocious seven year-old in Jordan becomes an unconventional entrepreneur to pay for her family’s immigration… A nine year-old joins the guerrilla in El Salvador after the murder of his parents… A boat hurls two dozen immigrants across the Gulf of Mexico… A father and son rehearse new identities for a new life… So begin the epic quests of Home/Land. With its characteristic humanity, creativity, and optimism, the award-winning APTP ensemble brings to vivid theatrical life these stories of desire, risk, resilience, heroism, love, and hope – as immigrant families strive to stay together and make a better life in the land they’ve come to call home.

Production runs January 20 – February 25, 2012
The Laura Wiley Theater
at Eugene Field Park
5100 North Ridgeway, Chicago

For more information visit: http://www.aptpchicago.org/whats-on/

Bowling to support scholarships in El Salvador!

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:42:19 -0500

Start: 03/03/2012 - 2:00pm

End: 03/03/2012 - 5:30pm

Timber Lanes

1851 W. Irving Park

Chicago, Illinois

Please visit http://www.crln.org/Bowl-a-Rama2012 for more information

Be an Election Observer in El Salvador!

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:36:48 -0500

Start: 03/05/2012 - 1:00pm

End: 03/13/2012 - 1:01pm

International Election Observation Mission

For more information: http://www.crln.org/delegations/ElSalvadorElections/2012

Detained: Immigration and the Prison Industrial Complex

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:07:33 -0500

Start: 03/19/2012 - 6:00pm

End: 03/19/2012 - 8:00pm

March 19-March24 - Detained: Immigration and the Prison Industrial Complex

A week of events sponsored by Project NIA, Immigrant Youth Justice League, Mess Hall, Chicago PIC Teaching Collective

March 19th - 6 to 8 p.m. - Opening Reception of Detained: Art Exhibition featuring work by Eroyn Franklin as well as local Chicago artists exploring the intersections between immigration and the PIC. Location: Mess Hall, 6932 N. Glenwood Ave.

March 21st - 6 to 8:30 p.m. - A Discussion about Local Organizing Efforts to Address the Criminalization of Immigration and Immigrants - co-sponsored with the Immigrant Youth Justice (IYJL). Location: Mess Hall, 6932 N. Glenwood Ave.

March 24th - 2:30 to 6:00 p.m. - Film Screening - co-sponsored with Multikulti - Location: Multikulti, 1000 N. Milwaukee Ave - we will be screening two films followed by a discussion.

For more information, contact Mariame at projectnia@hotmail.com

Detained: Immigration and the Prison Industrial Complex

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:08:39 -0500

Start: 03/21/2012 - 6:00pm

End: 03/21/2012 - 8:30pm

March 19-March24 - Detained: Immigration and the Prison Industrial Complex

A week of events sponsored by Project NIA, Immigrant Youth Justice League, Mess Hall, Chicago PIC Teaching Collective

March 24th - 2:30 to 6:00 p.m. - Film Screening - co-sponsored with Multikulti - Location: Multikulti, 1000 N. Milwaukee Ave - we will be screening two films followed by a discussion.

For more information, contact Mariame at projectnia@hotmail.com

Ecumenical Advocacy Days Conference

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:42:30 -0500

Start: 03/23/2012 - 2:00pm

End: 03/26/2012 - 5:00pm

The 10^th Annual Ecumenical Advocacy Days (EAD) Conference will take place in Washington, DC on March 23-26, 2011. The Conference theme “Is this the Fast I seek” will offer a faith-based vision for a just economy and a healthy livelihood, along with training on key policy issues and grassroots advocacy. Join CRLN staff and members as we participate in worship, dialogue, workshops with policy experts and lobby visits our members of Congress.

For more information about the EAD Conference, visit http://advocacydays.org/. Reserve your space today by visiting, https://co.clickandpledge.com/advanced/default.aspx?wid=32582. To attend with CRLN, contact Corinthian at (773)293-2964 or cdavis@crln.org.

Detained: Immigration and the Prison Industrial Complex

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:09:51 -0500

Start: 03/24/2012 - 2:30pm

End: 03/24/2012 - 6:00pm

March 19-March24 - Detained: Immigration and the Prison Industrial Complex

A week of events sponsored by Project NIA, Immigrant Youth Justice League, Mess Hall, Chicago PIC Teaching Collective

March 24th - 2:30 to 6:00 p.m. - Film Screening - co-sponsored with Multikulti - Location: Multikulti, 1000 N. Milwaukee Ave - we will be screening two films followed by a discussion.

For more information, contact Mariame at projectnia@hotmail.com

Detention and Deportation: A Faith Response

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:37:26 -0500

Start: 03/31/2012 - 8:30am

End: 03/31/2012 - 12:30pm

Please join the Sisters and Brothers of Immigrants for a conference entitled "Detention and Deportation: A Faith Response"

March 31, 2012
8:30 a.m. (coffee/registration)
Program 9:00am - 12:30 p.m.
St. Scholastica Academy Auditorium, Chicago, IL. 7416 N Ridge Blvd Chicago, IL 60645

For more information contact Michael Gosch at <mgosch@viatorians.com>

Forced Out: A Teach-In About Immigration and Incarceration

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:33:48 -0500

Start: 04/05/2012 - 10:00am

End: 04/05/2012 - 3:00pm

Forced Out: A Teach-In About Immigration and Incarceration

This teach-in provides a starting place for a conversation among individuals and families impacted by "mass detention." It also gives students, activists and allies a chance to make connections across issues that are often seen as separate and even competing. By educating people about the shared logic of the prison and immigration systems, Forced Out will increase the links among affected groups and help to create a more unified voice for policy change across all communities. Working together, everyday people can create a culture of solidarity and demand real changes that improve public safety while strengthening our society for all.

When: Thursday April 5th
Time: 10am-3pm
Where: UIC Student Center East
750 S. Halsted Street
Information: Free and Open to Everyone

Sponsors include: Fighting to Overcome Records and Create Equality (FORCE), Fearless Leading by the Youth (FLY), Project Nia, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, UIC Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Rafael Cintron-Ortiz Latino Cultural Center, Office for Peace and Justice, Office for Immigrant Affairs and Education, and the Institute on Public Safety and Social Justice at the Adler School of Professional Psychology.

For moreinformation contact: Ryan Lugalia-Hollon, rlhollon@adler.edu, 312.662.4024

Good Friday Walk For Justice

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:47:14 -0500

Start: 04/06/2012 - 12:00pm

End: 04/06/2012 - 3:00pm

Join with the Eighth Day Center for Justice and other social justice communities here in Chicago on April 6, 2012 for the 32nd Annual Good Friday Walk for Justice!

The Good Friday Walk for Justice is a modern day Way of the Cross which unites the Christian passion story with the justice struggles of our day. In this effort, we atempt to open a space for reflection, resistence, and memory.

When TIME names the person of the year, "The Protester" what choice do we have but to celebrate the "Living Out Loud" energy that has swept the globe?

Join us on April 6th at Noon on the Northeast corner of Congress and Michigan to participate with various justice coalitions who are Living Out Loud by awakening communities, creating change, and transforming systems for the common good.

To learn more, visit: www.8thdaycenter.org

4th Annual El Pueblo Canta: A Concert to Celebrate the Movement for Immigrant Justice.

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:54:18 -0500

Start: 04/14/2012 - 7:00pm

End: 04/14/2012 - 9:30pm

Join us for the 4^th Annual El Pueblo Canta: A Concert to Celebrate the Movement for Immigrant Justice.

Doors open at 6:30pm at Wellington Ave Church (615 West Wellington)

Tickets are $25 general admission and $10 for students/limited income.

For advanced tickets visit www.waucc.org or call 773-935-0642

And don't forget, there will be food for purchase before the show and during intermission!

All proceeds will go to support the immigrant justice work of Centro Romero, Chicago New Sanctuary Coalition, Wellington Ave UCC and the Immigrant Youth Justice League.

RSVP on facebook

Deportation as an Extension of Mass Incarceration: The Criminalization of Blacks & Latinos

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:57:42 -0500

Start: 04/30/2012 - 3:30pm

End: 04/30/2012 - 5:30pm

Deportation as an Extension of Mass Incarceration: The Criminalization of Blacks & Latinos

Monday, April 30, 2012

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

This workshop will raise the profile of the human rights crisis that is occurring in our country due to the ever-increasing numbers of deportations. This is the fourth of four major events being planned through this collaboration.

The United States has invested in to prisons as an industry. Poor towns welcome prisons as an opportunity for employment. The increase in immigrant detainees has led to a similar, and less scrutinized way of incarcerating large numbers of people, most of whom have committed the crime of border crossing in an effort to earn a living wage.

Event sponsored by Adler School of Psychology, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, and other community groups.

To RSVP for this event, please email ipssj@adler.edu.

Migrant Trail Walk

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:39:23 -0500

Start: 05/31/2012 - 1:00pm

End: 06/06/2012 - 1:00pm

Join us for the 75-mile journey from Sásabe, Sonora to Tucson, Arizona in solidarity with our migrant sisters and brothers who have walked this trail and lost their lives. We bear witness to the lives that are lost, the families who mourn, and the communities that suffer the divisions that borders wreak on all of us.

For more information: http://www.crln.org/delegations/MigrantWalk/2012

Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America - Events Feed

Delegation to Colombia - Presbyterian Peace Fellowship

Exploring Nonviolence, Practicing Peace

Travel to Cuba

Faith and Healing in Cuba

Pedro Pulido's Work Featured at Gallery Swarm

HOME LAND - Albany Park Theater Project

Bowling to support scholarships in El Salvador!

Be an Election Observer in El Salvador!

International Election Observation Mission

Detained: Immigration and the Prison Industrial Complex

Detained: Immigration and the Prison Industrial Complex

Ecumenical Advocacy Days Conference

Detained: Immigration and the Prison Industrial Complex

Detention and Deportation: A Faith Response

Forced Out: A Teach-In About Immigration and Incarceration

Good Friday Walk For Justice

4th Annual El Pueblo Canta: A Concert to Celebrate the Movement for Immigrant Justice.

Join us for the 4th Annual El Pueblo Canta: A Concert to Celebrate the Movement for Immigrant Justice.

Deportation as an Extension of Mass Incarceration: The Criminalization of Blacks & Latinos

Migrant Trail Walk

Join us for the 4^th Annual El Pueblo Canta: A Concert to Celebrate the Movement for Immigrant Justice.