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NATO Rally and March

Thu, 03 May 2012 16:37:08 -0400

Start: 05/20/2012 - 12:00pm

End: 05/20/2012 - 3:00pm

Join CRLN NATO Protests in Chicago: Join the Call for Demilitarization of our World! U.S. policy worldwide relies upon 700 military bases worldwide to pressure compliance to “US interests”, especially relentless global resource extraction and transfer. “The military and political leaders of countries that account for 70 percent of world military spending will be meeting to discuss how to use their vast military might in pursuit of the interests of the global 1 percent.” Please come to add your presence and voice.

What: Rally and March to Send a Message to NATO leaders meeting in Chicago!

When: Sunday, May 20, 2012 12:00 Noon

Where: Petrillo Bandshell Jackson St. at Columbus Dr just north of Buckingham Fountain

Then: March to McCormick Place with a Closing Rally and Public Witness!

Join CRLN in this legal, permitted, family-friendly march and rally!

We will join interfaith groups and Latin America demilitarization advocates. Will you come? Please let us know!

Among those scheduled to appear at the opening rally…

Jesse Jackson, Sr. – Rainbow PUSH Coalition
Malalai Joya – former member of Afghan Parliament
Reiner Braun – ICC No to War – No to NATO, Germany
Malik Mujahid – Muslim Peace Council
Kathy Kelly – Voices for Creative Nonviolence
Vijay Prashad – author of “Arab Spring, Libyan Winter”
Leah Bolger – President, Veterans For Peace
Carlos Montes – Committee Stop FBI Repression
Kari Fulton – Environmental Justice Network
Larry Holmes – International Action Center

For more information on the march and rally, housing boards, ride sharing, flyers, and more, go to www.cang8.org

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

Robert H. Kirschner, M.D., Memorial Human Rights Lecture

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:39:10 -0400

Start: 05/31/2012 - 6:30pm

End: 05/31/2012 - 8:00pm

"Reconnecting in the Aftermath of El Salvador's Civil War: The Joys and Challenges of Finding Family"

Margaret Ward, Emerita Professor, Wellesley College, is the author of Missing Mila, Finding Family: An International Adoption in the Shadow of the Salvadoran Civil War, the story of her son's adoption from El Salvador and their later connection with his birth family through Asociación Pro-Búsqueda. Nelson Ward de Witt, Margaret's son, is now a film-maker. He will present excerpts from Identifying Nelson/Buscando Roberto in which he tells the same story from his perspective.

Asociación Pro-Búsqueda was founded by the late Dr. Robert Kirschner and Salvadoran colleagues to reunite Salvadoran families with children adopted abroad during the war years. It was a 1997 call from Dr. Kirschner to the de Witt-Ward family that set in motion this remarkable reunion.

Date: Thursday, May 31, 2012

Time: 6:30 p.m.

Place: International House Assembly Hall

1414 East 59th Street

Immigrant Welcoming Congregations Quarterly Gathering

Tue, 08 May 2012 10:54:42 -0400

Start: 06/04/2012 - 6:00pm

End: 06/04/2012 - 8:00pm

Join other congregations engaged in prayer and action for immigrant justice. No experience necessary.

Chicago Temple, 77 W. Washington St. in Chicago, 6-8pm.

For more information, contact Rev. Sara Wohlleb, Congregational Coordinator for Chicago New Sanctuary Coalition, swohlleb@crln.org or 773-293-3680.

Heidkamp, Honduras and Hope

Fri, 04 May 2012 16:29:48 -0400

Start: 06/14/2012 - 6:00pm

End: 06/14/2012 - 8:30pm

An evening to honor long-time CRLN board member Dick Heidkamp, learn more about the current realities in Honduras, and look with hope to the future with the launch of the Dick Heidkamp Scholarship Fund.

Thursday, June 14

6:00-7:00 Beverages and substantial appetizers

7:00 – 8:30 Program

St. Scholastica MonasterY Back Lawn (indoors in case of inclement weather)

7416 North Ridge Boulevard in Chicago

For more information, including on how to RSVP, please visit:

www.crln.org/2012/Heidkamp_Honduras

Bridges to Community

Thu, 10 May 2012 14:34:55 -0400

Start: 06/15/2012 - 9:00am

End: 06/16/2012 - 7:00pm

Two day education experience to learn about the realities of immigrants in Chicagoland. Co-sponsored by Chicago Theological Seminary and UCC Immigration Task Force. For more information, please visit:

http://www.crln.org/delegations/Bridges/June2012

Or contact Rev. Sara Wohlleb, Congregational Coordinator for Chicago New Sanctuary Coalition at swohlleb@crln.org or at 773-293-3680.