Melissa Cardoza

’s book,

13 Colors  of the Honduran Resistance,

tells thirteen stories of women who joined the resistance to the U.S.-backed 2009

coup d’etat

. It has just been made available in a bilingual English/Spanish edition, translated by Matt Ginsberg-Jaeckle. Melissa, an afro-indigenous fearless journalist, poet, writer and feminist organizer from Honduras, poetically relates some of the most compelling moments she has witnessed amidst the brutal repression and unyielding hope and struggle that have characterized post-

coup

Honduras today. She will be touring along with her fellow member of the Honduran “Red de Defensoras,” or network of women rights defenders, beloved Honduran jazz/folk protest singer

Karla Lara,

who appears in one of the book’s stories and has been an icon and sharp voice in the resistance. Both were amongst the closest friends to *Berta Cáceres*, the Honduran indigenous leader and organizer of COPINH who was assassinated for her work in defense of the Lenca people and against patriarchy, capitalism, and racism. This book and this tour are dedicated to Berta.

Time:

4:00pm

Place:

Official book launch with El BeiSMan – La Catrina, 1011 W 18th St

11 people, including 2 staff members and 1 board member from CRLN, traveled  February 28 – March 6, 2017 on a human rights accompaniment and fact-finding delegation to Honduras coordinated by CRLN’s local partner organization, La Voz de los de Abajo. Designed to accompany the 1 year anniversary commemoration events of the assassination of Berta Caceres, the delegation was invited by her indigenous rights organization, COPINH, to provide an international presence at a march in Tegucigalpa March 2 to the Supreme Court building and an all-day celebration of Berta’s life on her birthday, March 4, in the indigenous Lenca community of Rio Blanco. The delegation also met with organizations representing rural workers, the Garifuna people, a Jesuit radio station providing news coverage, teachers, doctors, feminists, protest singers, students and others. The resistance is still strong, even without Berta!  COPINH’s new chant is “Berta vive, vive! COPINH sigue, sigue!” “Berta is alive! COPINH will survive!”

Come join CRLN members to hear an update on post-

coup

Honduras in this election year in that country.

Time: 3:00 – 5:00pm

Place: La Parada, 2059 West 21st Street, Chicago (Pilsen neighborhood).   Near CTA Pink Line Cullerton stop

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(Español AQUI)

Join CRLN and our community partners in calling for Expanding Sanctuary all throughout Holy Week!

This year, Holy Week kicks off for us with the 6th Annual



Occupy Palm Sunday



in the Logan Square & Humboldt Park community of Chicago.

We join the Logan Square Ecumenical Alliance (LSEA), the Logan Square Neighborhood Association (LSNA), and others this Sunday starting at 12:30pm to Rally and Public Prayer at Palmer Square Park (east-side of the park) at 1PM. We rally and pray for an expanded vision of sanctuary for ALL that works to end police violence, deportations, and criminalization!


On Palm Sunday, we will continue to demand a stronger “Welcoming City Ordinance” that provides stronger protections to undocumented communities and the passage of recommendations to the ‘FOP Contract Resolution’ for police accountability


.

Second, join us downtown on



Good Friday



for the 8TH Day Center for Justice’s Annual Walk for Justice

. Join the CRLN contingent for the Fourth Station: ‘Helped in the Struggle,’ two Fridays from now from 12PM-3PM at the corner of Michigan and Congress! Each year we join together for this modern-day Way-of-the-Cross to shed light on unjust societal structures and to reflect on how we can work to dismantle them. The 2017 Good Friday Walk for Justice will provide the space to name and explore our visions for a just and peaceful world.  Our faithful vision of justice and peace includes expanding sanctuary. We imagine our Beloved Community as a place of care and safety for everyone, no matter where they come from, what they look like, or how they express their gender or sexuality.

However, our nation’s administration has a different vision, one that limits care and safety to a homogenous group and criminalizes others. It seeks to separate from the

Beloved Community certain groups, including ourselves and our neighbors, who are undocumented, immigrant, refugee, Muslim, Black, Arab, Native, queer—and to label us as threats.

We resist this limited vision, based on fear and criminalization. We will embrace our vision of sanctuary and imagine how our faith communities can provide community care and safety for ALL. We will create the kind of world we want to live in.

See you this Holy Week!

To learn more, please contact CRLN’s Immigration Organizer at

crodriguez@crln.org

.

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OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS:

1. 
   
   Expand Sanctuary in Chicago: Community Action Meeting
   
   
   from 11AM-1PM at 2229 S. Halsted.
   
   Come learn about the campaign to expand sanctuary protections for all Chicago, and find out how you can organize in your neighborhood!
   

2. Stay tuned for April’s City Council meeting & vote on the Welcoming City Ordinance amendments & the FOP contract recommendations resolution.
   
   
   Tell our mayor and city council to stand up to Trump and take action that doesn’t just symbolically defend immigrants but transforms our city’s policies to stop targeting us for imprisonment, risk of deportation, and state violence at the hands of police and aggressive immigration agents.
   
   

3. SAVE THE DATE for May Day 2017.
   
   
   Join us at the International Workers Day March on Monday, May 1st at 1pm, starting at Union Park (Ashland and Lake) followed by a Chicago Federation of Labor (CFL) event at 4pm at Daley Plaza
   
   
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LEARN MORE ABOUT EXPANDING SANCTUARY:

1. ‘
   
   
   Black People Need Sanctuary Cities, Too
   
   
   ’ by Janaé Bonsu (BYP 100)

2. ‘
   
   
   A Radical Expansion of Sanctuary: Steps in Defiance of Trump’s Executive Order
   
   
   ’ by Marisa Franco (Mijente)

3. 
   
   NEW VIDEO
   
   
   : Black, Latinx, Muslim, Trans and LGBTQ communities are redefining and expanding what sanctuary means to protect themselves and each other from not just immigration enforcement but all the threats coming from 45’s regime. (BYP 100 & Mijente)

¡Únete a CRLN y a nuestras organizaciones amigas para pedir la expansión del Santuario durante toda la Semana Santa!

Este año, la Semana Santa comienza para nosotros con

el 6to Anual

Ocupación del Domingo de Ramos (Occupying Palm Sunday)


en la comunidad de Logan Square y Humboldt Park de Chicago. Nos unimos a la Logan Square Ecumenical Alliance (LSE), Logan Square Neighborhood Association (LSNA), y otros este domingo a partir de las 12:30 pm para un mitin y oración pública en Palmer Square Park (al este del parque) a la 1:00PM. Nos reunimos y oramos por una visión ampliada del santuario para TODXS que trabaja para acabar con la violencia policial, las deportaciones y la criminalización.

El Domingo de Ramos, continuaremos exigiendo una

“Welcoming City Ordinance”

más fuerte y que proporcione más protecciones a las comunidades indocumentadas y la aprobación de recomendaciones a la

“Resolución de Contrato de FOP”

para la rendición de cuentas de la policía.

En segundo lugar, únase a nosotros en el centro de la ciudad el Viernes Santo para la

Caminata Anual por la Justicia de

8th Day Center for Justice

.

Únase al contingente de CRLN para la Cuarta Estación: ‘Ayudando en la Lucha’, el viernes 14 de abril de 12 PM a 3PM en la esquina de Michigan y Congress. Cada año nos unimos para este Vía Crucis moderno para dar luz a las estructuras sociales injustas y para reflexionar sobre cómo podemos trabajar para desmantelarlas. La Caminata por la Justica del Viernes Santo del 2017 proveerá el espacio para nombrar y explorar nuestras visiones para un mundo justo y pacífico. Nuestra visión fiel de justicia y paz incluye la expansión del santuario. Imaginamos a nuestra amada comunidad como un lugar de cuidado y seguro para todxs, sin importar de dónde provengan, cómo se vean o cómo expresen su género o sexualidad.

Sin embargo, la administración de nuestra nación tiene una visión diferente, que limita la atención y la seguridad a un grupo homogéneo y criminaliza a otrxs. Busca separar de la comunidad a ciertos grupos, incluidos nosotrxs y nuestrxs vecinos, que son indocumentadxs, inmigrantes, refugiadxs, musulmanes, negrxs, árabes, nativxs, extrañxs, y nos etiquetan como amenazas.

Resistimos esta visión limitada, basada en el miedo y la criminalización. Vamos a abrazar nuestra visión de santuario e imaginar cómo nuestras comunidades de fe pueden proporcionar cuidado comunitario y seguridad para TODXS. Vamos a crear el tipo de mundo en el que queremos vivir. ¡Nos vemos esta Semana Santa!

Para obtener más información, comuníquese con la Organizadora de Inmigración de CRLN en

crodriguez@crln.org

.

OTROS EVENTOS :

1. 
   Expandiendo Santuario en Chicago: Reunión de Acción Comunitaria
   
   de 11 AM a 1PM en 2229 S. Halsted. ¡Venga a conocer la campaña para expandir las protecciones de santuario para todxs en Chicago, y descubra cómo puede organizarse en su vecindario!
2. Manténgase en sintonía para la reunión del Consejo Municipal en Abril y la votación de
   
   Welcoming City Ordinance
   
   y la resolución del contrato de recomendaciones FOP.
   
   Dígale a nuestro alcalde y ayuntamiento que resistamos a Trump y tomemos medidas que no sólo simbólicamente defienden a los inmigrantes, sino que transforman las políticas de nuestra ciudad para que dejen de atacarnos por medio de encarcelamientos, riesgos de deportación y violencia estatal a manos de la policía y agentes agresivos de inmigración
   
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3. GUARDE LA FECHA para el Día del trabajo del 2017.
   
   Únase a nuestra marcha en el Día Internacional de los Trabajadores el lunes 1 de mayo
   
   a la 1pm, comenzando en Union Park (Ashland y Lake) seguido de un evento de la Federación de Trabajo de Chicago (CFL) a las 4pm en Daley Plaza.

(Español Abajo)

Resisting Displacement: Expanding Sanctuary in the Americas

BUY TICKETS HERE:


https://www.eventbrite.com/e/resisting-displacement-expanding-sanctuary-…

(Volunteers are needed and attend for free)

Our communities in the Americas—whether immigrant or

campesino

or indigenous or Afro- descendant—are pushed off their land and sometimes out of their countries by large economic forces pursuing profits. For these forces, there are no borders. Many who are displaced are finding ways to connect with others in the Americas to resist deportation and dislocation. All seek to create safer spaces in which to live in the Americas.

Come for social time with CRLN members and staff and hear from Claudia Lucero, Cinthya Rodriguez and Sharon Hunter-Smith about how CRLN is addressing these issues and ways to get involved.

Sunday, May 21, 2017

3:00-6:00pm

Christ Lutheran Church

3253 West Wilson Ave.

Chicago IL, 60625

Tickets are $50 or $25 student/low income

Please RSVP to Marisa Leon Gomez Sonet at

mleongomez@crln.org

by May 17.

Refreshments will be available. Parking available nearby.

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Resistiendo el Desplazamiento: Expandiendo el Santuario en las Américas

BOLETOS AQUI:


https://www.eventbrite.com/e/resisting-displacement-expanding-sanctuary-…

Nuestras comunidades en las Américas – ya sea inmigrantes

o campesinxs

o Indegenxs, o Afro-descendientes- están siendo desplazadas de sus tierras y a veces de sus países por grandes fuerzas económicas que persiguen las ganancias. Para estas fuerzas, no hay fronteras. Muchxs de lxs que están siendo desplazadxs buscan maneras de conectarse con otrxs en las Américas para resistir la deportación y la dislocación. Todxs buscan crear espacios más seguros para vivir en las Américas.

Acompáñanos para una tarde social con el personal y miembros de CRLN.  Claudia Lucero, Cinthya Rodríguez y Sharon Hunter-Smith presentaran sobre cómo CRLN está abordando estos temas y formas en las que tú puedes involucrarte.

Domingo, 21 de Mayo del 2017

3:00 a 6:00pm

Iglesia Luterana de Cristo (Christ Lutheran Church)

3253 West Wilson Ave.

Chicago IL, 60625

Los boletos cuestan $ 50 o $25 para estudiantes y personas de bajos ingresos.

Por favor reservar con Marisa León Gómez enviando un correo electrónico a

mleongomez@crln.org

antes del 17 de mayo.

Habrán bocadillos y bebidas. Estacionamiento disponible cerca.

Resisting Displacement: Expanding Sanctuary in the Americas

Our communities in the Americas—whether immigrant or

campesino

or indigenous or Afro- descendant—are pushed off their land and sometimes out of their countries by large economic forces pursuing profits. For these forces, there are no borders. Many who are displaced are finding ways to connect with others in the Americas to resist deportation and dislocation. All seek to create safer spaces in which to live in the Americas.

Come for social time with CRLN members and staff and hear from Claudia Lucero, Cinthya Rodriguez and Sharon Hunter-Smith about how CRLN is addressing these issues and ways to get involved.

Sunday, May 21, 2017

3:00-6:00pm

Christ Lutheran Church

3253 West Wilson Ave.

Chicago IL, 60625

Tickets are $50 or $25 student/low income

Please RSVP to Marisa Leon Gomez Sonet at

mleongomez@crln.org

by May 17.

Refreshments will be available. Parking available nearby.

—

Resistiendo el Desplazamiento: Expandiendo el Santuario en las Américas

Nuestras comunidades en las Américas – ya sea inmigrantes

o campesinxs

o Indegenxs, o Afro-descendientes- están siendo desplazadas de sus tierras y a veces de sus países por grandes fuerzas económicas que persiguen las ganancias. Para estas fuerzas, no hay fronteras. Muchxs de lxs que están siendo desplazadxs buscan maneras de conectarse con otrxs en las Américas para resistir la deportación y la dislocación. Todxs buscan crear espacios más seguros para vivir en las Américas.

Acompáñanos para una tarde social con el personal y miembros de CRLN.  Claudia Lucero, Cinthya Rodríguez y Sharon Hunter-Smith presentaran sobre cómo CRLN está abordando estos temas y formas en las que tú puedes involucrarte.

Domingo, 21 de Mayo del 2017

3:00 a 6:00pm

Iglesia Luterana de Cristo (Christ Lutheran Church)

3253 West Wilson Ave.

Chicago IL, 60625

Los boletos cuestan $ 50 o $25 para estudiantes y personas de bajos ingresos.

Por favor reservar con Marisa León Gómez enviando un correo electrónico a

mleongomez@crln.org

antes del 17 de mayo.

Habrán bocadillos y bebidas. Estacionamiento disponible cerca.

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