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December
SEMANA SANTA 2017: EXPANDIENDO SANTUARIO
December 15, 2016 admin Events


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¡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

    .
  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.

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December
JOIN US FOR CRLN’s SPRING EVENT! Resisting Displacement: Expanding Sanctuary in the Americas
December 15, 2016 admin Events




(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.

—


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.

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December
CRLN’s Spring Event! Resisting Displacement: Expanding Sanctuary in the Americas
December 15, 2016 admin Events


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.

Event Date:
Sunday, May 21, 2017 –

15:00

to

18:00

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15

December
Honduras’ Human Rights Updates for April
December 15, 2016 admin Edu. Central America


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Berta Caceres’ Case

COPINH denounces the continous will of the Honduran State to keep in impunity the case of Berta Cáceres Flores. Read their statement here: (Spanish only)

http://copinhonduras.blogspot.it/2017/04/el-copinh-denuncia-la-reiterada.html

On April 7th,

Two letters by US Senators and Representatives were sent to the US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson expressing their concern about the situation of human right defenders in Honduras.

78 US politicians demand that military and police aid to Honduras be withheld until the situation for human rights defenders improves drastically in the country.

CRLN staff and board members participated, in a Voz de los de Abajo delegation in March, as human rights observers in a march by COPINH and its allies to the Supreme Court. They delivered a letter containing a constitutional challenge to the legality of the Legislative Decrees authorizing the Agua Zarca Hydroelectric Project on the Gualcarque River, something Berta had wanted to do before she was killed. That was March 1, and the Constitutional Chamber has not yet admitted it for consideration by the Supreme Court.

*Karla Lara and Melissa Cardoza, feminists, social justice organizers in Honduras and close friends of Berta Caceres, are doing a US tour April 20th to May 23rd.

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. 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.

They will be in Chicago with CRLN on April 30th, Join Us.

Read more about Karla and Melissa and their work here.

2017 National Elections

The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) is an ally of the Juan Orlando government, by letting him run for the 2017 elections, despite that re-election is prohibited by the Honduran constitution. Now, the TSE wants to forbid the Party Against Corruption (PAC), a major opposition party, from the national elections on November. The TSE wants PAC to hold an internal leadership election on May 21ST. However, this date will give the political opposition just four days to decide on a political alliance- making it extremely hard to form such alliance. By May 25, all alliances must be officially listed.

Garifuna and Indigenous Communities

The UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Peoples,

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, visited Honduras from April 16-21st.

She met with the highest national governmental authorities, representatives of indigenous peoples, civil society organizations and the private sector.

Her first visit to the country was in November 2015

. This second visit was a follow up on observations and recommendations regarding the process to regulate the free, prior and informed consent of indigenous and Afro-Honduran peoples. She presented recommendations to the Honduran government, and many fear that these

recommendations will be ignored once again.

The Honduran government is currently drafting a free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC) law. However indigenous organizations, such as OFRANEH (Garifuna) and COPINH (Lenca) , denounce that the government is

marginalizing indigenous communities from the process and instead the Juan Orlando’s administration is taking over.

There has been a

recent violent attack against labor leaders at the international company Fyffes.

Solidarity Center reports that “Moisés Sánchez, secretary general of the melon export branch of the Honduran agricultural workers’ union, Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Agroindustria y Similares (STAS), and his brother, union member Misael Sánchez

, say they were attacked late last week by six men wielding machetes as they left the union office in the southern town of Choluteca

, an area where agricultural workers harvest melons and other export produce”.

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December
Actualizaciones del mes de Abril- DDHH Honduras
December 15, 2016 admin Edu. Central America

  • Caso de Berta Caceres

COPINH denuncia la reiterada voluntad del Estado hondureño de mantener en la impunidad el caso de Berta Cáceres Flores. Lea su declaración aquí: (en español solamente).

http://copinhonduras.blogspot.it/2017/04/el-copinh-denuncia-la-reiterada.html

El 7 de abril, dos cartas de parte de Senadores y Representantes de los Estados Unidos fueron enviadas al Secretario de Relaciones Exteriores de los Estados Unidos, Rex Tillerson,

expresando su preocupación por la situación de los defensores de derechos humanos en Honduras.

78 políticos estadounidenses exigen que la ayuda militar y policial a Honduras sea retenida hasta que la situación de los defensores de derechos humanos mejore drásticamente en el país.

Parte del personal y miembros de CRLN participaron en una delegación de La Voz de los de Abajo en marzo, como observadores de derechos humanos en una marcha de COPINH y sus aliados ante la Corte Suprema de Honduras. Entregaron una carta que contenía una impugnación constitucional a la legalidad de los Decretos Legislativos que autorizaba el Proyecto Hidroeléctrico Agua Zarca en el Río Gualcarque, algo que Berta había querido hacer antes de ser asesinada. Eso fue el 1 de marzo, y la Sala Constitucional aún no lo ha admitido para la consideración por el Tribunal Supremo.

* Karla Lara y Melissa Cardoza, feministas, organizadoras de justicia social en Honduras y amigas cercanas de Berta Cáceres, están realizando una gira estadounidense del 20 de abril al 23 de mayo. El libro de Melissa Cardoza, 13 Colores de la Resistencia Hondureña, cuenta trece historias de mujeres que se unieron a la resistencia después del golpe de Estado del 2009 respaldado por Estados Unidos. Ella estará de gira junto con su compañera de la Red de Defensoras de Honduras, Karla Lara,  la amada cantante hondureña de jazz y folk , que aparece en una de las historias del libro y ha sido un icono y voz de la resistencia.

Estarán en Chicago con CRLN el 30 de abril, únase a nosotros.

Lea más sobre Karla y Melissa y su trabajo

aquí.

Elecciones Nacionales del 2017

El Tribunal Supremo Electoral (TSE) es un aliado del gobierno de Juan Orlando Hernández, al permitirle ser parte de las elecciones del 2017, a pesar de que la reelección está prohibida por la Constitución hondureña. Ahora, el TSE quiere prohibir el Partido Anti-Corrupción (PAC), un importante partido de la oposición, de las elecciones nacionales de noviembre. El TSE quiere que el PAC celebre elecciones de liderazgo interno el 21 de mayo. Sin embargo, esta fecha dará a la oposición política sólo cuatro días para decidir sobre una alianza política, lo que hace extremadamente difícil formar esa alianza. Para el 25 de mayo, todas las alianzas deben estar listadas oficialmente.

Comunidades Indigenas

La Relatora Especial de las Naciones Unidas sobre Pueblos Indígenas, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, visitó Honduras del 16 al 21 de abril. Se reunió con las más altas autoridades gubernamentales nacionales, representantes de los pueblos indígenas, organizaciones de la sociedad civil y el sector privado. Su primera visita al país fue en noviembre de 2015. Esta segunda visita fue un seguimiento de las observaciones y recomendaciones sobre el proceso para regular el consentimiento libre, previo e informado de los pueblos indígenas y afro hondureños. Ella presentó recomendaciones al gobierno hondureño,

y muchos temen que estas recomendaciones sean ignoradas una vez más.

El gobierno hondureño está actualmente redactando una ley de consentimiento libre, previo e informado (CLPI). Sin embargo, organizaciones indígenas, como OFRANEH (Garifuna) y COPINH (Lenca),

denuncian que el gobierno está marginando a las comunidades indígenas del proceso

y en su lugar la administración de Juan Orlando está tomando el liderazgo.

Ha habido un reciente ataque violento contra líderes sindicales en la empresa internacional Fyffes. El Centro de Solidaridad informa que “Moisés Sánchez, secretario general de la rama exportadora de melón del Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Agroindustria y Similares (STAS), y su hermano, sindicalista Misael Sánchez, dicen que fueron atacados la semana pasada por seis hombres con machetes mientras salían de la oficina sindical en Choluteca al Sur del pais, donde los trabajadores agrícolas cosechan melones y otros productos de exportación “.

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December
“Finding Oscar” at Gene Siskel Film Center
December 15, 2016 admin Events

The creative fingerprints of executive producer Stephen Spielberg are evident throughout this documentary that functions as a mystery, a dramatic exposé of a little-known Guatemalan massacre, and a piece of humanitarian detective work that reunites the remainder of a family. On the night of December 6, 1982, the special forces of a Reagan-backed Guatemalan military regime descended on the tiny rural village of Dos Erres for a murderous spree that left every man, woman, and child dead. Years later, as the site is excavated and bodies exhumed, a perpetrator reluctantly confesses that two small boys were kidnapped and taken home by soldiers. One is located, and a 15-year search for the other, Oscar, ensues, unraveling a powerful story that encompasses history, politics and culture, and speaks to human endurance. In English and Spanish with English subtitles. DCP digital

Place: Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St., Chicago

Other showings: Friday, May 5, 8:15pm; Saturday, May 6, 4:45pm and 8:15pm; Sunday, May 7, 3pm; Monday, May 15, 8:00pm; Tuesday, May 16, 7:45pm; Wednesday, May 17, 6:15pm; Thursday, May 18, 8:00pm.

Event Date:
Friday, May 5, 2017 –

14:00

to

15:45

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December
CRLN Endorses #NoCopAcademy!
December 15, 2016 admin Action Alerts


The Chicago Religous Leadership Network on Latin America is a proud supporter of the #NoCopAcademy campaign!


Schools for kids, not cops.

We are committed to working towards a faithful vision of sanctuary for all. We believe in investing in communities and divesting from the system of policing in Chicago that criminalizes immigrant communities & communities of color. As Mayor Rahm Emanuel seeks to spend $95 million dollars to build a new police academy, we join the fight to make sure that money reaches our community organizations, programs, schools, hospitals, affordable housing, and more. We are united by our diverse faiths which call us to demand community care and safety for all! #NoCopAcademy

“Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to spend $95 million to build a Police & Fire training center in West Garfield Park.  The city’s quiet unveiling suggests they are trying to avoid public scrutiny of this latest spending scheme, but we will not be robbed of our resources quietly.  We refuse any expansion of policing in Chicago, and demand accountability for decades of violence.  We will fight for funding for our communities, and support each other in building genuine community safety in the face of escalating attacks.” —


#NoCopAcademy



Spread the word! Download, print, fold and share a mini zine (



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/



español



) to learn more.



Tell your Alderperson to vote NO



on the approval of the Land Acquisition at 4301 W. Chicago when it​ ​comes​ ​for​ ​a​ ​vote.


To connect with CRLN on this campaign please contact our Immigration Organizer at

crodriguez@crln.org

.

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December
Alex Escobar visits Chicago!
December 15, 2016 admin Action Alerts

Holding signs say “#Si a la Vida,” “#No a la Mineria,” “JODVID,” and “Topacio Vive,” students in Susana Martinez’ class at DePaul University pose for a photo with Alex Escobar of JODVID (Organized Youth in Defense of Life) after hearing him speak about the group’s work to close Tahoe Resources Escobal Silver Mine as part of the Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA)’s Fall Speaking Tour. Click

here

to sign NISGUA’s petition to Nevada Senator Dean Heller, who has lobbied the State Department to support the mine.

We can never know the impact one human being can have on the actions of others. The story of JODVID begins in response to the 2014 murder of 16-year-old Topacio Reynoso, a young artist and activist who, with her parents, participated in a community protest to resist the operation of Tahoe Resources Escobal Silver Mine located east of San Rafael las Flores in Santa Rosa Department, Guatemala. Topacio was shot while getting into a car after the demonstration with her father, who was also severely injured; the murder has never been investigated. Her father was the victim of an assassination attempt again the next year.

In response, her friends joined together to continue Topacio’s environmental work and resistance to the Escobal mine through the youth organization, JODVID. They utilize her artwork in their environmental education sessions in their communities and in their protests against the mine. She inspires them to spread their work to other communities in Guatemala, doing workshops and conferences to inform people about the environmental consequences of mining and deforestation, and motivating others to resist the location of mines in their communities.

The Escobal mine is the third largest silver mine in the world. It was constructed right in the middle of fertile farmland and land for grazing cattle. While many in Guatemala struggle to bring in enough income from small-scale farming to subsist, the communities surrounding the mine had  sustainable farms. They are now threatened with water shortages, because the mine diverts enormous quantities of water for its mining processes. Alex described springs and underground streams turning to dust and rock. Also, the mine contaminates water by the process used to separate the metallic ore from the rock, and it is released into streams. Cattle and people downstream have become sick from drinking from this source.

Alex enumerated the ways in which the local community has tried to stop the mine and the ways the mine company has retaliated against them. Community leaders organized referenda to determine whether people wanted the mine in their community–98% voted no. The community of Casillas constructed a peaceful road block to prevent mining company vehicles or gasoline trucks supplying the mine’s generators from going to the mine site, allowing all other traffic to pass through. The mine needs generators to operate, because no community will give them access to municipal electricity, another indication of opposition to the mine. The mine company has criminalized the protesters by saying false things about them in the press, by calling the Guatemalan National Police to violently disperse the protesters with guns and batons. Nevertheless, people keep up the protests and road blocks.

The mine did not consult with the local Xinca indigenous community before beginning its construction; therefore, CALAS (Center for Environmental and Social Legal Action) brought a lawsuit against it. The Guatemalan Supreme Court ruled against the mine and ordered it to suspend operations last summer, but then reversed its decision in September. It lifted the suspension on mining for the time being and ordered the Ministry of Energy and Mines to conduct a consultation with the Xinca communitiy within a certain geographical distance of the mine, ignoring the results of the many community referenda that had already taken place. Depending on the result of the consultation ordered by the Supreme Court, one side or the other is likely to appeal the case to the Constitutional Court, the highest court in the Guatemalan judicial system.

While in Chicago, Alex spoke to 3 classrooms of students at DePaul University, to a meeting open to students and the public at North Park University in the Albany Park neighborhood, and at a public event at University Church in Hyde Park. Jerome McDonnell, host of WBEZ’s “Worldview” program, interviewed him, and the program will air sometime in the next couple of weeks.  We’ll keep CRLN members informed about the date.

In the meantime, please add your name to NISGUA’s

petition

to Senator Dean Heller of Nevada, asking him to publicly rescind his letter lobbying the State Department on behalf of the mine and act against further human rights abuses committed against communities opposing the mine.

CRLN partnered with NISGUA to bring Alex and NISGUA staff person and translator Becky Kaump to Chicago.

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December
Gaspar Sanchez to Speak at Citlalin!
December 15, 2016 admin Events


La Voz de Los de Abajo, Witness for Peace, and the Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America invite you to hear from Gaspar Sanchez, the sexual diversity coordinator of COPINH (Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras), as he presents “Uniting to Resist Attacks on our Land and Identities: Building on the Queer Indigneous Framework in the Americas.”

COPINH was co-founded and led by beloved Indigenous leader Berta Caceres, who was assassinated in March 2016. Gaspar will speak about how the struggle for LGBTQ awareness and rights among Indigenous communities plays a vital role in both land defense and in the dismantling of patriarchal and militaristic structures.

Place: Citlalin Art Gallery Theater, 2005 S. Blue Island Ave., Chicago, IL  60608

Date and Time: Friday, October 27, 7:00 pm

Gaspar has served since 2014 on COPINH’s leadership team as the Coordinator of Sexual  Diversity & Rights Equality, which, for the first time in any Latin American indigenous organization, established a space dealing specifically with LGBTQ-related issues. Sánchez also hosts a radio program,

Los Colores de Wiphala

, that discusses human rights with an emphasis on the LGBTQ community. He conducts community trainings around the rights of indigenous peoples, territorial defense, protecting Mother Nature’s common goods threatened by extractivist projects, and legal accompaniment. In addition to supporting COPINH’s Tomás García Formation School, which builds leadership among the youth, Sánchez also serves as a spiritual guide for the Lenca people in their efforts to recuperate indigenous historical memory through processes of life, land defense, and ancestral spirituality. Finally, Sánchez has represented COPINH on the international stage in El Salvador, Guatemala, Cuba, Venezuela, Perú, México, the United States, and in several European countries.

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December
Make a call to #defundhate!
December 15, 2016 admin Edu. Immigration


NATIONAL CALL-IN DAY TO #DefundHate!

Funding negotiations for FY ’18 are still under way in Congress. The Senate still has to mark-up and vote on a funding bill for the detention and deportation machine, and all members of Congress can weigh in with their leadership ahead of negotiations between the House and Senate. Call your representatives

TODAY

and demand they

#DefundHate

and call for cuts to ICE and CBP!


Sample Call Script.


Click here to find out who’s your

representative

or here for your

senators

.


Voicemail:

“Hello, my name is [first and last name] and I’m a constituent of [state/congressional district]. I’m calling as part of the Defund Hate campaign. We’re calling on [Member of Congress] to oppose funding for the detention and deportation machine. This funding fuels agencies like ICE and CBP which have a long track record of lying, hiding information and retaliating against those who speak out against them. We need to use public funds for needed resources like healthcare, education and housing, instead of this hateful detention and deportation machine. We demand that [MoC] publicly call for significant cuts to ICE and CBP and be a voice within [chamber, caucus, with leadership] to #DefundHate and oppose funding for the detention and deportation machine.”


If you get a person on the phone:

“What is [MoC’s] current position on whether or not Congress should be decreasing the funds allocated to CBP and ICE? [Wait for an answer. If bad/non-committal, reiterate: Again, CBP and ICE both have long track records of shameful and abusive behavior and are causing harm in our communities every day. I encourage [MoC] to speak out against this terrible use of my taxpayer dollars.] Thank you for your time…”
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The Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America (CRLN).

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