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Event Date:
Sunday, November 19, 2017 –
13:30
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17:00
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La 72 Home and Refuge for Migrant People announces a screening of Migrant
Crossing, a film that documents the lives of migrants who cross Mexico from Central
America and the work of La 72.
Ramón Marquez, executive director of La 72 and expert on migration issues in the
southern Mexico/Northern Triangle region, will present a Q&A session immediately
following the screening.
Located approximately 30km from the Guatemalan border in Tenosique, Tabasco and
next to the rail line migrants use to cross Mexico to the US, La 72 houses and serves
approximately 13,000 migrants and refugees from Central America every year.
Currently, more and more migrants are soliciting asylum in Mexico. La 72 serves a
significant number of LGBTQ persons and unaccompanied minors each year as well.
Tenosique is one of only three towns in Mexico with a permanent UNHCR presence,
and La 72 serves a strategic focal point for institutions such as Doctors Without Borders
and Asylum Access.
La 72 Website:
la72.org
Ticket Information:
https://www.tugg.com/events/migrant-crossing
Price
: $11
Date & Time:
Tuesday, November 14, 2017 6:30pm–7:42pm
Location:
Regal Webster Place 11
1471 W. Webster Ave, Chicago, IL, United States, 60614
Film followed by Q&A session with Ramón Marquez, Director of La 72
8pm, Kibbitznest, 2212 N. Clybourn, Chicago
Suggested donation to La 72: $20
Event Date:
Tuesday, November 14, 2017 –
18:30
to
19:45
Join CRLN on the Latin America Track for workshops at Ecumenical Advocacy Days, to plan visits to Congressional offices and to lobby for U.S. support for migrants, refugees and displaced people. CRLN will also have “asks” on our longstanding campaign to end the embargo in Cuba, support a Peace Process in Colombia, and cut off military and police aid to Honduras.
Event Date:
Friday, April 20, 2018 – 16:00to
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 – 17:00
Join us for two important rallies in Chicago!
Join this Youth-Led Rally & March for a #CleanDreamAct!
Tuesday, December 19th
:
Join CRLN & other ICIRR members for a rally and march to urge Senators Duckworth and Durbin and other members of the Illinois Delegation to stand strong and get a clean DREAM Act passed out of Congress before Dec 22
nd
! Please let us know if you can make it and feel free to spread the word:
Take action to pass a clean #DreamActNow!
From our friends at OCAD: Support Wilmer & demand his release!
Wilmer has been in ICE detention for nine months.
Despite new evidence that he was falsely placed in CPD’s gang database, ICE refuses to release him.
Join us for a rally on 12/20 at 11AM
, 101 W. Congress Parkway, to demand his release.
See you there!
In the meantime, you can make a call with this script.
Dial 312-347-2400 (Press * when your call goes through):
“I’m calling to urge Director Ricardo Wong to release Wilmer Catalan-Ramirez (A#098 500 300). Mr. Catalan-Ramirez has been detained for 9 months without proper medical care. His health is decline and as a result he has experienced multiple seizures while in detention. I’m urging Director Wong to release Mr. Catalan-Ramirez before Christmas and allow him to receive proper medical care and be reunited with his family for the holidays.”
When: Sunday, January 15 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Where: Willye B. White Park Fieldhouse, 1610 W. Howard Street, Chicago, IL 60626
At the event, 500 people from Chicago and the Chicago-land Area will come together to discuss the important issues facing the community and call on elected officials to make commitments to address those issues. Issues on the agenda include Police Accountability, Living Wages, Immigration Rights, Religious Freedom, and Human Rights for ALL.
Please contact crodriguez@crln.org if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing you on January 15th!
Celebracion & Llamada a la Accion en honor a Martin Luther King, Jr. 2017
Cuándo: Domingo, 15 de enero de 2:00 p.m. a 4:00 p.m.
Dónde: Willye B. White Park Fieldhouse, 1610 W. Howard Street, Chicago, IL 60626
En este evento, 500 personas de Chicago y el area de Chicago se reunirán para discutir los asuntos importantes que enfrenta la comunidad y para pedir a los funcionarios electos que se comprometan a abordar esos temas. Los temas en la agenda incluyen el control social de la policia, salaries justos, los derechos de inmigración, la libertad religiosa y los derechos humanos para TODOS.
Por favor, póngase en contacto con crodriguez@crln.org. Esperamos verlx el 15 de enero!
When: Sunday, January 15 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Where: Willye B. White Park Fieldhouse, 1610 W. Howard Street, Chicago, IL 60626
At the event, 500 people from Chicago and the Chicago-land Area will come together to discuss the important issues facing the community and call on elected officials to make commitments to address those issues.
Issues on the agenda include Police Accountability, Living Wages, Immigration Rights, Religious Freedom, and Human Rights for ALL.
Please contact
crodriguez@crln.org
if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing you on January 15
th
!
Celebracion & Llamada a la Accion en honor a Martin Luther King, Jr. 2017
Cuándo: Domingo, 15 de enero de 2:00 p.m. a 4:00 p.m.
Dónde: Willye B. White Park Fieldhouse, 1610 W. Howard Street, Chicago, IL 60626
En este evento, 500 personas de Chicago y el area de Chicago se reunirán para discutir los asuntos importantes que enfrenta la comunidad y para pedir a los funcionarios electos que se comprometan a abordar esos temas. Los temas en la agenda incluyen el control social de la policia, salaries justos, los derechos de inmigración, la libertad religiosa y los derechos humanos para TODOS.
Por favor, póngase en contacto con
crodriguez@crln.org
. Esperamos verlx el 15 de enero!
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.
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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
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.
Location: Willye B. White Field House, 1610 W. Howard St.
Time: 2-4pm
“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.” -Martin Luther King Jr.
Join us as we celebrate Dr. King’s legacy and while faith communities come together to demand human rights.
Issues on the agenda include Criminal Justice Reform & Police Accountability, Living Wages, Immigration Rights, Religious Freedom, and Human Rights for ALL.
Co-hosted by A Just Harvest, Chicago Leadership Network on Latin America, Faith in Place Action Fund, Fight for 15, Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation (SOUL), Women Gathering for Justice, and the Workers Center for Racial Justice
Event Date:
Sunday, January 15, 2017 –
14:00
to
16:00
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