To register click

here

13:30

to

17:00

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

Migrant Crossing Trailer:

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

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.

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.”

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

15:00

to

17:00

Join us! Únase a nosotrxs!

Travel with CRLN to the border, November 10-12!

SOA BORDER CONVERGENCE & ENCUENTRO 2017

CRLN will again take a delegation to Tucson and Sonora, AZ, and Nogales, MX, to participate in the US-Mexico Border Convergence, co-sponsored by SOA Watch. We reserved a block of hotel rooms and will arrange to rent a van for transportation between the cities in which activities will happen.

Scholarships are available!

This border mobilization is one more way to fight for the closure of the School of the Americas, and to work towards a world that is free of suffering and violence. We cannot forget that many of our immigrant brothers, sisters, and siblings are survivors of U.S.-sponsored atrocities in Latin America.

Join us!

Coordinate with CRLN to join or have your community join human rights activists, torture survivors, union workers, veterans, community organizers, migrants, faith communities, students and educators from across the Americas.

Will you go with us this year to call for an end to U.S. militarization, economic exploitation, and political intervention in Latin America and on the border?

Activities include a vigil at Eloy Detention Center, a vigil to close the School of the Americas/Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, a march to the border wall, forums and workshops, concerts, and more!

See below for details and a schedule.

To coordinate with us and join CRLN on the border, contact our Immigration Organizer, Cinthya Rodriguez at

crodriguez@crln.org

or 773-964-6252.

Interested in joining in the U.S.-Mexico Border Convergence this year?

REGISTER HERE & JOIN CRLN’S DELEGATION

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SOA Watch Demands:

• An end to U.S. economic, military and political intervention in Latin America and the closure of the School of the Americas (SOA/WHINSEC)

• Demilitarization and divestment of the borders

• An end to the racist systems of oppression that criminalize and kill migrants, refugees and communities of color

• Respect, dignity, justice and the right to self-determination of communities

• An end to Plan Mérida and the Alliance for Prosperity

Weekend Program:

Friday, November 10 – Tucson, Arizona

8:00am     Welcome &

Registration

11:15am   Community Lunch Gathering

12:30pm   Forums & Workshops

4:00pm     Caravan to Eloy Detention Center

5:00pm     Vigil at Eloy Detention Center

9:00pm     Evening Concert

Saturday, November 11 – Nogales, Sonora/Arizona

8:00am     Welcome &

Registration

8:15am     Gathering for March

9:00am     Veteran-led March to the Border Wall

11:00am   Community Lunch Gathering

12:30pm   Forums & Workshops

5:30pm     Social Gathering

8:00pm     Evening Concert

Sunday, November 12 – Nogales, Sonora/Arizona

8:00am     Blessing

9:00am     Puppetistas!

10:00am   Speakers & Musicians

11:15am

No Más, No More

Litany

11:45am

Presentes

1:00pm     Encuentro Closing

March 6th, 4pm – 7 pm, Timberlanes (1851 W. Irving Park Road)

Chicago-Cinquera Sister Cities’ annual Bowl-a-Rama to raise funds for the rural community of Cinquera, El Salvador, is coming up again, and CRLN will be forming a team.  Will you bowl with us?  Will you form your own team?  Call the CRLN office at 773-293-2964 and let us know if you will participate by collecting pledges from donors and spending a few hours bowling with others interested in people-to-people development.  The cost to bowl is $25, but if you collect $50 or more in pledges, bowling is free!

Chicago-Cinquera is a community to community-based solidarity organization, whose collaboration seeks to work together to build an international movement for social justice and human dignity through a hopeful alternative strategy and vision for development.  For more information, go to

www.chicago-cinquera.org

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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


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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)

CRLN Fall Events

September 10, 2017, 3pm: Meet Donaldo Zuniga

director of the

COMAL network

, an organization comprised of rural communities in

Honduras

that work to promote fair and sustainable agriculture and marketing. Donaldo is in Chicago to discuss social movements, economic solidarity, food sovereignty and human rights. Click

here

for more information. RSVP to Sharon at the CRLN office, 773-293-2964, 773-293-3680, or

shunter-smith@crln.org

for location, public transportation and parking information.

September 23, 2017, 1-5pm: Pedal for Peace

30

^th

annual bike-a-thon to

raise funds for health, education, legal aid, and community organizing efforts

in Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Chicago. For more information, click

here

. To register as an individual or as part of a team, click

here

. Organizing together transnationally, we can cooperate in making healthcare, education, legal aid, and affordable housing available to more people.

October 9-10, 2017: Alex Escobar Prado

activist, educator, and member of the Guatemalan environmental justice organization Youth Organized in Defense of Life (JODVID). Born out of the struggle for community self-determination and resistance to Tahoe Resources’ Escobal silver mine in southeastern Guatemala, JODVID uses the arts and popular education to mobilize youth in local and regional movements to protect the environment and defend territory. Event times and places are in process of confirmation; information will be posted

here

.

October 24, 2017, 12-2pm: CRLN Annual Luncheon “Constructing Peace in Colombia: A Feminist Vision”

Speaker: Carol Rojas, Feminist Antimilitarist Network

The Colombia Peace Accords, while a step toward peace, face many challenges. Illegally armed groups have escalated attacks against social movement leaders. People displaced by violence lack work, education and healthcare and continue to suffer the psychological effects of war.  To build the peace in Colombia in this difficult time, the Feminist Antimilitarist Network uses popular education to promote demilitarization and the eradication of systems of oppression based on sex, class and race. They believe that this transformation of communities supports the construction of peace. For more information and a link to order tickets, visit our website at

http://bit.ly/CRLNpeace

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