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Vigilia de Dia de los Muertos / Day of the Dead Vigil
OCAD & CRLN invite you to attend our annual vigil to honor those who have lost their lives to the deportation system. This year has been the deadliest yet, with 12 people dying under ICE custody across the country. Join us as we commemorate Day of the Dead with pan de muerto and coffee as we work to highlight the inhumane and accountable practices that characterize ICE/DHS.
This year we are demanding:
An investigation into the 22 deaths that have occurred in immigrant detention centers since Oct 1, 2015. We demand these investigations be made public by December 1, 2017.
On a local level, we are demanding the immediate release of Wilmer Catalan-Ramirez who has wrongfully and violently detained on March of this year and who has dire medical needs that should allow for his release.
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OCAD & CRLN les invita a asistir a una vigilia para honrar a quienes fallecieron bajo custodia de ICE este año. Este ha sido el año mas mortal en record, con 12 personas fallecidas dentro de los centros de detencion de inmigrante. Unase a nosotrxs para celebrar el dia de muertos con pan de muerto y cafe y al mismo tiempo para trabajar y traer atención a las practicas inhumanas que caracterizan a ICE/DHS.
Este año estamos exigiendo:
La investigacion de las 22 muertes que han ocurrido en centros de detencion de inmigrantes desde Oct 1, 2015. Exigimos que estas los hallazgos se hagan publicos a mas tardar el 1ro de diciembre, 2017.
Desde el ambito local, exigimos que se libere inmediatamente a Wilmer Catalan-Ramirez quien fue injusta y violentamente detenido en marzo de este año y quien requiere cuidado medico especializado.
To register click
here
Event Date:
Sunday, November 19, 2017 –
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
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!
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
Event Date:
Sunday, April 30, 2017 – 16:00
Join us for the
2017 Luncheon
to learn about the intersectional organizing work of the
Feminist Antimilitarist Network in Colombia
from
Carol Rojas
. The Colombia Peace Accords, while a step toward peace, face many challenges. There is an urgent need to rebuild the community and collective ties broken by war. Seeking to build historical memory is also a necessary step in constructing a political project to make the transition as a country to a plural, broad, and diverse democracy, where women can be political protagonists and not victims. To construct peace in Colombia in this difficult time, the Network uses popular education to promote demilitarization and the eradication of systems of oppression based on sex, class, and race.
Click
here
for a brief autobiography of Carol Rojas
.
Date: October 24
Time: 12 noon – 2:00pm
Place: Old St. Patrick’s Catholic Parish Hall, 700 W. Adams, Chicago 60661
Cost: $60 ($54 for members), $25 student/low income, free for Luncheon volunteers (please email
mmckenna@crln.org
to volunteer).
Tickets: Order tickets at
http://bit.ly/crln1024
or by contacting Sharon Hunter-Smith at
shunter-smith@crln.org
and mailing in a check (CRLN, 4750 N. Sheridan Rd., #429, Chicago, IL 60640-5078.
Sponsored by the Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America in partnership with the Feminist Antimilitarist Network and Witness for Peace.
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
Event Date:
Sunday, April 9, 2017 –
15:00
to
17:00