Call To Action National Conference

Call To Action’s national conference is an annual homecoming. Thousands of progressive Catholics from around the country and abroad come together to create the largest gathering of progressive Catholics in the US.

This year’s conference, “Faithful Prophets: God Alive in Every Generation“, recognizes that God works and speaks through all persons of every age in each generation.

The Conference will be pack with events, presentations, exhibits, and worship opportunities that guarantee to enlighten the mind and empower the soul.

The Conference is important for our Immigrant Community and Immigrant Rights Organizers and Activists.
This is a conference based on Social Issues and one of the important issues is Immigration.

On Friday November 5, 2010 9am-3pm
“Getting Beyond Borders: Finding Our Way to Just Immigration Reform
Increasingly punitive enforcement policy and the absence of just immigration reform continue to reshape the cultural, political and economic landscape in the U.S. Through their various lenses as journalist, activist, community organizer and immigrant advocate, Jose Herrera, Christine Ortiz, Marcel Honore, Jorge Mujica offer concrete suggestions for action as they highlight the burden carried by immigrant families, the Undocumented and Unafraid Youth Movement, the growing stress on border communities, and the high price we all pay if our congregations, our neighborhoods, our nation fail to grapple with this pressing concern.

More Info on the Friday Schedule: http://www.cta-usa.net/friday.php ;


On Saturday, November 6th, Afternoon Workshop: 3:30-4:45pm
Jose Herrera: Undocumented and Unafraid (7.02)
The Story of one undocumented youth and how he became active in the immigration reform movement. Jose will tell his personal story and talk about being part of the Immigrant Youth Justice League (IYJL), a youth movement fighting for immigration reform in Chicago. He will also talk about his work with the Justice Mission, a mission dedicated to empowering the immigrant community.

More Info on the Saturday Schedule: http://www.cta-usa.net/saturday.php ;

We invite you to join us at the Call To Action Conference November 5-7.

Follow the links to obtain:

More information on the Conferencehttps://www.cta-usa.net/conference.php

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DAVE ZIRIN – SEPT 29th – @ DECIMA MUSA -1901 S. LOOMIST ST.

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Why an Immigrants Freedom Ride?

On Labor Day weekend (Sep 3-5, 2010), the Moratorium on Deportations Campaign undertook a “Freedom Ride: Immigrants’ Caravan” through the vast suburban sprawl of the Chicago metropolitan area. The 3-day, 100 mile bike ride, as well as the actions, rallies and meetings along the way, addressed the collaboration between local police and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the rise in xenophobia as expressed in recent English-Only legislation, and the locally-specific ways in which capital accumulation is predicated on the degradation of work, the management and policing of migration, and the reorganization of urban/suburban space.

As the expanding logistics management industry consolidates enormous warehousing centers ( “inland ports” ) in foreign trade zones west and south of the city, tens of thousands of precarious workers, in large part immigrants, are pushed out of the city into planned suburban developments and into “perma-temp” jobs. The vast suburban landscape we rode through is a system of highly policed and regulated subterritories that are at once separated and connected by a limited number of county roads and an expanding system of freight rail lines. The logistics industry does not consist only of the warehouses and the flow of commodities in the supply chain, but also of the residential districts and of the efficient management of the flow of cheap, precarious labor – it is, in other words, a “people” system. Suburban Chicago appears in this sense as a logistical landscape: that is to say it is a spatial and social arrangement of differential mobilities – and immobilities – that links land speculation, the efficient warehousing and distribution of commodities and the efficient warehousing, detention and controlled migration of people.

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Freedom Ride! Sep 3-5, 2010

Freedom Ride! Immigrants’ Caravan Against Deportations


This caravan will travel trough different communities surrounding Chicago. We will hold meetings, discussions, rallies and actions to confront xenophobic legislations, English-Only ordinances, Secure Communities, PoliMigra, 287(g) and to push for the passage of the Dream Act.  Join us, or connect with us along the way!

 

Itinerary and Schedule

[Freedom Riders Package-Please Print]


Friday, September 3rd
Saturday, September 4th

 
  • 8:00 AM – Breakfast at St. Margaret Mary Parish, 1450 Green Trails Dr, Naperville, IL.
    Breakfast will be provided
  • 9:15 AM – Depart St. Margaret Mary Parish – Ride to Wheaton
  • 10:00 AM – Rally: “Stop the 150 Weekly Deportations in Dupage/ Legalization for All!”
    • 1/2 Mile March South on County Farm Rd and East on Roosevelt Rd to Marianjoy (Franciscan Sisters) Campus for a short vigil 
  • 10:45 Return to Dupage County Courthouse Complex for closing remarks and distribution of sacked lunches.
  • 11:00AM – Assemble caravan and leave for Joliet
  • 3:00 PM Rest stop, lunch and discussion on precarious working conditions in suburban warehousing and logistics industries: Plimmer Park, 401 Lily Cache Lane, Bolingbrook  (Must buy/get/have your own lunch)
  • 6:00 pm Nuestra Senora de Monte Carmelo Church, 
205 East Jackson Street,
Joliet
    Meeting and discussion on immigrant rights issues and Joliet-area activism; dinner with Freedom Riders. (Evening Meal will be provided)
  • 10:00 PM – End of Day. Spend the night at Nuestra Senora de Monte Carmelo Church
Sunday September 5th
  • 8:00 am: Breakfast and tabling at the 8:30 Mass, Monte Carmelo Church
    (Must buy/get/have your own breakfast)
  • 10:00 AM Depart for Homer Glen
  • Noon – 1PM Culver Park on S Parker Rd, Homer Glen
    Stop in Homer Glen for rest, discussion of English-Only ordinances and sidewalk chalking action
    (Lunch will be provided by MDC)
  • 2:30 PM – Stop in Bridgeview for a solidarity event with the Muslim Community.  Details TBA.
  • 8:00 PM-Arrive in Chicago for a reception in Little Village from our friends at the Justice Mission/Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission. (3442 W. 26th St. Chicago IL 60623. Celebration and wind down.
    (Dinner will be provided) Women from the Mission will have Delicious Homemade Food for the Freedom Riders.

Come and join the discussion on what is next for the campaign and how we will stop Deportations!!!

Route: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=101061605510373874133.00048e1e94b2aeb5f8758&ll=41.748775,-87.819214&spn=0.468226,0.668793&z=10

Please visit daily as more information is added and being updated!

Notice for All Riders

THANK YOU FOR JOINING US AND WELCOME!

 

Notice for All Riders in the Freedom Riders! Immigrants’ Caravan Against Deportations

What to Bring:

  • Bike Helmets – we will not ride without them
  • Sleeping bag/Blanket or mat
  • Personal items (toiletries, etc)
  • Refillable water bottles
  • Biking Emergency Supplies
  • Snacks
  • Money ($$$) for your expenses

MDC Group and Allies will provide for some meals throughout the trip.

MDC will provide water, some biking emergency supplies, emergency kit, some fruits and snacks

 

Please Follow the Lead Captains of the Caravan and all the instructions given throughout the caravan.

***You can find more information inside the “[Freedom Riders Package-Please Print]” or on our Top Menu under “Freedom Riders Sept 3-5” Menu Bar***

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Chicago Community Gathers for National Day of Non-Compliance With Arizona Law SB 1070

Thursday, July 29th 2010

Rally and Press conference outside Cook County Jail demanding an end to Poli-Migra practices, which is the collaboration of local enforcement with ICE officials, an end to deportations trough an executive order by president Obama and standing in solidarity with the people of Arizona.

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