Chicago New Sanctuary Movement Presents at US Social Forum

The Chicago New Sanctuary Movement will participate in the US Social Forum June 22-June 26, 2010 in Detroit about our work connecting immigrants and faith communities. They will offer a workshop on Thursday, June 24th from 1-3pm (info and description below).

The US Social Forum (USSF) is a movement building process. It is not a
 conference but it is a space to come up with the peoples’ solutions to the 
economic and ecological crisis. The USSF is the next most important step in our
 struggle to build a powerful multi-racial, multi-sectoral, inter-generational,
 diverse, inclusive, internationalist movement that transforms this country and
 changes history.

"We must declare what we want our world to look like and we 
must start planning the path to get there. The USSF provides spaces to learn 
from each other’s experiences and struggles, share our analysis of the problems 
our communities face, build relationships, and align with our international 
brothers and sisters to strategize how to reclaim our world."

USSF Workshop: “Living out Sanctuary: Building an interfaith movement for immigrant justice”

Thursday, June 24, 2010 - 1:00pm - 3:00pm, WSU Old Main: 1111

http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/living-out-sanctuary-building-interfaith...

Workshop Description

Join us to learn how you can organize your community to challenge the detention system and gain access to support immigrants separated from their families. Participants will learn how local faith and community groups have organized to gain access into detention centers to accompany detained immigrants and their families. Through discussion and interactive participation people will share ideas on how to strengthen interfaith participation in the immigrant rights movement. The workshop will provide a space to talk about how our current immigration system criminalizes immigrants and how we can organize against these injustices. Through education, advocacy and action people can work together to build communities that welcome and affirm human dignity and uphold the rights of all people.

Who is the Chicago New Sanctuary Coalition (CNSC)?

The Chicago New Sanctuary Coalition (CNSC), a project of the Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America (CRLN), is a coalition of interfaith religious leaders, congregations, communities and people of conscience called by our faith to respond actively and publicly to the suffering of our immigrant sisters and brothers.

We are called to challenge faith communities and leaders through education, advocacy, and action to live in compassionate solidarity with our immigrant sisters and brothers.

We believe in the dignity of all persons, regardless of their national origin. Together we will bear the fruit of Sanctuary: Justice, Unity, Physical and Emotional Safety, Equality, Solidarity and Peace.

Some of our Current Project Areas include:

Accompaniment in Immigration Detention and Deportation System

Advocacy for DREAM Act and Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Solidarity with Arizona and the Borderlands

Education and Action

For More Information Contact:

Chicago New Sanctuary Coalition (A project of the Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America)

Jenny Dale, New Sanctuary Coordinator

jdale@chicagosanctuary.org ~ 773-293-3680 ~ www.crln.org/Chicago-New-Sanctu