Archive for the ‘Illinois’ Category
A Pilgrimage of Hope
Posted: May 21, 2010 at 5:38 pm By adminOriginally posted on the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights blog: Around 100 immigrant rights supporters set out this morning for a 53-mile pilgrimage to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detention Center at the McHenry County Jail over three days in a Pilgrimage of Hope for Family Unity and to protest the use of [...]
Moving testimony from Chicago Mother’s Day Action
Posted: May 13, 2010 at 4:15 pm By Dennis Chin(originally posted on Standing FIRM) by Dennis Chin, guest blogger On Mother’s Day, a group of immigrant children from the suburbs of Chicago took to the streets in support of immigration reform. Here is one child’s testimony in front of the ICE detention center. My name is Ernesto. On the 28th of August in 2008, [...]
Taking Arizona out of the ballgame
Posted: May 4, 2010 at 5:00 pm By adminThe Center for New Community flew this banner over Wrigley Field on Sunday in protest of the racial profiling law in Arizona. All over the country, baseball fans and players alike are speaking out about the new law. The Working Families Party in New York is asking the Yankees and Mets to boycott the 2011 [...]
May Day in Chicago, IL
Posted: May 1, 2010 at 3:06 pm By Rachel LaBruyereUPDATE: Labor advocates have taken the stage, holding numbers to represent the $1.5 trillion dollars in Gross Domestic Product that could be added to our economy over the next 10 years if comprehensive immigration reform were passed. Families facing separation have taken the stage in Chicago. They are telling their stories and showing the human [...]
Story of Action: Illinois is not Arizona
Posted: April 27, 2010 at 2:42 pm By GarlinThis morning 22 community leaders were arrested by Broadview police as they took part in nation-wide escalating actions to demand President Barack Obama to put an end to raids and deportations. This civil disobedience took place after an all-night vigil where three hundred Chicagoans expressed their discontent with the lack of action by the Obama administration, and in solidarity with immigrants in Arizona in response to the passage of SB 1070.
First we marched, then we rallied… and lawmakers listened
Posted: April 12, 2010 at 11:15 am By Rachel LaBruyereOn Saturday, immigration reform advocates gathered in cities across the country to call for immigration reform in 2010. With crowds of over 10,000 in Las Vegas and Seattle, with smaller events in Chicago, Philadelphia, Providence, El Paso, New York and Lakewood. Capitalizing on the momentum from the March For America in Washington, DC last month, [...]
Rally for America TOMORROW!
Posted: April 9, 2010 at 12:17 pm By adminTomorrow, people across the country will be Rallying for America. Will you be with us? In Seattle, WA: The Washington Immigration Reform Coalition (WIRC) For America, an alliance of over 50 organizations, faith groups, community groups and labor unions, is organizing around one purpose – to achieve comprehensive immigration reform – and has been working [...]
Where will you be on April 10th?
Posted: April 5, 2010 at 10:30 am By Rachel LaBruyereOn Saturday April 10th people across the country will be Rallying for America. Will you be there? In Seattle, Washington: The Washington Immigration Reform Coalition (WIRC) For America, an alliance of over 50 organizations, faith groups, community groups and labor unions, is organizing around one purpose – to achieve comprehensive immigration reform – and has [...]
Rally for America in Chicago on April 10th
Posted: April 5, 2010 at 9:45 am By Rachel LaBruyereTwo weeks after over 200,000 people (including 9,000 from Illinois) Marched For America filling the National Mall in Washington DC, advocates and allies will Rally for America in Chicago, Illinois. Senator Durbin, a long time champion of immigration reform and undocumented youth, will be in attendance and has agreed to take leadership to introduce a [...]
A Reflection on the Journey that was the March for America
Posted: March 25, 2010 at 11:21 am By adminBelow is another personal account of the trip to March For America on March 21st. This was originally posted on the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights blog. Written by Alheli Herrera Arriving home from a two day journey, what an amazing feeling. For those who were not there, I will tell you what [...]
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