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LINKS
Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America
 An interfaith education, action, and advocacy network. CRLN equips and mobilizes religious leaders and congregations to advance peace, justice and human rights in our hemisphere. Through speakers, workshops, monthly membership updates, advocacy action initiatives, delegations to Latin America, and meetings with U.S. policy-makers, CRLN engages religious communities and leaders to speak out for just U.S. policies. For more information, click here: http://www.crln.org/
Education for Justice
 Provides resources designed to promote greater knowledge of Catholic Social Teaching and highlight the connection between current world events and our faith. For more information, go to: www.educationforjustice.org
National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund
 Advocate for the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Bill since 1972. This bill would establish a fund in the Federal Treasury to receive the taxes of conscientious objectors. Money from this fund would be allocated annually to any non-military appropriation within the federal budget. For more information, click here: www.peacetaxfund.org or call 888-peace-tax (732-2382)
Odyssey Networks
 The nation's largest multi-faith coalition dedicated to promoting tolerance, peace and social justice through the production and distribution of media. Odyssey's membership includes over 60 faith groups and organizations. Odyssey Networks is a service of the National Interfaith Cable Coalition, Inc., established in 1987. For more information, click here: http://www.odysseynetworks.org/
Progressive Asset Management
Provides socially & environmentally responsible investing. Screens can be customized and address issues such as:
· Environmental impact
· Corporate governance and ethical practices
· Military contracting and/or nuclear weapons
· Sweatshops, outsourcing and fair labor practices
· Human rights and equal opportunity
· Tobacco, alcohol, gambling and "adult entertainment"
· Relations with repressive regimes
· Animal rights/ product testing
· Other (22 other issues)
For more information, contact Russell Rybicki at 217-239-2399 or toll free at 866-392-8142 or rrybicki@fwg.com
CHURCH DOCUMENTS
The Catholic Role in the Immigration Debate
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Migration and Refugee Services (USCCB/MRS) has partnered with The Catholic University of America to develop an educational website that highlights the role that the U.S. Catholic bishops and the institutional Church in the United States have played on immigration related issues, especially since the early twentieth century. For more information click here: http://libraries.cua.edu/achrcua/packets.html.
POVERTY
Catholics Confront Global Poverty
Get regular updates, text "Global" to 30644
PEACE
Chicago Peace Museum
Did you know that there is a museum dedicated to peace in the Chicago area?
The Peace Museum promotes peace through the visual and performing arts and is the first and only museum in the U.S. devoted entirely to the peace movement. Among the more than 10,000 artifacts in the collection is an acoustic guitar owned by John Lennon and an original manuscript by Bono, the lead singer of U2. Artist Mark Rogovin and Marjorie Craig Benton, the former ambassador to UNICEF, founded it in 1981. Begun as a way to inform the public about the horrors of global war, the museum now devotes an equal amount of time to promoting peace at home. It's located at: 100 North Central Park Avenue
Chicago, IL 60624 and the phone number is: (773) 638-6450. The hours are: Thurs and Friday, 1:00 – 6 pm and Saturday and Sunday, 12:00 – 4:00pm. The admission fee is $5.00 for adults. For more information, click here: http://www.planetware.com/chicago/peace-museum-us-il-860.htm
The North Shore Coalition for Peace & Justice
 The North Shore Coalition for Peace and Justice (NSCPJ) is an alliance of organizations and individuals from Chicago and near north suburbs, united in support of an end to war and in the use of nonviolent methods of social change. Meetings are held every 2nd & 4th Monday of the month at 6:30pm at 1213 Maple St. in Evanston. For more information click here: www.nscpj.org/
World Conference of Religions for Peace
Religions for Peace is the largest international coalition of representatives from the world's great religions dedicated to promoting peace. For more information, click here:
www.wcrp.org
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Not For Sale
 There are more than 30 million slaves in the world today. This is more than at the height of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. This organization equips and mobilizes people to deploy innovative solutions to re-abolish slavery in their own backyards and across the globe. For more information, click here: www.notforsalecampaign.org
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