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IMMIGRATION
Arab American Action Network (AAAN)
 Established in 1995 as a non-profit, grassroots, community-based organization working to improve the social, economic, and political conditions of Arab immigrants and Arab Americans in the Chicago Metropolitan area. The AAAN provides adult education, social services, mediation and crisis intervention, youth programs, cultural competency trainings, and working in coalitions with other like communities. All AAAN programs include community organizing, activism, and leadership development components. Located on the southwest side of Chicago, in the heart of the Palestinian Arab immigrant community. For more information, click here: www.aaan.org
 Chicago Metropolitan Sanctuary Alliance
CMSA is organized around four main principles: awareness, advocacy, assistance, and accompaniment. CMSA is made up of four main projects, the New Sanctuary Project, the Colombia Sanctuary Project, the Emergency Response Network, and the Chacula community partnership. They also organize an annual Bike-A-Thon fundraiser. For more information, visit:
www.chicagosanctuary.org/calendar/vigil-broadview-detention-center-0
Consistent Life
 A voice of unity –witnessing to the human rights of all… the unborn, those on death row, the sick or infirmed, global neighbors and victims of war, poverty and racism.
www.consistent-life.org
Emma's Revolution
 A duo of award-winning, activist musicians, Pat Humphries & Sandy O, who write songs that become traditions. Their song, "If I Give Your Name" won Grand Prize in the John Lendnon Songwriting Contest and their music has been featured on NPR's "All Things Considered" and Pacifica's "Democracy Now!". "Peace, Salaam, Shalom" is sung around the world and has been called the "anthem of the anti-war movement." "Keep On Moving Forward" opened the NGO Forum at the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Bejiing, becoming the unofficial theme of the Conference. For more information, click here: www.emmasrevolution.com/
Immigrants' List
 A bipartisan political action committee dedicated to promoting the fair and just immigration laws Americans desire. IL works to elect representatives who support reform and to defeat those who use fear and misinformation to stop the reform America needs. For more information, click here: www.immigrantslist.org/
Interfaith Immigration
 The Interfaith Immigration Coalition is a partnership of faith-based organizations committed to enacting fair and humane immigration reform that reflects our mandate to welcome the stranger and treat all human beings with dignity and respect. Coalition members work together to advocate for just and equitable immigration policies, educate faith communities, and serve immigrant populations around the country. Through this coalition, hundreds of national and local faith-based organizations and faith leaders have called on Congress and the Administration to enact immigration reform consistent with these values.
www.interfaithimmigration.org
Jane Addams Hull House
 Located on the University of Illinois at Chicago campus, Hull House is the former home of Jane Addams -- one of the country's most prominent women in the late 19th and early 20th centuries -- known for her progressive writing on labor, immigrants and work for peace. For more information click here: www.hullhousemuseum.org
 Justice for Immigrants
A Journey of Hope, the Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops www.Justiceforimmigrants.org
For liturgy & prayer suggestions, click here:
www.justiceforimmigrants.org/documents/liturgy-prayer-suggestions.pdf
Movimiento 10 de Marzo
 Unconditional legalization for ALL
www.movimiento10demarzo.org/
The National Alliance of Latin and American Communities
Seeks to improve the quality of life for Latinos and Latino immigrants in their communities both in the United States and in countries of origin to increase immigrant civic pariticipation and to advocate effectively for public policies that address the root causes of migration.
nalaac.org
The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
 A composition of local coalitions and immigrant, refugee, community, religious, civil rights, labor organizations and activists that works to promote a just immigration and refugee policy in the US and to defend and expand the rights of all immigrants and refugees, regardless of status.
www.nnirr.org
No More Deaths
 Since 1998 more than 5,000 men, women, and children have died trying to cross the Mexican border into the United States. No More Deaths was organized in 2004 to end this tragedy through civil initiatives with the conviction that people of conscience must work openly and in community to uphold fundamental human rights. Their work embraces the faith-based principles for immigration reform and focuses on the following themes:
• Direct aid that extends the right to provide humanitarian assistance • Witnessing and responding • Consciousness raising • Global movement building • Encouraging humane immigration policy.
For more information visit: www.nomoredeaths.org/
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