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Holy Week Pilgrimage for Immigrants

By anton | Published: March 27, 2012

HOLY WEEK PILGRIMAGE FOR IMMIGRANTS 2012 www.pilgrimageforimmigrants.wordpress.com The Holy Week Pilgrimage for Immigrants is an act of faith, solidarity, and hospitality; it is a prayer with feet.  With our feet we pray that our faith communities and nation will search for ways that favor a spirit of solidarity with and justice for immigrants.  We walk [...]

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A visit from Mary: An Advent experience

By anton | Published: December 23, 2011
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Written by Debbie Gish, a social worker. member of Church of the Sojourners in San Francisco, and friend of Alterna. On Wednesday several of us attended a posada at the Sonoma North County Detention Center (CA). Las Posadas are a Mexican Advent tradition where family, friends and neighbors reenact the pilgrimage of Mary and Joseph as they [...]

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The gift of simplicity

By anton | Published: July 16, 2011

Even before I was born, the gods of consumerism were setting traps to ensnare me in their grips.  Once my parents announced that they were expecting me, their firstborn, the culturally scripted expectation was that the young couple would be showered with more gifts than expected.  As their newborn baby, I would “need” clothing for [...]

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Who’s important to CCA?

By anton | Published: July 15, 2011
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“You are important…..to CCA”. As we approach the entrance to the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, the first signs we see are brightly lettered installations declaring how important we are to the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). There is a chilling irony in this cheery welcome. In a for-profit prison that holds 2,000 immigrant [...]

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Eight arrested at Stewart Detention Center

By anton | Published: July 14, 2011
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By Emily Guzman, U.S. citizen & wife of Pedro Guzman who was detained at SDC from November 2009 until May 2011. This is a reflection on the November 2010 vigil where eight individuals, including Emily’s mother and three members of Alterna were charged with criminal trespass for an act of civil disobedience. FOR MORE INFO [...]

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For such a time as this

By anton | Published: July 13, 2011
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In March 2011, House Bill 87, Georgia’s cruel anti-immigrant law was passed by the House and Senate. As the third annual Holy Week Pilgrimage for Immigrants began, the media’s attention was on Georgia and many immigrants, allies, and persons of faith were praying Governor Deal would veto this scapegoating piece of legislation. As is tradition, [...]

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VICTORY!!! Pedro Guzman is free!

By anton | Published: July 12, 2011
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Glenn Fogle, the Guzmans’ immigration attorney, explains it this way: After almost 19 months after being arrested by an ICE “Fugitive Operations Unit” at his home in North Carolina in front of his wife and then 2 year old son, on a removal order he did not even know about, Pedro Guzman has been granted [...]

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Time to take crucified immigrants down from the cross

By anton | Published: April 25, 2011

This speech was given as part of the Catholic Charities’ Good Friday Pilgrimage. This pilgrimage is an urban stations of the cross and Anton’s speech was the 13th Station, “Jesus is Taken Down from the Cross.” (Special thanks to Jorge Lawton for the phenomenal interpretation.)

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Video collage of Wednesday’s pilgrimage along Buford Highway

By anton | Published: April 22, 2011

Produced by WABE News (Atlanta Public Radio)

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Surely, God is with us in Dalton

By anton | Published: April 22, 2011

100 immigrants, afraid to do pilgrimage in Dalton, conducted a Holy Week Vigil for Immigrants.  Here, America Gruner offers her reflections. Dalton is a small city but 80% of the carpet of the world is manufactured locally and mainly by the hands of Latino immigrants, and where the headquarters of 3 major carpet corporations are [...]

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