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	<title>CWS Immigration Reform</title>
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		<title>Faithful resistance to Alabama&#8217;s HB 56</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alabama’s House Bill 56 is the harshest anti-immigrant legislation yet to pass in the United States.  Alabama is now the epicenter of the immigration debate.  That’s why, just a few weeks after beginning my work with Church World Service as the Grassroots Coordinator for Immigrants’ Rights, I knew it was important to spend some time in Alabama.  I spent much of December in Alabama, returning in January, for meetings with pastors, speaking in churches and coordinating training for organizers.  <a href="http://supportimmigrationreform.org/blog/faithfulresistance/">Read Rev. Noel Andersen's blogpost ... </a>

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		<title>End &#8220;Secure Communities,&#8221; other such programs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Central to all faith traditions are the principles of the common good, human dignity and love for one’s neighbor.  In many of our sacred texts the value of welcoming the stranger is an explicit mandate and primary tenet of our faith as in the Abrahamic traditions where it reads as follows: “You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” (Exodus 22:21).

From faith leaders' letter on Secure Communities.  <a href="http://supportimmigrationreform.org/blog/1760/">Read more ... </a>

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		<title>When &#8220;stranger&#8221; means &#8220;immigrant&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bible translations that use the word "stranger" leave open just who that means for the reader.  The word "immigrant" now appears in a new translation of the Bible, replacing the word "stranger" or "alien."  This is a concretizing and humanizing improvement of the biblical witness, removing the moral abstraction of "stranger" and depersonalization of "alien."  

<a href="http://supportimmigrationreform.org/blog/newbible/">Read more ... </a>
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		<title>Learnings from AZ Sen. Russell Pearce&#8217;s recall</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week we celebrate a huge victory in the struggle for immigrants’ rights as former Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce and architect of SB 1070 lost a historic recall election last Tuesday.  This represents a change in momentum at the roots of the experiential anti-immigrant legislation that has been copied in other states such as Alabama HB 56, Georgia HB 87 and others that remain pending in other states. <a href="http://supportimmigrationreform.org/blog/pearce/">Read more ... </a>]]></description>
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		<title>Alabama, similar state immigration laws too harsh</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Pat and Chuck Wemstrom

In Alabama crops rotted in the fields. In Washington State apples were at peak ripeness with few people to pick them. In Georgia millions of pounds of fruit were left to spoil.  Alabama recently passed the country’s harshest immigration law yet. Even legal U.S. residents fled. 

<a href="http://supportimmigrationreform.org/blog/alabama/">Read more ....<a> ]]></description>
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		<title>Alabama&#8217;s HB 56 terrorizes school children</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alabama’s HB requires police officers to act as immigration officers by demanding proof of legal status from anyone who looks foreign, voids contracts made with undocumented persons, and requires proof of legal status from school children. Even though national law requires that all children be allowed education, many parents are removing their children from school. <a href='http://supportimmigrationreform.org/blog/alabamas-hb-56-terrorizes-school-children/'>Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Snapshots from DREAM Sabbath observances</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the Rev. Mary Ellen Finegan of Central United Methodist Church in Fairmont, W.Va., stood up to preach, she knew that her message would be controversial with some members.  She was about to speak out in support of the DREAM Act.  

<a href="http://www.supportimmigrationreform.org/blog/dreamsabbathsnapshots/">Click here to read her sermon and a report of how congregants responded!</a>  And read about other DREAM Sabbath services in the new <a href="http://supportimmigrationreform.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/DREAM-Sabbath-Scrapbook_Dec-20112.pdf" target="_blank">DREAM Sabbath Scrapbook.</a>]]></description>
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		<title>DREAM Sabbath sermon by Rev. Mary Ellen Finegan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Central United Methodist Church Fairmont, W. Va. Rev. Mary Ellen Finegan Sept. 25, 2011  Deut. 10:17-22; Matthew 25:31-46      Not only do ministers have the responsibility of “preaching” the Word of God, we also are charged with the responsibility of “teaching” the Word of God.  What’s the difference?     Most preachers have a combination of <a href='http://supportimmigrationreform.org/blog/finegansermon/'>Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Who is my neighbor? A reflection</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Lindsay Holt, Immigration Advocacy Intern Church World Service, May-August 2011 Most Christians, at least those I’ve met in the States, have grown up learning the Golden Rule: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength, and love your <a href='http://supportimmigrationreform.org/blog/neighbor/'>Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Participate in DREAM Sabbath Sept. 16-Oct. 9</title>
		<link>http://supportimmigrationreform.org/blog/dreamsabbath/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Join faith communities around the country who'll be holding DREAM Sabbath events during the period Sept. 16-Oct. 9, 2011.  The events will seek to contribute to advocacy for the DREAM Act, which would provide a path to citizenship for undocumented young adults brought to the United States as children who complete two years of college or military service.  <a href="http://supportimmigrationreform.org/blog/dreamsabbath/">Read more and listen to faith leaders' DREAM Sabbath conference calls with media in nine states ... </a>]]></description>
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