On April 26-28, the Kansas City Catholic Worker
communities will host the annual Midwest Catholic
Worker Faith and Resistance Retreat.  This year's
theme is:

Beyond Walls of Fear:

Faith Resistance to Unjust Immigration Policies and
Practices

Please join us for as much or as little of this event
as you can!!

SATURDAY 4/26/08

WORKSHOPS, ROUNDTABLES, KEYNOTE PRESENTATION!

(Especially this part - you don't want to miss it!!)

-  Maryada and Walt Stanton, humanitarian activists
from No More Deaths border action and Casa Maria
Catholic Worker in Tucson, Arizona will share their
experiences of offering direct hospitality to people
struggling with oppressive immigration issues.

(They will present their talk around 9 am! Join us!)

STICK AROUND FOR SATURDAY ROUNDTABLES!!

Suzanne Gladney, Legal Aid of Western Missouri and the
Migrant Farmworkers Project --

'Immigration 101'

Angela Ferguson, Activist and Immigration lawyer --
'The New Sanctuary Movement'

Catholic Worker panel -- Hear how other Catholic
Worker houses from around the country are responding!

Eric Garbison, Cherith Brook Community -- A closer
look at the Scriptures: Insiders? Outsiders?

Richard Flamer, Joining us from the Chiapas, Mexico CW
community!! -- What's actually going on in Mexico?

Judy Ancel and Megan Hope, Cross Border Solidarity
Network -- NAFTA, CAFTA -- what are all of those trade
policies? What about economics do I need to know?

Linda Callen, Westside CAN Center -- A story of
advocacy success from the KC area!

And, in the CW tradition, you never know what other
topics might pop up!

WHERE WILL THIS HAPPEN, YOU ASK??

De La Salle Education Center

3740 Forest Avenue

8:30-4:30

The rest of the weekend...RETREAT!

(You are also welcome to join us for this part)

Sunday will include liturgy and reflection on what
action the CW communities will prepare to protest the
unjust immigration policies and practices that
contribute to a continued system of walls of fear.

MONDAY, the CW communities (and all of you who choose
to join us) will converge downtown to perform an
action (most of the details will be decided on Sunday
4/27).

JOIN US!

Questions? Comments? Feel a burning urge to RSVP?

Never hesitate to contact us!

Flyer's attached!

love and peace,

Holy Family House, Shalom House, and Cherith Brook

--
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military
defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Martin Luther King, Jr.