Faces of Migration

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Early Voting/In-Person Absentee Voting (IPAV) Schedule
2018 General Election
September 24-November 4



Monday, September 24 – Friday, October 12
Monday—Friday, 9:00am-6:00pm

-Zeidler Municipal Building, 841 N Broadway 
   (no voting at Market Street entrance)
-Midtown Center, 5700 W Capitol Dr 
   (located west of Pick ‘n Save, enter lot at 58th & Capitol)
-Mitchell Street Library, 906 W Historic Mitchell St
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Monday, October 15 – Sunday, November 4
Monday—Friday, 8:00am—7:00pm 
Saturdays (October 27 & November 3 only) 11:00am-5:00pm
Sundays (October 28 & November 4 only) 11:00am-5:00pm

-Zeidler Municipal Building, 841 N Broadway 
-Midtown Center, 5700 W Capitol Dr
-Mitchell Street Library, 906 W Historic Mitchell St
-Zablocki Library, 3501 W Oklahoma Ave
-Center Street Library, 2727 W Fond du Lac Ave
-Mill Road Library, 6431 N 76th St
-UWM Peck School of the Arts, 2419 E Kenwood Blvd 
   (located in the Helene Zelazo Center across from the student union)
-MATC, 700 W State St (No Sunday hours at this location)
   (MATC students and faculty only for this location, schedule subject to MATC hours)

*Voting hours at UWM on Friday, October 26 are 8am to 12pm only
*No voter registration on November 3 or November 4

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A Call to Holiness
"A good Catholic meddles in politics" ~Pope Francis

2018 Guide for Voters


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Feast of St. Francis (FOSF) Educational Program
“Who is My Neighbor in a Climate-Threatened World?”.  It’s a free 90-minute program focusing on the interconnections between immigration, refugees, and climate change. It includes prayers, readings, a short video, and suggested activities.

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Justice For Immigrants
Updates: 

• Interfaith Immigration Coalition-members denounce proposed changes to public charge rule
• President lowers refugee cap to historic low of 30,000
• Attorney general instructs new immigration judges to be less sympathetic
• Federal government unable to locate 1,500 migrant children

 
Worth Reading: 
The ripple effects of Trump’s refugee policies
Today the ACLU Border Rights Center in partnership with the Center for Biological Diversity, the Sierra Club, the RGV Equal Voice Network of Texas, the Southern Border Communities Coalition, and the Southwest Environmental Center in New Mexico, released the report “Death, Damage, and Failure: Past, Present, and Future Impacts of Walls on the U.S.-Mexico Border,” which examines the last two decades of border security policies — including the existing 654 miles of border walls — and the real impact of President Trump’s border wall spending and demands for more billions.  You can find the report here.

A conversation between an undocumented immigrant and a mother whose son was killed by one

Taking Action:

• Stop President Trump from Dismantling Refugee Resettlement!  Tell Congress a Refugee Admissions Goal of 30,000 Is Morally Inexcusable.
• DHS Proposes Vast Changes to Public Charge Definition!  Plan to submit comments.
• National Migration Week will be held from January 6th-12th, 2019. This year's theme is "Building Communities of Welcome."  Here is a new toolkit to help you prepare.

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The urgency of Pope Francis’s call for “civic and political love”
It is no exaggeration to say we are living in a state of political and social crisis. If it feels like the nation’s political culture is unraveling, that’s because it is. Can it recover? Has the unraveling already gone too far? Is Humpty-Dumpty irretrievably broken into pieces?

I usually offer something to this newsletter that is related to the ecological challenges of our time, brought about by our industrial/consumer age. Those challenges are now well-known and becoming more obvious with the escalating number of extreme weather events brought about by climate change, and the loss of biodiversity as a result of economies based on extraction, production, consumption, and waste. Our environmental crises are caused for the most part by humans taking more than the Earth can regenerate while pouring more waste into our lands and waters than the Earth can absorb. We are in a state referred to as, “overshoot.” At this point in our consumer culture, it would take 1.7 earths to continue at the current levels of our economic activity.

Read the rest of Margaret Swedish's article here.
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WISDOM has done of good job of making the reform of Wisconsin’s Criminal Justice System one of the key issues for the November election.  But “tough on crime” and keeping people locked up is neither the way to dismantle systems that support mass incarceration, nor to build healthy families and safe communities.


Use these resources to understand the issues that affect the people we care about.  Once you understand the issues, send the info to your candidates and tell them why you want criminal justice reform in Wisconsin and what you want them to do about it.

• WISDOM's-Blueprint-to-End-Mass-Incarceration-In-Wisconsin
• ROC Wisconsin Brochure (Restoring Our Communities)
• WISDOM Candidate Forum Issue Positions. November Election, 2018

WISDOM is holding Candidate Forums across the state.  There will be a Forum for Senate District 5 (the one vacated by Leah Vukmir) and the corresponding Assembly Districts (13, 14, 15) on Wednesday, October 10. Details for the forum are HERE. 
For more information contact Barbara Pfarr, bpfarrwisdom@gmail.com.
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Catholic Relief Services Parish Resources
CRS offers many programs to inform and engage you at home, in your parish, or in your diocese. Knowledge is a powerful weapon and is the first step in combating hunger, disease and injustice. Help your parish discover the world and together become more informed and compassionate human beings! Visit the Parish Resource page here.
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