Bingo AND supporting the Lifelong Learning Center’s English Language Learning program? Yep. Come play and raise funds with their partners for the year: Big Sky SHRM (Society or Human Resource Managers). Bingo cards will be $2 each, with 10 games and lots of prizes. ELL students get to play 5 games for free! Snacks and beverages provided, and beer and wine will be available to purchase. Proceeds will support the center, refugees, and other English Language Learners around Missoula. We’re stoked to help spread the word.

Wednesday, April 17

6:30-8:30 PM

Missoula Federal Credit Union Training Center

3600 Brooks St.

As climate change forces more people to flee their homes, do borders keep getting fortified, or are there other ways humankind could be looking for solutions? Journalist and award-winning author Todd Miller will use stories to explore the dynamics of climate, human displacement, and border security. With 68.5 million forcibly displaced people currently across the globe, many of whom have been forced to leave their homes due to conflicts with origins in climate issues—including famine, drought, and scarcity of resources—there is no better time to have the conversation about how we can step outside of our boxes and borders to think of creative solutions that bring opportunity and promise of a good life to all.

Following his talk, there will be a panel discussion and Q&A of local experts to consider implications of climate migrants in Missoula and Montana.

Following the Q&A, there will be a reception at the Mansfield Center, and Todd will be signing copies of his latest book, Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the U.S. Border Around the World.

This talk is co-sponsored by Climate Smart Missoula, the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, the UM College of Humanities and Sciences, the UM Environmental Science and Natural Resource Journalism graduate program, and the UM Climate Change Studies Program.

It is made possible through support of our above sponsors and generous grants from Humanities Montana and Thrivent Financial.

When: April 1st, 2019 6:30-8:30 pm

Where: University Center Theater @ University of Montana

Todd Miller is the author of two other books: Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security, and Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security, which won the 2018 Izzy Award for Excellence in Investigative Journalism. He has spent the last 17 years researching, writing, and working on immigration and border issues from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico divide. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Mother Jones, TomDispatch, The Nation, San Francisco Chronicle, In These Times, Guernica, and Al Jazeera English, among other publications. He’s a contributing editor on border and immigration issues for NACLA Report on the Americas and its column “Border Wars”.

We are very excited to welcome him to Missoula for this important and timely conversation.

SALAM’s 4th annual Celebrate Islam Week is next month! Events include international food, pivotal discussions and lectures, and you can even try your hand at Arabic calligraphy! There is something for everyone. Get closer to the food of Iraq, Syria, Congo, and Pakistan, while listening to a Syrian refugees’ path to their new home in the United States. Empower women as they share and embrace their differences and similarities in religion, and learn about the emersion of feminism in the Muslim faith. Attend a film showing and important talk from PhD student who has worked in an Iraqi refugee camp. So much meaning and growth in one week. Detailed info below. We’re so honored to be co-sponsors of the banquet ($15, tickets below!) and excited about these incredible (free!) events put on by SALAM.

Purchase Banquet Tickets Here

Monday, April 8th 5:30-7:30PM Opening Banquet and Keynote at the First Presbyterian Church.

To purchase tickets in advance, click on link above.

Delicious dinner cooked by refugee families Asmaa Albukaie, Boise’s first Syrian refugee, speaks on “Heart-Love: A Muslim Mother’s Journey Into America.”

Tuesday, April 9th 12-2PM “Finding a Place in Religion: Women in Interfaith” in University Hall 210.

Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and Amskapi Piikani Blackfeet women discuss differences and similarities in religion, culture, and individuality as women of faith. Join Rabbi Laurie Franklin of Har Shalom, Asmaa Albukaie of Boise, Sister Mary Jo Quinn of Blessed Trinity, and Kim Paul of the Blackfeet Tribal Nation for this panel moderated by SALAM Coordinator Kelcie Murphy.

Wednesday, April 10th 7-9PM “Me and the Mosque” film in LA 011.

“Me and the Mosque” tells the story of a Canadian Muslim woman challenging the prevailing views about male dominance in her faith community. In our discussion following the film, we’ll talk about emerging trends in Islamic feminism and changing views on women in Islamic culture at large.

Thursday, April 11th 6-8PM “How Islamic faith and cultural identity affect Muslim refugee wellbeing” in Jeanette Rankin Hall 202.

PhD candidate Diana Diakow specializes in linguistic psychoanalysis, developmental psychology, and Arabic. She combines these areas of expertise in advancing the status of Muslim refugees in Iraq and Kurdistan. Join Diana in understanding how religion and cultural identity affect refugees’ wellbeing.

Friday, April 12th 6-8PM Arabic Calligraphy Workshop in UC 331.

Come study the elegant shapes of the Arabic letters and Islamic art’s non-representative forms. After this workshop you will be able to write important Islamic concepts, names, and words in Arabic.

If you would like more information or would like to volunteer for set up or take down, contact SALAM Coordinator Kelcie Murphy at salammissoula@gmail.com.

Check out the FB event for even more info on this entire week.

On average, 5,000 immigrants are detained in Arizona on a daily basis, many of whom are fleeing desperate situations to seek asylum in the United States, and those under threat of deportation have limited access to legal aid. The Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project formed to fill this need. At no charge. They are the state’s only free assistance available, offering legal and social services to both immigrants and refugees, and Missoula is getting together to support them.

Come join us in a night of music featuring The Montana Women’s Chorus of Missoula, Pura Vida Community Chorus, and others. The evening will open with music from Missoula’s own Congolese Choir! Proceeds will go to this crucial group and the people needing their counsel. “When we work together, freedom cannot be detained.” -FIRRP

Thursday, March 21, 2019 at 7 PM – 9 PM

St. Paul Lutheran Church

202 Brooks, St. Missoula, MT

$15/person and $25/family at the door. Additional donations welcome.

This event is co-sponsored by Jeannette Rankin Peace Center and The Olive Branch, and Soft Landing Missoula

For more information about the Florence Project, please check out their website.