Events

Upcoming Events

Not for Sale - Thursday April 29, 2009

Join Heartland Center in welcoming Sarah Joy Morbitzer, director of the Indiana State Not for Sale Campaign for a presentation at St. Mary Parish in Griffith, IN. Please download our flyer for more information.

Freedom Sunday -- Febuary 21, 2010

On February 21, 2010, churches around the world will be praying for those held captive in honor of the first ever Freedom Sunday. The concept behind Freedom Sunday is to give faith communities encouragement and assistance so that the faithful can worship, intercede, and act with a clear focus on ending slavery in their communities and world. 

Please join in this worldwide day of reflection by preaching about the freedom Jesus brings, singing songs of redemption and prayerfully considering taking an offering to support the global projects of the Not For Sale Campaign. From India to Australia, Myanmar to San Francisco, Costa Rica to New York, churches around the globe will collectively ring the Freedom bell to declare that they are Not For Sale, you are Not For Sale and no one should be For Sale. For more information as well as resources for participating in Freedom Sunday, visit: http://freedomsunday.org.

Recent Events

2009 Toxic Tour for Chicago Jesuit High Schools

Organized by Heartland Center, Calumet Project, and Loyola University of Chicago Center for Urban Research and Learning, staff and students from the university, Cristo Rey High School, and St. Ignatius High School participated in a Toxic Tour of Northwest Indiana on November 7, 2009.  The goal of the tour—

  • Learn about the long-term impact of industrial pollution on local communities
  • Learn about the Calumet Project’s “Bucket Brigade” to monitor air pollution outside local schools
  • Learn what efforts are being made to restore toxic waste sites and create conservation areas
  • Learn what faculty and students can do to work with other residents of the region to build an environmentally just life for all

The route of the tour was through Hammond, East Chicago and Whiting.  Among the environmental hot spots on the tour:  BP (formerly known asBritish Petroleum), ArcelorMittal (formerly Mittal Steel), Dover Chemical Corporation, Safety-Kleen Systems, Whiting Clean Energy, U.S.Steel and East Chcago Tin, INEOS Oligomers and CDF (Confined Disposal Facitilty).  As shown in the slides, security questioned their presence when people got off the bus--on public property--to get a better view of the area where BP emits "treated" water back into Lake Michigan.

After the tour, participants had lunch at Indiana University Northwest and learned about the work of the Northern Indiana Consortium for the Environment NICE, and Northwest Indiana Restoration Monitoring Inventory NIRMI.

You may also be interested in viewing our Toxic Tour photos.