Lawful Assembly Podcast
43 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsA podcast about the intersection of law, religion and activism. It is hosted by lawyer and activist Rev. Craig B. Mousin, founder and former Director of the Midwest Immigrant Rights Center and an Adjunct Faculty member at DePaul University’s College of Law and The Grace School of Applied Diplomacy.
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Episode 39: “One Key to Literacy: Sharing Folktales”
July 10, 2023 10:00 - 16 minutes - 11.6 MBRev. Craig B. Mousin, an Adjunct Faculty member of DePaul University’s College of Law, Refugee and Forced Migration Studies Program, and the Grace School of Applied Diplomacy interviews DePaul graduate and Pangea Educational Development co-founder Drew Edwards. Drew and his colleagues in Uganda, with the support of many volunteers, have developed a remarkable literacy program in Uganda that works with refugees and internally displaced persons to engage the entire family in learning to read. ...
Episode 38: “Serving All of Us Together”
July 03, 2023 10:00 - 12 minutes - 8.84 MBRev. Craig B. Mousin, an Adjunct Faculty member of DePaul University’s College of Law, Refugee and Forced Migration Studies Program, and the Grace School of Applied Diplomacy interviews DePaul graduate and Pangea Educational Development co-founder Drew Edwards. Drew and his colleagues in Uganda, with the support of many volunteers, have developed a remarkable literacy program in Uganda that works with refugees and internally displaced persons to engage the entire family in learning to read. ...
Episode 37: “Soda Stories: Educating Families”
June 26, 2023 20:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBEpisode 37: “Soda Stories: Educating Families” Rev. Craig B. Mousin, an Adjunct Faculty member of DePaul University’s College of Law, Refugee and Forced Migration Studies Program, and the Grace School of Applied Diplomacy interviews DePaul graduate and Pangea Educational Development co-founder Drew Edwards. Drew and his colleagues in Uganda, with the support of many volunteers, have developed a remarkable literacy program in Uganda that works with refugees and internally displaced persons t...
Episode 36: A Moral Claim for Sensible Gun Regulation
April 13, 2023 12:00 - 19 minutes - 13.7 MBIn this interview, Rev. Craig B. Mousin, an Adjunct Faculty member of DePaul University’s College of Law, Refugee and Forced Migration Studies Program, and the Grace School of Applied Diplomacy presents a moral argument for sensible gun regulation. We have learned since the recording of this podcast, that Justin Jones and Justin Pearson have been appointed to be interim State Representatives in the Tennessee legislature through the action of their respective constituents. ACTION STEPS 1....
Episode 35: Let’s Not Make the Same Mistake
March 24, 2023 13:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MBIn this interview, Rev. Craig B. Mousin, an Adjunct Faculty member of DePaul University’s College of Law, Refugee and Forced Migration Studies Program, and the Grace School of Applied Diplomacy urges listeners to file comments opposing the Biden administration’s proposed asylum rule by 11:59 EDT, Monday, March 27, 2023. ACTION STEPS 1. Prepare a comment and invite friends and family to also file a comment opposing the proposed rule that will undermine refugee protection. A. Atto...
Episode 34: Support Humanitarian Asylum Welcome
February 23, 2023 14:00 - 24 minutes - 16.9 MBIn this interview, Rev. Craig B. Mousin, an Adjunct Faculty member of DePaul University’s College of Law, Refugee and Forced Migration Studies Program, and the Grace School of Applied Diplomacy interviews Heidi Altman, the Policy Director of the National Immigrant Justice Center (www.immigrantjustice.org). Ms. Altman discusses a proposed rule that will effectively preclude most asylum-seekers from safely and effectively applying for asylum in the United States. She advocates for humanitaria...
Episode 33: New Year, Same Problems
January 13, 2023 22:00 - 15 minutes - 10.4 MBShow Notes This is an interview with Rev. Craig B. Mousin, an Adjunct Faculty member of DePaul University’s College of Law, Refugee and Forced Migration Studies Program, and the Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. The podcast critiques Department of Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas’ recent NPR interview for what the interview omits in explaining 2023 asylum policies. ACTION STEP Imagine you are an asylum-seeker who has left your homeland. Listen to the interview with Secretary Mayork...
Episode 32: “Fear Not”
December 15, 2022 12:00 - 13 minutes - 9.35 MBShow Notes This is an interview with Rev. Craig B. Mousin, an Adjunct Faculty member of DePaul University’s College of Law, Refugee and Forced Migration Studies Program, and the Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. The podcast explores how the claim for a fully secure border has stalled immigration reform for over three decades. It calls for comprehensive immigration reform to address many of the issues the failed policies of detention and deportation have been unable to resolve. ACTION STE...
Episode 31: New Light to Pierce the Logjam
November 22, 2022 13:00 - 12 minutes - 8.74 MBThis is an interview with Rev. Craig B. Mousin, an Adjunct Faculty member of DePaul University’s College of Law, Refugee and Forced Migration Studies Program and the Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. The podcast explores a recent speech by Pope Francis involving responses to refugees, asylum seekers and vulnerable immigrants. Pope Francis suggests that, through our common humanity, our collaborative efforts can build a safer world. ACTION STEP Read and respond to Pope Francis’ “Address o...
Episode 30: Who Is My Neighbor?
September 19, 2022 22:00 - 13 minutes - 9.34 MBThis is an interview with Rev. Craig B. Mousin, an Adjunct Faculty member of the DePaul University’s College of Law, Refugee and Forced Migrations Studies Program and the Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. The podcast examines the recent bussing of asylum applicants to northern cities. Through exploration of the Good Samaritan Parable, the podcast invites listeners to ask the question how can we each be a neighbor to a vulnerable person. ACTION STEP 1. Read the Good Samaritan Parable...
Episode 29: Gratitude for those who labor and those who have labored.
September 02, 2022 22:00 - 12 minutes - 8.72 MBThis is an interview with Rev. Craig B. Mousin, an Adjunct Faculty member of the DePaul University’s College of Law, Refugee and Forced Migrations Studies Program and the Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. The podcast celebrates all those who worked to defeat the amendments that tried to codify Title 42 in August, 2022. In addition, as we celebrate Labor Day 2022, we give thanks for all those immigrants who came to our nation, offered their skills and fostered families that have contributed...
Episode 28: Do Not Let Summer Daze Convert Pretense Into Law: End Title 42
July 29, 2022 17:00 - 9 minutes - 6.47 MBSHOW NOTES This is an interview with Rev. Craig B. Mousin, an Adjunct Faculty member of the DePaul University’s College of Law, Refugee and Forced Migrations Studies Program and the Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. The podcast examines new attempts to codify the harmful effects of Title 42 through amending the Fiscal Year 2023 spending bills currently before Congress. Please email or call your elected representative and oppose all of these amendments. ACTION STEP 1. Email your Se...
Episode 27: Stop the Burning
June 16, 2022 11:00 - 12 minutes - 8.83 MBSHOW NOTES This is an interview with Rev. Craig B. Mousin, an Adjunct Faculty member of the DePaul University’s College of Law, Refugee and Forced Migrations Studies Program and the Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. The podcast explores the recent efforts to censor and self-censor books in our public schools and libraries. It links some of that censorship to a fear of the newcomer and our nation’s failure to legislate comprehensive immigration reform. ACTION STEP Thank a librarian and ...
Episode 26: Streamline Rule Precludes a Complete Record
May 27, 2022 13:00 - 18 minutes - 12.7 MBThis is an interview with Rev. Craig B. Mousin, an Adjunct Faculty member of the DePaul University’s College of Law, Refugee and Forced Migrations Studies Program and the Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. The podcast examines the federal government’s request for comments on a proposed Interim Final Rule involving adjudication of asylum applications. It argues that the expedited deadlines and streamlining procedures will prevent asylum applicants from developing a complete record in support...
Episode 25: Stop the Pretense That It is Just About Public Health
May 10, 2022 20:00 - 11 minutes - 7.74 MBSHOW NOTES This is an interview with Rev. Craig B. Mousin, an Adjunct Faculty member of the DePaul University’s College of Law, Refugee and Forced Migrations Studies Program and the Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. The podcast examines the “Public Health and Border Security Act of 2022” and critiques the intent of the proposal. It argues that the implementation of Title 42 procedures in denying asylum seekers entrance to the United States masquerades as public health and violates dome...
Episode 24: Restoring Roots of Refugee Responses
March 29, 2022 15:00 - 20 minutes - 13.8 MBThis is an interview with Rev. Craig B. Mousin, an Adjunct Faculty member of the DePaul University’s College of Law, Refugee and Forced Migrations Studies Program and the Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. The podcast explores different national responses to refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine. It urges that the current generosity offered to Ukrainian refugees serves as a template for a more responsible refugee protection for all nations. ACTION STEP 1. Church World Service: Rebuilding...
Episode 23: What the heck is a proposed rule? (and other questions)
February 21, 2022 19:00 - 15 minutes - 11 MBThis is an interview with Rev. Craig B. Mousin, an Adjunct Faculty member of the DePaul University’s College of Law, Refugee and Forced Migrations Studies Program and the Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. The podcast responds to questions raised by our listeners about the importance of responding to proposed federal regulations. In five of our previous podcasts we invited you to file responses to proposed regulations or federal rules impacting how our nation treats asylum seekers and refug...
Episode 22: Suffer the Little Children
January 22, 2022 01:00 - 14 minutes - 9.78 MBThis is an interview with Rev. Craig B. Mousin, an Adjunct Faculty member of the DePaul University’s College of Law, Refugee and Forced Migrations Studies Program and the Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. The podcast requests that you send comments to the federal government before midnight eastern standard time on Tuesday, January 25 providing ideas to end the policies that have led to family separation and lengthy detention of asylum seekers. The Biden administration has recognized the hu...
Episode 21: Pondering Anew
January 20, 2022 14:00 - 17 minutes - 12.3 MBThis is an interview with Rev. Craig B. Mousin, an Adjunct Faculty member of the DePaul University’s College of Law, Refugee and Forced Migrations Studies Program and the Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. The podcast opens the new year with a request to consider how our biblical and national founding narratives offer us an opportunity to reconsider how we as individuals and a nation should respond to asylum seekers fleeing danger in their homelands. The biblical narrative stories can be f...
Episode 20: As Maine Goes, So Goes the Nation
November 23, 2021 22:00 - 19 minutes - 13.2 MBThis is an interview with Rev. Craig B. Mousin, an Adjunct Faculty member of the DePaul University’s College of Law, Refugee and Forced Migrations Studies Program and the Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. The podcast celebrates the cooperative work of Somali refugee farmers in Maine and elsewhere demonstrating the talents and gifts they bring to our nation. The podcast also urges listeners to email their congressional Representative to vote for the Afghan Adjustment Act. ACTION STEP: We...
Episode 19: Expedite at What Cost?
October 16, 2021 02:00 - 18 minutes - 13 MBThis is an interview with Rev. Craig B. Mousin, an Adjunct Faculty member of the DePaul University’s College of Law, Refugee and Forced Migrations Studies Program and the Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. The podcast requests listeners to file comments opposing DHS and DOJ proposed regulations governing Credible Fear Screening by Asylum Officers. ACTION STEP: You can file comments opposing part of or all of the proposed regulations before 11:59 p.m. EDT, Tuesday October 19. CLINIC, the C...
Episode 18: Fear of Freedom
September 30, 2021 14:00 - 18 minutes - 12.5 MBThis is an interview with Rev. Craig B. Mousin, an Adjunct Faculty member of the DePaul University College of Law and the Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. The podcast contends that United States discrimination against Haitians over the last two centuries has created a moral obligation to Haiti and its residents. Most recently, efforts to swiftly deport Haitians, contrary to the Refugee Act’s non-return requirement, reveals how efforts to restrict Haitian asylum-seekers over the last fort...
Episode 17: Leave the Campsite Cleaner
August 18, 2021 15:00 - 12 minutes - 8.29 MBThis is an interview with Rev. Craig B. Mousin, an Adjunct Faculty member of the DePaul University College of Law and the Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. The podcast celebrates the decision by Dynegy Midwest Generation to enter into a settlement agreement with the State of Illinois to remove 3.3 million cubic yards of coal ash from its current location adjacent to the Middle Fork of the Vermillion River. Illinois’s only National Scenic River, the Middle Fork, offers one of the most dive...
Episode 16: Posterity
July 31, 2021 22:00 - 16 minutes - 11.7 MBThis is an interview with Rev. Craig B. Mousin, an Adjunct Faculty member of the DePaul University College of Law and the Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. This podcast argues that the Preamble to the Constitution invites you to add your voice to protecting and expanding voting rights to ensure the nation’s promise of equality for all. Since the Civil War, our nation has amended the United States Constitution at least once every fifty years to expand voting rights to persons previously ex...
Episode 15: Home
June 12, 2021 19:00 - 15 minutes - 10.7 MBThis is an interview with Rev. Craig B. Mousin, an Adjunct Faculty member of the DePaul University College of Law and the Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. This podcast links the loss of homes felt by many of the freed slaves after the Civil War, including George Floyd’s great-great grandfather, with the loss of home many refugees face when forced to flee their nations due to state sanctioned violence and the consequences of the breakdown of the rule of law. We face challenges both at our...
Episode 14: Celebrate and Advocate for Refugees
May 15, 2021 02:00 - 12 minutes - 8.54 MBThis is a podcast interview with Rev. Craig B. Mousin, an Adjunct Faculty member at DePaul University’s College of Law and The Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. President Biden recently responded to a national outcry protesting the limitation of refugee resettlement in this fiscal year to 15,000 refugees and reversed his decision, raising the goal to welcome 62,500 refugees. This podcast encourages advocates to encourage the administration to achieve that goal and collaborate with resettle...
Episode 13: A Call to Resettle Refugees
April 15, 2021 13:00 - 10 minutes - 7.45 MBThis is a podcast interview with Rev. Craig B. Mousin, an Adjunct Faculty member at DePaul University’s College of Law and The Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. In February, President Biden announced that he would restore the United States partnership in refugee resettlement by inviting up to 125,000 refugees to our nation in the next fiscal year. He also said he would increase the number of refugees previously designated for resettlement in this fiscal year. The Presidential Determinatio...
Episode 12: Shared Values
April 07, 2021 15:00 - 14 minutes - 10.2 MBThis is a podcast interview with Rev. Craig B. Mousin, Adjunct Faculty member at DePaul University’s College of Law and The Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. The podcast encourages us to respond to our shared values of living under the rule of law as the US seeks to reform its immigration law. When our debate focuses on naming individuals as illegals prior to adjudication, it leads to gridlock. By focusing on why the U.S. established a refugee law and the importance of fair and just proc...
Episode 12: Shared Values
April 07, 2021 15:00 - 14 minutes - 10.2 MBThis is a podcast interview with Rev. Craig B. Mousin, Adjunct Faculty member at DePaul University’s College of Law and The Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. The podcast encourages us to respond to our shared values of living under the rule of law as the US seeks to reform its immigration law. When our debate focuses on naming individuals as illegals prior to adjudication, it leads to gridlock. By focusing on why the U.S. established a refugee law and the importance of fair and just proc...
Episode 11: Building a Welcoming City
April 02, 2021 15:00 - 12 minutes - 8.77 MBThis is a podcast interview with Rev. Craig B. Mousin, founder and former Director of the Midwest Immigrant Rights Center and an Adjunct Faculty member at DePaul University’s College of Law and The Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. The podcast celebrates the thirty-sixth anniversary of former Mayor Harold Washington’s Executive Order 85-1 that prohibited city agencies, including the police, from cooperating with the enforcement activities of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. After...
Episode 11: Building a Welcoming City
April 02, 2021 15:00 - 12 minutes - 8.77 MBThis is a podcast interview with Rev. Craig B. Mousin, founder and former Director of the Midwest Immigrant Rights Center and an Adjunct Faculty member at DePaul University’s College of Law and The Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. The podcast celebrates the thirty-sixth anniversary of former Mayor Harold Washington’s Executive Order 85-1 that prohibited city agencies, including the police, from cooperating with the enforcement activities of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. After...
Episode 10: Rebuild Refugee Resettlement
March 30, 2021 15:00 - 16 minutes - 11.4 MBThis is a podcast interview with Rev. Craig B. Mousin, founder and former Director of the Midwest Immigrant Rights Center and an Adjunct Faculty member at DePaul University’s College of Law and The Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. President Biden announced that he would restore the United States partnership in refugee resettlement by inviting up to 125,000 refugees to our nation in the next fiscal year while also exploring increases in the number of refugees previously designated in this f...
Episode 10: Rebuild Refugee Resettlement
March 30, 2021 15:00 - 16 minutes - 11.4 MBThis is a podcast interview with Rev. Craig B. Mousin, founder and former Director of the Midwest Immigrant Rights Center and an Adjunct Faculty member at DePaul University’s College of Law and The Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. President Biden announced that he would restore the United States partnership in refugee resettlement by inviting up to 125,000 refugees to our nation in the next fiscal year while also exploring increases in the number of refugees previously designated in this f...
Episode 7: Can It Be Fair Process
March 29, 2021 15:00 - 15 minutes - 10.8 MBCan It Be Fair Process Without a Fair Process to File an Asylum Application? This episode is an interview with Rev. Craig B. Mousin, an Adjunct Faculty member at DePaul University’s College of Law and The Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. He responds to the federal government’s proposed regulations that would change the time limit for filing an asylum application before an Immigration Judge. These proposed rules will hinder the ability of individuals to pursue cases without lawyers and inc...
Episode 6: Ombuds Day 2020: What’s an Ombuds To Do in a Polarized Society?
March 29, 2021 15:00 - 6 minutes - 4.69 MBThis episode is an interview with Rev. Craig B. Mousin, DePaul’s University Ombudsperson. Craig is founder and former Executive Director of the Midwest Immigrant Rights Center and an Adjunct Faculty member at DePaul University’s College of Law and The Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. In recognition of Ombuds Day 2020, Craig talks about the role of an Ombuds in a polarized society. Ombuds not only serve their institution, but their skills and experience can model practices and provide guida...
Episode 9: To Do A Blessing
March 29, 2021 15:00 - 15 minutes - 10.4 MBThis is a podcast interview with Rev. Craig B. Mousin, founder and former Director of the Midwest Immigrant Rights Center and an Adjunct Faculty member at DePaul University’s College of Law and The Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. Inspired by the Rev. Dr. Silvester S. Beaman’s benediction from the inauguration of President Joseph R. Biden Jr. on January 20, 2021, this podcast urges those seeking to reform immigration law to seek our common humanity. Recognizing the whirlwind of changes in ...
Episode 9: To Do A Blessing
March 29, 2021 15:00 - 15 minutes - 10.4 MBThis is a podcast interview with Rev. Craig B. Mousin, founder and former Director of the Midwest Immigrant Rights Center and an Adjunct Faculty member at DePaul University’s College of Law and The Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. Inspired by the Rev. Dr. Silvester S. Beaman’s benediction from the inauguration of President Joseph R. Biden Jr. on January 20, 2021, this podcast urges those seeking to reform immigration law to seek our common humanity. Recognizing the whirlwind of changes in ...
Episode 8: Honor World Children’s Day
March 29, 2021 15:00 - 16 minutes - 11.1 MBThis episode is an interview with Rev. Craig B. Mousin, an Adjunct Faculty member at DePaul University’s College of Law and The Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. On November 20, 2020, the designated World Children’s Day, Rev. Mousin discusses what can be done in response to the thousands of children detained, deported, and excluded from applying for remedies permitted under the Refugee Act of 1980. In addition, he invokes the ten immediate priorities recommended by a coalition of several na...
Episode 4: Help Our System of Justice Work Best
March 29, 2021 14:00 - 14 minutes - 9.8 MBThis episode is an interview with Rev. Craig B. Mousin, founder and former Executive Director of the Midwest Immigrant Rights Center which later became the National Immigrant Justice Center (www.immigrantjustice.org), and an Adjunct Faculty member at DePaul University’s College of Law and The Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. He responds to the federal government’s proposed regulations that would limit the discretion of Immigration Judges and change the procedure for appeals to the Board of...
Episode 3: Repair the Breach
March 29, 2021 14:00 - 12 minutes - 8.45 MBRepair the Breach: Help All in Your Community Be Counted in the 2020 Census This episode is an interview with Rev. Craig B. Mousin founder and former Executive Director of the Midwest Immigrant Rights Center and an Adjunct Faculty member at DePaul University’s College of Law and The Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. He discusses how the Census, by counting all those residing in the United States every ten years, if done well, helps the nation repair past breaches to our body politic. In th...
Episode 5: Celebrate Ombuds Day--October 8, 2020
March 29, 2021 14:00 - 5 minutes - 3.79 MBJoin Ombuds and friends from around the world to celebrate the peacemaking work of Ombuds. Sponsored by the American Bar Association’s Dispute Resolution Committee (www.americanbar.org/groups/dispute_resolution/). Ombuds Day will meet virtually, but intentionally, on Thursday, October 8,2020 to raise up the work of Ombuds and seek ways to address resolution of conflict and miscommunication. Craig B. Mousin, DePaul University’s Ombudsperson (offices.depaul.edu/mission-ministr…es/default.aspx)...
Episode 2: New Opportunity to Oppose Proposed Regulations Precluding Asylum Eligibility
March 29, 2021 13:00 - 10 minutes - 7.05 MBThis is a podcast interview with Rev. Craig B. Mousin founder and former Executive Director of the Midwest Immigrant Rights Center and an Adjunct Faculty member at DePaul University’s College of Law and The Grace School of Applied Diplomacy. He talks about responding to the federal government’s proposed regulations that would make asylum seekers ineligible for asylum and related remedies based on purported public health considerations. We encourage you to file your own comments opposing part...
Episode 1: Portland - What Border are we Defending?
March 29, 2021 13:00 - 13 minutes - 8.99 MBIn this episode Rev. Craig B. Mousin discusses the deployment of federal officers to Portland in reaction to the ongoing protests. He discusses the problem of relying on federal immigration officers for local law enforcement and links some of Chicago’s responses to federal interference in local matters. He references a previous podcast about DACA recipients and their families and communities. It is available here: Bcicirel – It-is-more-than-just-the-dreamers For more insight into the dist...