IMAN's Faith-Rooted Organizing on Chicago's Southwest Side

Alia Bilal, a University of Illinois graduate working for the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN), on faith-rooted organizing on Chicago's Southwest Side. Spring 2013 series "Faith in Action." Rachel Storm of the Women's Resources Center introduced her. Bilal ran the audience through a paired relationship-building exercise, then described IMAN's core values, its free health clinic, Green Re-Entry housing work in foreclosure-hit Chicago Lawn, the Muslim Run corner-store health campaign, Community Cafe, and the Takin' It to the Streets festival in Marquette Park. Audience Q&A followed on foreclosure activism and immigrant ties abroad.