SSND In the News – 2011
July 6, 2011 – Sister Josephe Marie Flynn's book is published
Sister Josephe Marie Flynn, cofounder and chair of the Milwaukee Archdiocesan Justice for Immigrants Committee and leader of the Save Regina Campaign, celebrated her new book, Rescuing Regina, with a launch party at Mount Mary College in Milwaukee on July 6, 2011.
On March 22, 2005, Regina Bakala, a Congolese torture survivor, was seized from her Milwaukee home by immigration officials. A decade after fleeing the Congo for the U.S., having endured rape, imprisonment and torture for advocating democracy in her homeland, Regina found herself locked in a Milwaukee prison facing deportation to almost certain death.
Rescuing Regina: The Battle to Save a Friend from Deportation and Death (Lawrence Hill Books, an imprint of Chicago Review Press, July 2011) by Josephe Marie Flynn, SSND, is the harrowing true story of a feisty nun, a ferocious lawyer, and a group of grassroots volunteers who set aside political differences in a race to save Regina from deportation to her Congolese torturers. Along the way, Sister Josephe holds America's hidden asylum system up for long overdue scrutiny, exposing its arbitrariness and lack of safeguards.
Wisconsin Woman of Greater Milwaukee – feature story on November 1, 2011
Sister Josephe Marie Flynn, SSND and Regina Bakala are featured in the cover story of Wisconsin Woman of Greater Milwaukee magazine's November issue. Read about their efforts to bring about a just immigration system in the U.S. and their enduring friendship. http://www.mymilwaukeelife.com/view/full_story/16165885/article-Acts-of-Faith--Hope-and-Love?
Catholic Herald – article on September 1, 2011
'Rescuing Regina' is quest for justice, says author (Sister Josephe Marie Flynn at CHNonline, the website of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee's Catholic Herald, http://www.chnonline.org/news/local/10613-rescuing-regina-is-quest-for-justice-says-author.html
Milwaukee's FOX6 TV Report on July 18
Ted Perry, FOX6 Anchor reports about how Sister Josephe Marie Flynn and a team of people at St. Mary Parish in Hales Corners, Wis. help Regina Bakala, a Congo immigrant stay with her family in the U.S. See the video report at www.fox6now.com/news/witi-20110718-finding-regina,0,369050.story
Milwaukee's Daily Newspaper publishes story on July 17, 2011
See the article by Georgia Pabst, entitled, "Nun writes book about saving Congolese couple from deportation" at JSOnline, the website of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel at http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/125725323.html
Radio Interview on July 13, 2011
Sister Josephe Marie Flynn was interviewed by Jean Faraca on the talk show, "Here on Earth," broadcast on Wisconsin Public Radio. The show is available online, or may be downloaded to your MP3 player from the archives page (select 07/13/11) at http://wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_1107.cfm
YouTube Video Provides Story Synopsis
Learn about the events that led Sister Josephe Marie Flynn to write Rescuing Regina by viewing the video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqL5CRUj2qo&
More Information
Visit www.rescuingregina.com.
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