If you're in Chicago this weekend and looking from something to do, check out "Remaining Awake Through A Great Revolution," The annual national conference on peacemaking of Pax Christi USA. The event starts today at the Wyndham O'Hare Hotel in Chicago and goes all weekend.

NCR columnist Jesuit Fr. John Dear will be there. Other special guests included Claudette Werleigh, former Prime Minister of Haiti and currently the General Secretary of Pax Christi International; Nobel Peace Prize nominee Kathy Kelly; filmmaker Bud Ryan; Mike Schloss from the Ignatian Solidarity Network; and Pax Christi's representative at the U.N., Madeline Labriola;

A note from Pax Christi says walk-in registrations will be taken today (Friday) from 3-7 p.m.

And if you can't be there physically, you can be there virtually:

• Conference pages on the Pax Christi USA Web site [1]


• Twitter [2]


• Facebook [3]


• and Flikr [4]