DREAM Now Letters Recap: Tell Harry Reid You Want The DREAM Act Now

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Friday July 23, 2010 · 12:44 PM PDT

2010/07/23 · 12:44

The "DREAM Now Series: Letters to Barack Obama" is a social media campaign that launched Monday, July 19, to underscore the urgent need to pass the DREAM Act. The Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, S. 729, would help tens of thousands of young people, American in all but paperwork, to earn legal status, provided they graduate from U.S. high schools, have good moral character, and complete either two years of college or military service. With broader comprehensive immigration reform stuck in partisan gridlock, the time is now for the White House and Congress to step up and pass the DREAM Act!

This post will mark the completion of the first week of the DREAM Now Letters. This social media campaign has been an immediate success, which is in large part due to the historic actions of DREAMers this week.

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Wednesday July 21, 2010 · 11:23 AM PDT

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Monday July 19, 2010 · 2:34 PM PDT

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Monday April 12, 2010 · 6:49 AM PDT

2010/04/12 · 06:49

Originally posted on Citizen Orange.

In case you missed it, the Associated Press recently covered our request for a meeting with Senator Scott Brown (R-Mass.). We are asking Sen. Brown to meet with us before April 17.

Harvard College Act on a Dream has been trying to meet with Sen. Brown since he was first elected at the beginning of the semester. We were told that his office was a mess the first couple of months, but we were finally asked to fax our meeting request to his office. We sent the fax on March 5, 2010.

After not getting a commitment to a meeting for over a month, we were forced to take our meeting request public.

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Monday December 14, 2009 · 4:30 PM PST

2009/12/14 · 16:30

Originally posted on Citizen Orange.

At long last, Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) is set to introduce his version of comprehensive immigration reform, tomorrow. The last time I wrote about Rep. Gutierrez introducing this bill, I chided him for failing to co-sponsor the DREAM Act. The fact that Gutierrez wanted to include the DREAM Act in his bill, but failed to co-sponsor it before, is just one of many ways the voices of migrant youth are stifled, used, and taken for granted in the U.S. immigration debate. I commend Rep. Gutierrez for finally showing migrant youth the respect we deserve by co-sponsoring the DREAM Act.

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Thursday August 13, 2009 · 6:54 PM PDT

2009/08/13 · 18:54

Originally posted on Citizen Orange. I missed a whole day of Netroots Nation pouring my heart out into this post. Please digg it, tweet it, stumble it, etc.

Another day another DREAM. Over the last few days, I have been working hard with Herta Llusho and her brother Lirjon to support their campaign to defer Herta's deportation on August 19, 2009.

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Tuesday June 23, 2009 · 5:22 AM PDT

2009/06/23 · 05:22

Originally posted on Citizen Orange.

It's a story that has been told time and time again. It has been written in poems. It has been captured in photos. It has been screened in videos.

If you're on the Internet and you haven't heard of the DREAM Act, you're not doing it right. Seriously, just throw your computer out the window right now. Keeping your computer is not worth your money or your time...

If you're still here, I'll let you get away with watching this video:

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Thursday March 26, 2009 · 10:16 AM PDT

2009/03/26 · 10:16

Originally posted on Citizen Orange.

It is official. According to the St. Petersburg Times, the DREAM Act will be reintroduced this week by Sen. Richard Durbin and Sen. Richard Lugar:

The movement's moment could arrive as early as Tuesday when Durbin
reintroduces the bill with co-sponsor Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind.
Saundra Amrhein - St. Petersburg Times (21 March 2009)

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Tuesday March 24, 2009 · 10:20 AM PDT

2009/03/24 · 10:20

Originally Posted on Citizen Orange.

I'm happily returning from my blogging hiatus this week to make a common-sense argument: passing the DREAM Act is not only the right thing to do, but in these trying economic times it is also the sensible thing to do.

I am such a passionate advocate for the DREAM Act that I often forget there are people in this world that don't know what the DREAM Act is.

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Wednesday December 10, 2008 · 2:41 AM PST

2008/12/10 · 02:41

Originally posted on Citizen Orange.

Today is the 60th Anniversary of the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Witness.org is asking people to submit video, images, or text, regarding what opened their eyes to human rights.

I can easily name an image that opened my eyes to human rights. It's the image of Tomasa Mendez, who became a poster child for the separation of families after the New Bedford raid.