DreamActivist

Image via Wikipedia Ah, Texas. We are so awesome. You can’t out-crazy the crazies…and our Tea Party caucus is committed to outdoing Arizona. If you’re ready to fire back with some good, tough, talking points…well, let’s get started. I’ll be posting talking points for every different type of bill in a series. There is bipartisan [...]

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Just days before the American Renaissance has its national conference in North Carolina, the nativist Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) has released a statement defending the race science publication. The American Renaissance recently made national headlines when Fox News released a memo stating that the Department of Homeland Security was directing “strong suspicion” at [...]

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Almost a year ago, hate in Arizona became acceptable. Last April, Governor Jan Brewer signed into law the most anti-immigrant bill in the country, SB-1070. Last week, the Mississippi State Senate passed an SB-1070 copycat that is now awaiting action in the state House. And now, a Utah state legislator is looking to introduce the [...]

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This is a defining moment for DREAMers in Florida.  An in-state tuition bill has been introduced in the house and in the senate.  Their names are SB 318 and HB 55. You can read the senate and house versions here. Senator Seplin introduced it in Florida’s Senate, and Representative Dwight  Bullard introduced it in Florida’s [...]

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The following video was found on the Imagine2050 blog. It was put together by an Arizona-based group called the Human League: Watch it here. The video details how intimate the relationship between Neo-Nazi leader JT Ready and Arizona Senate President and SB1070-author Russell Pearce. Some of the highlights: –Pearce ordained Ready as an Elder in [...]

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Photo courtesy of V. Bouloubasis Our own Viridiana Martinez recently joined a panel moderated by Frank Stasio of WUNC’s (our local NPR partner station) The State of Things program to examine Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy, the “promissory note” and the state of activism today. Other than Viridiana, the panel included Karla Holloway, James B. [...]

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“Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.”  —Robert F Kennedy Yesterday, 22-year-old Jared Lee Laughner went to a meet-and-greet your legislator event, Congress On Your Corner, hosted by Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Laughner shot Giffords through the head and then began opening fire on over a [...]

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Carlos from Arizona talks about confronting Senator Russell Pearce at an election-day party. Before this event took place I was with a group of Dreamers marching to the pols to encourage people who hadn’t voted to go out and vote. We had our caps-and-gowns and some had semi-military apparel to show the both aspects of the [...]

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Response to ” Dream Act Students Causing a Nightmare” (Piece written by Sally Kohn) By:Jonathan Perez, Jorge Gutierrez, Nancy Meza, Neidi Y. Dominguez Zamorano We, Nancy, Neidi, Jonathan and Jorge, would like to offer a response to this opinion piece with hopes of clarifying our personal opinions, recognizing these mediums of communication as spaces of [...]

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8 DREAM sit-in participants headed for trial, will be representing themselves.

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