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Thanks to Martin for sharing his story and his thoughts on the complexity of the issues we deal with every day. My history is very typical and familiar as far as I can describe up to this point, because being dubbed or personified by a general public as an “illegal” human being. What is definitive [...]

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The Georgia state Senate approved, by a 34-19 vote, to kick undocumented youth out of Georgia’s 60 public colleges. However, while it moved to do that, one Republican was moving in the opposite direction. President pro tem Tommie Williams, R-Lyons, whose district includes blueberry, onion and corn growers, said Georgia ought to do something for [...]

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“If you’re tempted to feel powerless and passive, remember that the bogeyman we call “they” wants you to feel that way. And then don’t.” So goes my favorite line in an article I recently read called “Hope: The care and feeding of”, by Rebecca Solnit. It’s a good article. You should read it. And you [...]

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As I sat there and watched the Dream Act hearing on Tuesday June 28, 2011, I didn’t feel much of anything. No tears were shed and no hope was revived because all I heard were the same talking points, the same promises. It’s so sad having to sit around and watch these privileged men speak [...]

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You’ve seen Hotel Rwanda, I’m sure. Don Cheadle portrays the true story of Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who harbored over 1,200 Rwandans during the Rwandan genocide of 1994, saving their lives in the process. Yet there is an evolution of the genocide that has yet to make it into Hollywood or the greater public [...]

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For Immediate Release June 28th, 2011 Domenic Powell (704) 281-9911 domenic@theniya.org 6 Undocumented Youth Arrested at Capitol Demanding Change in Immigration Policies Local high school students arrested while protesting near the State Capitol (Atlanta, GA) – Six undocumented students have been arrested in after an act of civil disobedience near the state capitol building. The [...]

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Dreamers continue to make history, under the leadership of DreamActivist.org DreamActivist is an organizational plaintiff in a lawsuit brought by a civil rights coalition suing Georgia for HB-87, a copycat of Arizona’s papers-please anti-immigrant law. The lawsuit marks the first time in history that undocumented immigrant youth are suing a state for violating their legal rights under [...]

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Four weeks ago, I went to Georgia. Little did I know that Georgia, in her own way, was coming home with me. At the beginning of this month, the inaugural convening of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance (or the NIYA) was held in Atlanta. And a few days later, 8 undocumented youth participated in civil disobedience at Georgia State University, with 7 of them arrested at the risk of being placed into deportation proceedings.

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Every anti-immigrant argument makes my blood boil, but some of those arguments, in a parallel universe where up is down, left is right, and everything ever in America works the way it was supposed to, sort of sound like they aren’t being made by a burning cross-carrying Klan member. One that doesn’t make the cut, [...]

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March 31st at 8pm was when our bus was scheduled to leave New York City and make its way to Atlanta, Georgia. As many of you know, the past weekend was the National Immigrant Youth Alliance‘s first convening and I, along with two other ladies, would be representing the New York State Youth Leadership Council. [...]

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