By Carolina Valdivia Carolina is an undocumented graduate student at San Diego State University. Creator of www.mydocumentedlife.wordpress.com She recently got approved for DACA and is eager to continue helping others through her activism, education, research, and writing. June 5, 2012- Undocumented activists stage a sit-in at President Barack Obama’s campaign office in [...]
By Fernando Romero Fernando, graduated from Cal State Long Beach in 2009 and studied Creative Writing and Journalism. He is a co-founding member of Dreamers Adrift and co-founding member of the AB 540 group FUEL @ CSULB. He is also the Coordinator for the Justice for Immigrants Coalition of Inland Southern California, which is an [...]
By Caitlin Patler Caitlin Patler is a PhD candidate in Sociology at UCLA. She has been an activist for immigrants’ rights for over a decade. In 2012, she volunteered with No More Deaths’ Desert Aid Project along the US-Mexico borderlands. These are some of her reflections. To the dead who are found And [...]
By Ju Hong Ju, is a student/activist at UC Berkeley and has advocated for the DREAM Act for many years. In July 2011, while serving as ASUC Senator-elect, he was arrested along with six other Dreamers duing an act of civil disobedience at San Bernardino Valley College in the Inland Empire. “Did you register to vote?” [...]
By Nico Kateri Cisneros Nico Kateri, isn’t related to the great Sandra Cisneros, but she’s an admirer and hopes to be a great author as well someday. Until then, she’s working towards English and Music Technology degrees in good ol’ Texas. LUNES “Words are nothing, harmless. They fix as much as they break. Words [...]
By Lamont Lilly Lamont, is a contributing editor with the Triangle Free Press, Human Rights Delegate with Witness for Peace and organizer with Workers World Socialist Party. He resides in Durham, N.C. Follow on him Twitter @LamontLilly In its original format, Alabama’s Beason-Hammon Act granted school resource officers the right to badger 5th graders [...]
By Sofia Campos, Sofia is a UCLA graduate and active member with IDEAS and DREAM Team Los Angeles. I came to this country when I was six from Lima, Peru. During my senior year of high school my parents finally had to tell me our family was undocumented. Since then, I learned what it feels [...]
By Jesus Cortez Jesus, is an active member of the Orange Country Dream Team and contributor to the Huffington Post Dream Activist series. Show me YOUR papers that say you are more human than me, you see I am free to step where I please, I need no justification for my migration, if this [...]
By Sofia Campos, Sofia is a UCLA graduate and active member with IDEAS and DREAM Team Los Angeles. Rising on the shoulders of our ancestors at last with the keys to open doors once hidden in our past, Broken down barriers, Loosened up chains– Not just one person, but families together reaching gains. Cada alma [...]
By Bo Undoing the pain of upward mobility… Today I have come to the realization that maintaining a legal status was the most burdensome duty. It feels so free to not carry that weight anymore. All this time, the burden of having a legal status had dictated my life path—how my day was supposed [...]
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