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OBAMA: Pass the DREAM ACT!
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In addition to joining this group, also become a FAN of the "Dream Act" PAGE. By joining the PAGE we'll be able to send you news and action alerts. We need to take action these next few months if we are REALLY going to get Obama to enact the Dream Act.
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- The CESAR CHAVEZ BIRTHDAY HOLIDAY March 30, 2009 is an opportunity for the movement for the Dream Act to act together and demand equality!
Join the Facebook Event page and spread this widely!
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=21893309981
NATIONAL PETITION:
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TURNING OUR HOPES INTO EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY:
PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA: ENACT THE FEDERAL DREAM ACT
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No More Separate and Unequal Treatment for Undocumented Immigrant Students
Latina/o, Black, Asian, Arab, Native American, and White, Immigrants With & Without Papers—We Are America
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1. Our nation has entered a new era of hope. The newly formed and growing mass youth political movement that was the engine of the Obama campaign won a historic victory on November 4th and seeks an America free of racial prejudice, discrimination, and every vestige of the New Jim Crow. Now for the first time, millions of young Latina/o, black, other minority, immigrant, and poor white students who have been denied equal educational opportunities and access to higher education feel like the lives they have been working so hard to attain might actually be possible to realize. The task of the new civil rights movement and every young person, who for the first time are taking the risk of dreaming about what their lives, communities, state and nation could become, is to use our collective power to make those dreams real. We must make sure that President-elect Obama stays accountable to the mass movement that put him into office.
2. Hundreds of thousands of gifted undocumented students are denied the opportunity to attend college. Undocumented students are discriminatorily denied access to federal college financial aid, and even if they overcome this and graduate their future remains uncertain. Passage of the Federal Dream Act would give undocumented students the opportunity to receive federal financial aid and open a pathway to citizenship.
3. The families and communities of undocumented students contribute billions of tax dollars and incalculable hours of poorly paid labor that benefit the economy. Giving their sons and daughters the right to benefit from publicly-funded tuition aid programs is fair and just.
4. If enacted, the Federal Dream Act will establish the important principle that undocumented students can no longer be assigned to a second-class, inferior status and must be treated with respect and dignity. The longstanding legal right of undocumented students to receive the same public educational opportunities as everyone else would be closer to becoming real.
5. President-elect Obama and a large bipartisan majority of Congress have repeatedly declared their support for the passage of the Federal Dream Act. On November 5, 2008, University of California-Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau called on President-elect Obama to enact the Federal Dream Act as soon as he assumes office. Immediate enactment of the Federal Dream Act would clear the way for California and other states to enact state level Dream Acts this year.
6. Winning the enactment of the Federal Dream Act will advance the fight for increased financial aid for all poor, working class, and middle class students who need massively expanded federal aid programs to attain a university education.
Therefore, we the undersigned:
1. Call on President-elect Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress to enact a Federal Dream Act in Obama’s first 100 days of office.
2. Call on every university system, educational institution and association, state and local governmental entity to ask Obama to enact a Federal Dream Act.
3. Stand on the principle that Latina/o, black, Asian, Arab, Native American, and white, immigrants with and without papers—We are America.
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UPDATES!
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* First off, you may have noticed that, in mid-January 2009, all the members of this "OBAMA: Pass the DREAM ACT!" Facebook GROUP were copied over to the Facebook PAGE. This is important because it allows us to stay in touch with you by sending updates like this. If you haven't already, join the Dream Act PAGE at the link below. Tell all your friends to join the Dream Act PAGE by sending them this link as well:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/OBAMA-Pass-the-DREAM-ACT/38051202252
* CONGRATULATIONS to all of you for making sure that the DREAM ACT was a Top 10 vote getter on Change.org. (It also gathered a HUGE number of comments from you, and was #2 in terms of total comments received in support.) Change.org is sending these top 10 issues to Obama to press him to pass the legislation. Here is the current page at Change.org:
http://www.change.org/ideas/932/view_blog/pass_the_dream_act
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NEXT STEPS
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The CESAR CHAVEZ BIRTHDAY HOLIDAY March 30, 2009 is an opportunity for the movement for the Dream Act to act together and demand equality!
Join the Facebook Event page and spread this widely!
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=21893309981
1. CIRCULATE THE PETITION to Get Obama to pass the Dream Act! This petition is a vital way to build the movement: to organize our schools and communities, and to express to Obama our growing mass movement for equality. You can sign the petition online and send the link to your friends, and/or download it in PDF format to circulate in classrooms, street corners, door-to-door, churches, and union and organization meetings. BUILD THE MOVEMENT!
English: http://www.bamn.com/dreamactpetition.asp
Spanish: http://www.bamn.com/dreamactpetition-esp.asp
2. FORM A BAMN CHAPTER. Read BAMN's foundational statements below - building a national organization united with a powerful political perspective and method of building a united, integrated, mass, militant, youth-led civil rights movement, will be decisive to winning the Dream Act. Forming BAMN chapters nationally is the only way we can achieve full equality and legal status for all immigrants. Contact a BAMN organizer to get help.
FIND A LOCAL BAMN ORGANIZER
http://www.bamn.com/1/contact.asp
"THE OBAMA ERA: Renewal of King's Dream or a New Jim Crow?"
http://www.bamn.com/news/index.asp?yr=2009&mo=01
PRINCIPLES OF BAMN:
http://www.bamn.com/1/principles.asp
"YEARNING TO BREATHE FREE: BAMN Declaration on Immigrant Rights":
http://www.bamn.com/1/principles.asp
YOUTH DECLARATION FOR A NEW CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT:
http://www.bamn.com/doc/youth-declaration.asp
3. HOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE. Announce the mass petition. Demand that your university president, board of governors, and/or local Congressmen pledge support for the Dream Act and join the call on Obama to pass the Dream Act. Contact a BAMN organizer to get help.
FIND A LOCAL BAMN ORGANIZER
http://www.bamn.com/1/contact.asp
4. GET YOUR STUDENT GOVERNMENT (AND OTHER BODIES AND ORGANIZATIONS) TO PASS THIS RESOLUTION. On January 28, 2009, the UC-Berkeley student government became the first to pass this bill calling on Obama to pass the Dream Act. Adapt it for your own campus and get your student government to endorse as well! Also ask student groups, churches, unions, community organizations, city councils, etc. to pass the resolution and/or endorse the petition. Post comments on the Dream Act Page to give us updates from your area! Here's the UC-Berkeley bill:
http://www.bamn.com/doc/2009/090123-studgovt-bill-dreamact.doc
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