Get involved with the DREAM Act Now! Monday, November 15, 2010 By William Wise w/ DREAM Act NOW! at UTSA - Advertising http://dreamactutsa.blogspot.com/ http://www.dreamactivist.org/blog/2010/10/13/dreamer-responds-luxury-waiting/ There still a chance for dream to be introduced. Sen Reid will be reintroducing dream....... For Immediate Release Contact: William Wise DREAM Act NOW! at UTSA (210) 232-5893 Starving for Our DREAM: Undocumented Students and Allies Declare Hunger Strike San Antonio--With more than 20 anti-immigrant bills pre-filed in the state legislature in less than forty-eight hours, Texas immigrant youth call for immediate action on the federal DREAM Act. The student organization, DREAM Act NOW! at UTSA, is declaring a Hunger Strike as a wake up call for national leadership to step in and pass the DREAM Act in the lame duck session. The group is urging all Texas supporters to write and call Senator Kay Baily Hutchison and Senate Majority leader Harry Reid to request their support. The Hunger Strike days will include, a day of collaboration with ROTC members in a Veteran’s Day rally in support of undocumented youth wanting to join the Armed Forces and a series of vigils including “Vigil for Dead Dreams” in memory of DREAM Act eligible youth who have been deported. “As a Latino community and homegrown talent we feel under attack by these anti-immigrant forces” said Pamela Resendiz, Co-founder of DREAM Act NOW! “We must speak out through this Hunger Strike and urge our university and our community to stand with us and fight for legislation that is based on hard work, education, and service.” “We are calling for Senator Hutchison’s reasonable voice to step in and pass the DREAM Act in the lame duck session before the shrill paranoia of the Tea Party purges the prosperity and unity of our state just as they did her campaign during the primaries” said Benita Veliz, member of DREAM Act NOW! The strikers will host the following days of action to promote the DREAM Act: Location: One UTSA Circle San Antonio, TX 78249-1644         Wednesday: Hunger Strike initiates,11:00 AM         Thursday: Veteran’s Day Rally with ROTC, 11:00 AM         Friday: Vigil for Dead DREAMS, 6:00 PM Location: 115 S Main Plaza, San Antonio, TX 78205-2718)          Saturday: Vigil at San Fernando Cathedral, 6:00 PM        Sunday: DREAM Act Ceremony at San Fernando Cathedral, 6:00 PM Location: Sen Hutchinson’s office, 3133 General Hudnell Dr. San Antonio, Texas 78226         Monday: Press Conference following Congressional Visit, 9:30 AM  Pamela Resendiz and Benita Veliz are available for comment. Follow us on our blog:  http://dreamactutsa.blogspot.com/ DREAM Act NOW! at UTSA is a student organization composed of immigrant youth and their allies committed to promoting passage of the DREAM Act. The DREAM Act is a federal bipartisan legislation that would allow for an earned opportunity for undocumented youth to adjust their immigration status if they have been in the U.S. before the age of sixteen, have maintained good moral character and pursue two years of higher education or two years in the Armed Forces. The legislation would only offer relief to immigrant youth who have been in the United States five years prior to the legislation being enacted.

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