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Originally Posted by LifeDreamer
I'm reposting this here...
You know I think this is a great and powerful forum I have talked with dreamers who live in all parts of the country from Illinois, to Florida, to Texas, to California and New York and I’m sure all of us have great skills and talent's.
Thanks to the power of this forum and the internet we have a chance to apply our skills, and knowledge together to create something new, something powerful and something that will help build the momentum that will finally help the Dream Act pass.
There are dreamers already doing what they can for the movement. There has been Pedro from California who told his entire university he was undocumented, Lucy Martinez who lasted the longest in the Dream hunger strike in Taxes, and Isabel Castillo from Virginia who just received an honorary Ph.D for her work on the Dream Act.
Visualize what can be done if a coordination of a new branch movement of dreamers from across the country can be establish.
Guys it’s time to step up!!! As I saw in a recent commercial the cost of freedom is always high and of course it’s never free.
It's time to put all things aside and hold sacrifices like these dreamers have done for the movement…
I for one am prepared to sacrifice my self so that other dreamers and my brother have a chance at the Dream.
One thing we can do now is find out where we stand.
1. What state are you from?
2. What skills or talents do you have?
3. A suggestion on how we can build movement for the Dream Act.
Marketing, Public Relations and Advertising including direct mail Is something I know. I know webdesign (including social networks) and I’m also very ok when it comes to public speaking.
My suggestion would be to bring dreamers together via this website and work together to coordinate and achieve movements both online and across the country. I would like to see a Dream Fund establish where we can donate money to hire lawyers and PR firms. (I’ve personally have anonymously donated money to this forum, because I know some old lady somewhere is donating money to websites like numbers usa.)
I would like to get in contact with some dreamers who hang around Senator Dick Durban and see if he would set up this fund.
In all honesty I know dreamers who have spend hours and days calling, emailing, and faxing Senators and that can’t be our only approach guys. We need more.
I know ericakim212 is ready for a fight..The question here is anybody else also willing to step up and do more???
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I agree with this, and already trying to do something about it. In the past two months I have joined the Immigrant Youth Justice League in Chicago, been in contact with members of ICIRR and another pro-immigrant organization, coordinating with my universities undergraduate admissions office in order to see what I can do in my state which is not really pro-immigration (I attend a private university in Illinois that I have learned is very much committed to going beyond to help dreamers but I am from the state of Florida). I am also working with the counseling services, and one of the psychologists will be donating her time and resources to helping IYJL and members of the university as well as bringing information to the university through workshops. I found a member from ICIRR (Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Right) who wants to give an informational presentation on my campus. I have already set up a meeting with a counselor from my high school to inform her about the options and hopefully I will get in contact with dreamers that are active in Florida to see what we can do to the end of ensuring people understand that there are options in the national level for higher education. And all throughout I have given my information if they know anyone that is a dreamer and wants to learn or may not know enough about how to navigate the system to contact me personally and I may refer them anywhere.
I have also coordinated my university to be present in a webcast that was aimed at high school teachers and counselors only organized by United We Dream, and it seems like I will be an elected candidate in an organization within my university which will get some money with the intent of providing textbooks to dozens of dreamers that are coming in next semester alone.
And you know what, all of this is exciting stuff, the more active you become the easier it becomes that if the unforeseeable event does take place where you are facing the challenge of deportation you could have a large community from all places that will petition and actually have a good amount of material to fight for a deferred action to your deportation.