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MAKE THE CALIFORNIA DREAM ACT A REALITY
ON OCT. 1, 2010: GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER –
DO NOT VETO OUR DREAM THIS YEAR!
STATEWIDE DAY OF ACTION MONDAY, SEPT. 27TH
…Boycott, March, Rally
Defend Public Education!
• Stop the Resegregation of Higher Education • End Discriminatory Admissions and Financial Aid Policies—Give California’s Majority Minority Students Equal Access to Higher Education • Public Education is a Right, not a “Race” • Latina/o, Black, Asian, Arab, Native American, and White, Immigrants With and Without Papers—We Are All Californians
BAMN Meetings
Every Monday at 6:00pm
Evans 81 at UC-Berkeley
(Call 415-250-8528 for more info.)
Direct Action Organizing Meeting
Sunday, Sept. 12, Dwinelle 109 and Every following Sunday in Barrows 174, at 3:00pm at UC-Berkeley
(Call 415-250-8528 for more information.)
The California Dream Act could change from a dream to a reality on October 1st, but we must act now to secure this historic victory. We need students at every college, high school, and middle school, and every union and community organization to begin a campaign of direct action now to force Governor Schwarzenegger to let the Dream Act become law on Oct. 1st.
The California Dream Act—two complementary bills, AB 1460 and AB 1413—are sitting on Governor Schwarzenegger’s desk right now. We have between now and September 30 (about three weeks) to convince the Governor NOT TO VETO these two bills. If Governor Schwarzenegger either signs the bills into law or takes no action on the bills before October 1, tens of thousands of California undocumented students will be able to receive the financial aid they desperately need to stay in or attend college. AB540 status, the designation given by the state to undocumented students who graduated from a California high school and qualify for in-state student status, would be expanded to include students who graduated from technical/vocational high schools and those that graduated from adult education programs. Under AB 1460 and AB 1413, all of these students, youth and adults would be eligible to receive state financial aid loans.
If enacted, the California Dream Act would give hundreds of thousands of undocumented California high school graduates, many of whom were or are the highest-performing students in their high school, the same opportunity to attend college as their peers. It would end the discriminatory policies that have excluded undocumented students from the public higher educational institutions they and their families help to fund. The huge fee hikes instituted last year—UC tuition, for example, is scheduled to increase by 32%—make enactment of the Dream Act imperative now.
As the Brown v. Board of Education ruling did in 1954, the signing into law of AB 1460 and AB 1413 would be an important blow to the arbitrary and contrived definition of who is granted the rights of a citizen, that provides the legal basis and justification for the new Jim Crow policy of separate and unequal treatment of undocumented Americans. Establishing the principle that undocumented students in California, like their black student counterparts in the 1950s Jim Crow South, can no longer be denied an equal right to education and must be given the same educational access and opportunities as their fellow Californians, is something our movement can build on, to win full citizenship rights for all immigrant people who live in and contribute to this society and regard America as their home. If the California Dream Act becomes law this September, the Federal Dream Act that is stalled in Congress will finally get passed. Winning an expansion of public financial programs for needy Californians will also immeasurably strengthen our struggle to defend and expand public education for all Californians.
Securing the California Dream Act now, especially in light of all the right-wing legal efforts to expand the new Jim Crow, would be a tremendous gain for the Latina/o, immigrant and other oppressed communities. Somebody needs to defeat and silence the anti-immigrant bigots. They do not speak for the majority, and we can prove with a victory in California that America is moving in the opposite direction. We can make California the much-needed antidote to the poison that is Arizona.
http://dailycensored.com/2010/09/13/...ream-act-bamn/
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MAKE THE CALIFORNIA DREAM ACT A REALITY
ON OCT. 1, 2010: GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER –
DO NOT VETO OUR DREAM THIS YEAR!
STATEWIDE DAY OF ACTION MONDAY, SEPT. 27TH
…Boycott, March, Rally
Defend Public Education!
• Stop the Resegregation of Higher Education • End Discriminatory Admissions and Financial Aid Policies—Give California’s Majority Minority Students Equal Access to Higher Education • Public Education is a Right, not a “Race” • Latina/o, Black, Asian, Arab, Native American, and White, Immigrants With and Without Papers—We Are All Californians
BAMN Meetings
Every Monday at 6:00pm
Evans 81 at UC-Berkeley
(Call 415-250-8528 for more info.)
Direct Action Organizing Meeting
Sunday, Sept. 12, Dwinelle 109 and Every following Sunday in Barrows 174, at 3:00pm at UC-Berkeley
(Call 415-250-8528 for more information.)
The California Dream Act could change from a dream to a reality on October 1st, but we must act now to secure this historic victory. We need students at every college, high school, and middle school, and every union and community organization to begin a campaign of direct action now to force Governor Schwarzenegger to let the Dream Act become law on Oct. 1st.
The California Dream Act—two complementary bills, AB 1460 and AB 1413—are sitting on Governor Schwarzenegger’s desk right now. We have between now and September 30 (about three weeks) to convince the Governor NOT TO VETO these two bills. If Governor Schwarzenegger either signs the bills into law or takes no action on the bills before October 1, tens of thousands of California undocumented students will be able to receive the financial aid they desperately need to stay in or attend college. AB540 status, the designation given by the state to undocumented students who graduated from a California high school and qualify for in-state student status, would be expanded to include students who graduated from technical/vocational high schools and those that graduated from adult education programs. Under AB 1460 and AB 1413, all of these students, youth and adults would be eligible to receive state financial aid loans.
If enacted, the California Dream Act would give hundreds of thousands of undocumented California high school graduates, many of whom were or are the highest-performing students in their high school, the same opportunity to attend college as their peers. It would end the discriminatory policies that have excluded undocumented students from the public higher educational institutions they and their families help to fund. The huge fee hikes instituted last year—UC tuition, for example, is scheduled to increase by 32%—make enactment of the Dream Act imperative now.
As the Brown v. Board of Education ruling did in 1954, the signing into law of AB 1460 and AB 1413 would be an important blow to the arbitrary and contrived definition of who is granted the rights of a citizen, that provides the legal basis and justification for the new Jim Crow policy of separate and unequal treatment of undocumented Americans. Establishing the principle that undocumented students in California, like their black student counterparts in the 1950s Jim Crow South, can no longer be denied an equal right to education and must be given the same educational access and opportunities as their fellow Californians, is something our movement can build on, to win full citizenship rights for all immigrant people who live in and contribute to this society and regard America as their home. If the California Dream Act becomes law this September, the Federal Dream Act that is stalled in Congress will finally get passed. Winning an expansion of public financial programs for needy Californians will also immeasurably strengthen our struggle to defend and expand public education for all Californians.
Securing the California Dream Act now, especially in light of all the right-wing legal efforts to expand the new Jim Crow, would be a tremendous gain for the Latina/o, immigrant and other oppressed communities. Somebody needs to defeat and silence the anti-immigrant bigots. They do not speak for the majority, and we can prove with a victory in California that America is moving in the opposite direction. We can make California the much-needed antidote to the poison that is Arizona.
http://dailycensored.com/2010/09/13/...ream-act-bamn/
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