We just want to share our excitement to be part of this college movement! Education is a right, and we are fighting for justice! Therefore, we are advocating for our legislators to reintroduce S 729, the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act (DREAM Act) of 2009 as a stand-alone bill. This bill addresses the problems faced daily by many talented students who were brought to the United States illegally at a young age.
This blog will serve to share the information that has inspired Swat to become more active on advocating for the passage of the DREAM Act.
After learning that Harvard's president has publicly supported the DREAM Act 2 years ago, a group of students at Swat have started organizing for this cause to follow Harvard's example.
[here's Harvard's Act on a Dream site: http://actonadream.org/home.html]
I urge everyone to join or start a DREAM Act advocacy group at your schools/organizations/unions. Here's an amazing organizing toolkit from United States Student Association:
http://www.usstudents.org/our-work/legislative/dream-act-organizing-kit
(Also an amazing website, esp networking and etc is dreamactivist.org)
There are many colleges that have already endorsed the DREAM Act which includes UC Berkeley, UC Davies, Stanford, Harvard, UPENN, and Washington U. And Yale, Princeton, Norte Dame, Tufts etc are starting their efforts as well!
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