Friday was a bittersweet of indigo painted on the sunset skies as I opted to take a big breath with fumes of hookah in the back yard of Loreto’s house in Denver. It took me several ours of false congratulations, questions, remarks, and celebrations. A couple of rancid insults were unfortunately needed. President Obama had [...]
Blanca Vasquez cited CAD as her inspiration to earn a scholarship to Netrots Nation 2012. Not long after returning from the progressive conference, she joined three others in doing a sit-in at the OFA office in Oakland. We salute Blanca for her dedication to the movement and for crediting CAD as her inspiration. Here is [...]
Dream Activists Pushing Obama for Change By Angelo Lopez, June 19, 2012 Blog On June 16, 2012, Peter Herbert wrote a great blog about the logic of Barack Obama’s recent decision to grant extended, renewable visas to illegal immigrants who came here with their parents as children, so that they can stay in school, on the job, [...]
“And last week, students without immigration papers started a campaign of sit-ins and hunger strikes at Obama campaign offices in more than a dozen cities, saying that despite his promises, the president was continuing to deport immigrants like them.” This was part of the recent New York Times story about the announcement by President Obama, entitled “After Chorus of [...]
CAD was honored to be a part of Denver Pride as we showed our support for our LGBTQ brothers and sisters. Tweet
By Kayla Webley, TIME June 15, 2012 Fulfilling a ‘DREAM’: U.S. to Let Young Undocumented Immigrants Stay Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/06/15/letting-the-undocumented-stay-legally-a-dramatic-shift-in-u-s-policy/?xid=rss-topstories#ixzz1y18kRvt7 Mention of CAD Hunger Strike: Just last week, two illegal immigrants who each came to the U.S. with their respective families at age 4 occupied President Obama’s Denver campaign office and began a short-lived hunger strike [...]
New Obama policy will spare some from deportation June 15, 2012 Read Story in Boston Herald Photo by AP Mention of CAD Hunger Strike in Denver: Activists opposing his deportation policies last week mounted a hunger strike at an Obama campaign office in Denver, and other protests were planned for this weekend. Tweet
Undocumented youth deportation: Advocates joyful, skeptical of Obama policy change By Kelsey Whipple (and photo) June 15, 2012/Story Today brings big news, high hopes and timid reservations about immigration. The Obama administration has announced it will halt the deportation of undocumented youth who immigrated to the country as children and don’t pose threats to national [...]
June 14, 2012 Last week, two undocumented immigrant students occupied President Barack Obama’s Denver campaign office and began a hunger strike, effectively closing his office to visitors and volunteers. The Obama administration did not respond to to the protest action and on Monday, the pair called off the sit-in and finally stepped out of the [...]
By Julianne Hing June 13, 2012 With one eye on the countdown to election day and another on President Obama’s deportation schedule, undocumented immigrant activists are gathering themselves for a standoff this week with Obama over his deportation record, and demanding he order a halt to the deportations of those who would be eligible for [...]