June 13, 2o11 Article 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 [...]

By Saadia Behar, Story June 13, 2012 DENVER – When two DREAM-Act young adults, inside theColorado headquarters of the Obama campaign, ended their 134-hour sit-in and hunger strike of over 134 hours, they were greeted by smiles, cheers, whistles, applause, and the whirring of news cameras. Chants of “Undocumented, unafraid!” continued for several minutes as [...]

Doug Singsen reports on a cross-country march by a group of young immigrant rights activists who call themselves the “DREAM Walkers.”/June 13/Link FOR SIX days, ending on June 11, two young activists, Javier Hernandez and Veronica Gomez, occupied President Obama’s campaign office in Denver and went on a hunger strike to demand that Obama issue an [...]

By Ron Baird, Denver Channel 1, Denver News June 12, 2012 Denver- Campaign For an American DREAM has triggered The National  Immigrant Youth Alliance (NIYA) to activate its network to carry out acts of Civil Disobedience in Democratic campaign office across the country from now until the November elections. The Administration has thus far not [...]

Undocumented Youth Staging Sit and Hunger Strike At The Obama Campaign Office in Denver to Demand Executive Order Has Triggered National Immigrant Youth Alliance to Take Actions Across The Nation NIYA to Carry Out Actions of Civil Disobedience This Week at Obama Campaign Offices Nationwide Denver – Campaign For an American DREAM has triggered The [...]

By Rema Rahman Associated Press DENVER – Two activists on their third day of a hunger strike at an Obama campaign office in Denver said Friday they’re calling senators to stop the deportation of some illegal immigrants. Veronica Gomez, 24, of Antioch, Calif. and Javier Hernandez, 23, of Denver, began camping out Tuesday on a couch in the Obama campaign field office [...]

By Kelsey Whipple June 8, 2012 (Photo by Kelsey Whipple) For more than sixty hours now, Javier Hernandez and Veronica Gomez have occupied downtown Denver’s Obama For America headquarters to push the President to sign an executive order prohibiting the deportation of undocumented youth. They have not eaten during that time, and while they say [...]

By Saadia Behar June 8, 2012 DENVER – Undocumented youths from CAD, the Campaign for an American Dream, arrived here just a few days ago, and are already changing things. Almost three months previously these DREAM Walkers began their 3,000 mile journey across the United States, from the Golden Gate Bridge in California on their way to [...]

By Jackie Chazan/June 8, 2012 Denver Grassroots Politics Examiner/Story The DREAM Act took central stage in Denver this week when members of the Campaign for an American Dream (CAD) took over the Obama for America campaign headquarters to force the President to sign an executive order enacting the DREAM Act. The Obama campaign supports their cause but [...]