From original CAD walker Lucas DaSilva: RIP Luis DaSilva You were a great man, friend, and father. I love you and I miss you so much. I’m sorry I didn’t get to see you again. I’m sorry I couldn’t be there for your funeral. But I vow to you this: Every ounce of fiber and carbon [...]
The Campaign for an American DREAM has been on the ground for six months as of September 10th, 2012. We have been walking since March 10th from San Francisco and will end on November 2nd in Washington. D.C.. We are currently in Harrison, Ohio and are still just as energized as we were on the first [...]
CAMPAIGN FOR AN AMERICAN DREAM – MILE 2,100 INDIANAPOLIS Mission: To walk across the nation creating dialogue around the passage of the Federal DREAM Act and immigration reform. When Jonatan and Verónica left the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco on March 30, they did not know what the next 8 months would bring to [...]
By Julie Sickel, Indianapolis Star A group of three students on a cross-country walking tour to raise support for the Federal Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act will call Indianapolis home until Monday in hopes of raising funds and speaking with Indiana legislators. The DREAM Act would grant legal residency and the [...]
Deportable undocumented students are continuing to walk across America for the Federal DREAM Act, despite President Obama’s Deferred Action Announcement. They were recently joined by six students from Prescott College in Arizona. INDIANAPOLIS – Campaign for an American DREAM (CAD) has arrived to Indianapolis, IN and will hold a Lobby day at the capital followed by a Press [...]
Deportable undocumented students are continuing to walk across America for the Federal DREAM Act, despite President Obam’s Deferred Action Announcement. ST. LOUIS- Campaign for an American DREAM (CAD) will be having a press conference today at 12:30pm at Kiener Plaza, on N Broadway and Market St. in St. Louis, MO. CAD is a grassroots organization led [...]
KANSAS CITY- Campaign for an American DREAM (CAD) will be having a press conference today at El Centro, 650 Minnesota Avenue Kansas City, KS. CAD is a grassroots organization led by undocumented youth walking from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. for the passage of a comprehensive Federal DREAM Act, while educating and empowering communuties. CAD has [...]
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 [...]