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Wanna Participate in the SOTU Address Tonight?
1:53 pm By Maegan La Mala · Immigration|Politics · Comments Off
25 Jan 2011Despite my own pessimistic outlook on tonight’s State of the Union address tonight, there is pressure to be put on President Obama and opportunities to engage.
Alto Arizona put out a petition urging Obama to speak on immigration, pointing out how there has been much talk but little action from D.C. so far.
Reform Immigration for America has a mobile app that will poll your opinion in real-time as you are watching the State of the Union address.
Finally, if your issues are not addressed tonight, On Thursday, President Obama will give a national interview on YouTube and people can submit questions.
And yes, stay tuned to VivirLatino and our twitter account for our own live snarkfest, I mean commentary.
#LGBTCIR = Coalition Fail?
9:13 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · GLBT|Immigration|New York City · 24 Comments
28 Feb 2010I spent Saturday afternoon at a briefing for LGBT bloggers, editors and reporters at the Desmond Tutu Center, organized by the LGBT Subcommittee of the Four Freedoms Fund. I should note that VivirLatino wasn’t originally invited to the event, but I attended upon hearing about it from Prerna Lal of DREAMActivist and Change.org. I went to the event having already paticipating in conversations about the intersections of the movements at the NOI Summit last summer and Netroots Nation. You all remember how well that went, right?
The LGBTCIR conversation wasn’t any different. First I should say that I missed the entire morning part of the session because I was mami’ing, working, and trying to get information on multiple families in Chile. I know that I missed a wonderful presentation from The Trail of DREAMs that inspired everyone. From Change.org:
The high point of the blogger summit was still the DREAM Act-eligible students who are walking the Trail of DREAMs from Florida to Washington, D.C. — a project of Florida Immigrant Rights Coalition, Students Working for Equal Rights, Presente, and DreamActivist. Two of the walkers who happen to be queer immigrants and in a relationship with each other — Juan Rodriguez (20) and Felipe Matos (23) — called in from Atlanta, Georgia, to discuss the ways in which the broken immigration system fails them.
Juan is documented while Felipe is undocumented. Their only legal recourse to stay together is either passage of the DREAM Act or the Uniting American Families Act, since immigration law will not recognize their partnership. Their bravery and willingness to not only speak out, but risk detention and their lives, by walking hundreds of miles through Klan-country was awe-inspiring.
Random Images from the Reform Immigration for America Summit
4:47 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Events|Immigration|Washington DC · Comments Off
4 Jun 2009Here are just a few random pics that I’ve snapped while wrangling a toddler at the Reform Immigration for America Summit.
I’m sorry pero the pronunciation guide of the chant on this flyer cracked me the hell up.
Poroto eating inside the Victory Tent.
The Victory Tent, where the lunches and dinners happen.
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Dia Dos of Reform Immigration For America Summit Jumps Off
6:00 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration|Politics|Washington DC · 2 Comments
4 Jun 2009
This is how we roll at the Reform Immigration for America Summit. These Summits are often exhausting, especially when there are so many people to speak to (some that you only see in person once a year) and so much work to be done and stories and angles to cover. Add to the mix that I’m running with a two year old and it makes it even more exhausting. Pero as amigo Kyle said to me yesterday, you run on adrenaline.
Today should be a really interesting day. There is a Town Hall Meeting on Immigration Reform that will feature some of the top legislative supporters of immigration reform. It will be interesting to see what the set up is at the Town Hall as sometimes these events aren’t very “towny” in that participation is limited. And as Kyle pointed out in a post yesterday from the Summit, there remain many questions that need to be asked.
For instance, why is it that traditional notions of comprehensive immigration reform include reuniting heterosexual married couples, while same-sex binational couples are left out in the cold. Another important issue is the way Reform Immigration For America will treat migrant youth. Will migrant youth be treated as leaders in the push for the DREAM Act? Or, will they be coopted or ostracized for pushing the DREAM Act independent of the migration reform?
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