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CMSC and Dreamers Push Forward for Advance Parole
On February 13th, just one month after DACA recipient Mayra Garibo's father passed away in Mexico, and one week after her second attempt to request Advance Parole was denied; a federal judge blocked Trump's termination of DACA. Although the new court order does not mention the reactivation of Advance Parole, which was arbitrarily suspended by USCIS, Mayra Garibo and the CMSC continues her fight to return to Mexico to care ... -
John Paul Stevens: Repeal the Second Amendment
By John Paul Stevens ~ NY Times ~ March 27, 2018 A musket from the 18th century, when the Second Amendment was written, and an assault rifle of today. Rarely in my lifetime have I seen the type of civic engagement schoolchildren and their supporters demonstrated in Washington and other major cities ... -
Dreamers Play Video & CMSC 2018 Fund Drive
By popular demand, we bring you recording of the play, "Dreamers: Aquí y Allá" at the CSULB Studio. A special thank you to the Dreamers that shared their stories, and supporters that were able to attend the play in person. Please share and enjoy this video with your family and ... -
Exercise your right to vote from abroad. Register to vote by March 31!
Sin importar en dónde estés, haz valer tus derechos como mexicano. Registro abierto hasta el 31 de Marzo. -
Linda Brown Thompson, girl at center of Brown v. Board of Education case, dies
As an adult, she continued fighting for civil rights By Harrison Smith and Ellie Silverman ~ The Lily News ~ March 27, 2018 Linda Carol Brown was raised in Topeka, Kan., and all she wanted was to go to the Sumner School. But she was black, and the elementary school ... -
Everything You Need to Know About the March for Our Lives
By Madeleine Aggeler ~ The Cut ~ March 19, 2018 Less than a week after a gunman killed 14 students and three staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, survivors of the shooting have mobilized to launch the #NeverAgain movement, and the March for Our Lives, a nationwide protest on March 24 ... -
The nation is focused on students and gun violence. But kids in urban schools want ...
By Petula Dvorak ~ Washington Post ~ March 12, 2018 One of them lost a brother — his twin — to gunfire. Another lost a boyfriend. And a third can count four friends — four — who were killed by gunshots last year. Of course, these kids I talked to are planning ... -
Exclusive: SDPD officer blows whistle on 'rewards for arrests' program
By Jennifer Kastner ~ ABC 10 News ~ March 14, 2018 SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - In an exclusive interview with 10News, a San Diego police officer is blowing the whistle on a newly unveiled program that reports to reward officers for making more narcotics arrests. “It’s completely everything that we ... -
The Return of the Brown Buffalo
The Rise and Fall of the Brown Buffalo is a fresh and genre-defying film about the life of radical Chicano lawyer, author and countercultural icon, Oscar Zeta Acosta- the basis for the character Dr. Gonzo in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, written by his friend and legendary journalist-provocateur, Hunter ... -
Trump is open to short-term DACA deal, White House tells GOP leaders
By Mike DeBonis and Josh Dawsey ~ Washington Post ~ March 14, 2018 White House officials have told key Republican leaders on Capitol Hill that President Trump is open to cutting a deal in an upcoming spending bill to protect young immigrants from deportation in exchange for border wall funding, according to four ...