The California-Mexico Studies Center (CMSC) has successfully provided the unique opportunity to study abroad in Mexico to over 160 Dreamers since 2014, through the CMSC’s California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program.
However, due to the termination of DACA, the CMSC will not be able to continue the program, aborting the applications of 75 Dreamers that were planning to return to Mexico with our Winter 2017 program.
Notwithstanding this set back, the CMSC will continue its mission and the following projects already in motion, through the funds raised by our 2nd Annual Marco A. Firebaugh California-Mexico Dreamers Fund Drive:
- Continue to research and advocate for Dreamers on both sides of the border, and the plight of 800,000+ U.S.-citizen children exiled in Mexico and Central America, due to the deportation of their undocumented parents;
- Publish a book with our Dreamers’ human stories and testimonies after studying abroad through our California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program;
- Produce a full-length documentary on the California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program’s 3-year history and its impact upon over 160 participants;
- Produce a play to be staged at CSULB in mid-February 2018, and planned to be toured in the U.S. and Mexico.
The event will feature comedy by Ernie G. as the MC, and solo performances by músico Raul Pacheco (Ozomatli), Justino Mora (co-founder of Undocumedia), Josefina Lopez (Casa0101 Theater and Casa Fina Restaurant), film director and rockero Sergio Arau, actress Yareli Arizmendi, visual artist Gregorio Luke, dancer Isis Avalos, and a special performance by the Susie Hansen Latin Jazz Band.
The goal of the 2nd Annual Marco A. Firebaugh California-Mexico Dreamers Fund Drive is $50,000 to be raised from September 1 through December 31, 2017.
The California-Mexico Studies Center is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, whose mission is to research, develop, promote, and establish policies and programs between higher educational institutions and cultural organizations that will enhance the teaching, mobility and exchange of faculty, students, and professionals between California and the U.S. with Mexico and other nations in the Western Hemisphere.
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