*Support undocumented youth as they declare to be "Undocumented, unafraid
and unapologetic"*
*National Coming Out of the Shadows: *
*Thursday March 10th, 2011, @3:00 PM, Daily Plaza*
Last year as undocumented immigrant youth, we began to publicly defy fear
and criminalization by declaring to be "undocumented and unafraid" in the
pursuit of equal rights, immigration reform, and the DREAM Act. It began
here in Chicago on March 10th, 2010 and then spread all over the nation.
Since then, young people have been coming out to their friends, teachers,
legislators, classmates, which have even lead to actions of civi
l disobedience in Arizona, Washington D.C., New York, Illinois, California
and Texas. This has been the first time that the undocumented youth movement
has taken ownership of our actions, our politics, our stories, and the risks
that we are willing to take for the movement.
One year later we are still undocumented, and still finding people who have
lived silent and scared. We believe that being able to speak publicly about
being undocumented, despite our fears, let's us remember that we are not
doing anything wrong, and that we have the right to be here and be treated
as human beings. It is also a way to challenge immigration enforcement to
make a choice: take action and show the world that the people they are
deporting are us, students, workers, their friends, classmates; or stay
silent and affirm our right to be undocumented, unafraid and unapologetic. |
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