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This is a time for brave little girls :
This is a time for brave little girls :
A little Girl in desperation and tired of being bullied, harassed and "Racially Profiled" becomes very brave and filled with courage against the Toughest and Roughest Sheriff.
See the Video of Daniela Cruz at the bottom of this page --- "If you are watching this video is because I am arrested" .... The text was written by Stephen Lemons :
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One of the more daring examples of DREAM Act civil disobedience occurred in March, when 150 student protesters blocked a street in West Phoenix. Six undocumented students chose not to move from the center of the street and were arrested, thus risking deportation.
In a YouTube clip released to coincide with her arrest with the others, Daniela Cruz explained how she and fellow DREAMers were fed up with living in a limbo where they legally cannot work or go to college at an in-state tuition rate. America is the only home they’ve ever known, and they demonstrated that they are through being victims.
“I’m willing to risk everything I have,” Cruz told her audience. “I’m willing to risk being deported because I’m done seeing people be scared.”
To the surprise of both her and her jailers, ICE holds on Cruz and her cohorts mysteriously were lifted during their 28-hour stay in Joe Arpaio’s Fourth Avenue Jail. They were released on misdemeanor charges.
Cruz and her pals quickly became heroes in the Latino community.
“One day, we’ll be reading about them in history books!” declares Arizona State Senator Steve Gallardo, who is pushing for repeal of 1070.
Gallardo predicts increased public protests in the wake of the expected Supreme Court ruling. “I’ll be right there with them,” he says.
A demonstration scheduled for June 23 by the Phoenix human rights group Puente will target Arpaio’s infamous Tent City. Hundreds of Unitarian Universalists who will convene in Phoenix during that weekend for a national conference will participate in the protest.
The Unitarians and Puente teamed up in 2010 for a massive show of anti-1070 civil disobedience that rocked Phoenix.
Puente organizer Carlos Garcia cites the example set by the DREAM Act kids as one to emulate.
“When undocumented people confront the system, it crumbles,” he says. “And it becomes clear that they are more afraid of us than we are of them.”
"SB1070 Civil Disobedience Must Escalate" by Stephen Lemons
Arrested in Phoenix | Undocumented: Daniela Cruz
Published on Mar 20, 2012 by DreamActivistdotOrg
Arrested in Phoenix | Undocumented: Daniela Cruz
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