Monday, August 2, 2010
By Associated Press
The Boston Herald
BOSTON — Student immigrant advocates want to bring their Dream University to Boston.
Advocates for the Boston-based group Student Immigrant Movement are scheduled to host on Tuesday a one-day teach-in in front of the Massachusetts Statehouse. They are using the teach-in for undocumented students to push a federal proposal known as the DREAM Act, which would give illegal immigrants a path to citizenship through college enrollment or military service.
The move comes after a coalition of student immigrant advocacy groups in Massachusetts, Colorado and California last month launched Dream University, a makeshift school in the nation’s capital, reminiscent of the 1960s teach-ins, which were open educational forums with broad discussions that took a similar approach in mobilizing opposition to the Vietnam War.
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[Posted by Anais LaVoie.]
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