13 – DACA/DREAMers

This set of links sketches a context for the DACA/DREAMer movement in a context of Mexican and Mexican-American struggles for human and civil rights. The context of the Chicano movement is also very important here, so please visit our resources on that struggle, too.


Cesar Chavez, Luis Valdez. Plan of Delano.
http://chavez.cde.ca.gov/ModelCurriculum/Teachers/Lessons/Resources/Documents/plan_of_delano.pdf

Prejudice and Pride. Latino Americans, Episode Five: Farmworkers Strike, PBS http://www.pbs.org/video/latino-americans-farmworkers-strike/


Coalition of Immokalee Workers
http://www.ciw-online.org/

Coalition of Immokalee Workers. UMWomen, YouTube, Aug. 14, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh_44vFiQ88


M.E.Ch.A.
http://www.chicanxdeaztlan.org


Our Families Can’t Wait
http://www.latinorebels.com/2014/01/18/open-letter-to-the-immigrant-rights-movement-our-families-cant-wait/

United We Dream
https://unitedwedream.org/


Lights for Liberty
https://www.lightsforliberty.org


Migration Policy Institute
https://www.migrationpolicy.org

Behind Closed Doors: Abuse and Retaliation Against Hunger Strikers in U.S. Immigration Detention” (ACLU, Physicians for Human Rights: June, 2021).

https://www.justsecurity.org/77064/abuse-and-retaliation-against-hunger-strikers-in-ice-detention/


Gabriela Nunez-Santiago. Sacar La Voz: A Manifesto For My Latinx Peers.” Digital Commons, Lesley University, Spring 2018.
https://digitalcommons.lesley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1079&context=expressive_theses


Fernanda Echavarri.”I’ve Heard Anti-Latino Racism for Years. But the El Paso Massacre Weaponized It.” Mother Jones Aug. 2019
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/08/el-paso-shooting-latinx-targeted-violence-essay/


Check your library for this ebook:

Chicana Movidas : New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era, edited by Dionne Espinoza, et al., University of Texas Press, 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central,