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Title: DREAM Gathering
Location: 701 S Central Ave Phoenix AZ 85004
Start Time: 6:30
Date: 2013-03-20
End Time: 8:00

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Title: ADAC vs. Brewer
Location: Sandra Day O’Connor U.S. Courthouse Courtroom 603 401 West Washington Street, Phoenix, AZ 85003
Link out: Click here
Description: Friday March 22nd is a very HISTORIC day for DREAMers! Its the 1st time any Immigrant Youth Organization has taken a Governer of a state to Court! We hope you can be there!

Join us at the ADAC vs. Brewer court hearing- ADAC attorneys present before the court all the reasons why DACA recipients should get drivers licenses in AZ, Action and Press conference afterwards.

Call to action. Call Jan Brewer and tell her to let Dreamers Drive!

Call this number (602) 542-4331 and at the very beginning request to leave a message for Gov. Jan Brewer.

All you have to say is “I would like to leave a message for Gov. Jan Brewer”

And then read this script:

My name is _______________ I am calling today in support of Arizona DREAMers and I urge Gov. Brewer to revoke the executive order against deferred action applicants.

Feel free to give one reason why you believe DREAMers should be given driver’s licenses e.g.

Deferred Action applicants are recognized as legally present by the federal government. These individuals have been issued work permits, but denied the privilege to drive to their jobs and school.
Start Time: 08:00AM
Date: 2013-03-22
End Time: 12:00PM

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Title: ADAC vs. Brewer
Location: Sandra Day O’Connor U.S. Courthouse Courtroom 603 401 West Washington Street, Phoenix, AZ 85003
Link out: Click here
Description: Friday March 22nd is a very HISTORIC day for DREAMers! Its the 1st time any Immigrant Youth Organization has taken a Governer of a state to Court! We hope you can be there!

Join us at the ADAC vs. Brewer court hearing- ADAC attorneys present before the court all the reasons why DACA recipients should get drivers licenses in AZ, Action and Press conference afterwards.

Call to action. Call Jan Brewer and tell her to let Dreamers Drive!

Call this number (602) 542-4331 and at the very beginning request to leave a message for Gov. Jan Brewer.

All you have to say is “I would like to leave a message for Gov. Jan Brewer”

And then read this script:

My name is _______________ I am calling today in support of Arizona DREAMers and I urge Gov. Brewer to revoke the executive order against deferred action applicants.

Feel free to give one reason why you believe DREAMers should be given driver’s licenses e.g.

Deferred Action applicants are recognized as legally present by the federal government. These individuals have been issued work permits, but denied the privilege to drive to their jobs and school.
Start Time: 8:00AM
Date: 2013-03-22
End Time: 12:00PM

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Title: ADAC’s Fourth Annual Dancing for a DREAM
Location: 1602 East Roosevelt Street Suite 160 Phoenix, AZ
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Description: The event everyone has been waiting for is FINANLY HERE! The Arizona DREAM Act Coalition presents the Fourth Annual Dancing 4 a DREAM! We have a main ballroom and HUGE outside patio with lights! There will be 2 stages and dance floors, 1 inside and 1 outside, therefore, we will have 2 DJ’s at all times! There will be 3 bands!Of course, you can’t forget our famous Dance Competition! Anyone will be able to join! Who will be this years dance champion? Dancing for a Dream 4 is an event you don’t want to miss!

Put on your dancing shoes and I will see you there!

Start Date: 2013/02/22
Start Time: 7:00PM
End Date: 2013/02/23
End Time: 2:00AM

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Title: We Are Andiola 2.0 It’s Not Over.
Location: Arizona State Capitol
Description: Erika and her mom have asked other families who have lived through the same situation to come forward.
Its time to break the silence about what is happening to our family. Do you have a story to share???
Has someone you love had their family torn apart by ICE? We saw with Erika’s campaign that we CAN DO SOMETHING about it.

We are one family and family sticks together. JOIN US as we grow our family and commit to fight other parents deportations.

We call on Obama and our Congressional delegation to respond to ICE’s attack on Erika’s family and to take action to keep families together.

Who: Erika and her family, other Dreamers who’s mothers are in detention, supporters and allies.

What: Speak out and Vigil

-Erika Andiola and Maria Arreola
-Prayer for families that have been separated

Where: Arizona State Capitol
Start Time: 4:30
Date: 2013-01-17

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Congress 2012 would be yet another “first” for me along with the plane ride there.  I did not know what to expect, but I knew exactly what I wanted to come back with. I was just coming off two massive campaigns; “I’m a DREAM Voter” and No Dream Deferred; I needed a new direction. What would our next steps be? What would I commit to? What are other DREAMers going through? Questions that lingered inside my head the whole bumpy plane ride to Kansas City.

The plane ride gave me more than enough time to myself. I reflected about what life was like a little over 8 months ago. I remember being curled up in bed, my sheets wrapped tightly around me fearing I would fall to pieces. Slowly my hopes for the DREAM Act; a pathway to my education were dying.  Underneath me the ground was chipping. The sky above gray and looming with heavy dark clouds, a metaphoric rain ready to drench my weary and saddened soul. A depression is very hard to get over.

Two plane rides, one lay over and a total of seven hours later we arrived to our beautiful destination. Walking into the convention center, I couldn’t help but feel the electricity in the room. It was as though the rocky balboa theme song should be playing in the background. I was surrounded by my peers, the amazing people that are lead this nation into a new chapter and are ultimately changing the path for millions of immigrants.  I saw 600 motivated educated individuals of different colors, shapes, and sizes ready to do some much needed healing, and most importantly to define the movement’s next steps.

I couldn’t help but keep thinking about my experience. It was meant to be, my life changed with literally one knock at my door. Suddenly my sister and I were catapulted into a whirlwind of a journey. I threw myself with passion into this movement and although it pushed me past my comfort zone more than once, it also freed my voice and my spirit. It took me the full weekend to digest being part of the group that is changing history as you read this but it was truly an energizing experience.

I can’t describe what is like to be in a room full of people whose hearts beat at the same rhythm and whose voices sang the same song. After a tedious and at times rocky and painful process of deciding what DREAMers will be tackling in 2013, we knew what our next steps would be. I came home feeling ready to tackle whatever Arizona throws my way and to continue to motivate people to join our already booming voice.

-Dulce Vasquez

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