DREAM Act Protest
Posted Oct 17 2007
I liked the march a lot. I think it felt empowering walking down the
street and people working in their offices and walking down the street just looking at us and wondering what we are doing. We were marching and chanting through the whole streets, holding up traffic. People were getting mad but we didn't care. I got really mad when we were walking around the city hall and this one man passed right through us and were chanting and feeling good about we were doing and he yelled out to us "Go back to Mexico !" All of us were so mad we were screaming back at him to "go back to Europe" and he just walked away. The police wouldn't even let us walk through the park. They started hating too much on us and people started screaming "racists" to them for a minute. I thought it was going to get out of control and the police were just going to get fed up and start hitting us with those black clubs. I think we did a good thing for going and participating in that march it wasn't all that many people compared to the marches we have here in Oakland. It isn't nothing near that.-Juan Cont. The purpose of the protest that took place on Thursday, October 4, 2007 in Sacramento was to make the governor of California, Arnold, sign the "Dream Act." This document, if signed, will give all immigrants the right to obtain financial aid from the state government. The protest overall went well with a few exceptions. Yet, we faced some racist comments like "go back to Mexico," and some other comments that hurt people's feelings, including mine because I realized that even if we are always trying hard to be accepted by the society we are still discriminated against and seen as invaders by those who consider themselves to be the native people of this land. In my opinion the protest went as expected and with no aggression or use of violence from the protesters, which was the best part because we all showed that even if we are immigrants we still know how to show respect for others. All students were at their best behavior and we were all respectful and got united for the same cause. The Dream Act should be signed because it is an opportunity for all students with special abilities and talents to attend college. This act will also increase the rate of Latino students attending college after high school graduation. After all, it's a really fair act because legal or illegal we all pay taxes and from those taxes the government gives students financial aid and for that reason immigrants have the right to obtain some money, especially because it'ss for our education. We should all be able to have access to accomplish our dream, which is college. This dream can be a reality if Arnold, who is also an immigrant, signs the "Dream Act." Equal education for all!-Vanessa C.
I definetly agree with you about Schwarzenegger.Hopefully nest year we will have a better chance to change this and have immigrant students go to college. I personally feel that its really messed up for them because they really try to do well and succeed here in the US, and those who are actually from the US dont really do anything to better their society. They actualy want to make a difference but due to their immigration status they arnt able to do so. thats why it really bothers me to see many students not being able to afford school, when the gov is wasting that money on students who arnt really taking school serious.
I was at this protest and honestly i thought it didn't make much of a difference. The number of people who came out to protest was small and some didn't even stay for the protest they left. Another thing tat i noticed was that some people who went could not behave themselves, for instance there was an incident were a lady yelled at a student ad it was kind of the students fault but she insisted it wasn't and yelled back at the lady saying really stupid things that had nothing to do with the situation. i think that if your going to go out there and miss a day of school and protest to try to act in a way that the people watching you protest will want to support your cause.
I was this protest at first i was like that nothing was goinbg to change Schwarzenegger to sign the dream act. But they I realized that we should of give it a try that we dont loose anything for just trying. I'm a student that was brought from Mexico because my parents wanted to give me a better life. I think tha same as ale but with dont loos e the chance and dream that one day he will sign the dream so that we as imigrants have more opportunities to go to coole. Because it's not are fault that our parents decided tobrings us as immigrants. Our only problem of us is that we want to study and keep on going to college but it becomes more difficutl because are ommigrants. But like as many teachers and people say that we should never give up and keeop trying to accomplish our dreams. So I think that it will be great if we keep on going and try to accomplish the goal that the governor signs the dream act for all those students that want to realized their dream. That are not responsible for the acts their parents did on bringing them to the united states.