“We Are America” in the news
PBS News Hour Extra: Undocumented Teen Seeks to Continue Studies in U.S. 20 Aug 2010, 9:15 pm
Yves Gomes featured as part of a project of the PBS Newshour: "I just graduated from high school in Burtonsville, MD this past June.... However, I’ve had a looming order for deportation from this country (USA). I spent the last year restlessly awaiting my unknown future. But until recently, thanks to the work of my lawyer and organizations such as the We Are America project, the Center for Community Change and my family and friends, I was able to get a Deferred Action and now I am ecstatic because I can stay in the United States."Source: Delicious/weareamerica/news | weareamerica
A rare reprieve from immigration limbo; Indian teen illegally in US allowed to pursue college in only home he’s ever known (Washington Post) 12 Aug 2010, 3:39 pm
Front page story in the Washington Post features Yves Gomes and the We Are America project: "Activists at the Center for Community Change in Washington made Gomes a video poster child for the impact of deportation on families. The center featured Gomes in a "We are America" series of immigrant stories, circulated on the Internet."Source: Delicious/weareamerica/news | weareamerica
In the Immigration Debate, Real Lives are at Stake 5 Aug 2010, 6:51 pm
Let's not continue talking about immigration reform in the abstract. Instead, let's consider Yves, Carlos and Montserrat when we talk about what path we should pursue.Source: Delicious/weareamerica/news | weareamerica
They Are Sending Yves Home : The Allen Hunt Show : Where Real Life ... 3 Aug 2010, 10:44 pm
Yves Gomes story, a featured story on We Are America, got good coverage on the Allen Hunt ShowSource: Delicious/weareamerica/news | weareamerica
ImmigrationProf Blog: We Are America: Stories of Today's Immigrants 31 Jul 2010, 4:30 pm
A re-publication of the "We Are America" weekly digest for July 28Source: Delicious/weareamerica/news | weareamerica
The stories of America - The Boston Globe 31 Jul 2010, 2:09 pm
The immigrants featured in the video and audio interviews are facing bureaucratic nightmares that would put Kafka to shame. Watching these stories, collected by the Center for Community Change in Washington, even opponents of immigration reform might appreciate how hard it is to comply with a system that has collapsed into dysfunction.Source: Delicious/weareamerica/news | weareamerica
Maryland Politics Watch - Ana Sol Gutierrez: We Are America 31 Jul 2010, 2:01 pm
Source: Delicious/weareamerica/news | weareamerica
Campaign shares immigrant stories - Congress.org 24 Jul 2010, 3:27 pm
Activists are using the internet to put a human face on the immigration debate. As more states consider passing enforcement laws like the one in Arizona, immigrant rights groups say their opponents are demonizing the 12 million people who live in the U.S. illegally.Source: Delicious/weareamerica/news | weareamerica
CNN Interview with Carlos Roa - "Fulfilling the DREAM Act" 22 Jul 2010, 1:15 pm
On July 22 CNN interviewed Carlos Roa, who is one of our featured stories on "We Are America"Source: Delicious/weareamerica/news | weareamerica
Washington, D.C. | Univision | Mundial 2010, 13 Jul 2010, 5:08 pm
On July 9 the popular Spanish television station Univision featured "We Are America" project coordinator Burke Stansbury on it's evening news discussing the project.Source: Delicious/weareamerica/news | weareamerica
Destacan diversidad de migrantes con "Somos América" 13 Jul 2010, 2:15 pm
El 7 de Julio el Centro para el Cambio Comunitario (CCC) lanzó una campaña de gran importancia en National Press Club llamada “Somos América,” un proyecto de historias, diseñado para mostrar la diversidad y la humanidad de los inmigrantes en la lucha real contra la narrativa de la oposición.Source: Delicious/weareamerica/news | weareamerica
Lanzan campaña para humanizar inmigración - El Universal - El Mundo 8 Jul 2010, 7:54 pm
'Nosotros somos Estados Unidos' busca dar una buena imagen de los inmigrantes y combatir los estereotipos negativos respecto a ese segmento de la poblaciónSource: Delicious/weareamerica/news | weareamerica
Center for Community Change Press Conference, July 7, 2010 8 Jul 2010, 3:38 pm
Launch of “We Are America” Stories project. Opening remarks by Mary Lassen, managing director at CCC; speeches by Ana Sol Gutierrez and Saif Khan, participants in the project, as well as Colin Rogero, director of Revolution Media.Source: Delicious/weareamerica/news | weareamerica
Interview with “We Are America” project coordinator on WBAI, New York
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from http://archive.wbai.org/, Tuesday July 13, 2010
Center for Community Change Press Conference, July 7, 2010 – Launch of “We Are America” Stories project. Opening remarks by Mary Lassen, managing director at CCC; speeches by Ana Sol Gutierrez and Saif Khan, participants in the project, as well as Colin Rogero, director of Revolution Media. See press release below video.
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For Immediate Release: Thursday, July 08, 2010
Contact: Germonique R. Ulmer, 202.339.9331; gulmer@communitychange.org
‘We Are America’ National Media Campaign Highlights Diverse and Human Side of Immigration
Immigrants across America share their experiences in professional video spots
Washington-Today, the Center for Community Change launched a major media campaign at the National Press Club called the “We Are America” story project, which is designed to show the diversity and compelling human faces of real immigrants while countering the opposition’s narrative.
“This project is about the voices of those who are traditionally left out of national discussions – especially those debates which take place here in the nation’s capital,” said Mary Lassen, managing director of the Center for Community Change. “Too often we debate change through the prism of abstraction and pure political gamesmanship.”
Through professionally produced videos, as well as audio, photo and written stories from immigrants from across the country, the project seeks to recapture the debate from those politicians and anti immigrant activist who seek to demonize the immigrant community.
Three exclusive personal narrative videos were shown at the event, two of which now appear on the campaign website www.weareamericastories.org. The first featured a young woman from Arizona whose mother faces deportation; the second a political leader who strives for other immigrants to have the same opportunities that her family had; the third a veteran who took his oath of citizenship just days before being deployed to Iraq.
Ana Sol Gutierrez, the first Salvadoran Maryland House delegate is the first Latina elected to statewide office in Maryland and Saif Khan, an Iraq War veteran also spoke at the event.
“When I became a citizen and chose a life of public service, I realized that many people, especially new immigrants, were cut off from those same opportunities,” said Ana Sol Gutierrez. She went on to classify the “hateful rhetoric of the nativist voices” as “completely un-American.”
Saif Khan, whose originally from India, spoke of the great honor of becoming a U.S. citizen, but lamented the fact that “other immigrants haven’t had the same opportunities that my family and I had.”
Their stories and others will be featured at www.WeAreAmericaStories.org.
Colin Rogero, director of Revolution Media, outlined the professional production company’s vision and involvement in the project. “It’s not often in this business that you get to be part of a project that you really believe in – but that’s the case with “We Are America,” Rogero said.
The campaign website will continue to feature fresh stories every week with powerful personal narratives of new immigrants from across the country. These stories, as well as complete video coverage of the press conference, can be found at: www.WeAreAmericaStories.org
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