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- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are always groups on campus that are doing amazing things. I know when I was in college, I was a student at the University of Arizona, working on my bachelor's in history, and I got involved with a number of different groups that were connected to different social justice issues that I cared about.
- Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
Get involved in your neighborhood. That's how I got really, really committed to the immigrant rights movement.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just look back at my time in college and think about how much my community activism and my work in neighborhoods really informed my actual academic career and beyond... It can provide a way better learning than the traditional classroom setting.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lean into your curiosity about any issue, and there will likely be people to share a little bit more of their knowledge and insight and give you ideas on how to make change.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that our communities can benefit if they know about and participate in the U.N.'s various human rights forums.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me and to a number of other activists from the U.S., we believe that the human rights movement has to evolve and understand the global implications of structural racism. This means engaging the United Nations and a variety of other human rights bodies.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people take the fight for justice seriously in their own country and with partners and immigrants in their community and folks in the international community, I believe that we will see human rights for all people affirmed.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am the executive director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, which is the country's only national immigrant rights organization for black immigrants and African Americans. Being the daughter of Nigerian immigrants really drove me to do this type of work.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often think of Audre Lorde and her saying that we don't live and we don't fight for one specific struggle.
- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the two-party system isn't working for us. And it hasn't worked for us for generations - let's be very, very honest about that.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our communities are reeling from poverty, from unemployment, from discrimination of all sorts and different interactions that they're having with the law enforcement, and education system, and so on.
- Broader
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let's demonstrate, illustrate, the ways in which our communities are being undermined time and time again, and make sure that the broader public and those in power choose to stand with us.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have two younger brothers, and I know my parents have spoken to them about driving and interacting with police. They didn't have those conversations with me, but they did have conversations about being exceptional black people.
- Haitian
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.S. has long characterized Haitian immigrants as criminals. This tradition began in 1963 when the first boat of Haitians seeking political asylum was summarily rejected by U.S. immigration officials, while at the same time the U.S. admitted thousands of Cubans as refugees and political asylees.
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- Nov 07, 2020