{"id":14873,"date":"2010-08-03T09:45:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T16:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=14873"},"modified":"2010-08-03T11:36:25","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T18:36:25","slug":"hunger-striking-students-pressure-sen-feinstein-on-dream-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2010\/08\/03\/hunger-striking-students-pressure-sen-feinstein-on-dream-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunger Striking Students Pressure Sen. Feinstein on Dream Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-080310\/2010_08_03_dream_act.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-080310\/2010_08_03_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=65% src=\"http:\/\/www.latina.com\/files\/0327grad_article.jpg\" alt=\"Dream Act\" \/>A leaked memo to the head of US Citizenship and Immigration Services reveals that the Obama administration is considering helping certain categories of immigrants through administrative procedures instead of through comprehensive immigration legislation. Among the groups identified for assistance are those who have what is called Temporary Protective Status, as well as students who are children of undocumented parents. Undocumented students around the country have been rallying intensely for many months to push for the passage of the so-called DREAM Act that would enable them to get permanent residency. While DREAM Activists as they call themselves expressed joy at the details of the memo, anti-immigrant activists are busy using the memo as evidence that President Obama is moving forward with blanket amnesty, an anathema to the right wing. Here in Los Angeles, a number of undocumented students have been holding vigil outside the Santa Monica offices of Senator Dianne Feinstein urging her to vote for the DREAM Act. The students have been on hunger strike for nearly two weeks, risking even deportation to speak out. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUESTS: Jorge Gutierrez, Carlos Amador, undocumented student activists on hunger strike to pass the DREAM Act<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The students plan to end their hunger strike on Wednesday evening at 8 pm with a Press conference and candlelight vigil on the corner of Sepulveda and Santa Monica. <\/p>\n<p>Find out more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedreamiscoming.com\">www.thedreamiscoming.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leaked memo to the head of US Citizenship and Immigration Services reveals that the Obama administration is considering helping certain categories of immigrants through administrative procedures instead of through comprehensive immigration legislation. Among the groups identified for assistance are those who have what is called Temporary Protective Status, as well as students who are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}