{"id":15977,"date":"2010-09-21T10:28:42","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T17:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=15977"},"modified":"2010-09-21T10:28:42","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T17:28:42","slug":"military-recruitment-in-dream-act-turns-off-some-progressives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2010\/09\/21\/military-recruitment-in-dream-act-turns-off-some-progressives\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Recruitment in DREAM Act Turns Off Some Progressives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-092110\/2010_09_21_ortiz.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-092110\/2010_09_21_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/www.asianweek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/DREAM-ACt.jpg\" alt=\"DREAM Act\" \/>Nevada Senator Harry Reid has amended the Defense Authorization Bill to include the DREAM Act &#8211; a bill that would offer children of immigrants a path to citizenship through higher education or military enrollment. The bill is set for a procedural vote in the Senate today and while it has re-energized many immigrants rights groups that have been working on it for a decade, its passage is still very questionable. The Defense authorization bill also includes repealing the Don&#8217;t Ask Don&#8217;t Tell policy. Despite having enjoyed bi-partisan support in the past, Republicans have vowed to oppose the DREAM Act even thought it is attached to the Defense bill, and one-time Republican supporters like Senator John McCain have reversed their position. Many are accusing the Democrats of using the DREAM Act as a cynical ploy to win Latino votes in the mid-term elections. Still, the bill has high-profile support. President Barack Obama last week addressed the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and supported Senator&#8217;s Reid&#8217;s efforts in revitalizing the DREAM Act. And, in an interview on NBC&#8217;s Meet the Press, former Secretary of State Colin Powell chastised fellow Republicans for opposing it. Meanwhile, some progressives have now split off from supporting the DREAM Act claiming that it is being used as a military recruitment tool. At this very moment, activists dressed in their caps and gowns here in Los Angeles that do support the DREAM Act are dropping banners off the 101 freeway.<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Paul Ortiz, Award-winning author and oral historian, activist and labor organizer, Director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, and associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Florida<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nevada Senator Harry Reid has amended the Defense Authorization Bill to include the DREAM Act &#8211; a bill that would offer children of immigrants a path to citizenship through higher education or military enrollment. The bill is set for a procedural vote in the Senate today and while it has re-energized many immigrants rights groups [&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-15977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15977","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=15977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}