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Title: Students Informing Now (S.I.N.) Challenge the Racial State in California Without Shame ... SIN Verguenza!
Author : Educational Foundations
Release Date : January 01, 2007
Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 238 KB

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It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation.--Paulo Freire On a cold and wet Friday night in January of 2006, thirteen of us gathered together in a small room on campus at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). It was a combination of a need to survive and a feeling of hopelessness that brought us all together for a future of joined hopefulness. We were all first-year undergraduate students who had grown up in California, attended and graduated from California public schools, and gained admission to UCSC. Some of us were born in the U.S., but many of us had migrated here as young children, and a few were considered undocumented. There we were at the same university with different histories and backgrounds, but tonight we had gathered with one goal in mind. The goal, if over simplified, sounds something like this: to create an organization in support of AB 540 students, labeled by this nation as illegal aliens. AB 540, or the California nonresident tuition exemption, allows any student, including undocumented immigrants, to be exempt from paying nonresident tuition at public colleges and universities in California if they can show that they have successfully attended a high school in California for at least three years and successfully graduated or obtained a G.E.D. Not all AB 540 students are undocumented immigrants; approximately two-thirds of AB 540 students are U.S. born citizens who temporarily left the state and would be required to pay out-of-state tuition if it were not for this legislation. For the purpose of this article, however, AB 540 student refers to an undocumented immigrant student. We use this term because it reflects the language used within S.I.N. Little did we know that we were about to kick off a new chapter in our communities, our schools, and our own lives.