Film and discussion with Susana Munoz and Yahaira Carrillo

Date/Time:	Thursday, 24 Mar 2011 at 7:00 pm
Location:	Sun Room, Memorial Union
Cost:	Free
Contact:
Phone:	515-294-9934
Channel:	Lecture Series
Categories:	Diversity Lectures
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"Papers" is the story of undocumented youth in the United States and the challenges they face as they turn 18 without legal status. For these individuals born outside the United States but raised in this country, there is currently no path to citizenship. The film follows five undocumented students and the movement in support of the DREAM Act. A discussion led by Susana Munoz and Yahaira Carrillo will follow the 88-min film.

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Imagine that you were a model student and active member of your community but upon graduating high school couldn't work, drive, apply for a state ID, or get on an airplane. Imagine that you couldn't accept the college scholarships that you had been awarded and that you had to pay foreign student tuition in the state where you grew up. Imagine you lived in constant fear of being deported from the only home you've ever known to a country you don't remember, where you know no one, and don't even speak the language.

For 65,000 undocumented students beginning their senior year of high school this month, this is not a fictitious Orwellian nightmare but reality.

Directed by Anne Galisky and produced by Rebecca Shine of Portland, Oregon's Graham Street Productions, the film follows the personal stories of five undocumented students and the national grassroots movement working to pass the DREAM Act.

It also includes expert commentary from political, academic and civil rights leaders across the nation including Senator Robert Menendez, Karen Narasaki of the Asian American Justice Center, Clarissa Martinez De Castro of NCLR, Joe Solmonese of the Human Rights Campaign, and Kent Wong of the UCLA Labor Center.