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Power from below: the immigrant rights movement needs to define the debate beyond Beltway politics and the border.(FEATURE)

Colorlines Magazine

| July 01, 2007 | Lovato, Roberto | COPYRIGHT 2007 Color Lines Magazine. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

MORE THAN A DECADE BEFORE last year's marchas of millions, I felt the dreamy exhilaration of organizing and leading marches of tens of thousands. And, like many of today's organizers and leaders of historic marchas, I know the dejection and disappointment before an immigration debate that leads one to ask, "Is this what we marched for?" and "What do we now?"

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I came to understand this as the executive director of the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN) in Los Angeles, which was the nation's largest immigrant service and advocacy organization in 1994, the year that California's anti-child, anti-immigrant Proposition 187 ...

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