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Yesterday evening we packed our gear and headed to Georgetown University to hear the DREAM walkers address a crowd of young students gathered there (and to capture the event on film because Juan Gomez would also be talking there). The original walkers are Felipe Matos, Gaby Pacheco, Carlos Roa and Juan Rodriguez and they decided to walk 1,500 miles from Miami, FL to Washington, DC, to bring attention to the plight of undocumented students in the U.S. and to fight for passage of the DREAM Act. After almost four months of walking they are nearly at their destination. This Saturday (May 1), they will be walking from Alexandria, VA to Lafayette Square (in front of the White House) to end their journey.
Last night, they were joined by four other walkers from New York, a group of undocumented students that were inspired by the Miami walkers. They addressed a sizable crowd that filled the community center to capacity and their impassioned stories filled the room with a sense of urgency. There’s always so little time, and in the upcoming May-June period there will be 55,000 to 65,000 more undocumented students graduating from high school throughout the United States with absolutely no future.
If you want to know more about the DREAM walkers and the DREAM Act, I suggest that you visit the Trail 2010 site. And if you want to see just how brave this foursome is, just watch: