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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Anny and Samantha and whatcome stuff? I

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Speaker 1: never told your production by her radio.

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Speaker 2: And we are officially in Hispanic Heritage month. So for

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Speaker 2: today's activists, we are talking about the works and advocacy

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Speaker 2: of Sarah Mora. So Mara is a fierce immigration rights

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Speaker 2: activist who has dedicated her life to advocate for the

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Speaker 2: rights of immigrants in the US. She actually moved here

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Speaker 2: at a very young age with her family from Costa Rica.

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Speaker 2: When I say here, I'm saying US, so I should

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Speaker 2: probably put that in there. It didn't take her long

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Speaker 2: to jump into advocacy work, as in fact, according to

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Speaker 2: her side Miss Sarahmura dot com, it was at the

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Speaker 2: age of ten she was already a vocal leader in

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Speaker 2: her church and community, and in high school she continued

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Speaker 2: to be a leader and advocate for her community, for

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Speaker 2: her people like this was the thing that she did

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Speaker 2: from jump. So in fact, soon after high school she

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Speaker 2: would go on to interview the Costa Rican Vice President

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Speaker 2: about immigrants in the US and people who had left

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Speaker 2: Costa Rica and DACA rights and how the country of

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Speaker 2: Costa Rica and other countries could support the young people

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Speaker 2: who are in the US. So DACA is a deferred

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Speaker 2: Action for childhood arrivals which passed in twenty twelve, which

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Speaker 2: quote offers a two year renewable legal status to undocumented

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Speaker 2: immigrants who entered the US as children. Recipients receive a

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Speaker 2: social Security number and are eligible to get a driver's license, job,

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Speaker 2: and start on a path to potential citizenship. So that's

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Speaker 2: from Assembly dot Malala dot org just a little bit

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Speaker 2: of information on what that program was. It could also

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Speaker 2: be referred to as dreamers, which we haven't heard as

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Speaker 2: much of recently, but obviously it's still a big thing.

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Speaker 2: We haven't heard too much about that, mainly because of

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Speaker 2: the whole issue of deportation, illegal arrests, and illegal attainment

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Speaker 2: of refugees and immigrants, so DACA would obviously be also

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Speaker 2: a bigger part of that conversation. It was in twenty seventeen,

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Speaker 2: during Trump's first administration that DACA was ended, which risks

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Speaker 2: the livelihoods of almost eight hundred thousand young people. In

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Speaker 2: an interview with Malala dot org, Sarah talks about how

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Speaker 2: DACA has been instrumental to her and her family. So

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Speaker 2: here's what she says. She says, DACA helped my sister

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Speaker 2: and I because it opens limited opportunities to function normally

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Speaker 2: within our spaces, for example, by providing a driver's license, opportunity,

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Speaker 2: working authorizations, and a Social Security number, driving to school

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Speaker 2: and college, supporting our family by being able to drive

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Speaker 2: my mom to hospital appointments, as well as being able

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Speaker 2: to drive to work has meant everything. I feel like

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Speaker 2: that should be a common sense conversation because we know

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Speaker 2: that the legalities around that is kind of harsh, and

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Speaker 2: in areas like Alina, in areas like Florida, in areas

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Speaker 2: like Georgia, and in most the Southeast, transportation is an

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Speaker 2: issue and there's not really any really sustainable transit systems,

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Speaker 2: and so having this type of assurance like insurance and

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Speaker 2: driver's license is really important to anybody's livelihood. So after

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Speaker 2: the ending of DACA, Maura publicly shared her story of

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Speaker 2: being undocumented and why DACA was so instrumental to her

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Speaker 2: life and many like her. In another interview she did

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Speaker 2: with seventeen dot com, she talked about why it was

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Speaker 2: so important for her to reveal her status. So she said,

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Speaker 2: it was important for me because I felt like I

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Speaker 2: lived in part of the country where that wasn't common.

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Speaker 2: You didn't talk about your legal status, especially not publicly,

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Speaker 2: So I feel like talking about it publicly was my

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Speaker 2: way of saying I don't care anymore. I always felt

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Speaker 2: like in that moment it was urgent to publicize the

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Speaker 2: tragedy that is migrant policy. After I got so many

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Speaker 2: messages from different people, young and old in New Jersey

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Speaker 2: saying thank you for sharing. Manie said that it made

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Speaker 2: to see someone else speak out about it from her website,

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Speaker 2: Missarahmura dot org. After organizing and using her story publicly

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Speaker 2: to emphasize the complexities of an immigrant narrative, Sarah was

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Speaker 2: faced with learning the frustrating reality that, like her story,

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Speaker 2: migrant folks stories were not mainly used in a way

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Speaker 2: that empowered the character, but in a way that totally

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Speaker 2: her anger and worked on individual campaigns, beginning in twenty

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Speaker 2: that collective concern. And I think it's such a big

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Speaker 2: have platforms to share their stories and why that's important.

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Speaker 2: And also I think we've talked recently more about how

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Speaker 2: And I say to the MANI experiences I think both

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Speaker 2: Anie you and I have had in this business right

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Speaker 2: and as she continued to share her personal experiences and journey,

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Speaker 2: she talked about how so many others have come to

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Speaker 2: in the country and other places. In the Malala dot

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Speaker 2: org interview, she gave it advice on how to mobilize online,

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Speaker 2: saying be thorough and ensuring that the information and resources

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Speaker 2: you share are accurate and build a community by engaging

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Speaker 2: Mobilizing people online in this concept of online activism is

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Speaker 2: truly about being of service to others and not about

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Speaker 2: the ego. The time is now to speak out. History

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Speaker 2: is being made as we speak. Staying silent and quote

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Speaker 2: minding your business makes you complicit to the oppression of

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Speaker 2: thousands and thousands of people. All resources, talents, and voices

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Speaker 2: are welcome in a movement of change that is fighting

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Speaker 2: against an aggressive force of oppression that does not rest

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Speaker 2: and all of these things that is important and being

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Speaker 2: to share other people's stories or to bring light to

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Speaker 2: other people's stories, that's such an important part of this.

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Speaker 2: So her work has continued strong. She is working very strong.

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Speaker 2: In fact, she just was recently named one of Times

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Speaker 2: also the founder of the population Mike, where she tells

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