Lesson Plans

Throughout history, individuals, groups and movements have used non-violent resistance strategies to take a stand about something they believe in and to effect change. Recently, in response to the President-elect’s campaign promise to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, many localities and cities have re-affirmed their commitment to their sanctuary policies. The Immigrant Legal Resource Center estimates that more than 500 counties and cities have some kind of policy limiting…

Hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria have been leaving their homes in search of safety and assistance since the country’s civil war began in 2011. The refugees have been fleeing civil war, persecution and poverty—traveling at great lengths and great risk to survive. As of September 2015, it is estimated that over 200,000 Syrians have been killed, 7.6 million people have been internally displaced within the country and another 4.1million have dispersed across the Middle East…

Recently a national and international spotlight has shown on the humanitarian needs of the children at the United States border who have been fleeing from three countries in Central America known as the “Northern Triangle”—Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. According to the United States Border Patrol, 57,525 unaccompanied minors (children traveling without parents or family members) were detained on the southern border between October 1, 2013 and June 30, 2014. While there…

What is the DREAM Act? The DREAM Act (short for Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act) was a bill in Congress that would have granted legal status to certain undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children and went to school here. Although several versions of the bill have been introduced in Congress since 2001, it has never passed. Who are the Dreamers? In the last few years the term “DREAMer” has been used to describe young…