Immigration Rap

Immigration Rap

reflect on the article

Check out this article at:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/07/14/18288103.php

If your computer is able to view the video, you might want to see it.

Questions to consider:
1. Why didn't the police arrest the Minutmen member?
2. Would it have been different if the violence had been caused by an undocumented immigrant?
3. Is violence ever okay in a protest?

the border

by J.N.

What is the border? The border is like a subject trying to keep people out. It might be a physical wall, but it is the subject, the idea that is the real border. It's like there is no end to it.

We try to help each other but there is a border. We try to be friends but there is a border. We try but find out what we like and what we don't like. All we want is a conersation, a dialogue between two groups. We try to change the world but there is a border.

So how can we make the world a better place if there is a border? And each year it grows. Without borders we would understand how others need help. The border blinds us, but we would see the poverty on the other side. Without the border, we would know how to create a plan to change the world; because, if you see, you can be aware and if you are aware, you can do something about it. However, as long as there is a border, we will not be able to see.

feminists

What are some of the issues that feminists would have fought for during the Civil Rights? Create a list of at least five ideas.

a solution

Yesterday we talked about all of the different groups that could claim that the land belonged to "them." What is a compromise that could make each group at least moderately satisfied?

fear what?

by K G

What is fear?
And what should
I do?
Fear what?

I go to my room
And hide.
I wonder if fear
just took all my pride

What should I do?
be afraid?
be a warrior?
I'm not sure

I want to face
my fear
I just don't know how
so what should I
do?

What is fear?
And what should I do?
Fear what?

sadness

by R. Parra

Sadness

Dedicated to Richard Parra


My body is aching.My heart is in so much pain.But when I think about you my pain grows more powerful.I miss you so much that I still think that you're by my side.I feel stupid cause I know it can't be true.I loved you with my innermost feelings and you betrayed them.I wish you could still be here but the more I wish I know it's not going to happen.I feel like I'm in sorrow.It's hard to believe that I'm in so much sadness.It feels that my sorrow is suffocating me in everything I do.I can't stand it I want to forget you but the more I try the more your face still stares at me.My mind is gone and my whole figure is wasted.Day and night I look out my bedroom window remembering all that's to be remembered.All the good memories we had together.But the memories we shared just was forgotten.I only have the last little memory left.It shows us going to the beach and running through the waves.As I remember this memory tears roll down my cheeks.The beautiful memory of you has almost disappeared from my mind.The people has seen me suffer for a long time.I have starved myself and gone for days without any sleep.Every night I look up at the sky wishing,hoping,praying that I can see you one more time.People want me to go outside and forget you.But I will never forget you.My heart and soul will always be connected with you.We'll never be separated,The more I think the more it comes to me that you've gone to a place so far away that no matter how much I've tried,I can't reach the place you have accomplished to come to.I miss you!!!I know you miss me.I'll always love you forever.......Gramps.