Beyond A Dream: All of us. Or none of us.

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When:
August 26, 2019 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
2019-08-26T18:00:00-07:00
2019-08-26T20:30:00-07:00
Where:
New Parkway
474 24th St.
Oakland
CA

Join us for an evening of film and dialogue at the New Parkway Theater in Oakland, CA.

iNation Media has partnered with Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity and FirstPres Church to bring our communities together in allyship.

Watch a trailer to the film here: https://vimeo.com/291032168

After the screening of “Waking Dream” we’ll be joined by a panel for an engaging discussion that broadens immigration discourse beyond DACA, and provides concrete ways to act. The panel will include the filmmaker, directly-impacted community members and community organizations.

Panelists:

Javier Lopez Quintana (moderator) – DreamSF Fellow, Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity
Javier Lopez Quintana was born in Michoacán, Mexico; at four years old, he migrated to the United States with his parents. Quintana got his B.A in Political Science and a Film and Media Certificate from UC Berkeley. His parents’ immigration status and his own led him to work at a shampoo factory for close to a year. Quintana saw the detrimental conditions laborers worked under, especially undocumented workers. This was a pivotal moment in Quintana’s life that influenced his decision to organize with immigrant communities for their collective safety and liberation. Quintana is currently working with the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity as a Dream SF Fellow.

Borey (“PJ”) Ai – Reentry Navigator, Asian Prisoner Support Committee
PJ was born in a refugee camp in Thailand where his family fled to escape the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia. PJ and his family entered the U.S. as refugees when he was only 4-years-old. When PJ was 14-years-old he was tried as an adult for a crime and given a life sentence, making him one of the youngest “lifers” in California. While incarcerated, PJ transformed his life, and after serving 20 years in prison, he was granted parole. However, PJ was immediately transferred to ICE jails and spent 18 months incarcerated by ICE, fighting his deportation case. Although PJ was released on May 10th, 2018, he remains under ICE supervision and could be deported during the next round of deportations to Cambodia – a country he has never set foot in.

Miriam Noriega – State Program Director, Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity
Miriam’s passion for immigrant justice derives from her personal experience of being a first-generation immigrant in the U.S. She has been involved in the immigrant rights movement since 2006, specifically the DREAMer movement, a historic youth-lead activist movement that won them the benefits of DACA. Her ministerial call is empowering immigrant communities to discover their innate source of healing in spirituality, and building bridges across different social groups.

Valeria Suarez – Community Organizer, CIYJA
Valeria Suárez is an undocumented queer organizer from Lima, Peru. During the past few years she has focused on supporting deportation defense cases to free undocumented community members from detention. She is currently a Summer Cultivator for the California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance. Her work is centered around creating spaces for undocumented youth to learn deportation defense models in order to protect themselves and their communities.

Theo Rigby – Director, Waking Dream
Theo Rigby is an award-winning documentary filmmaker who has been creating stories about the immigrant experience in the U.S. for over the last decade–he is the founder of iNation Media. www.inationmedia.com

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