IYJL: Young Activist Award Recipients

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Ella's Daughter, Reyna Wences, along with fellow organizer, Rigo Padilla are recipients of this year's Mario Savio Young Activist Award for their work with IYJL (Immigrant Youth Justice League), which is also a part of our Seven Sisters Campaign.

The announcement of the award read as follows: "Each year we receive more and more nominations, and it is exceedingly difficult to choose one person (or even two) to receive the award from the many impressive applications we receive. Many factors go into our choice of award winner. In addition to considering the accomplishments, initiative, leadership ability and character of the nominee, we also take into consideration personal and organizational needs and other sources of support, goals and special circumstances. We were tremendously impressed by everything we heard about you and the work you are doing on behalf of the Dream Act and immigration reform. Your courage in speaking out, your willingness to reach out to form alliances with many segments of the community, and your ability to inspire and organize other young people has earned you this award." Congrats Reyna and Rigo.

The mainstream media ignores us and many of the national organizations are so busy fighting the big fight that they are not building bridges to connect different sectors of the would-be movement.