{"id":1270,"date":"2018-03-06T13:39:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T20:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2018-03-06T13:39:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T20:39:40","slug":"assistant-professors-and-graduate-student-participated-in-peaceful-demonstration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/blog\/2018\/03\/06\/assistant-professors-and-graduate-student-participated-in-peaceful-demonstration\/","title":{"rendered":"Assistant Professors and Graduate Student Participated in Peaceful Demonstration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professors Cristyn Elder and Todd Ruecker, as well as Gradute Student Kit Colter from the English Department showed support for undocumented students\u00a0at a peaceful demonstration organized by the New Mexico Dream Team directly outside of the Downtown offices for Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich.\u00a0 The demonstration aimed to call on the Senators to\u00a0fight for the Dream Act in Congress by presenting legislation supporting the Dream Act.\u00a0 Roughly 50 people, many of them educators, marched in the intersection holding signs that read, \u201cDon\u2019t Deport Our Students\u201d and \u201cCongress Must Act Now!\u201d Professor Elder is interviewed in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kasa.com\/story\/37464183\/manifestaciones-en-apoyo-al-dream-act\">news clip<\/a> by Telemundo. Read more about the demonstration <a href=\"http:\/\/kunm.org\/post\/demonstrators-outside-senators-offices-demand-dream-act\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professors Cristyn Elder and Todd Ruecker, as well as Gradute Student Kit Colter from the English Department showed support for undocumented students\u00a0at a peaceful demonstration organized by the New Mexico Dream Team directly outside of the Downtown offices for Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich.\u00a0 The demonstration aimed to call on the Senators to\u00a0fight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1272,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions\/1272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}