http://weareamericastories.org Tales of Everyday Immigrants Wed, 23 May 2012 16:30:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://weareamericastories.org/videos/rims-story/ http://weareamericastories.org/videos/rims-story/#comments Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:10:24 +0000 zlangway http://www.weareamericastories.org/?post_type=videos&p=1289 Rim Abera is a 20 year-old college student in Seattle, Washington.  Her family is originally from Eritrea and came to the United States from the Sudan when she was a ... More »

]]> Rim Abera is a 20 year-old college student in Seattle, Washington.  Her family is originally from Eritrea and came to the United States from the Sudan when she was a baby, achieving citizenship nine years later.  In high school Rim became very active in politics and voter outreach and is excited to be voting for the second time on November 2 – after having convinced the rest of her family to also register in 2008.

]]> http://weareamericastories.org/videos/rims-story/feed/ 0 47.6062088 -122.3320694 http://weareamericastories.org/videos/rev-mendis-sri-lankan-immigrant-voting-for-the-first-time/ http://weareamericastories.org/videos/rev-mendis-sri-lankan-immigrant-voting-for-the-first-time/#comments Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:30:19 +0000 zlangway http://www.weareamericastories.org/?post_type=videos&p=1283 Reverend Eardley Mendis is a pastor at the First Evangelical Lutheran Church in the southside of Chicago.  He immigrated to the United States from Sri Lanka and in the November ... More »

]]> Reverend Eardley Mendis is a pastor at the First Evangelical Lutheran Church in the southside of Chicago.  He immigrated to the United States from Sri Lanka and in the November 2010 elections he and his daughter will be voting for the first time.  Produced by Demetrio Maguigad.  Thanks to the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.

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