From our awesome intern, Karma D., from Flushing International High School. See her on our Tumblr and on our I AM THIS LAND story-telling project. I am a girl from the faraway lost land of Tibet. I ran with my parents, older brother and my small baby brother resting in my mom’s warm womb in [...]

February 7, 2012 by crissy spivey | Tags: breakthrough, Flushing International High School, immigrant, immigration, Karma, Tibet | Comments Off

Why are some Alabama parents pulling their children out of school? Why are some Alabama workers afraid to show up to their jobs? Why are some Alabama families fleeing the state altogether? Because last week Alabama began to enforce one of the harshest immigration laws in U.S. history. HB 56 requires local and state law [...]

October 7, 2011 by crissy spivey | Tags: Alabama, b-the change, breakthrough, HB 56, human rights, immigrant, immigration | Comments Off

This came across our desk – check out this event tomorrow! On Wednesday, September 28th, the Freedom From Fear Award will hold a reception from 5:30 to 6:30 pm at the Sheraton Downtown Phoenix to celebrate Arizona’s three winners of the award, which honors “15 ordinary people who have committed extraordinary acts of courage on [...]

September 27, 2011 by crissy spivey | Tags: Arizona, because we found it, Freedom from Fear Award, immigrant, immigration, winners | Comments Off

Tonight at 9pm/8c, Current TV will premiere This (Illegal) American Life, a one hour documentary about the millions of undocumented students and workers in the United States.  The show follows the lives of Ilse, an undocumented American Literature major at UCLA who crossed the border at the age of 3, and Filemon, a strawberry picker [...]

August 1, 2011 by Maya | Tags: Arizona, breakthrough, California, college, current tv, documentary, farmworker, immigrant, Mexico, oaxaca, premiere, struggle, students, this (illegal) american life, undocumented immigration, vanguard series | Comments Off

We know you’ve been waiting for Harry Potter forever, but make sure you support the film A Better Life! Undocumented stories are being told.  Just recently, award-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas came out of the shadows.  For years, the Dreamers – the students actively fighting for the Dream Act – have been sharing their stories.  And now,  A Better Life is bringing [...]

July 12, 2011 by Maya | Tags: A Better Life, b-listed, breakthrough, Chris Weitz, Demian Bichir, Eric Eason, father, film, future, gang, Hope, illegal immigrant, immigrant, invisible, Jose Julian, Los Angeles, Mexico, promise, Roger L. Simon, son, struggle, undocumented immigrant | Comments Off

Post written by Breakthrough’s summer intern, Maya Bhattacharjee At the end of last week, members of the Breakthrough team visited Ellis Island for an interactive tour for the final level of our human rights Facebook game, America 2049. (But remember, though it was the last level of our launch, the game lives on Facebook and may [...]

June 30, 2011 by Maya | Tags: america's gate, america2049, americans, breakthrough, breakthrough beat, Ellis Island, europeans, freedom, immigrant, john f. kennedy, july 4th, Migration, New York City, old world, political strife, religious persecution, statue of liberty, unemployment | Comments Off

“There’s more than one way to be American,” says the character M in week 10 of Breakthrough’s human rights Facebook game, American 2049. The leader of the subversive resistance group “Divided We Fall” is referring to the importance of cultural diversity, and the fact that her America has labeled any semblance of difference illegal. M. [...]

June 6, 2011 by Dana Variano | Tags: code talkers, culture, heritage, immigrant, Immigrant Rights, immigration, Minneapolis, minnesota, native american, navajo, navajo code talkers, windtalkers | 2 Comments »

We’re a proud promotional partner of the film, Welcome to Shelbyville.  The film takes you to small town, Shelbyville, Tennessee where the community experiences transformative changes with the arrival of hundreds of Muslim Somali refugees, combined with an already rapidly developing Latino population. Longtime Shelbyville residents (both white and African American) are faced with the [...]

June 2, 2011 by Maya | Tags: active voice, African American, American, bible belt, Community, community building, documentary, human rights, immigrant, Immigrant Rights, integration, Latino, multimedia, Muslim, refugees, Religion, shelbyville, social tools, somali, welcome to shelbyville | 1 Comment »

Breakthrough is proud to be a Community Partner for the New York Indian Film Festival. This post was originally written by Pulkit Datta for The NRI, who is also the Media Assistant with Breakthrough. New York’s oldest Indian film festival – previously known as the MIAAC Film Festival – is entering its 11th year with [...]

May 4, 2011 by Pulkit | Tags: b-listed, Bhopali, breakthrough, breakthrough beat, film, Harud, human rights, IAAC, immigrant, immigration, New York City, New York Indian Film Festival, NYIFF, NYWIFT, Semshook, Whistling Woods, Women, women's rights | Comments Off

On Sunday, May 1, President Obama announced the death of Al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, the notorious terrorist who spearheaded the 9/11 attacks against the U.S. While the predominant reaction from around the world has been one of relief and joy, bin Laden’s death reminds us of just how big an impact the 9/11 [...]

May 3, 2011 by Pulkit | Tags: America 2049, b-listed, breakthrough, Chris Hedges, culture shockers, detention, education, Facebook, forced servitude, human rights, ICE, immigrant, immigrant workers, immigration, immigration reform, New York City, Obama, Osama bin Laden, Patriot Act, President Obama, Racism, Restore Fairness, SCPR, worker rights, youth | Comments Off