Bill Text: IL HR0128 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Congratulates Tania Unzueta on receiving the Civic Engagement, Community Service, and Community Organizing (CECSCO) Award during the annual University of Illinois-Chicago Gender and Women's Studies Program's Women's History Month Reception.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-03-01 - Resolution Adopted [HR0128 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2011-HR0128-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The annual University of Illinois-Chicago Gender | ||||||
| 3 | and Women's Studies
Program's Women's History Month Reception | ||||||
| 4 | honors Civic Engagement,
Community Service, and Community | ||||||
| 5 | Organizing (CECSCO) Award recipients; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, Tania Unzueta is the co-founder of the Immigrant | ||||||
| 7 | Youth Justice League; and
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| 8 | WHEREAS, She is
a graduate student in Latin American and | ||||||
| 9 | Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago; and
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| 10 | WHEREAS, She is a nationally recognized leader and | ||||||
| 11 | organizer in the undocumented youth movement for immigrant | ||||||
| 12 | rights; until May of 2010 she was the Assistant General Manager | ||||||
| 13 | of 90.5 FM WRTE Radio Arte Chicago, a bilingual public radio | ||||||
| 14 | station; and
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| 15 | WHEREAS, She currently freelances as an immigration | ||||||
| 16 | reporter for Radio Bilingue News Network; she was a Media | ||||||
| 17 | Strategist for "The DREAM is Coming" project and participated | ||||||
| 18 | in advocating for the DREAM Act in Arizona and Washington D.C.; | ||||||
| 19 | and
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| 20 | WHEREAS, She continues to teach journalism and | ||||||
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| 1 | broadcasting classes and mentors young radio producers; she was | ||||||
| 2 | born in Mexico City and emigrated to the United States with her | ||||||
| 3 | parents when she was 10 years old; she holds a B.A. in | ||||||
| 4 | Sociology and Gender Studies from the University of | ||||||
| 5 | Illinois-Chicago; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, She will receive the Civic Engagement,
Community | ||||||
| 7 | Service, and Community Organizing (CECSCO) Award during the | ||||||
| 8 | annual University of Illinois-Chicago Gender and Women's | ||||||
| 9 | Studies
Program's Women's History Month Reception on March 4, | ||||||
| 10 | 2011; therefore, be it
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| 11 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 12 | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
| 13 | we congratulate Tania Unzueta on receiving this award and wish | ||||||
| 14 | her continued success for years to come; and be it further
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| 15 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 16 | presented to Tania Unzueta as a symbol of our respect and | ||||||
| 17 | esteem.
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