>  *From:* Chican@ Historians Network [chicana.chicano.histori...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, May 17, 2010 4:29 AM
> *Subject:* DREAM Activists Tam Tran and Cinthya Felix's Passing

> It is with great sadness that I regret to inform everyone of the passing of
>  Tam Tran and Cinthya Felix.  These women were nationally active in the
> undocumented students Civil Rights Movement through their fight for the
> DREAM Act. Both were UCLA undergraduates and as graduate students Tam was a
> Doctoral Student in American Civilization at Brown University, while Cinthya
> was studying Public Health at Columbia University.  These women were amazing
> activists and put themselves at great risk to fight for this just cause.
> Cinthya was a working class student from East Los Angeles, California and
> attended Garfield High School and Tam's family had been displaced as a
> result of the Vietnam War and was from Garden Grove, CA.  There is much more
> information in the links below about their lives.

> Please do what you can to make them and this struggle known.  There is also
> word that donations for their families may be set up to cover funeral
> arrangements. I will follow up as soon as I get word.

> http://www.wabi.tv/news/11803/police-say-two-people-are-dead-after-an...

> Both are featured in this short video.

> http://vimeo.com/4576582

> UCLA Memorial

> http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=104897826220694&ref=ts<http://www.facebook.com/#%21/event.php?eid=104897826220694&ref=ts>

> Tam Tran

> Blog http://undergroundundergrads.com/

> Tam's Youtube channel --- http://www.youtube.com/user/UndergroundAtBrown

> This was an incredible video that Tam created while a UCLA undergrad about
> the undocumented student struggle:

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI7J2b3t4WU

> Tam's Facebook Page and Facebook Fan Page:
> http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Tam-Tran/64635456938?ref=ts<http://www.facebook.com/#%21/pages/Tam-Tran/64635456938?ref=ts>

> Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=2513788&ref=ts<http://www.facebook.com/#%21/profile.php?id=2513788&ref=ts>

> Cinthya Felix

> facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=2516774&ref=ts<http://www.facebook.com/#%21/profile.php?id=2516774&ref=ts>

> Previous News Stories about Tam and Cinthya

> http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-10-16-Dream_N.htm

> http://www.citizenorange.com/orange/2007/10/deporting-dissent-tam-tra...

> http://www.dreamactivist.org/dreamie-of-the-week-tam-tran/

> http://projectcinthya.org/

> http://spsukaton.wordpress.com/

> With a Heavy Heart,

> Milo

> Milo M. Alvarez
> Ph.D. Candidate and Teaching Fellow
> Department of History
> University of California, Los Angeles