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A documentary look at events that led to the May 1999 Ethnic Studies demonstrations and strikes on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, and at the TWLF, the Third World Liberation Front that organized the student actions.

People from different ethnic backgrounds with "difficult" names by Western standards share their experience with moving through the world with an identity that challenges others to simply just say their name. A short social docu-film by Mariam Meliksetyan, “Say My Name” is a meditation on identity, otherness, assimilation, community, and ancestral roots.

Disenfranchised high school seniors become academic warriors and community leaders in Tucson, Arizona's embattled Ethnic Studies classes while state lawmakers attempt to eliminate the program.