Highlights of the Immigrants Workers Freedom Ride Rally

Your Community & Labor Report
Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash
Monday, October 6, 2003, 7-8 pm EST, over 99.5 FM
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Tens of thousands of immigrants and labor union members rallied in Flushing Meadows Park in Queens on Saturday with the hope of promoting an immigrants’ rights movement that will capture the nation’s conscience the way the 1960’s civil rights movement did.

Coming from Mexico, China, Haiti and many other countries, the immigrants are seeking to persuade lawmakers in Washington to, among other things, grant legal status to more than 8 million immigrants.

Featured on our broadcast are John Sweeney, Pres. AFL-CIO, Arturo Rodriguez, Pres., United Farmworkers, Rev. James Lawson, ACORN Pres. Maude Hurd, Karen Narasaki, Pres. Asian Pacific Legal Consortium, John Wilhelm, Pres. Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union, William Lucy, Secretary- Treasurer, AFSCME, Laborer’s Pres. Terrance O’Sullivan, and Congressman John Lewis.

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