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- Locals along for the ride: Immigrants' rights caravan holds rallies
9/27/2003. Monterey Herald
The Monterey County contingent of a cross-country immigrant rights caravan was not among those detained by the U.S. Border Patrol on Friday, but the local "Freedom Riders" were paying close attention. "That was an unfortunate event," Julius de Vera said. "We're prepared for anything that happens." De Vera, the president of Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Union Local 483, spoke by cell phone Friday as his Freedom Ride bus crossed Wyoming. De Vera is one of four people from the Monterey Peninsula taking part in the journey.
- Immigrants seek labor justice
9/27/2003. The Journal Times
Six weeks before her second child was born, Maria was fired from the Racine factory where she worked because the Social Security Administration sent their employer a letter stating their names did not match a Social Security number. The factory told them and other undocumented workers, to bring them new Social Security numbers. They did. But Maria and her husband were not hired back; they lost all their benefits. Other workers were hired back, but at lower wages and without benefits.
- Death zone on border to get visit
9/27/2003. The Press-Enterprise
A small group of volunteers and social workers will journey today from the streets of Los Angeles to the deserts of Imperial County, to see for themselves the spots where dozens of undocumented immigrants die each year.
- Freedom riders bound for New York, fueled by hope
9/27/2003. Rocky Mountain News
A human rights movement that's crossing the country by bus made a stop in Denver Friday with a simple message:Give basic rights to immigrants. The stop - part of a national 100-city odyssey called Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride - lured about 250 people to St. Joseph's Church on Sixth Avenue to hear the message delivered by bus riders.
- Marcha por Amnist�a
9/27/2003. San Antonio News
As� es como han denominado a la marcha que la gran coalici�n nacionalista realizando para que el pr�ximo primero de Octubre grupos Sindicales, Religiosos y Comunitarios reunidos por la �Marcha de la Libertad� entreguen una petici�n formal al Congreso de los Estados Unidos de Am�rica para solicitar una amnist�a general para los trabajadores indocumentados.
- Immigrants' bus campaign rolls into Austin
9/27/2003. Austin American-Statesmn
One by one, they told tales of immigrant workers whose rights were trampled. Like Austin's Rafael Castelan, who talked with soft-spoken dignity about his friends who worked for 15 days, only to have their employer disappear on payday. In some cases, employers even called immigration authorities, getting what amounted to free labor first.
- 200 from here to join ride for immigrant workers
9/26/2003. Chicago Sun Times
About 200 Chicagoans will be among 1,000 people who will ride 15 buses leaving from 10 Midwest cities to join tens of thousands of others in demanding legal status for illegal immigrant workers, restoration of labor protections, a clearer path to citizenship and respect for the civil rights and civil liberties of all immigrants.
- Immigrant freedom ride makes N.M. stops
9/26/2003. Mercury News
New Mexico's trademark sunshine, blue skies and red chilies - along with its governor - greeted busloads of immigrants and their supporters on Thursday....The cross-country caravan, backed by organized labor, began Saturday in 10 cities and is aimed at drawing attention to immigrant workers' rights.
- Labor spearheads push for immigrant rights
9/26/2003. The Capital Times
In a pilgrimage reminiscent of 1960s odysseys through the Jim Crow South, activists are crossing the country in buses to demonstrate for reform of U.S. immigration laws. Organizers of the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride want to tap the emotional and political ballast of the movement that brought civil rights gains to African-Americans to bring civil rights to the laborers who toil in some of the nation's least-sought jobs.
- Freedom Ride runs through Nashville
9/26/2003. Nashville City Paper
The Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride will pass through Nashville Monday during a cross-country effort to bring awareness to issues concerning immigrant worker�s rights. The national issues for both documented and undocumented immigrants, said Leber, are legalization and citizenship, the right to organize and form unions, reunification of the family {allowing family members to come to the U.S.} and civil rights.
- Residents to take part in immigration reform campaign
9/26/2003. The Stamford Advocate
More than 200 immigrants from the Stamford area are expected to take part in a national campaign to reform U.S. immigration policy.... "We want to show how many immigrants are here, and that we are working here," said Carmen Sargent, a delegate for Local 32BJ of the Service Employee International Union, which supports the Freedom Ride. "And we deserve the same rights as working people here."
- Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, USA , Supports the Freedom Ride
9/26/2003. World Faith News
The 74th General Convention of our Church, acknowledging the urgency of protecting and enhancing the civil and economic rights of immigrants, called us to "encourage support of the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride by educating its members to the importance of immigration law reform, organizing congregations to support the ride." In the spirit of this timely resolution, I urge Episcopalians throughout the country to support through prayer, advocacy and, where possible, participation in this nationwide event occurring from September 20 through October 4, 2003.
- Voices from the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride
9/26/2003. Alternet
History is a powerful witness in the lives of nations that captures success and failure; moments of pride and episodes of shame. The Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride, which kicked off Sept. 20, builds on the noble history of the U.S. civil rights movement and efforts to perfect an imperfect democracy.
- Freedom Ride comes to Memphis
9/26/2003. WMC-TV Memphis
Hundreds of Immigrant workers from the West Coast are on buses heading towards Memphis. Their journey was inspired by a similar ride through the south for Civil Rights. When their journey ends, they will have traveled thousands of miles to Washington D.C.
- Groups Ride Buses To Highlight Immigrant Plight
9/26/2003. NBC 13
Hundreds of people are participating in this week's Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride to 95 communities across the country. Buses will also make stops in four Alabama cities this weekend.
- Minnesota ride launched with festive celebration
9/26/2003. Workday Minnesota
Eighty immigrants and supporters who will travel on the Minnesota leg of the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride celebrated with a large crowd of friends Thursday night at Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis.
- Detienen temporalmente en TX la Marcha
9/26/2003. San Antonio News
El Servicio de inmigraci�n de los Estados Unidos o la Border Patrol detuvieron dos de los autobuses en la estaci�n migratoria que tienen ubicada a la salida de la ciudad de El Paso, Texas.... Por la noche llegaron a San Antonio e hicieron una escala en el centro de la ciudad donde fueron recibidos por varios activistas que ser unieron a su causa entre ellos podemos se�alar al Congresista Ciro Rodr�guez, quien dijo: �Tengo miedo por lo que les pueda pasar a estos manifestantes que fueron detenidos e interrogados en El Paso por la patrulla fronteriza.�
- Cross-country caravan stops in Utah to rally for immigrants' rights
9/26/2003. Salt Lake Tribune
Tears rolled down Esperanza Martinez's cheeks and fell onto the steps of the Utah Capitol, where hundreds of immigrants and their supporters stood Thursday to let their voices be heard.... "Our only sin was to come to the land of liberty," the Salt Lake mother told participants of the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride.
- Immigrant Activists Stopped by Border Patrol
9/26/2003. WOAI.com
A convoy of two busloads of people on their way to Washington D.C. to lobby for citizenship for illegal aliens working in the U.S. was stopped today by the U.S. Border patrol just outside El Paso in west Texas. The buses were released and continued on their journey.
- Immigrant Workers' Freedom Ride comes to Alabama
9/26/2003. The Auburn Plainsman
Auburn journalism students will travel this weekend to Montgomery to interview participants of the Immigrant Workers' Freedom Ride....The freedeom ride began Wednesday in Tuscon, Ariz. Hundreds of immigrants and their supporters sang "We Shall Overcome" in the spirit of the civil rights advocates of the 1960s.
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