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- Border Patrol Stops 'Freedom Ride' Buses
9/26/2003. Associated press
Two buses carrying nearly 100 people making a "Freedom Ride" to bring attention to mistreatment of undocumented immigrants were stopped for nearly four hours Friday at a U.S. Border Patrol station. The riders were asked to leave the buses and were questioned, said Hilda Delgado, a spokeswoman on the buses. All were later released, and the buses were back on the road to San Antonio by about noon.
- Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride stops in Salt Lake
9/26/2003. Casper Star Tribune
About 250 marchers participated in a Salt Lake City rally Thursday as the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride transcontinental bus trip made a stop en route to Washington, D.C. The Freedom Riders were met by scores of sign-waving supporters plus a few puzzled commuters. The activists said they are seeking a clear road to citizenship and decent working conditions. Lt. Gov. Olene Walker told the group that Utah is an immigrant-friendly state. She was applauded as she cited policies that allow undocumented immigrants to obtain drivers' licenses and attend state universities for the same tuition rate as resident citizens.
- New Freedom Riders rally for immigrant workers
9/26/2003. Detroit Free press
On the surface, the backgrounds of Rigoberto Valdez and Doreetha Fuller Evans couldn't seem more different. Valdez is a 31-year-old immigrant from Mexico who grew up speaking Spanish and now works as a union organizer for the AFL-CIO in San Francisco. Fuller Evans is a 53-year-old African-American who grew up in Stockton, Calif., and now works as a custodian at San Francisco City College. But both share the harsh experience of working as field laborers in California as youngsters, and that bond is what's bringing them to metro Detroit this weekend.
- Unase a la gran Marcha de la Libertad de los Trabajadores Inmigrantes
9/26/2003. La Tribuna Hispana
Hace cuarenta a�os, Estados Unidos vivi� una revoluci�n civil con la multitudinarias marchas por los Derechos Civiles, que cambiaron el panorama pol�tico y social de los Estados Unidos en las d�cadas siguientes. Hoy en d�a, las organizaciones que participan en la gran Marcha por la Libertad de los Trabajadores Inmigrantes, esperan que se repitan esas haza�as civiles, reuniendo a cientos de miles de personas de todo el pa�s, con una serie de marchas que culminar�n en una multitudinaria concentraci�n en el Flushing Meadow Park, Nueva York, el pr�ximo 4 de octubre.
- Riding for Rights
9/26/2003. Santa Fe New Mexican
Like many Mexicans, Jos� Manuel Cazares left home and moved to the United States to look for work more than three decades ago. He spent a majority of those years as a farm worker in California, picking grapes, lettuce and other fruits and vegetables so he could support his family. He was undocumented at the time, and on Thursday he recalled the struggles he endured.
- Cross-country campaign for immigrant rights stops in Reno
9/25/2003. The Reno-Gazette Journal
As immigrants on a cross-country bus campaign for equal rights told their stories Wednesday during a rally in Reno, Jessica Ramirez, a nursing student, listened and thought about her experiences. The roughly 250 people rallying at the University of Nevada, Reno are part of a national call for an easier path to citizenship, safer and fairer working conditions, and the reunion of families separated because of immigration.
- Western Queens March Focuses On Plight Of Immigrant Workers
9/25/2003. Queens Chronicle
Activists marched from Jackson Heights to Corona on Saturday to protest the treatment that immigrant workers have faced on both a national and local level since the September 11th attacks. The march served as a precursor to the national Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride that will culminate with a rally on October 4th in Flushing Meadows Park. During the freedom ride, buses will travel from 10 cities across America to raise awareness about the problems facing immigrant workers.
- Minnesota Salutes Immigrant Worker Freedom Riders
9/25/2003.
Immigrants, their families and friends will gather at 5:30 p.m. Thursday evening at Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis. Their purpose: to salute the 80 Minnesotans who will board buses Sunday in support of immigrant workers rights.
- Immigrants' Rights Drive Starts
9/25/2003. The New York Times
TUCSON, Sept. 24 � Ninety immigrants and supporters left their buses and marched outside the Roman Catholic cathedral here today, carrying foot-high crosses to commemorate people from south of the border who died in the desert as they sought a better life in the United States. At St. Augustine Cathedral, the immigrants were greeted by more than 400 parishioners, students and others who marched alongside them and joined in singing, "We Shall Overcome."
- Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride: 400 locals turn out to welcome 2 busloads
9/25/2003. The Tucson Citizen
Bishop Kicanas conducts an hourlong ceremony at St. Augustine in English and Spanish as cross-country travelers stop in Tucson yesterday.
FRANCISCO MEDINA/Tucson Citizen
Amanda Figueroa and Guillermo Roacho, both of Los Angeles, embrace and comfort each other in the rain yesterday morning as they and several hundred marchers participated in the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride rally.
�Andale! Tucson Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas urged participants of the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride yesterday when the cross-country travelers made a stop in Tucson to attend a special Mass and rally.
"Come on, move," Kicanas repeated during the hourlong Mass at St. Augustine Cathedral, which he conducted in both English and Spanish. "The people want rights and dignity."
- "Freedom ride" promotes immigrant-worker rights
9/25/2003. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Drawing inspiration from the historic civil rights movement of the 1960s, hundreds of immigrants - many of them undocumented - are making a cross-country road trip to push for changes in U.S. immigration law.
- Riders spend the night at Caldwell's Farmway Village
9/25/2003. Idaho Statesman
The last time Mako Nakagawa was in Idaho it was 1942. She was 5 years old and living with her family in the Minidoka Internment camp in Hunt.
Nakagawa returned to the state Wednesday on a bus traveling from Seattle on the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride.
- Freedom riders head to Washington to push for changes in worker treatment
9/25/2003. The Pasadena Citizen
Immigrant workers are packing up for a trek east that they hope will help level the playing field when it comes to workers' rights. Numerous buses from 10 U.S. cities, including Houston, are leaving this week to travel to Washington, D.C., where dozens will lobby for better treatment of immigrant workers. Some buses, depending on the distance they have to travel, have already left.
- Road to Freedom
9/24/2003. Tri-City Herald
Berta Balli-Sheldrick boarded the blue tour bus with the red, white and bright yellow stripes parked in front of St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Yakima.
The Benton City woman had taken the first step on a cross-country journey joining many others to raise awareness about the issues faced by immigrant workers.
- 'Freedom riders' stage Phoenix rally
9/24/2003. The Arizona Republic
A boisterous crowd numbering in the hundreds let out a thunderous cheer Tuesday evening when two buses pulled up in front of the state Capitol carrying riders on a cross-country journey to promote the rights of immigrant workers in America.
- A Journey For Change
9/24/2003. Mercury News
Calling themselves the Freedom Riders, a tribute to civil-rights activists who went on a similar journey in the 1960s, about 800 immigrants from 10 U.S. cities boarded buses that will converge Oct. 4 in New York City. The goal of the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride is threefold: to legalize undocumented immigrants, reunite families and protect workers' rights without regard to immigration status.
- Demonstrators roll on immigrant freedom ride
9/24/2003. USA Today
WASHINGTON � Inspired by the civil rights movement, tens of thousands of people are expected to climb aboard a caravan of buses this month for a modern-day "freedom ride" to the nation's capital.
- Immigrant workers start 'freedom ride'
9/24/2003. The Press-Enterprise
PALM SPRINGS - Yuliana Avila waved a bright banner that read: "We pick $425 million worth of Coachella Valley crops, we clean 15,600 toilets and make 20,000 hotel beds every day."
- Former farmworker to join Freedom Ride in Idaho
9/24/2003. Idaho Statesman
Beginning at age 8, Gloria Lara spent her summers working alongside her father and 10 brothers and sisters in the fields.
Beginning Thursday, Lara, now 53 and living in Burley, will work to highlight the struggles of immigrant workers in the United States.
- Freedom ride� makes valley stop
9/24/2003. The Desert Sun
PALM SPRINGS -- A caravan of buses dropped off hundreds of valley students in downtown Palm Springs on Tuesday, where they joined others in support of a new national campaign for immigrant workers that was inspired by civil rights bus rides four decades ago.
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