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• 'Freedom Riders' Hope Road to Change Runs Through Yakima
  9/24/2003. Yakima-Herald
  Cheering immigration-rights activists and union organizers clapped and chanted Tuesday morning as a bus bound for Washington, D.C., pulled up to St. Joseph's Catholic Church.



• Freedom ride comes to Toledo
  9/24/2003. The News-Messenger
  The Farm Labor Organizing Committee and the AFL-CIO are bringing the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride to Toledo Sunday. "Our goal is to get people to embrace immigrants here in peace and to understand that immigrants want to contribute to the greatness of this country," said Beatriz Maya, education director of FLOC.



• Freedom riders look to fix plight of nation's immigrant workers
  9/23/2003. USA Today
  



• Let Freedom Ride
  9/23/2003. Seattle Weekly
  



• �Freedom riders� calling for immigration policy change
  9/23/2003. The Desert Sun
  



• Freedom's journey
  9/23/2003. Boston Globe
  



• Denver City Council supports Freedom Ride rally
  9/23/2003. Rocky Mountain News
  



• Immigrant Group Begins Freedom Journey
  9/23/2003. NBC News 11
  



• Immigrants Set Out on Their Own Freedom Ride
  9/23/2003. Los Angeles Times
  



• Freedom riders highlight plight of immigrant workers
  9/23/2003. San Francisco Chronicle
  



• Mexican native and UC-Berkeley grad helping pave the way for others
  9/23/2003. The Mercury News
  



• MINNESOTA: Ride, rally to press immigrants' rights
  9/23/2003. Pioneer Press
  



• The Road to Citizenship
  9/23/2003. In These Times
  



• 2,500 join in march to launch Freedom Ride
  9/23/2003. Zwire
  



• '60s-style ride to focus on immigrant workers' plight
  9/23/2003. The Herald Sun
  



• Parte caravana en pro de la legalizaci�n
  9/23/2003. La Opini�n
  



• Immigrant Freedom Rides roll
  9/23/2003. Atlanta-Journal Constitution
  About 100 activists will roll into Atlanta from Houston in buses next week, bringing with them what they hope will be echoes of the civil rights movement's Freedom Rides of 1961. Dubbed the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride, organizers of the national campaign say they are seeking a path to legalization for all immigrant workers and their families and protection of workers' rights on the job regardless of their legal status.



• Supporters of immigrants' rights rally at state Capitol
  9/23/2003. Sacramento Bee
  



• Freedom riders press immigrant issues
  9/23/2003. Penn Live
  



• Immigrant advocates plan two area rallies in Louisville and Shelbyville
  9/23/2003. Courier-Journal News
  

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