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- McLaughlin, Council praise Freedom Ride
10/2/2003. Times Ledger
A group of city council members and state Assemblyman Brian McLaughlin (D-Flushing) have invoked the civil rights campaign of 40 years ago in urging support for the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride.
- Immigrants in Our Politics
10/2/2003. The Washington Post
"Being a foreigner, being an immigrant," Elia Kazan, the great Turkish-born, Anatolian Greek director who died this week, once mused. "I mean, I wasn't in the society. I was rebellious against it."
- Immigrant workers press for protections
10/2/2003. The Atlanta-Journal Constitution
WASHINGTON -- A caravan of buses filled with immigrants and their supporters Wednesday pulled into the nation's capital, where they encountered -- and joined -- a spirited rally punctuated by cheers, Mariachi music and fists flying in the air.
- On they go, so they can stay
10/2/2003. Poughkeepsie Journal
An educated native of Mexico, Arellano left her home and family when her father became ill and no longer could work. She gave up a job as a secretary, where she made about $30 a week, and crossed the border into the U.S. six years ago, where she gave birth to a baby boy and found work at a Chicago airport, cleaning passenger cabins for $6.50 an hour.
- Immigrants' 'freedom ride' seeks to improve job conditions
10/2/2003. The Boston Globe
Hundreds of immigrant workers and their supporters rolled into the nation's capital yesterday, bringing their "freedom ride" for better treatment to the halls of Congress. They came on 18 buses from Seattle, San Francisco, Miami, Minneapolis, and six other cities, with nearly 900 participants representing about 50 countries.
- Immigrant Workers 'Ride' Reaches D.C.
10/1/2003. Associated Press
Hundreds of immigrant workers and their supporters rolled into the nation's capital Wednesday, bringing their "freedom ride" for better treatment to the halls of Congress.
- Mario Ramos: Immigration law must evolve fairly
10/1/2003. The Tennessean
Paul Melander, quoted Sunday on the Equal Time page of The Tennessean, should be congratulated for acknowledging some of the ''hues of gray'' associated with immigration debates . However, in the end, he still defends outdated and harmful current immigration policies — simply because they are the ones on the book.
- Immigrant workers speak out
10/1/2003. Memphis Commercial Appeal
Los Angeles seamstress Enriqueta Soto can tell you what it's like to work a 12-hour day without a bathroom break. She's practiced her craft for 26 years and her world is so much better now, she says, since she joined the union two years ago.
- Caravana de la Libertad se enfocar� en temas migratorios y laborales
10/1/2003. Providence en Espanol
Lorenzo Aldana, de Providence, es uno de miles de inmigrantes que participar�n de un multitudinario encuentro en la ciudad de Nueva York, promoviendo el derecho a la ciudadan�a, la reunificaci�n familiar y mejores condiciones laborales para los inmigrantes en EEUU.
- Advocates for Migrants Take to the Road
10/1/2003. The Washington Post
The apple and peach orchards here have long served as a beacon for migrants such as Hector Urive, who came from Mexico in 1977 to pick fruit alongside his father. He decided to stay for the opportunities the United States offers.
- Marchers call for amnesty
10/1/2003. Herald Sun
In all of her years, the 40-year-old Mexico City native had never taken to the streets in support of anything.... Then she heard at church about Tuesday's march in Durham to advocate for immigrants' rights and felt that she should come to give her family a chance to reunite, she said.
- Freedom Riders Of 2003
10/1/2003. The Washington Post
It seems only yesterday I was boarding a Greyhound bus in Washington to ride with a group of brave men and women into the Deep South, a part of America where decades-old Jim Crow laws still prohibited blacks and whites from sharing accommodations in bus stations and other public places. We called our journey a Freedom Ride, drawing on a tradition with roots in earlier 19th and 20th century moving protests against segregation.
- Immigrants ride for rights
9/30/2003. The Fayetteville Observer
Supporters of immigrant worker rights gathered Monday night under the arches of the Market House to protest a "new slavery" in America at a site where slaves were once sold. The Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride includes 18 buses that are carrying hundreds of immigrants. The buses are stopping in more than 100 cities to promote immigrants' rights.
- Service honors those who died in '29
9/30/2003. The McDowell News
A service to remember the six workers killed in the bloody strike of 1929 took place in front of the Marion Manufacturing building Monday, 74 years after the tragic event. And the people who paused to remember these strikers from long ago said they found inspiration from this service to continue with their own struggles.
- Freedom riders gather to speak about immigrant issues
9/30/2003. Yale Daily News
Immigrants from around the globe stopped at the First and Summerfield United Methodist Church in New Haven on Monday as they continued on the ride of their lives from Boston to Washington, D.C., in pursuit of "The American Dream."
- Group mobilizes to focus attention on immigrant rights
9/30/2003. The Times and Democrat
"Orangeburg has a rich history of protests and demonstrations for civil rights, for human rights," says Dr. Bill Hine, professor of political science and history at South Carolina State University. Continuing to write that history, participants in the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride led an hour-long rally Monday in SCSU's Student Union Plaza.
- Immigrants ride for rights in Atlanta
9/30/2003. Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Last week Edna Silvester boarded a bus and began a mission that -- so far -- has taken her and about 100 other community activists and immigrants through the history-laden towns of Selma, Montgomery, Birmingham and Anniston, Ala. The group aboard two buses arrived in Atlanta on Monday singing "We Shall Overcome" and adding in Spanish "si, se puede" (loosely translated, "yes, we can") to the chorus.
- Immigrants take long ride for freedom
9/30/2003. Financial Times
Gerthy Lahens-Justafort, a professional community organiser in Boston's low-income Roxbury neighbourhood, is indignant when she reflects on her experiences as an immigrant in the US workforce. Yesterday, Ms Lahens-Justafort began a fight for change by joining more than 1,000 immigrants for a cross-country "Freedom Ride". Buses leaving Boston and nine other cities will on Thursday descend on Washington, where participants will rally and lobby members of Congress to change the country's immigration policies.
- Representative Solis Introduces Resolution to Honor Freedom Riders
9/30/2003.
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, Representative Hilda L. Solis (CA-32), along with Representative Michael Honda (CA-15), introduced a House Resolution to express support for the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride, to honor the Freedom Riders for their courageous campaign, and to encourage the President and Congress to enact policies that support the goals of the Freedom Ride, including: legalization and a "Road to Citizenship" for immigrant workers, reunion of families in a timely fashion by streamlining our outdated immigration policies and protection and restoration of workplace rights for immigrants.
- Workers resurrect '60s freedom rides
9/30/2003. The News Herald
Tommy Gallegos came all the way from Orange County, Calif., where he lives, to march through downtown Morganton on Monday afternoon in hopes of making a difference.Gallegos was marching with more than 150 other people in the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride, a national mobilization which focuses on immigration laws.
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