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- Immigrant freedom riders seek 'road map' for better life
9/30/2003. The Tennessean
Nashville stop brings out hundreds. Sylvia Carranza of Los Angeles got on the bus as a way to pay tribute to her immigrant parents. Federico Gonzalez of Tucson, Ariz., got on the bus as a way to tell the world: ''Hire me, watch me work.'' Genelle Gaudinez, from southern California, got on the bus to remind her how far her immigrant family has come.
- Immigrants ride in rally for better life
9/30/2003. The Charlotte Observer
A national bus caravan of immigrant workers and their supporters will pull into Johnson C. Smith University today to rally for the legalization of illegal immigrant workers and to protest poor working conditions and low wages.
- Haitians revisit role in U.S. history
9/29/2003. The Miami Herald
SAVANNAH, Ga. - Participants in the Immigrant Workers' Freedom Ride stopped in this Southern city Sunday, the future home of a statue to honor Haitian soldiers who died in the Battle of the Siege of Savannah.
- Both sides of immigration debate plan rallies
9/29/2003. Associated Press
The Freedom Ride, a group traveling the country to promote immigrants' rights, on Tuesday is slated to stop in Wilson at noon and downtown Durham at 4:30 p.m., where a rally and march to a town hall-style meeting at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church are planned.
- Immigrant workers rally as prelude to 'Freedom' ride
9/29/2003. The Providence Journal
A group fighting for the rights of undocumented immigrant workers was welcomed with cheers, resolutions and cookies this morning at Providence City Hall.
- Immigrant rights are riders' focus
9/29/2003. The Times-Picayune
Breakdowns in Texas, bad weather, not even the threat of federal immigration officials could stop two busloads of freedom riders on their way to Washington in support of immigrant rights. The 80 riders stopped in New Orleans late Friday afternoon, parked on Loyola Avenue and marched toward the gazebo in front of City Hall, where dozens of supporters cheered.
- Freedom riders support immigrants
9/29/2003. Providence Visitor
In a display of community organizing unlike anything seen since the 1960s' civil rights movement, the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride is bringing together pro-immigrant groups from across the country, traveling by bus, to Washington, D.C., Oct. 1-2, to lobby legislators for changes in immigration laws.
- On the road to the coast
9/29/2003. The Capital Times
When Andres Sousa first immigrated to the United States from Peru a few years back, he had his children in mind. An architect by training who once practiced his trade for the United Nations, Sousa decided to drop everything in favor of the food service job at Meriter Hospital he has held since immigrating to Madison
- Incansable marcha por la legalizaci�n
9/29/2003. La Opini�n
Son seis d�as de viaje, cinco estados recorridos y 2,391 millas transitadas. Pero para los participantes en la denominada Caravana por la Libertad, la lucha por la legalizaci�n de millones de inmigrantes amerita �se y muchos otros esfuerzos.
- Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride to stop in W.Columbia on Monday
9/29/2003. WISTV
The Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride has made stops in 23 cities across the country. On Monday it will stop in West Columbia. In St. Louis hundreds of activists turned out for the demonstration. People of all races and religions came to show their support for the cause.
- Immigrants heading to Washington rally in St. Louis
9/29/2003. St. Louis Today
Two buses carrying 104 immigrants and their supporters stopped in St. Louis on Sunday night as part of a coast-to-coast sojourn designed to persuade Congress to overhaul immigration laws.
- Immigrants ride for changes
9/29/2003. KnoxNews.com
At the age of 18, when most high schoolers begin preparing for college, Ossee Desmangles was running for his life. Desmangles fled the island nation of Haiti in 1992 after civil war broke out. He entered Cuba as a refugee and then came to Miami. Although able to work in the United States legally, he has been waiting 11 years for immigration authorities to process his case for a green card. He cannot legally return home to see his parents and siblings or have them come and join him.
- Immigrant workers take Freedom Ride for rights
9/29/2003. Hampton Roads
They want decent pay, respect from employers, a shot at a good education. The American Dream, really. So earlier this month, hundreds of immigrants and their supporters boarded about 20 buses from nine cities to kick off a new national Freedom Ride.
- National bus tour for immigrants' rights hits Q-C
9/29/2003. The Dispatch
DAVENPORT -- Five hundred people -- some on their way to Washington, D.C. -- rallied Sunday at St. Ambrose University in favor of immigration reform.
- Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride stops in Kansas City
9/29/2003. Kansas City Star
Two busloads of immigrant workers and their supporters who are crossing the country to promote immigration reform got a rousing welcome Sunday in Kansas City. As the 106 weary travelers from the San Francisco area filed into the Primitivo Garcia Elementary School gymnasium for a rally, an enthusiastic crowd of several hundred people erupted in cheers, chants and applause.
- Council endorses protest movement against immigration laws
9/29/2003. The Providence Journal
CRANSTON -- The City Council has adopted a resolution in support of The Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride, a movement protesting current immigration laws. The resolution, sponsored by Councilman Allan W. Fung and passed unanimously last week, states that immigration laws, for a number of reasons, fail to serve the city's interests: They offer "no opportunity for many hard-working, taxpaying immigrant residents to become legal residents, and eventually, citizens, of the United States."
- Immigrant worker rally today
9/29/2003. Democrat and Chronicle
In an event designed to hearken back to the � freedom riders� who pushed for civil rights in the South, more than 100 immigrants will travel into Brockport today as part of a rally promoting legal rights for undocumented immigrants. The Freedom Ride promotes � securing the rights of all people who live and work in this country and making sure that they have the same workplace rights as the person they�re working next to and everybody else,"
- Union supporters greet freedom riders: Rally in Toledo backs busloads of lobbyists in push for immigrant rights
9/29/2003. The Blade
A crowd of union members and supporters gathered yesterday in South Toledo to welcome three buses from the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride heading to Washington to lobby for increased rights for immigrants. "There is no open debate on these topics, said Beatriz Maya, director of the Immigrant Rights Campaign for the AFL-CIO�s Farm Labor Organizing Committee and organizer of the rally.
- Immigrant workers seek dignity, respect for all
9/29/2003. Indy Star
Louis Thomas wasn't born when a group of activists known as freedom riders forced the integration of interstate buses in the early 1960s and provided a catalyst for other civil rights advances. But the 26-year-old Indianapolis man wanted to show his appreciation for how those protests opened doors of opportunity for blacks like himself.
- Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride Draws Crowd, Prostesters
9/29/2003. WISHTV
The Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride has traveled hundreds of miles for immigrant rights. Their most recent stop is Indianapolis. Dozens of immigrants and civil rights activists arrived to a cheering crowd Monday afternoon.
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