The Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride, a local and national perspective
10/10/2003. Portland State University Vanguard
The ride is over, but the issues raised still resonate locally and nationally....

Let Freedom Roll
10/9/2003. The Nation
In 1961, 19-year-old Ruby Doris Smith arrived in Rock Hill, South Carolina, fully expecting the violent racist fury that awaited her and the other black students on her bus. At the time, the term "Freedom Ride" had not yet come into use. ...

Flushing rally calls for amnesty for illegal immigrants
10/9/2003. Astoria Times
Immigrants and their supporters packed Flushing Meadows Corona Park on a chilly and windy afternoon Saturday for what organizers called the largest pro-immigrant workers� rally in U.S. history. ...

Immigrant workers call for legalization, rights
10/9/2003. The Gazette
Hundreds of immigrant workers walked into Bible Way Temple in the District on Oct. 1, shouting the now anthem-like "Si se puede!," and carrying signs with 'Seattle," "Boston" and other cities' names on them. ...

Non-Citizens Seek City Law Changes to Allow Voting
10/7/2003. Columbia Daily Spectator
This election day, more than four million residents from the Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island will line up at their nearest public school to exercise one of their most important rights as Americans--the right to vote....

Farmworkers give us food for thought
10/7/2003. New York Daily News
Ramon Ramirez had been riding the bus for 12 days going on 30 years - ever since the day he first heard Cesar Chavez. Ramirez and his fellow farmworkers came to New York last weekend all the way from Woodburn, Ore., a dusty agricultural community of 20,000 people in the Willamette Valley....

A deadly hunt for work
10/7/2003. The Arizona Republic
U.S. business wants immigrant labor. That's the magnet that draws increasing numbers of people from Mexico and Central America up through Arizona's deadly deserts....

It's time for fear to get off the bus
10/7/2003. The Arizona Republic
My mother, a Mexican immigrant, probably wouldn't have been on the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride, which just concluded its cross-country trip to Washington, D.C. She would have been afraid....

Students rally for workers
10/7/2003. Yale Daily News
About 75 Yale students, many of whom belong to the Undergraduate Organizing Committee and the Yale Coalition for Peace, rode with 11 busloads of New Haven immigrants and supporters to a New York City rally Saturday, marking the culmination of the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride....

Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride Rally a Huge Success!
10/6/2003. LA Indymedia
As the culmination of Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride, on Saturday, October 4th, tens of thousands of immigrant workers joined friends and allies for a fabulous rally in Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, New York. ...