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Danbury area immigrants rally for better rights
10/6/2003. The News Times
Carlos Cordoba left Danbury at 9 a.m. to join tens of thousands of immigrants rallying Saturday at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, for the largest pro-immigrant rally in U.S. history....
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100,000 Immigrant Workers and Supporters Demand Change to Nation's Immigration Laws
10/6/2003. Democracy Now
As many as 100,000 immigrants rallied in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens � the most diverse community in the world - on Saturday to call for better working conditions for undocumented workers. This follows a rally on Friday against the backdrop of the Statue of Liberty in New Jersey. ...
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WBAI's Building Bridges: Highlights of the Immigrants Workers Freedom Ride Rally
10/6/2003.
Monday, October 6, 2003, 7-8 pm EST, over 99.5 FM or streaming live (http://www.2600.com/offthe>hook/hot2.ram). Tens of thousands of immigrants and labor union members rallied in Flushing Meadows Park in Queens on Saturday with the hope of promoting an immigrants� rights movement that will capture the nation�s conscience the way the 1960�s civil rights movement did....
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'Freedom Rides' end with rally in N.Y.
10/5/2003. Los Angeles Times
Culminating bus journeys throughout the United States modeled on the Freedom Rides that fought segregation in the South, tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered in New York on Saturday to urge more rights for undocumented immigrants....
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Immigrants Workers and Allies Rally for " Freedom and Equal Rights " in New York
10/5/2003. Akolad.com
Immigrants workers along with allies living in the US gathered in Flushing Meadow Park, Queens to unify their voice for fair treatments, dignity in the workplace, and a change in immigration policies....
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Immigrants Rally in City, Seeking Rights
10/5/2003. The New York Times
Tens of thousands of immigrants rallied in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens yesterday with the hope of promoting an immigrants' rights movement that will capture the nation's conscience the way the 1960's civil rights movement did.
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Immigration activists converge to seek reform
10/5/2003. The Providence Journal
Factory workers, professionals, activists, community workers, students, labor organizers and church workers from Rhode Island made the trip in hopes of getting the message out that the United States depends on its immigrant workers and should find a way to legalize the estimated 10 million who are undocumented. ...
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Immigrants' plea for rights
10/5/2003. New York Daily News
Chanting and waving signs in a multitude of languages, an estimated 100,000 immigrants rallied in Queens yesterday to invoke the spirit of the civil rights movement that swept America in the 1960s....
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Culmina la Caravana
10/5/2003. La Opini�n
Miles de inmigrantes de todas partes del mundo se reunieron ayer en el parque Flushing Meadows Corona para manifestar su agradecimiento a los integrantes de la Caravana de la Libertad y pedir la legalizaci�n de millones de inmigrantes indocumentados en este pa�s. ...
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Immigrants' tour ends in massive rally
10/5/2003. The Miami Herald
The Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride bus tour, with its Miami contingent, made a final stop here and was greeted by tens of thousands of supporters at a rally billed by organizers as the largest protest for immigrant rights in U.S. history....