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,"...

Riding for rights: Immigrants busing across nation to rally at U.S. Capitol
9/29/2003. Greeley Tribune
Senaida Palomo wants to learn about her rights so she can pass the word to her fellow immigrants.... On Wednesday, Palomo is going to Washington, D.C., and New York to join more than 1,000 immigrants and their advocates at what is projected to be the largest organizational movement ever for immigrants. Palomo and four of her co-workers will represent the union for the workers at the Excel plant and the Swift and Co. lamb plant in Greeley. ...

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. ...

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."...

Legal status out of reach for many
9/28/2003. The Clarion Ledger
About six years ago, Angelica Mazy of Clinton met and married her husband Abraham Mazy in Mexico, but he lived in the United States....

International court backs rights of migrants
9/28/2003. San Francisco Chronicle
The hemisphere's top human rights court has ruled that migrants have the same rights as other workers, even if they can be deported, Mexican officials announced on Thursday. The nonbinding opinion came in response to a Mexican complaint filed last year after a 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that a plastics company owed nothing to an illegal immigrant who was fired after involvement in union activities. ...

Immigrants Travel to Washington to Rally for Broadened Rights
9/28/2003. New York Times
As the bus sped through the New Mexico desert and into West Texas, Federico Gonz�lez talked of his dream, an odd dream for an immigrant from Colombia. He wants to be an F.B.I. agent. Back home, he had been studying to be a police investigator, but he dropped out of college because he was too poor to pay all the expenses. ...

Immigrant workers ride for equal rights
9/28/2003. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride that rolled into Milwaukee on Sunday as part of a cross-country event stands as "a heroic procession" that is part of more than 200 years of non-violent struggles for human rights, the Rev. James Lawson said. Now 75, Lawson worked alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to start the non-violent movement for civil rights in the 1960s. He was jailed in Jackson, Miss., while on the Freedom Ride of 1961, where many were beaten. ...

Immigrant 'freedom ride' pulls into Omaha
9/28/2003. Omaha World Herald
Now about midway into their journey across America, two busloads of "freedom riders" pulled Saturday into Omaha to the cheers of more than 500 people. Supporters lining Lake Street near 24th Street waved flags of different countries as the 90 riders - immigrants and advocates - marched to chants such as "civil rights for all." ... "This is history in the making," said Margie Lara, a sophomore at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. "It's awesome." ...

All aboard for Freedom Ride rally
9/28/2003. New York Daily News
Flash deportations, immigration backlog, the Patriot Act, undisguised hostility toward them. These are rough times for immigrants. Which is why every immigrant in the city, their friends, supporters and all New Yorkers of good will should gather Oct. 4 at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park for the largest rally ever for immigrant rights....