Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride Rolls Into Suburban Philadelphia
9/28/2003. Yahoo Finance
Just as the Freedom Rides of the early 1960s exposed the brutal realities of Southern segregation, the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride will help highlight the injustice of current policies toward immigrants when it rolls into Malvern, PA Tuesday, September 30 at 3 p.m....

Activists finish the first day of Freedom Ride
9/28/2003. Miami Herald
The Immigrant Workers Freedom bus from Miami arrived in Orlando on Saturday on its first day of a cross-country trip after a stop in Immokalee to bring attention to the plight of migrant farmers. The 60 bus riders mingled with the farmers, vowing to take their concerns to Washington, D.C., and New York. ''Even though the migrant workers live in fear because of their legal status, it's important that they know they have the support of people throughout the country,'' said rider Valeria Tijerino, 21. ...

Entusiasma la caravana a Washington en defensa de trabajadores inmigrantes
9/28/2003. La Opini�n
Despu�s de haber pasado un momento de angustia en el punto de revisi�n de inmigraci�n en Sierra Blanca, Texas, cientos de residentes de las ciudades de San Antonio y Austin recibieron ayer con los brazos abiertos y entusiasmo a la Caravana de la Libertad en el quinto d�a de recorrido Camino a la Ciudadan�a/Inmigrant Workers Freedom Ride. ...

'Freedom riders' bring immigrant goals to Wichita
9/28/2003. The Wichita Eagle
Delia Medina, a hotel maid in San Francisco, left her three young children behind in El Salvador when she moved to the United States years ago. She wanted to make a better life for her family and achieve the American dream, she said. Eight months later, she had found a decent-paying job and was able to send for her kids. ...

The Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride makes a stop in Tulsa
9/28/2003. KOTV-6
Hundreds of protestors in a caravan to the nation's capital are protesting what they consider the unfair treatment of immigrant workers. It's part of the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride. They made a stop in Tulsa Saturday to offer support to East Indian workers who are suing a Tulsa company for allegedly treating them like slaves....

Let justice roll through America
9/28/2003. Star-Telegram
Eighteen freedom buses roll across the Rocky Mountains, Lone Star ranches, Northern urban factory cities, Midwestern prairies and Deep South cotton fields, carrying the hardest-working people in America: immigrants. On Sept. 20, about 1,000 immigrants and supporters laid aside their mops, brooms, shovels, hammers, saws and anonymity for a two-week Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride to Washington and New York City to announce their desire to be free to live and work in America....

Freedom Ride champions immigrants
9/28/2003. Denver Post
Alejandra Bustillos waited eagerly for the buses from Seattle to arrive at St. Joseph Church. "I want to join people who are fighting to get legal status," said Bustillos, an undocumented Mexican immigrant who came to Denver in 1995. Bustillos was waiting, along with about 250 others, at the Denver church Friday night to greet 200 immigrant and civil rights supporters riding buses across the country as part of the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride....

Immigrants in U.S. pay hefty price
9/27/2003. The Clarion-Ledger
Immigrant-rights supporters, inspired by the Freedom Riders of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, want to expose laws that keep immigrants like Mazy, Rodriguez and Nadalin from enjoying legalization and citizenship, job protection without regard to legal status, civil rights and being reunited with their families in the United States....

Immigrants' bus campaign rolls into Austin
9/27/2003. Austin American-Statesmn
One by one, they told tales of immigrant workers whose rights were trampled. Like Austin's Rafael Castelan, who talked with soft-spoken dignity about his friends who worked for 15 days, only to have their employer disappear on payday. In some cases, employers even called immigration authorities, getting what amounted to free labor first....

Marcha por los trabajadores inmigrantes
9/27/2003. Univision
La gran movilizaci�n nacional "Marcha de la Libertad para los Trabajadores Inmigrantes" hizo su escala en Miami desde d�nde parti� hacia su objetivo final: una gran manifestaci�n en Nueva York en defensa de sus derechos....