Immigrants on Freedom Ride Stopped in Texas
9/27/2003. Los Angeles Times
Two buses carrying 87 passengers on a labor-sponsored "immigrant workers freedom ride" were stopped for two hours by U.S. Border Patrol agents at a checkpoint east of El Paso Friday morning. The passengers, including many immigrants, initially refused to answer questions about their residency status and instead sang civil rights songs. Border Patrol spokesman Mario Villareal said the passengers eventually cooperated and were released....

Marcha por Amnist�a
9/27/2003. San Antonio News
As� es como han denominado a la marcha que la gran coalici�n nacionalista realizando para que el pr�ximo primero de Octubre grupos Sindicales, Religiosos y Comunitarios reunidos por la �Marcha de la Libertad� entreguen una petici�n formal al Congreso de los Estados Unidos de Am�rica para solicitar una amnist�a general para los trabajadores indocumentados. ...

Freedom riders bound for New York, fueled by hope
9/27/2003. Rocky Mountain News
A human rights movement that's crossing the country by bus made a stop in Denver Friday with a simple message:Give basic rights to immigrants. The stop - part of a national 100-city odyssey called Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride - lured about 250 people to St. Joseph's Church on Sixth Avenue to hear the message delivered by bus riders....

Unions show immigrant support
9/27/2003. The Des Moines Register
David Ochoa has witnessed immigrant workers being mistreated. After quitting his job in 1996 at a meat-processing plant, Ochoa has been reporting worker-rights violations he sees or hears about. "I have complained about meatpacking plants where lines are too fast or workers are being verbally harassed," said Ochoa, 42, a Guatemala native who lives in Perry. He said that while union support of immigrants' wages and working conditions has improved in recent years, more can be done....

Death zone on border to get visit
9/27/2003. The Press-Enterprise
A small group of volunteers and social workers will journey today from the streets of Los Angeles to the deserts of Imperial County, to see for themselves the spots where dozens of undocumented immigrants die each year....

Immigrants seek labor justice
9/27/2003. The Journal Times
Six weeks before her second child was born, Maria was fired from the Racine factory where she worked because the Social Security Administration sent their employer a letter stating their names did not match a Social Security number. The factory told them and other undocumented workers, to bring them new Social Security numbers. They did. But Maria and her husband were not hired back; they lost all their benefits. Other workers were hired back, but at lower wages and without benefits....

Locals along for the ride: Immigrants' rights caravan holds rallies
9/27/2003. Monterey Herald
The Monterey County contingent of a cross-country immigrant rights caravan was not among those detained by the U.S. Border Patrol on Friday, but the local "Freedom Riders" were paying close attention. "That was an unfortunate event," Julius de Vera said. "We're prepared for anything that happens." De Vera, the president of Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Union Local 483, spoke by cell phone Friday as his Freedom Ride bus crossed Wyoming. De Vera is one of four people from the Monterey Peninsula taking part in the journey. ...

Backers welcome Freedom Ride buses to S.A.
9/27/2003. San Antonio Express-News
He came from Nicaragua three years ago, but the 27-year-old undocumented worker says as opportunities for him in the United States shrink, the more he wants to go back home. So the former factory worker joined about 300 immigrant advocates from across South Texas at a rally on the City Hall steps Friday night. Chanting "Si se puede" � yes, it can be done � to the beating of drums, the advocates also listened to speeches as they waited for two buses packed with activists taking the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride, which is focusing attention on immigration policies....

Detienen temporalmente en TX la Marcha
9/26/2003. San Antonio News
El Servicio de inmigraci�n de los Estados Unidos o la Border Patrol detuvieron dos de los autobuses en la estaci�n migratoria que tienen ubicada a la salida de la ciudad de El Paso, Texas.... Por la noche llegaron a San Antonio e hicieron una escala en el centro de la ciudad donde fueron recibidos por varios activistas que ser unieron a su causa entre ellos podemos se�alar al Congresista Ciro Rodr�guez, quien dijo: �Tengo miedo por lo que les pueda pasar a estos manifestantes que fueron detenidos e interrogados en El Paso por la patrulla fronteriza.�...

Unase a la gran Marcha de la Libertad de los Trabajadores Inmigrantes
9/26/2003. La Tribuna Hispana
Hace cuarenta a�os, Estados Unidos vivi� una revoluci�n civil con la multitudinarias marchas por los Derechos Civiles, que cambiaron el panorama pol�tico y social de los Estados Unidos en las d�cadas siguientes. Hoy en d�a, las organizaciones que participan en la gran Marcha por la Libertad de los Trabajadores Inmigrantes, esperan que se repitan esas haza�as civiles, reuniendo a cientos de miles de personas de todo el pa�s, con una serie de marchas que culminar�n en una multitudinaria concentraci�n en el Flushing Meadow Park, Nueva York, el pr�ximo 4 de octubre....