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Education Materials about the Freedom Ride

Educational Connections: Culture, Identity and Youths. Educational Materials about the Freedom Ride from Northeastern Illinois University
Northeastern Illinois University Chicago Teachers' Center, hACE Project, SEIU and the GEAR UP Alliance, will be working with the Chicago Public School teachers, students and their families to follow the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride with curriculum activities, on-line connection to Riders on the buses and culminating art projects that demonstrate youth's relationship to these issues and their understanding of these critical civic issues.

Civil Rights

Enemy Aliens. In the war on terrorism, the federal government has detained over 4,000 foreign nationals, engaged in guilt by association and ethnic profiling, and conducted secret searches and wiretaps without probable cause of criminality. These measures have been sold to the public on the ground that they affect only foreign nationals, not American citizens. In Enemy Aliens, award-winning author, Georgetown law professor, and civil liberties lawyer David Cole argues that in balancing liberty and security we have consistently relied on a double standard, imposing measures on foreigners that we would not tolerate if they were applied more broadly to us all.
Public's Truth: Stories of Racial Profiling and The Attack on Civil Liberties
The Public’s Truth is a forum for communities to share real stories of how the “war on terrorism” and national security have adversely affected the lives of immigrants, refugees, and communities of color and to raise awareness of the scope and scale of attack upon civil liberties and human rights. (Published by the Applied Research Center, www.arc.org)
Civil Rights History and the Original Freedom Rides. The 1961 Freedom Rides were incredibly courageous acts of resistance led by many women and men, who still to this day, are leaders in the struggle for civil rights and racial justice. This link provides a short bibliography of excerpts and resources to educate yourself and others about the legacy of the Freedom Rides.

Immigration Materials

Immigrants and the Economy. According to the most comprehensive study ever done on immigrants, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) found that in all their combined roles, immigrants make indispensable contributions to our economy.
National Employment Law Project: Immigrant Worker Project Legal analysis, fact sheets and tools for legislative advocacy related to protecting and expanding the workplace rights of immigrant workers. Explanation of Social Security No-Match and employer work authorization verification issues.
Labor in the Pulpits: Special Focus on the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride Publication from the National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice
The Sixth Section. 'The Sixth Section' is a groundbreaking documentary that blends digital animation and documentary to depict the transnational organizing of a community of Mexican immigrants in New York. The men profiled in the film form an organization called ‘Grupo Unión,’ which is devoted to raising money in the United States to rebuild the Mexican town that they’ve left behind. Grupo Unión is one of at least a thousand “hometown associations” formed by Mexican immigrants in the United States. These groups are beginning to have a major impact in the politics and economics of both the U.S. and Mexico.
Resources and Networks
Immigrant Workers Want the Freedom to Form a Union Flyer
Unions and Immigrant Workers
Immigration in the United States
Why People Move Between Countries

Immigration Resource Sites

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