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Immigrant Worker Freedom Rides Rally |
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by Demian Kogan
Email: dakogan (nospam) uiuc.edu (unverified!)
Phone: 778-3638 |
25 Sep 2003
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RALLY for IMMIGRANT RIGHTS!
Immigrant Worker Freedom Rides Rally
Monday, September 29th 7:00p.m.
Champaign County Courthouse
101 E. Main Street, Urbana, IL 61801
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RALLY for IMMIGRANT RIGHTS!
Immigrant Worker Freedom Rides Rally
Monday, September 29th 7:00p.m.
Champaign County Courthouse
101 E. Main Street, Urbana, IL 61801
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Immigrants in our community need:
-- Driver Licenses
-- Hospital Interpreter Services
-- Access to Higher Education
-- Legalization for Immigrants
-- Workers Rights
-- An End to Special Registration Programs
Beginning on September 20th, nearly one thousand immigrant workers and their allies will board buses in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Minneapolis, Chicago, Houston, Miami and Boston and cross the United States over the next 12 days. The new Freedom Riders will travel some 20,000 miles of U.S. highways and stop at more than 100 cities, towns and workplaces to focus public attention on the injustices of current immigration policies.
The Illinois Freedom Rides bus is coming to Champaign-Urbana to highlight the local movement for immigrant rights ! You have a tremendous opportunity to take part in history in the making by attending the Immigrant Worker Freedom Rides Rally in Urbana-Champaign! Speakers will include: Immigrant Freedom Riders, Local Immigrant Rights Speakers, and Local Politicians.
The event is inspired by the Freedom Rides of the Civil Rights Movement, and the Illinois Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride bus will travel through Northern, Central, and Southern Il, while buses leave from 9 other cities across the entire United States. The buses will then go to Washington D.C. to meet with local representatives, and then culminate in New York City to celebrate the rewriting of history. Don’t miss this opportunity to locally take part in this national campaign for immigration policy reform.
Sponsored by: Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee rights (ICIRR),
East Central Illinois Refugee and Mutual Assistance Center (ECIRMAC),
Champaign County Health Care Consumers (CCHCC), AWARE, School for Designing a Society, African Americans Studies and Research Program, Teachers for Peace and Justice, UIUCSOAW, GEO, University YMCA, El Centro Por Los Trabajadores, La Casa, Center for Democracy in a Multiracial Society, Progressive Resource/Action Cooperative, Latina/o Studies Program, Indipendent Media Center.
For more information, or to volunteer or donate, contact:
Demian Kogan: dakogan (at) uiuc.edu
Immigrant Worker Freedom Rides national website: www.iwfr.org
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights website: www.icirr.org
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