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Organizing for the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride

Labor and Legislators kicked off a drive for immigrant workers’ rights at a press conference chaired by Brian McLaughlin, President of

the N.Y.C. Central Labor Council which featured U.S. Representatives Charles Rangel and Nydia Velasquez, Local 32B-J, SEIU President

Mike Fishman and Treasurer Hector Figeroa and Roger Toussaint, Pres.of Local 100 TWU. Modeled after the freedom rides of the Civil Rights Movement, the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride is a national mobilization for immigrant rights. Buses will embark nationwide in September and culminate in a mass rally in Flushing Meadows Park in Queens on

October 4th.

The immigrant Workers Freedom Ride is an initiative of a broad coalition including the AFL-CIO, national civil and immigrant rights,

religious and community and student associations. Immigrant workers want the rights to apply for citizenship, to reunify their families, and to have a voice on the job without regard to legal status... rights denied by their undocumented status and outdated laws. Inspired by the Freedom Riders of the Civil Rights Movement, immigrant workers and their allies will set out from 8 major U.S. cities and cross the

country in buses in late September 2003. They will converge on Washington, D.C. to meet with members of Congress and then travel to NYC for the Rally

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