[Peace] Rally for Immigrant Rights Sept. 29th 7pm

[Linda Evans]

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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), 
and
Champaign County Health Care Consumers (CCHCC).

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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"There are some things you need just to stay alive:  food, water, a place to live, clothes to keep warm, help when you are ill or injured... Peace is having the things you need."  (Peace Begins with You by Katherine Scholes, children's book)






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