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IWFRImmigrant Workers Freedom Ride


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When the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride rolled into New York City in October 2003, organizers and allies in immigrant-heavy local unions like SEIU Local 32BJ were able to make politicians' participation in the event conditional on working to pass the legislationt.
These predecessor events include the mass rallies in California against Proposition 187 (beginning in 1994) and the national mobilization known as the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride in 2003--and many similar actions in between.
The recent immigrant workers freedom ride sought to evoke the spirit of the freedom rides of the 1960s civil rights movement, drawing inspiration from the riders who called attention then to the grave injustice of Jim Crow laws in the South.
 
 
 
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