Labor Day Weekend Freedom Ride!
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Sep 3-5 2010
Freedom Ride: An Immigrants Caravan
Confronting xenophobic legislations, English-Only ordinances, Secure Communities, PoliMigra, 287(g) and to push for the passage of the Dream Act. Meetings and actions in: Schaumburg, Naperville, Wheaton, Bolingbrook/Romeoville, Joliet, Homer Glen, Chicago.
On Labor Day weekend (Sep 3-5, 2010), the Moratorium on Deportations Campaign undertook a “Freedom Ride: Immigrants’ Caravan” through the vast suburban sprawl of the Chicago metropolitan area. The 3-day, 100 mile bike ride, as well as the actions, rallies and meetings along the way, addressed the collaboration between local police and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the rise in xenophobia as expressed in recent English-Only legislation, and the locally-specific ways in which capital accumulation is predicated on the degradation of work, the management and policing of migration, and the reorganization of urban/suburban space.
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Attached you will find a small description of what happened on Labor Day Weekend with the Freedom Ride.