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Vol. 76/No. 17      April 30, 2012

 
Groups call Chicago May 1
rally for immigrant rights

CHICAGO—Representatives of more than 20 organizations gathered April 11 at the Haymarket Martyrs monument here to announce plans for a march and rally on May Day. Speaking is Marylou Vargas of the Church of Our Lady of the Americas. Among the participants were representatives of several unions, immigrant rights organizations and some “Occupy” groups. José Landaverde, pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe Anglican Catholic Mission, in the city’s Little Village neighborhood, called for a massive turnout May 1 to fight for legalization of undocumented workers and to demand a halt to “divided families, workers being deported, the deportation of hospital patients and ill people, profiling and police harassment, and construction of an immigrant detention facility in Crete.”

—JOHN HAWKINS

 
 
 
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