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A motorcycle rally to support one imprisoned soldier has blossomed into a nationwide freedom ride to raise awareness about a group of soldiers known as "The Leavenworth 10."

(Video and Pictures at the site) Denver Rally September 12th on the West steps of the Capitol in Denver at 4PM! I will be serving as the State Coordinator for Darens Ride here in Colorado! Jenny Hatch Constitution Ride Across AmericaReturning to America's greatnessDaren GardnerRallies Around the CountryT-ShirtsAugust 15 through October 30 Coming to a state capitol near you... the US Constitution! Join small businessman Daren Gardner as he spreads the word that the constitution still matters and that you can do something about it. Check the calendar for a rally at your state house. Be there and let your voice...

Most of you are too jaded to get worked up over the specter of a well-sponsored bus, packed with illegal workers and their fans, crisscrossing the country on a campaign trip. "The Freedom Riders" – Free Riders is much more appropriate – are campaigning unabashedly for more rights than they already have, chief of which is the "right" of amnesty. For whose votes the Free Riders are trolling isn't clear. Their fate is certainly not up to ordinary Americans. And those who make decisions for the rest of us are already determined to repeat the 1986 amnesty catastrophe and grant...

During the last few weeks there has been a Freedom Ride across America, a phrase conjuring images of the 1960's civil rights campaign, Martin Luther King Junior’s peaceful protests and the end of the Jim Crow South. But one of the highlights of the civil rights movement is being hijacked by radical left-wing activists seeking to gain legal rights, even citizenship, for illegal aliens in the United States. The Immigrant Worker's Freedom Ride kicked off on September 20th as approximately one thousand immigrant workers boarded buses in 10 cities for a 12 day trek across America to culminate in Washington,...

Heads up Idaho, they will be by you today! Beginning at age 8, Gloria Lara spent her summers working alongside her father and 10 brothers and sisters in the fields. Beginning Thursday, Lara, now 53 and living in Burley, will work to highlight the struggles of immigrant workers in the United States. “I want to be the voice of the people who have been in the shadows and haven´t been able to come out,” Lara said. The Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride began this week with buses of activists from throughout the country that will converge on Washington, D.C., and New...

<p>A boisterous crowd numbering in the hundreds let out a thunderous cheer Tuesday evening when two buses pulled up in front of the state Capitol carrying riders on a cross-country journey to promote the rights of immigrant workers in America.</p>

<p>PALM SPRINGS -- A caravan of buses dropped off hundreds of valley students in downtown Palm Springs on Tuesday, where they joined others in support of a new national campaign for immigrant workers that was inspired by civil rights bus rides four decades ago.</p>

Movement supports rights for immigrant workers SAN FRANCISCO - About 2,500 marchers toted signs, chanted slogans and carried a united message of support for the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride on Saturday in downtown San Francisco. The 15-day campaign, starting with two busses filled with 106 people, will cross the country, aimed for Washington D.C. and eventually New York. The movement was inspired by the Freedom Riders of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Overall, eight major cities will launch busloads of Freedom Riders to join the caravan that will visit 70 host cities. Close to 70 unions from the...

The Denver City Council made a stand for immigrant workers on Monday, voting 11-1 to support a resolution recognizing the Immigrant Workers' Freedom Ride rally Friday at St. Joseph's Church at West Sixth Avenue and Galapago Street in Denver. "This is about promoting respect and equal rights and human dignity," said City Council member Michael Hancock. Immigrant workers, union leaders and civil rights activists will board buses in cities across the nation over the next 11 days. The ride will host forums to debate national immigration and labor policies advocates contend exploit immigrant workers. Councilwoman Jeanne Faits, the dissenting vote,...

Miguel Olvera-Rucoba is a legal immigrant. But the meatpacker from South St. Paul knows plenty of people who work here illegally, living in constant fear of deportation. ``They're never happy here. The person who is not legal does not feel comfortable here,'' Olvera-Rucoba, 46, said in Spanish. ``In their minds, they're thinking any time they can get in trouble real easy.''

Movement supports rights for immigrant workers SAN FRANCISCO - About 2,500 marchers toted signs, chanted slogans and carried a united message of support for the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride on Saturday in downtown San Francisco. The 15-day campaign, starting with two busses filled with 106 people, will cross the country, aimed for Washington D.C. and eventually New York. The movement was inspired by the Freedom Riders of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Overall, eight major cities will launch busloads of Freedom Riders to join the caravan that will visit 70 host cities. Close to 70 unions from the...

<p>WASHINGTON - Inspired by the civil rights movement of the 1960s, tens of thousands of people are expected to climb aboard a caravan of buses this month for a modern-day Freedom Ride to the nation's capital to call attention to the plight of the estimated 8 million to 9 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.</p>