Press Release: Immigrants Rights Rally at Southside Park on Labor Day

submitted by Dan Bacher on Sunday, September 3, 2006 - 1:22pm PST
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Saturday, September 2, 2006
Contact: Cynthia Munoz 916-949-4217 Edgar Camacho 707-373-0026 or
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Attention: Daybook/Assignment Desk

Major immigrant rights marches scheduled
at Capitol, and nationwide on Labor
Day; Thousands expected to rally

SACRAMENTO – Immigrant rights groups – the same ones who helped draw 20,000
participants to a May 1 Immigrant Rights Day March & Rally here – have
disclosed plans for a major rally and march in Sacramento, coordinated with
similar immigrant rights marches nationwide, on Labor Day.

The Campaign Against Unjust Immigration Laws (CAUIL) said today they have
planned a rally MONDAY starting at 10 a.m. at Southside Park in Sacramento.
Caravans from as far away as Chico and the Central Valley are expected

A march to the Federal Building on Capitol Mall will begin at approximately
11 a.m. They plan to drop thousands of flowers to commemorate immigrants
killed while crossing the border between the U.S. and Mexico.

This Sacramento event is one of many Labor Day Immigrant Rights marches
that will take place nation-wide in cities such as San Francisco, Los
Angeles, and Chicago.

Speakers include political candidates, civil rights lawyers and others
favoring the full legalization of all immigrants and opposed to the
oppressive laws against immigrants now being discussed in Congress.