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Posted on: May 1st, 2008
Filed Under: [ Community ] [ Immigration ] [ Eye Openers ] [ Illinois ] [ Chicago ]
Tags: activist, immigrant rights
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The choir had just finished raising the roof inside St. Basil/Visitation Catholic Church in Englewood when a visitor, Mauro Piñeda, stepped up to the pulpit with an unexpected invitation.
March with us on May 1, Piñeda urged the mostly black parishioners, invoking Martin Luther King Jr.’s call in 1963 to “lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice.”
As another Immigration march is scheduled to wend through Chicago on Thursday—now an annual rite of political passion for some and traffic frustrations for others—such pleas to African-Americans represent a new experiment in the fight for immigrant rights.”*
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