This past week, I had the privilege of joining with thousands of people from Alabama and around the country who walked from Selma to Montgomery to commemorate the historic march 47 years ago that forced Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act and that changed our country forever. Hundreds of leaders from the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM), the immigrant rights coalition convened by the...
Pictured in the middle is Deepak Bhargava, Executive Director of the Center for Community Change. Yesterday’s focus of the Selma-to-Montgomery march was immigration rights and it was breathtaking to see the march swell with a contingent of 1,000 extremely diverse group of marchers. And at the front of the march, the Fair Immigration Reform Movement banner! Labor Secretary Hilda...
The 47th reenactment of the historic civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama gets stronger every day. Over the past four days, I’ve had the privilege of marching with community organizers and activists from around the nation as we fight for voting, civil, and immigrant rights in Alabama and across the country. The theme for yesterday’s event was workers’...
I’m in Alabama this week, marching along the Selma to Montgomery highway that 47 years ago marked one of the most important moments in our nation’s history. 400 strong, we marched today starting at the point where Viola Liuzzo was killed in 1965 for daring to be a white woman marching for civil rights. Now, I jumped at the chance to be here, and you might be wondering why...
