Thursday, June 14, 2007
SWOP homepageYES Mag Blogs the People's Freedom Caravan
Blogging the People's Freedom Caravan to the USSFSarah van Gelder says:
A week from today, I'll be on my way to Albuquerque to join up with one of the People's Freedom Caravan that will be making its way to the U.S. Social Forum. Check back here for my blogs, where I hope to offer you the flavor and the mounting excitement as we make our way across the South, ending up with a march into Atlanta.
The Southwest Workers Union, the Southwest Organizing Project, Southern Echo and the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond are organizing the caravan, which picks up on the spirit of the Freedom Rides of 1961 in which volunteers rode buses throughout the South to press for desegregation.
Evidently, there are other caravans in the works, but the one I'll be on starts off in Albuquerque and makes stops in San Antonio, Houston, Lake Charles, New Orleans, and Jackson, Mississippi.
"The Freedom Caravan is a social movement on wheels, giving us a chance to share and strategize towards achieving ‘another’ US.” That is how Genaro Rendon of Southwest Workers' Union described the caravan.Along the way, caravan riders will stop to highlight local struggles. Here's how the Southwest Workers Union described the route in their May 23rd posting.
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