Immigrant march en route to Hastert's digs
suburbanchicagonews.com/couriernews/top/3_1_EL02_A1MARCH_S10902.htm
As with other immigration reform marches in the metro area this year, Friday's [9/1/06] featured plenty of Mexican flags and signs with slogans written in Spanish. But there also were flags from the Philippines and people like Sally Chung holding signs in Korean...
...They also stressed that marchers from countries such as South Korea, India and the Philippines illustrates that immigration reform is of keen interest among immigrants from countries around the globe.
"We see ourselves working together, hand in hand, with other immigrants," said Bernarda Lo Wong, the president of the Chinese American Service League Inc.
...The marchers will sleep two night in Catholic churches and one night in a mosque, part of the effort to educate people that immigration reform is an issue that affects a wide variety of people, said Gabe Gonzalez, one of the event's organizers...
They're marching from Chicago's Chinatown (meant to symbolize that we're a nation of immigrants) to Hastert's office in Batavia. He won't be there. They expect 500 to partipate in the march, more to participate in events along the route, and 5,000 when they finish.