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Immigration rally again set for May Day

Carolyn Hileman - The Voice* | April 29, 2008 

Stephen Wall, Staff Writer
Article Launched: 04/29/2008 12:18:54 AM PDT

Local Latino activists will travel to Los Angeles on Thursday to join a massive movement for immigrant rights.
A caravan of Latino groups will leave the parking lot of Carousel Mall in San Bernardino at 11 a.m. and head to downtown Los Angeles to participate in an afternoon rally. Similar marches are being held in other parts of the country.

Students and faculty from the Claremont Colleges are planning to travel separately to Los Angeles.

Organizers of the May Day “Gran Marcha” expect to attract between 20,000 and 100,000 people, who will urge Congress and President Bush to enact comprehensive immigration reform.

Protesters are also demanding legalization of the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States and other measures to ensure their fair and humane treatment.

“This march is meant to raise consciousness of how the immigration population is being targeted in this time of economic crisis,” said Jose Zapata Calderon, a professor of sociology and Chicano Studies at Pitzer College in Claremont. “Hopefully, we’ll be able to get some type of legislation passed that will allow the immigrants to work as human beings here and not just be exploited.”

A coalition of students from Pomona, Scripps, Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd and Pitzer colleges are expected to go to the rallies.

This is the third straight year protesters have converged to press for immigration reform.

Last year’s rallies in Los Angeles were

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