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On the Road With LA's New Freedom Riders

By AAN Staff
october 24, 2003  01:24 am
On the Road With LA's New Freedom Riders
The Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride takes its name and at least some of its inspiration from the freedom riders of 1961. The new Freedom Ride is part maddening PR spectacle, but it’s also about genuine idealistic passion, hard-won optimism, startlingly deep faith in the foundations of the American dream, in the fundamental equality of humans and the dignity of human striving, in all that has been and remains worth fighting for in America, says Ben Ehrenreich.
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