Law Students Step UP! Fwd: Medical Students to Join Immigrant Worker Walk for Justice

>To: nllsa@yahoogroups.com, tupocc@yahoogroups.com
>From: Mercedes Castillo <chair@nllsa.org>
>Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:48:44 -0700 (PDT)
>Subject: {Disarmed} [tupocc] Law Students Step UP! Fwd: Medical
>Students to Join Immigrant Worker Walk for Justice
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>Estudiantes,
>
>Please let me know if you will be participating in any
>of the hundreds of marches taking place on Labor Day
>Weekend.
>
>Gracias,
>Mercedes.
>
>For immediate release: Contact: Chrissy Chavez
>
>Sunday, August 27, 2006 510-333-2464
>Medical Students to Join Immigrant Worker Walk for Justice
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>Press Conference
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>Tuesday, August 29th
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>11:30 noon
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>1853 W. Polk Street
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>UIC College of Medicine
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>Medical students from the University of Illinois - Chicago (UIC)
>College of Medicine and other area medical schools will join the March
>10th Movement in a Labor Day weekend Immigrant Worker Walk for
>Justice. The 40 mile walk will lead from Chicago's China Town to the
>offices of Rep. Dennis Hastert in Batavia. The march will highlight
>the lack of progress in addressing the rights of immigrants.
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>The medical students are joining the Walk for Justice to add their
>voices in support of immigrant rights and to bring their education to
>serve the people. The students will form a first-aid team, walking
>with the marchers, monitoring hydration, exposure to the elements,
>watching for heat exhaustion and other concerns. The students will
>also staff first aid centers at stops at intervals along the march
>route.
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>Chrissy Chavez is a second year medical student at UIC, and the
>organizer of the group. "We joined the marches in Chicago on March
>10th and May 1st. Our message then was that treating immigrants is
>not a crime. Immigrants are workers, and they deserve equality in the
>medical care they receive."
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>Ms. Chavez is the granddaughter of United Farm Worker leader Dolores
>Huerta, and the great niece of UFW founder Cesar Chavez. She is vice
>president of the Student National Medical Association chapter at UIC.
>Joining her at the press conference will be Daisy Cortez and Christian
>Badillo, co-presidents of the LaRaMa medical student organization.