Immigrant rights march kicks off downtown

Approximately 400 people marched in support of immigrant rights this morning in a “Somos Americanos” event, where members of Denver’s immigrant and Latino communities demanded an end to federal raids.

Sign at DNC immigration protest rally. (Photo/Erin Rosa)
Sign at DNC immigration protest rally. (Photo/Erin Rosa)

The march was organized by a variety of local social justice groups, including La Escuela Tlatelolco, the Colorado American Friends Service Committee and the Chicano Studies Department at the Metro State College of Denver.

Nita Gonzales, daughter of the late Chicano activist Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales, helped lead the march, and Denver City Council representative Paul Lopez was also in front of the march, chanting “Obama Sí, Raids No!”

The event started at Rude Park near INVESCO Field (Mile High Stadium) at around 9 a.m. and ended in Lincoln Park, southwest of downtown Denver, at 11 a.m.

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Erin Rosa was born in Spain and raised in Colorado Springs. She is a freelance writer currently living in Denver. Rosa's work has been featured in a variety of news outlets including the Huffington Post, Democracy Now!, and the Rocky Mountain Chronicle, an alternative-weekly in Northern Colorado where she worked as a columnist covering the state legislature. Rosa has received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists for her reporting on lobbying and woman's health issues. She was also tapped with a rare honorable mention award by the Newspaper Guild-CWA's David S. Barr Award in 2008--only the second such honor conferred in its nine-year history--for her investigative series covering the federal government's Supermax prison in the state. Rosa covers the labor community, corrections, immigration and government transparency matters. She can be reached at erosa@www.coloradoindependent.com.

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