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...west," says Sam to Freddie during their first long night in a boxcar. But now, he says, "there's no place left to escape to, except places we already run off from." Sam's pessimistic take on the future also pertains to Freddie's plan to travel to Detroit in search of his father. This odyssey takes them across America's underclass, from farmsteads to cities and back again, in a swath that includes all colors and backgrounds...
...harshly punish these families for their dreams reeks of bigotry. The national discussion on this issue constantly judges and rarely tries to understand the people for whom immigration policy is the defining issue of their lives.Enter the students. In the past week, 50,000 protesters marched in Denver and Detroit. 1,000 marched here in Boston. According to press reports, many marchers were immigrants themselves; the children of illegal families have been both the leaders and the ground troops for event after event. This movement did not start with some wealthy do-gooder and it is not fueled...
...nation?s estimated 11 million illegal immigrants but to the legions who count them as friends, relatives and neighbors. But none imagined they'd help generate the huge attendance the demos drew: 500,000 to 1 million in Los Angeles, 300,000 in Chicago, 50,000 in Detroit, among other places...
...During the event, more than 2,500 teens answered organizer Ron Luce's broader call to go on overseas mission trips to spread the Word. Buckets were circulated and more than $90,000 was collected to get them on their way. The next stops on the tour are Detroit, April 7 and 8, and Philadelphia, May 12-13. If some teens can't make it, Teen Mania has managed to tap one particularly popular aspect of modern culture. It just launched the website battlecry.com, described as "MySpace with God in the middle...
...buyouts certainly add a new sense of urgency to a turnaround effort that until now some critics, such as GM's newest board member, Jerry York, investor Kirk Kerkorian's man in Detroit, had considered stuck in neutral. But things are not looking up at GM these days. The automaker recently disclosed it had lost $10.6 billion in 2005, not $8.6 billion as the company reported in January. March sales estimates prepared by outside analysts suggest that GM's market share has dipped close to 21% in March, a far cry from the 45% GM commanded in its heyday...