Vigil For Immigration Reform Tonight, March For Housing And Jobs Tomorrow

Tags: Dream Act, Cheri Honkala, human rights, jobs, homelessness, GOP Conventions, Rev. Bruce Wright, Ernesto Sendic Vargas

Good afternoon, welcome to WMNF's Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up today we'll talk about a vigil for immigration reform which takes place tonight and a march for jobs and housing which takes place tomorrow evening in St. Petersburg.

Our first guest Ernesto Sendic Vargas who is one of the organizers of an event tonight- a vigil for immigration reform which takes place at 7:30 PM at St. Paul's Catholic Church on North Dale Mabry in Tampa. Among the organizations sponsoring the event: SWER, Esperanza Juvenil, Young American Dreamers, Dominican Association of Tampa Cultural Group, and Tampa Bay Fair Food.

Our next guests are Rev. Bruce Wright of The Refuge and Cheri Honkala of the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign. Tomorrow they are organizing a march for jobs, housing and human rights in St. Petersburg.

The Refuge

Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign