From ELO-
As part of a national push to heighten awareness of the need for comprehensive immigration reform, a group of Christians, Jews and Muslims in Los Angeles declared June 29 a day of prayer and fasting and urged opposition to Arizona's immigration law, due to take effect in a month.
"I've fasted for eight days and our group fully intends to keep fasting until the end of July, when we will be traveling to Arizona to challenge this very un-American, inhumane law," Juan José Gutiérrez told about 50 people who gathered on the steps of Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles' Wilshire district.
With passing traffic honking support, Gutiérrez, of the Full Rights for Immigrants Coalition, invoked "the spirit of the great Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. … (and) the sacrifices he made to achieve civil rights, full rights, for all people in America, which we still haven't gotten."
He and others called upon President Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress to remember that "justice delayed is justice denied. And denying human rights—full rights for immigrants—has gone far enough. It has got to stop and we're making a stand today."
Similar events were planned the same day in New Jersey, Nevada, Oregon, Idaho, Washington and Hawaii, as part of the Interfaith Immigration Coalition's Isaiah 58 Summer project. The June 6-July 31 project called for rolling vigils throughout the nation, beginning on the East coast and culminating with groups gathering in Arizona to protest implementation of SB1070, which aims to target and deport undocumented people.
Francisco Garcia, a lay leader at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, said he was fasting all day in support of "humane and just comprehensive immigration reform."
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http://www.episcopal-life.org/81803_123264_ENG_HTM.htm
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