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ECCO hosts fast for freedom public action calling on pathway to citizenship

By | June 27, 2021

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Lenny Iiriano speaks to those gathered at the ECCO "Fast For Freedom" to call for a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants held on Lynn Common.

(Photo by Julia Hopkins)

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Reverenda Wendy Rivas speaks to those gathered at the ECCO "Fast For Freedom" to call for a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants held on Lynn Common.

(Photo by Julia Hopkins)

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Those gathered bow their heads to reflect and pray at the beginning of the ECCO "Fast For Freedom" event to call for a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants held on Lynn Common.

(Photo by Julia Hopkins)

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Elizabeth Rivers, age 8, and Luz Rivers, age 6, hold signs at the ECCO "Fast For Freedom" to call for a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants held on Lynn Common.

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Reverend Andre Bennett places ashes on the forehead of Reverend Gregory Perez as a symbol of solidarity with undocumented essential workers at the ECCO "Fast For Freedom" to call for a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants held on Lynn Common.

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Manuel Chitic, a Lynn resident and immigrant from Guatemala, gives a personal reflection on the experience and hardship of being an essential immigrant worker during the pandemic at the ECCO "Fast For Freedom" to call for a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants held on Lynn Common.

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LYNN — Clergy and community leaders gathered on Lynn Common Sunday night to mark their month-long fast in support of a pathway to citizenship for essential workers among the population…
Steve Krause Steve Krause is the Item’s writer-at-large. He joined paper in 1979 as a copy editor and later created a music column, called Midnight Ramblings, which ran through 1985. After leaving the paper for a year, he returned in 1988 as a reporter and editor in sports. He became sports editor in 1998; and was named writer-at-large in 2018.

Krause won awards for writing in 1985 from United Press International; in 2001 from the Associated Press; and again in 2020 from the New England Newspaper & Press Association. He is a member of the Harry Agganis Foundation Hall of Fame, a past winner of the Moynihan Lumber Scholar-Athlete Community Service Award, and was the 2012 recipient of the Jack Grinold Media Award for MasterSports, an organization that conducts high school and college coaches’ clinics. He lives in Lynn, is active on Facebook, and can be found on Twitter @itemkrause.

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