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On Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon a group of Spokane residents will rally at Riverfront Park to rally for immigration reform.
According to the group's Facebook page, the purpose of the gathering is to “to stand in solidarity with the families and individuals who are separated from their families due to detentions and/or deportations.”
“Together we will advocate and send a message to Congress,” they write, “We want a vote on citizenship now!”
Local leaders, including the Rev. Todd Eklof of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane, will be speaking at the event.
Tracy Simmons is an award winning journalist specializing in religion reporting, digital entrepreneurship and social journalism. In her 15 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti.
Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas and Connecticut. Currently she serves as the executive director of SpokaneFAVS.com, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Wash. She is also a Scholarly Assistant Professor at Washington State University.
