What They're Marching For

By Saurav Sarkar

This article appeared in the June 19, 2006 edition of The Nation.

June 1, 2006

"Derechos para todos, como agua para todos, como...para todos"--and here I stopped Gustavo (last name withheld), because I didn't know what that last word was.

"Como?" I asked. Smiling, he gestured in different poses as we played charades, and spoke too quickly for me to understand. Finally I got it, as he said "respirar," and held his hands to his nose and breathed in deeply.

"Like air," he had said, "rights for all, as available as water, as available as air."

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About Saurav Sarkar

Saurav Sarkar is a freelance writer and immigrants' rights activist living in Brooklyn, New York. more...
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