We began Day 2 with words of encouragement from UFW Co-founder and Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, Dolores Huerta, a lifetime activist for farmworkers (seen here waving to supporters). She reminded all of us just how historic this struggle has become, likening the march to the UFW's early days organizing marches for farmworker rights in the 1960s...

As you can see, we took to our historic task, running to spread the word of our march to Taco Bell Headquarters...

Here students along the route take in the moment, waving and cheering the marchers on, joining the growing ranks of ex-consumers of Taco Bell.

The students, of course, had much to look at, our colorful signs...

... and soaring puppets transformed the march into a celebration...

... of freedom and an end to slavery in the fields. We say NO A LA ESCLAVITUD!

Each step forward on this march has been met with growing support, yet the making of history is no easy task, it takes consciousness and commitment, much like our medic here who had to take time for her own care...

Just as the making of history often means personal sacrifice, it can often mean overcoming other barriers, like when the march reached the city of Anaheim, where the police -- showing great political sensitivity to the cause of farmworkers fighting modern-day slavery and sweatshop conditions in the fields -- felt that it was necessary to restrict the march to the sidewalks...

Here's one for the battle of images -- a corporate giant whose only response to the protest of its customers is an overwhelming police presence.

The march was met by another endorser of the Taco Bell Boycott and, like Ms. Huerta, a symbolic link to historic struggles -- Max Kennedy, the son of Robert F. Kennedy, seen here helping to lead the march. His father, of course, was at Cesar Chavez's side when he ended his 20-day fast years ago, launching the farmworkers' cause into national awareness.

 

Anuradha Mittal, of Food First, joined the march on Day 2, enjoying the feeling of community and the winds of change sweeping along the route of the march...

Julia Gabriel, CIW member and an RFK Human Rights Award laureate, also joined the march on Day 2, along with her niece.

Our excitement -- urged on here by two incredible members of the NY-based community organization Make the Road By Walking -- not only moved the marchers...

 

...but even brought this city worker up from the underground to read one of our flyers! Day 3 is next, then on to Taco Bell Headquarters in Irvine.