On the road with the Selma to Montgomery marchers, Andre Natta sends us this from Alabama.

In a glance, I could see that our march had grown to more than 1,000 people walking along U.S. Highway 80 as we approached Macedonia Miracle Kingdom and Worship Center for lunch. Many who have been participating from the beginning of the march on Monday expressed their gratitude to the church, and to Bishop Leo Davis and his wife First Lady Elder Sharon Lewis, for making the property available to marchers throughout the week to camp and rest.

Marchers representing the union movement from across the country were joined by members of Alabama’s Latino community (many who had heard of the five-day march via La Jefa Radio). Several organizations joined in, wanting to show solidarity against recent efforts by the Alabama Legislature to restrict voting rights and actions against immigrants, leaving many no longer feeling safe enough to continue living and working in the state.

Marisol Lara, a student at the University of Idaho, was happy with the different organizations and communities coming together.

I got to see how different organizations have unified for the same causes. We’re all Americans. We all want the American Dream.

The centerpiece of the attack on immigrants is H.B. 56, seen by many as the toughest anti-immigrant law in the country and one that is starting to show its negative effects on the state’s economy. It’s estimated the state of Alabama is currently losing $1 million in revenue every day the law is enforced.

Fortunately, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked two more sections of the law yesterday. Further rulings on the constitutionality of the law won’t be made until after the U.S. Supreme Court rules on Arizona’s law later this year.

At last night’s rally, the Rev. Al Sharpton got the capacity crowd inside St. Jude’s Educational Institute fired up when he said it’s “time for the Christian right to be right Christians” who respect workers’ and immigrants’ rights. Sharpton pointed to the story of the Good Samaritan who "didn’t ask for papers or green cards" before offering his help.

He also reminded people of why they were there in the first place, saying, “We did not come to remember the past. We came to deal with what’s happening in the United States today.”

Sharpton urged the group to keep the grassroots movement, nurtured this week along Highway 80, going through the November elections and beyond.

Echoing the sentiment voiced earlier in the day by AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker, who said, “Today, we are all one,” Lara said that by working as one,

"Together, we will make change."