
Outside the Smith Frozen Foods plant, Weston, Ore.: Jesus Morales, 56, a Freedom Rider from Woodburn, Ore., rallies with workers. Morales is a leader of a community group that helps organize Latino voters. He moved to Oregon from Mexico in 1978, became a U.S. citizen in 1993 and taught himself to read and write. "If I can make it, you can make it," he says.