Voices from the March (David Lyell)

By David Lyell on April 5

Sunday, April 4; Livingston to Turlock, 9.7 miles

Some of us had breakfast at Denny’s Sunday morning while others went to Easter Services. Afterward, we marched in windy, cloudy, cold weather through small neighborhoods and back country roads.

An hour after we finished marching, it started raining. It’s raining right now.

I think we’ve done a little less than 250 miles now. Definitely feeling it. We started March 5th, in Bakersfield. I just looked at a map, and it’s cool to think we have walked all that way.

By David Bacon on March 24

REEDLEY, CA (3/20/10) – It’s almost impossible for any teacher to take 48 days out of the school year to march to Sacramento, no matter how high the stakes. So it should be no surprise that the teacher walking to Sacramento representing the thousands of members of United Teachers Los Angeles is a substitute teacher, David Lyell.