00:0063 years after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historic I have a dream speech,
00:06civil rights advocates have gathered once again at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.
00:11Demonstrators want that the fight for racial equality, voting rights and the protection of immigrant communities
00:18remains an unfinished promise in the United States.
00:21For details from the Capitol, we join our correspondent Jose Lebeña.
00:3063 years ago, in this spot, in front of the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered one of the
00:36speeches
00:36that would forever shape the history of the United States.
00:39His voice denounced the racial segregation, discrimination and inequality that continued to affect millions of African Americans.
00:45But King also brought to the nation's attention a contradiction.
00:48The gap between the ideals of freedom and equality proclaimed by the United States
00:53and the reality that those rights weren't guaranteed for everyone.
00:57Today, six decades later, hundreds of people are gathering here once again to remember that message,
01:02but also to point out, as a protester say, that dream remains unfulfilled.
01:07Among the main concern is, once again, the right to vote.
01:10Civil rights organizations are sounding the alarm about measures and debates
01:14that, in their view, could hide their access to the polls,
01:19articulately for historically marginalized communities.
01:22And on this day, there is also a space for those who cannot be here.
01:26Protests remember the immigrant communities living in fear of ICE, rights and harassment.
01:31They denounce the fact that hundreds of people are currently under pressure due to immigration policies
01:36and maintain that the defense of civil rights cannot be limited to a single community.
01:40Because Martin Luther King Jr.'s message wasn't limited to the African American population,
01:46his thought was to transform society and ensure that freedom and equality were effective rights.
01:50He also championed peaceful resistance, unity, and society in which a person wouldn't be judged
01:56by the color of their skin, but their character.
02:00That speech had profound political consequences a year later.
02:03In 1964, the United States faced the Civil Rights Act, which provided segregation and racial discrimination
02:10in numerous areas of public life.
02:12But 63 years later, the phrase, I have a dream, is being spoken once again, this time with new demands.
02:18The dream evoked today by those gathered in front of this monument is that of a democracy
02:23in which the right to vote is protected, in which civil rights are for everyone,
02:27and in which no community has to live in fear.
02:30From the very place where Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of his dream of equality,
02:34his words resonate once again.
02:36In Washington, Jose Ledeña, TELESUR.
