SB 1070 Civil Disobedience, Arrests: The Dennis Gilman Video

Gilman’s latest on yesterday’s arrestsAs I was locked in SB 1070 legal hell Thursday, eyeballing the two proceedings in front of U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton, I missed a lot of the action outside the Sandra Day O’Connor U.S. Courthouse in Phoenix where the hearings were taking place.While legal beagles…

SB 1070 Field Day: Judge Susan Bolton May Enjoin Law in Part

This just in: Get Out! Arizona and America Join Joe Arpaio in Rushing to Inquire: Are Your Papers In Order?In a day filled with protests, arrests, legal arguments, an appearance by the governor, and at least one certified neo-Nazi, the most significant developments in the SB 1070 saga happened within the…

An SB 1070 Prediction: The Feds Will Come to the Rescue

LINE IN THE SAND The nativist wagons are circled when it comes to SB 1070 and the seven lawsuits filed against it, including one by the U.S. Department of Justice. Governor Jan Brewer’s legal defense fund for Arizona’s new breathing-while-brown statute has raised $1.3 million and counting in private donations…

Neo-Nazis Claim Four More Migrants, the ADL Responds

The neo-Nazis are claiming to have “rescued” four more suspected illegal aliens in the desert. This comes via a Sunday, July 18 post to National Socialist Harry Hughes’ blog “Just Another Day…” Hughes has posted more photos of migrants as well as photos of Border Patrol agents taking them into custody. The…

Anti-SB 1070 Protests Announced for All Arizona

A coalition of activist groups including Somos America, Sal Reza’s Puente Movement, and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network has just announced that tomorrow they’ll be detailing a series of anti-SB 1070 protests and actions that will be occurring statewide. I’ll provide more details as I get them, but Puente…

Neo-Nazis Nab More Migrants in the Arizona Desert (w/Update)

Arizona neo-Nazis J.T. Ready and Harry Hughes have apparently been busy to judge by a recent item on Hughes’ blog “Just Another Day… ” There, he’s posted photos of Ready, himself and others wearing camouflage and toting high-powered firearms as they watch over 11 illegal aliens that Hughes claims the group encountered Wednesday,…

No More Deaths Benefit Tonight at Bragg’s Pie Factory

No More Deaths, the non-profit humanitarian group that leaves water in the wild for migrants crossing the Arizona desert, wraps up its art auction/fundraiser tonight at Bragg’s Pie Factory, 1301 N.W. Grand Ave., in Phoenix. You may recall that I first gave you a heads up about the fundraiser a couple…

SB 1070 Showdown at the Sandra Day O’Connor Courthouse, Round One

With the cries of demonstrators on both sides of the SB 1070 debate reverberating inside the steamy glass cage of Phoenix’s Sandra Day O’Connor U.S. Courthouse, a special prceedings room filled to overflow with lawyers, reporters and average citizens became the scene of the first major hearing in a challenge to Arizona’s new breathing-while-brown…

Joe Arpaio, Kris Kobach and the Non-Existent Bomb

As much as many folks despise our ancient geezer of a gendarme Sheriff Joe, you have to give him props for his quip to a nativist rally for SB 1070 author and Kansas Secretary of State candidate Kris Kobach in Overland Park, Kansas yesterday.The “Illegal Means Illegal” rally, attended by…

J.T. Ready Not an FBI Informant, He Says

There’ve been a couple of oddball YouTube videos kicking around lately alleging that J.T. Ready, Arizona’s best known neo-Nazi, is an FBI informant. One of them, put up by the YouTube channel HOLLYWOODILLUSION received massive views, but has since been pulled by the user. The other, posted by the YouTube channel Warrior4god13,…