How will “America’s Toughest Sheriff” respond to four undocumented students who will attempt to confront the geezer gendarme this coming Tuesday morning, by essentially daring the sheriff to arrest them?So far Arpaio’s playing possum with the Dream Walkers, a crew of undocumented college students who’ve been heralded in the media…
View more news videos at: http://www.nbcchicago.com/video.If Sand Landers want a preview of how SB 1070 will play out on the street once it goes into effect at the end of July, they should look north to the Windy City.There, a Puerto Rican man was threatened with deportation by ICE agents…
Has Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard gone nativist on us, or is he just playing politics with Arizona’s new “papers please” immigration law?Goddard just announced that he’d had in-person meetings with law dogs from U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s Justice Department and told them that if the feds seek to…
Could the May 29 anti-SB 1070 march be heading for disruption by some anonymous, underground group of pseudo-revolutionaries?That’s the concern raised by a flier circulating in town that shows a group of masked individuals, one of whom is holding a rifle.The flier decries SB 1070 and Arizona’s ban on ethnic…
In an interview with George Stephanopoulos for ABC’s Good Morning America, former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor said that her native Arizona has to “put a good step forward to show that Arizona is not as a whole, a biased state.”An excerpt from the interview’s transcript is given below.She…
In a hilarious spoof of Cops sure to redden the face of every cracker nativist in Sand Land and beyond, L.A.’s “Josh on the street” skewers Arizona’s “papers please” law by flippin’ the script on white folks and asking them for their documentation to be on what was originally Native…
RADICAL RESISTANCE In one of the boldest acts of civil disobedience of late, a group of Native American, Mexican-American, and white activists occupied U.S. Border Patrol offices at Tucson’s Davis-Monthan Air Force Base on May 21, locking themselves around a pillar in a lobby that was soon filled with shocked Border…
In case you hadn’t heard, SB 1070 will be protested on Saturday, May 29 with a massive march to the Arizona state Capitol from Phoenix’s Steele Indian School Park. Things kick off with a rally, speeches and performances beginning at 8 a.m., then the march will begin from 3rd Street and…
Everyone gets a piece of hand sandwich in Dennis Gilman’s new YouTube video on the hypocrisy of our political leaders over SB 1070 and the plight of the 12 million undocumented in this country.This time Gilman spares no one on the left or the right. Everyone from John McCain and…
The New York Times has just reported that President Barack Obama will soon announce that he’s sending 1,200 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, in what looks like an obvious election year cave to the right.The Times’ Randal Archibold writes that Obama will announce the move today following a…
The Phoenix Police Department has released its report on the May 6 fatal shooting of Juan Varela in South Phoenix, allegedly by his neighbor Gary Kelley. Some have suggested Arizona’s new “papers please” law was a motive in the killing. However, the witnesses cited in the report never mentioned SB 1070 to…
Does it matter that one of William Gheen’s Facebook buddies is a well-known Phoenix-area neo-Nazi, a neo-Nazi that likes to go out on “patrols” with wannabe stormtrooper J.T. Ready, totin’ assault rifles, searching for illegal aliens? Normally, it wouldn’t, save for the fact that Gheen’s made such a big stink…
Kweli promotes the big May 29 march in this YouTube short(Please see update below on Kweli’s new anti-SB1070 track “Papers Please.”)Brooklyn emcee Talib Kweli, one of the most respected names in hip-hop, known for his collaborations with fellow master of the mic Mos Def in Black Star, has done a…
At least six activists were cited Friday after occupying Tucson’s Border Patrol headquarters at Davis-Monthan AirForce Base in an act of civil disobedience similar to that which occurred on April 20 at the Arizona state Capitol in Phoenix, and to the sit-down strike of DREAM activists on Monday at U.S…
As much as the right-wing has fumed over Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s address to Congress yesterday, the statements right-wingers are fuming over are essentially correct.Indeed, Calderon’s address, which centered on cooperation with the U.S. and the building-up of the Mexican economy to retain migrants fleeing to America for jobs, offered…
Fascist tool (and I mean that literally): William Johnson of the white supremacist American Third PositionIf you haven’t heard of the California-based American Third Position party, or A3P as it’s otherwise referred to, consider this a heads up. The racist, white nationalist organization would like to get on the Arizona…
Channel 5/KPHO’s Morgan Loew did a segment for last night’s newscast on state Senator Russell Pearce’s plan to punish the American citizen children of undocumented parents, by making it illegal to accept or issue the birth certificate of such a child, unless one parent is a citizen.In fact, Pearce’s plans…
Rush wants a civil war? Hey, bring it, sandbillies.Waistline-challenged ex-OxyContin addict Rush “Do As I Say, Not As I Do” Limbaugh seems to think America is ripe for another civil war over Arizona’s “papers please” law SB 1070. And he reckons it’ll begin on the border of Arizona and California.Speaking…
And a little child shall lead them…In case you missed it, the video above is of First Lady Michelle Obama, accompanied by Mexico’s First Lady Margarita Zavala, visiting with a group of Maryland second graders on Wednesday. One kid asked if it was true what her mommy says that Barack…
The North Carolina-based nativist group ALIPAC (Americans for Legal Immigration PAC) is pulling out of a planned June 5 anti-immigration/pro-SB1070 rally at the Arizona state Capitol over what it claims are the white supremacist ties of one of the event’s organizers.ALIPAC head honcho William Gheen blasted “Phoenix Rising” event planner Dan…
Three undocumented DREAM activists who had been arrested Monday on second degree trespassing charges after staging a sit-in at U.S. Senator John McCain’s Tucson office were released last night from ICE custody, according to ICE spokesman Vinne Picard.Picard said the three activists were issued notices to appear in their immigration…
Finally, a way to get rid of Maricopa County’s geriatric gendarme Sheriff Joe, and he doesn’t even have to get indicted by the feds! Though that would still be pretty sweet.In a message to Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon publicized today, La-la Land Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa says the City of Angels will…
