Email Author Stephen Lemons

Awards

• 2012 - Education Reporting Awards/National Education Writers Association, published May 12, 2011

  "White Lies"

• 2012 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published November 3, 2011

  "Sourpuss"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 3, 2011

  "Recalling Russell Pearce"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 14, 2011

  "His Own Worst Enemy"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 3, 2011

  "Kissing His Political Career Goodbye"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  Feathered Bastard

• 2011 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  Feathered Bastard

• 2010 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing

  "Are Your Papers in Order?"

• 2010 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc.

  "Are Your Papers in Order?"

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  Feathered Bastard

• 2009 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists

  Feathered Bastard

• 2006 - James Beard Journalism Awards/The James Beard Foundation, published April 7, 2005

  "Behind the Green Door"

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2009 Stories by Stephen Lemons

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  A Neo-Nazi Protests Zack de la Rocha, Dennis Gilman's Video of the March, and Why E.J. Montini Is a Nudnik, as Usual

  published Mar 02, 2009

  Dennis Gilman's video of the Saturday march, featuring Shannon Rivers of the Akimel O'odham people. Gilman's video of the Saturday anti-Arpaio protest led by Zack de la Rocha is particularly cool be... More >>

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  Zack de la Rocha Leads an Army of Thousands Against Arpaio's Racist Rule

  published Feb 28, 2009

  My conservative estimate is that today 3,000 to 4,000 people braved 90 degree weather to march from Steele Indian School Park to the Sandra Day O'Connor Federal Courthouse in downtown Phoe... More >>

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  Rage Against the Machine's Zack de la Rocha Rocks Tonatierra (video added of Zack singing People of the Sun)

  published Feb 28, 2009

  THIS JUST ADDED: Zack doing an inspiring version of "People of the Sun" at Tonatierra. The closest thing to compare it to that I can think of, is that famous footage in the documentary Do... More >>

• The Anti-Arpaio Protest Video, by -- Who Elser -- Dennis Gilman

  published Feb 27, 2009

  Well, here's one sure to spook the socks off the nativists -- Gilman's latest YouTube effort promoting the anti-Arpaio march tomorrow. This little poison pill features loads of video coughed up by the... More >>

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  Congressional Hispanic Caucus Punks Out in Meet with Janet Napolitano

  published Feb 26, 2009

  I had been hoping that the Congressional Hispanic Caucus would take a thick paddle to Janet Napolitano's ever-generous backside when they met with the new DHS head for the first time today. But... More >>

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  Anti-287(g) Chorus Grows with Justice Strategies' Democracy on ICE

  published Feb 26, 2009

  Hopefully, 2009 A.D. will be the year Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, starts to melt. You may recall a little essay I posted to this blog in December entitled, "A Modest Propo... More >>

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  Take the Power Back: The Schedule for This Weekend's Anti-Arpaio Activities

  published Feb 25, 2009

  Below is the schedule for this weekend's anti-Arpaio/anti-287(g) activities just released by the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. Several high-ranking NDLON staff members have re-confirmed tha... More >>

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  Janet Napolitano Meets with Congressional Hispanic Caucus Thursday: Let's Hope They Grill Her Fat Ass

  published Feb 25, 2009

  The congressional daily The Hill is reporting that Department of Homeland Security czar Janet Napolitano will be meeting privately for the first time with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus ... More >>

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  Courtney Bisbee and County Pettifogger Gerald R. Grant

  published Feb 25, 2009

  How do deputy prosecutors sleep at night, when they are charged by their elected bosses to rack up as many warm bodies in prison as possible, to overlook exculpatory evidence, to cull only thos... More >>

• The Bird Wants to Take a Blowtorch to 287(g) and Looks Forward to Saturday’s Anti-Arpaio March

  published February 26, 2009

  VINNIE'S BOO-BOO "WTF?!" That's what this ticked-off Toucan thought when he saw that local... More >>

• United for a Sovereign America's Cactus-Faced Sandbillies Threaten to Crash Saturday's Anti-Arpaio March

  published Feb 23, 2009

  The hillbillies are coming! The hillbillies are coming! And no that's not Phoenix's new line of do-it-yourself redneck porn. Nah, by hillbillies, I mean convicted public urinators like Buffal... More >>

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  Is Joe Arpaio the Middle-Namesake of Benito Mussolinir And Other Answers for the Arpaio Obsessed

  published Feb 23, 2009

  It would tickle Sheriff Joe Arpaio no end to learn the degree to which his enemies and detractors are obsessed with him. I can't count the number of times, for instance, that I've gotte... More >>

• Barack Obama and the Anti-Arpaio Protesters at Dobson High, Dennis Gilman's Latest

  published Feb 21, 2009

  B-rock's recent visit to Mesa garnered loads of local coverage, some of which mentioned those who showed up to protest the President's stimulus package. But not much was said of the more than 100 the... More >>

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  Huffington Post, Amy Goodman Cover Joe Arpaio's Misdeeds; and Don't Forget, Desert Politics is Back on 1190 AM Tomorrow

  published Feb 20, 2009

  Both the Huffington Post's Dawn Teo and Amy Goodman of Democracy Now have produced long pieces in the past week covering Joe Arpaio's recent outrages against those with brown skin, Arpaio's "200 Mexi... More >>

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  Skull and Bones, Pancho Villa's Head, and a Possible Phoenix Connectionr

  published Feb 20, 2009

  Curiosity's driven me to write a little follow-up to my post Wednesday about the WASPy wieners at Skull and Bones being sued by the heirs of the Apache warrior Geronimo. They're suing... More >>

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  Zack de la Rocha Endorses Anti-Arpaio Rally and May Be at Phoenix March, According to Activists

  published Feb 19, 2009

  In what appears to be a major coup for the activists organizing the anti-Arpaio action the weekend of February 28, the National Day Laborer Organizing Network has announced through a press re... More >>

• Joe Arpaio, MCSO Can't Back Up Bogus Claim that Fox Reality Show Collared 400 Fugitives

  published Feb 18, 2009

  I know it's been, like, two whole months, but do ya recall that lousy three-episode pilot Sheriff Self-Shill shot for the lame-o Fox Reality Channel, Smile...You're Under Arrestr Remember Joe plugging... More >>

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  Geronimo's Heirs Declare War on Yale's Skull and Bones: It's About Damn Time

  published Feb 18, 2009

  My question is, what took 'em so longr I'm talking about the descendants of the Apache warrior Geronimo demanding his remains back from "one hundred years of imprisonment at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, the Ya... More >>

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  Nova M Deader than Bernie Macr Sheldon Drobny's Mental Breakdown, and More on Randi Rhodes and 1190 AM's Implosion

  published Feb 17, 2009

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• The Pelican Sticks a Fork in Nova M, Finds Out if Obama is a Red, and Logs On to Grant Woods' Web Cast

  published February 19, 2009

  NOVA M MELTDOWN Is there anything sadder than the backstabbing pettiness of a liberal... More >>

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  Grant Woods, the Internet Jay Lenor

  published Feb 17, 2009

  I don't think Carson Daly or Jay Leno'll be breaking a sweat over this one any time soon, but I just got a little promo e-mail in my in-box announcing the launch of ex-Arizona Attorney Genera... More >>

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  Janet Napolitano, Barack Obama's Token Nativist

  published Feb 16, 2009

  With every statement uttered from her perch as Homeland Security czar, in every action she takes each day her fanny remains in its cozy D.C. seat, ex-Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano reaffirms that ... More >>

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  Nova M Meltdownr Randi Rhodes Disappears, and a Note for Friends of Desert Politics

  published Feb 14, 2009

  PCP. Peyote. Embalming fluid. Nicaraguan horse dung. See, I'm trying to figure out what the hell's in the water cooler over at Nova M, as owners Anita Drobny and hubby Sheldon point the no... More >>

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  Porn Star Stormy Daniels Talks About Senate Run Against Louisiana's David Vitter

  published Feb 13, 2009

  Porn star and possible politician with fringe benefits, Wicked Pictures contract girl Stormy Daniels, was in Phoenix last week, feature dancing at Le Girls Cabaret. Sadly, I missed her performance. ... More >>

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  House Judiciary Committee Presses Eric Holder, Janet Napolitano to Investigate Sheriff Joe Arpaio

  published Feb 13, 2009

  In what may be a watershed moment in the battle to end Sheriff Joe Arpaio's anti-Hispanic pogroms and his abuse of his federal 287(g) authority, the leadership of the House Ju... More >>