Alfredo Gutierrez

Local Latino Activists Target Unlikely Politician

Sheriff Joe Arpaio Faces New Lawsuits Over Last Year's Arrest of Demonstrators at Jail; One Protester Claims He was Beaten by Guards

Image: Democracy NowSunita Patel says in a federal complaint that she was acting as a legal observer when sheriff's deputies arrested her during a protest last year at the 4th Avenue Jail.​Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is being sued again -- this time by four immigration activists arrested la ... More >>

John McCain's Wife's Budweiser Distributorship Boycotted by Latino Group Over SB 1070

RenjishinoFirst baseball, now beer's boycotted? What's next, lapdances?Budweiser, which in 2008 was bought out by a Belgian beer giant to form Anheuser-Busch InBev, has spent millions on advertising to the Latino market. According to a 2009 article in Hispanic Market Weekly, the company spent more t ... More >>

Phoenix Turns Into a Hurricane of Civil Disobedience After SB 1070 Smack-Down, and the MCSO's Police State Tactics on Parade

July 30 In Blogs: SB 1070, Steam Crow, Jugheads, Arizona Stronghold, and Jan Brewer

​​​In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries:

SB 1070 Rage: Salvador Reza, Alfredo Gutierrez, Scores of Others Arrested in Phoenix

Rubin Lucio and the Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray being arrested at Fourth Avenue Jail today Phoenix exploded today in a fit of anti-SB 1070 rage that only a summer rain seems to have dampened for the moment. Scores of activists including Phoenix civil rights leader Salvador Reza of the organization Pue ... More >>

Anti-SB 1070 Protests Announced for All Arizona

Statewide anti-SB 1070 protests begin this week 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 o ... More >>

Rick Romley Checks Sheriff Joe's Power, the MCSO's Paul Chagolla Gets His Back Up, and U.S. Marshal David Gonzales Scores

Paint on a Happy Face: Local Artist Luis Gutierrez Is on the Cusp of Making It in the Art World Despite Struggling with MS

Deputies Raid Chicanos Por La Causa Building, Take Boxes of Papers Out; Protest Sought by Activists

Deputies are taking boxes of files from the Chicanos Por La Causa buildings at 11th Street and Buckeye Road as the group's supporters prepare for a possible anti-Sheriff-Joe-Arpaio demonstration. (See update below -- a demonstration is now looking less likely). A regional conference of Chicanos Por ... More >>

White House Staffer Disappoints Phoenix Latino Leaders in Meeting at El Portal

Will the White House ever act to protect the civil rights of Arizona Latinos? Don't hold your breath waiting for the Obama administration to do anything in the near future about immigration reform, or yanking Sheriff Joe Arpaio's 287(g) authority. That's the message some local Latino leaders t ... More >>

A Former Marijuana Smuggler and Vietnam War Hero Seeks Greater Recognition From His Government

Food City Offers $5-Off Coupon in Mailer Bashing Labor Union's Tactics

  Don't believe the labor union -- and by the way, take $5 off your next purchase at Food City. That's the message from the Bashas' grocery chain in its latest English-and-Spanish-languages mailer to Valley homes. "Who is trying to destroy Food City?" the flier asks, then answers its ... More >>

Are Your Papers in Order?

Are Your Papers in Order?

The Sanchezes are American citizens who've been in this country longer than Joe Arpaio's family. The Sanchezes are criminally brown.

Janet Napolitano's Final Solution for Undocumented Hispanics: More 287(g) Men

photo by Eduardo Barraza of Barriozona.com To borrow a line from Alfredo Gutierrez's La Frontera Times, this woman is not your friend.Ever since Janet Napolitano's nomination to be director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, some liberals and immigrant rights activists have held out hope ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Goes Medieval, While Barack Obama's America is a Million Miles Away

Welcome to the 14th century... We live in two Americas: Joe Arpaio's medieval Maricopa County, where barbarism reigns, and our corrupt top cop parades hundreds of Hispanics through the streets in chains, like captives taken in some feudal conflict from faded memory. And then there's Barack Oba ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, December 11, 2008

Janet Napolitano’s Sorry Service in Arizona Makes Her a Terrible Choice for Homeland Security Secretary

John McCain's Fame is Based on His POW Status, But He Has Abandoned Fellow Veterans

Paul Charlton endorses Gerald Richard over Andrew Thomas for Maricopa County Attorney

Sheriff Joe Arpaio wusses out, stays in Phoenix, far away from Mesa Police Chief George Gascon.

The Bird covers the waterfront on Sheriff Arpaio’s racial profiling patrols and demands freedom for First Friday bohos

After just one year, ASU junked its scholarship program for illegal immigrants. Sarah Fenske wonders who will step up for them now

In its war for new members, a labor union is using dirty tricks to turn Hispanics against Bashas'

Flushing Them Out

Joe Arpaio and Andrew Thomas are teaching the rest of the nation how to terrorize illegal immigrants

A Joe Arpaio Christmas at Pruitt's: Bigotry and hate aplenty.

WHERE WAS GOOBER? Mayor Phil Gordon weenies out yet again, skips Town Hall Meeting at South Mountain High.

The Bermudez Triangle

The immigrant rights movement needs Elias Bermudez, only there's a problem: A lot of his own people don't trust him

Rusty Childress' U.S.A. extremists invade the PHX Yucca Branch Library.

No Trespassing

The feathered fiend examines the guv's (cough!) brass balls, conspicuous consumption in Scottsdale and the L. Ron Hubbard House in Phoenix

Letters

Letters from the week of November 18, 2004

Colangelo Eats Crow

ASU President Michael Crow's emergence provides Phoenix a preferable alternative to Jerry

Out Foxed

Radio killed the liberal star. Now the lefties want their airtime back.

Primary Post-Mortem

You know it was a weird election if The Spike is actually missing John McCain

Good Cops, Bad Cops?

Letters from the week of September 5, 2002

Winging It

Marla Wing is a political activist and a lot of other things. You figure it out.

Goober-natorial

Janet Napolitano is the Dems' lame anointee for governor. But Alfredo Gutierrez could beat her.

Large and In Charge

Fat Arizonans, rest easy. Janet Napolitano will be your heavy.

Yippee

Infighting and back-stabbing are still in fashion this political season

All in the Family

County supervisor and her brother-in-law both have an interest in Bank One Ballpark

Policy Wanks

Arizona political leaders know the answers but can't seem to pass the violence-prevention test

Pols Posturing for Promotions

Who's angling for what, and against whom

Think Tank Warfare

Barry Goldwater's widow says the conservative institute that bears his name is twisting his legacy

The Work of Art Hamilton

For years, House minority leader Art Hamilton has used every trick in the book--the House rules book--to influence the Republican majority; now he's running for secretary of state

Pouring Fuel on a Fire

Diesel spill fouls site proposed for downtown parking garage

District 5, Civility 0

Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox and her husband, Earl, have come out swinging against her challengers--real and imagined

CAUSE WITHOUT A REBELPUBLIC INTEREST GROUP'S ARIZONA DIRECTOR IS STEPPING DOWN

SEEING THE LIGHT

NOW APPEARING IN SOUTH PHOENIX: THE VIRGIN MARY

MEANWHILE, BACK IN THE LOBBY

"THE DEAL" GOES DOWN. INFLUENCE GETS PEDDLED. IS IT ANY WONDER LAWMAKERS ARE GETTING A LIFE---SOMEPLACE ELSE?