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Cesar Chavez Day Raffle: Play and Support La LUCHA

Cesar Chavez Day is upon us, and one way of honoring the spirit of the famed labor leader locally is by helping the organization LUCHA, Living United for Change in Arizona, by participating in its Cesar Chavez Day Raffle. See also: -Four MCSA/ACORN Members Freed after Being Arrested for Applauding ... More >>

Russell Pearce's Tea Party on Trial: Olivia Cortes Plays "Useful Idiot"

Election law attorney Tom Ryan may not get Legislative District 18 recall candidate Olivia Cortes booted from the November 8 ballot, but on Thursday, with the assistance of co-counsel H. Michael Wright,  Ryan effectively put the Tea Party on trial. And at least metaphorically, the verdict was g ... More >>

Obama Adminstration Wants Illegal Immigrants to Vote, Says Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne

Tom Horne, Arizona's attorney general, is defending a law that requires proof of citizenship to be presented in order to register to vote.​ President Obama's hoping to secure votes from illegal immigrants by fighting an Arizona law that requires proof of citizenship at the polls, says Arizon ... More >>

Richard Mellon Scaife's Cash Pays For Judicial Watch's Ideologically Motivated Lawsuits

Joe Arpaio Protesters Score Nearly $500K in Settlements from Maricopa County

From left, Jason Odhner, Kristy Theilen, Monica Sandschafer, and Joel Nelson, after being released from the 4th Avenue Jail following their arrests for "clapping" at a public meeting in 2008 A group of seven activists either arrested or cited by the sheriff's office as ... More >>

A Great Day (Coming): We Invoke Iconic Art For Our 40th and to Honor Community Resistance to Oppression

J.D. Hayworth Claims Campaign Raised $65K in 90 Minutes; What Bank Did J.D. Rob?

Here is a screen-grab of Hayworth's contribution chart at 8:26 last night. J.D. claims he raised more than $100K in 3 1/2 hours.​U.S. Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth says his campaign raised more than $1 million in the month of March, including about $100,000 late last night.Right.At the beginn ... More >>

E.J. Montini Earns His Pizza By Kissing Up to Joe Arpaio, Yet Again

courtesy of photosbyjosemunoz.orgMontini argues these and the rest of the 10,000-plus anti-Joe protesters should just zip itAccording to the Rep's E.J. Montini, if you oppose Sheriff Joe Arpaio and you lose at the polls, you should just keep your gob shut.Wow, talk about a mouthpiece for the little ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Foes Score: Acquitted Activists Win Legal Fees from County Attorney

photo by Dennis GilmanShe shoots, she scores! ACORN's Monica Sandschafer and her activist pals have won in court againCall it the cost of clapping. Five anti-Arpaio activists were awarded legal fees Monday by Justice of the Peace C. Steven McMurry in a case that involved four of them being arrested ... More >>

Sheriff Joe’s Got Arizona ACORN in his Crosshairs, Plus a Black Cowboy from Tucson’s Got a Rap for Our Loony Lawman

ACORN Subpoena at Odds with Joe Arpaio's Statements; MCSO Claims ACORN Was Served Properly

Between Joe Arpaio and ACORN, guess who the nut is? ACORN's passed along to me this subpoena that Sheriff Joe Arpaio's been bragging about to the media, and though it's a clear fishing expedition on the part of Arpaio's attorney in the Melendres v. Arpaio case, let's just say that it ... More >>

Arizona Tea Party Puddin' Heads; Plus, Russell Pearce Says Joe Arpaio Won't Run for Guv, Despite Business Journal Report

From left, Jack Harper, Dean Martin, Russell Pearce, and John Huppenthal Obama is a Nazi. Obama is a commie. Obama is a pirate. (Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum.) Obama is a socialist. Obama is the Joker from The Dark Night. (You know, Heath Ledger) Yadda-yadda-yadda. Such was the refrain f ... More >>

Janet Napolitano Pulls a Switcheroo on the Pro-Immigrant Crowd, Arpaio Scores a Latina Judge's Recusal, plus Swastikas in Fountain Hills

Al Sharpton Whups Sheriff Joe, and Courtney Bisbee’s Innocence Claim Is Shot Down by a Judge

Al Sharpton Rocks Phoenix, from Pilgrim Rest, to El Portal, to Wells Fargo and Finally, Lou Dobbs

Rev. Sharpton at Pilgrim Rest, early Friday morning Today the Reverend Al Sharpton achieved what no one else has achieved before in Arizona's civil rights struggle for the undocumented: the bringing together of African Americans and Latinos on the issues of racial profiling, immigration r ... More >>

Juneteenth Unity Prayer Service and Breakfast feat. Reverend Al Sharpton

Al Sharpton Does Phoenix This Friday, June 19th, According to Arizona ACORN

by David Shankbone Get your game face on, Joe, Rev. Al's ready to rumble...I've just received confirmation from Monica Sandschafer, ACORN's lead organizer in Arizona, that the Rev. Al Sharpton will be in Phoenix this Friday, June 19th. For those unaware of it, that date is known as Juneteenth ... More >>

Zack de la Rocha Protests Arpaio, Who Cozies up to White Supremacists, Plus, Jeff Farias Finds a Home with the Lord

Arpaio and the 287(g) Hearings, Direct from D.C.

Lou Dobbs Battles Al Sharpton and ACORN's Bertha Lewis, Gets His Lunch Eaten

Part one of Sharpton and Lewis vs. TV minuteman Lou Dobbs I don't know what CNN's resident nativist Lou Dobbs thought he was doing when he invited the Rev. Al Sharpton and ACORN's Bertha Lewis on his program yesterday. But suffice it to say that the bottle-blond senior citizen got owned on his own s ... More >>

Al Sharpton, Mary Rose Wilcox, ACORN's Bertha Lewis, and Others Blast Joe Arpaio on Media Conference Call

photo by Juda EngelmayerRev. Al's got his eye on Sheriff Joe...As I promised in a previous blog post, I participated in a national conference call this morning, which featured the Rev. Al Sharpton of the National Action Network, ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis, Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox, ... More >>

Al Sharpton to Denounce Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Tuesday Press Conference

photo by David Shankbone Look out Joe, Rev. Al's comin' for ya... The left's finally bringin' out the big dogs to take on our racial-profilin' Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Tomorrow in Harlem, Rev. Al Sharpton will denounce Maricopa County's corrupt, tin-pot tyrant in a national press conference with B ... More >>

Four MCSA Demonstrators Arrested Outside County Board of Supervisors Meeting, Dressed as Pets

A chicken (activist Chris Fleischman) is interrogated by plainclothes po-po.According to witnesses and a spokesperson for the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, four members of Maricopa Citizens for Safety and Accountability, an activist group critical of the BOS and Sheriff Joe Arpaio, were arre ... More >>

ACORN Screws Up 150 Voter Registrations in Maricopa County, Says Elections Department

Forecast for the Feathered Bastard, and Free Speech Radio News Covers the Wells Fargo Siege.

The Bird pecks away at Janet Napolitano’s lame defense of Russell Pearce and tears Fulton Brock a new one

Another Thing Arizona's Last In

Feds query state about abysmal voter registration among welfare applicants

THE GRIM RED LINE

MINORITIES ARE REFUSED MORTGAGES. BANKS WON'T LEND IN LOW-INCOME NEIGHBORHOODS. IT'S CALLED REDLINING, AND IT'S STILL THRIVING IN PHOENIX.

CLASS IS OUT

THE WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT JUST LOVES TO RECALL BOARD MEMBERS. THIS TIME THE FIGHTING VERGES ON THE CHILDISH.