Subject: Bull Connor

• The Anti-Joe Arpaio Wells Fargo Protests Spread to San Francisco.

  September 22, 2008

• WHOSE VOICE IS THAT?

  AN ASU AUTHOR EXAMINES THE SOURCES OF MARTIN LUTHER KING'S POWERFUL WORDS

  September 23, 1992

• The Bird Marches with Zack de la Rocha and Laughs at the Latest Arpaio "Death Threat"

  March 5, 2009

• Rotting from the Head Down: Joe Arpaio's Barack Obama Dis and an MCSO Deputy's Wish for "the JFK Syndrome"

  Let's just hope the MCSO never has to help protect President-elect Obama. By now, many of you have already read about our corrupt top constable Sheriff Joe Arpaio's flipping the verbal bird to President-elect Barack Obama and his soon-to-be U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. Concerning his ethnic profiling sweeps and raids, Arpaio told the Phoenix Business Journal that, "I'm not stopping," and if folks have complaints, they can, "take them to the FBI." That's straight from the gob

  December 18, 2008

• 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 that Napolitano would rein in the excesses of the department's 287(g) program and its worksite enforcement raids. The New York Times trumpeted her as "the most powerful voice of reason in a state that

  February 5, 2009

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

  from WikimediaCommons De La Rocha: "Some of those that work forces/Are the same that burn crosses." Sound like anyone we know? 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 release that firebrand frontman Zack de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine fame is encouraging people to join the march and rage against Sheriff Joe Arpaio's treatment of the

  February 19, 2009

• 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

  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 because of an address he captured at the beginning of the march, given by Shannon Rivers of the Akimel O'odham people. His comments are both ironic and inspiring, especially considering the fact that Arizona, as a state, is still less than 100 years old. And his people were here long before the white

  March 2, 2009

• E.J. Montini, Sheriff Joe Arpaio's New Best Bud

  Maybe E.J. Montini should ask Maria del Carmen Garcia Martinez (left) if she feels the MCSO violated her civil rights?Why do I bother with a middlebrow muttonhead like the Republic's E.J. Montini? After all, this smug little scribbler is known for his milquetoasty opinions, his aversion to rocking the proverbial boat, and his kowtowing to authority. No doubt he's well-paid for his snooty simpering, the kind that doesn't upset the digestion of the seniors in Sun City too much. He certainly doesn'

  March 13, 2009

• 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 Bertha Lewis, CEO of ACORN. Sharpton will demand Arpaio's resignation by the end of May, and if Joe fails to do so, Sharpton will march on Phoenix with a coalition of civil rights groups. "I am calling

  April 6, 2009

• 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, Pablo Alvarado of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, Rev. William Barber of the North Carolina NAACP, and other civil rights leaders from around the country. The speakers called for Sheriff

  April 7, 2009

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

  February 26, 2009

• Ankkkarlo Pride

  The feisty finch spars with KTAR's Darrell Ankarlow-brow, suggests anger management for an Assistant P-town police chief, and skewers fake Art Detour Gypsies

  March 15, 2007

• No, No, Janet

  October 29, 1998

• 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, and it commemorates the end of slavery in the United States.According to Sandschafer, Sharpton's itinerary will include a prayer breakfast at Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church in downtown Phoenix from 7:3

  June 15, 2009

• Joe Arpaio Hosted in Houston by Two Nativist Extremist Groups

  photo by Liana Lopez Arpaio wows the old fogies in Houston... I don't know about the devil goin' down to Georgia, but Sheriff Joe did go down to Houston this weekend to pimp the pack of bogus yarns in his 2008 tome Joe's Law. You know, the one wherein he claims credit for busting the French Connection, says he pulled over Elvis, spins his nickname "Nickel Bag Joe" as a positive thing (though it's not), insists the Mexican mafia along with Phoenix immigration activist Elias Bermu

  September 14, 2009

• Arpaio Visits Houston and the Bigots at Westboro Baptist Church Have a New Target: Jews

  September 17, 2009

• Joe Arpaio Apparently in Violation of ICE Agreement; New MOA Still Unsigned by ICE, Goes Before Supes Wednesday

  Would you buy a used car from this guy, or a played out Memorandum of Agreement? By kvetching to the Arizona Republic and KTAR 92.3 FM's Jay Lawrence over the weekend about his brand-spanking new, 287(g) jails contract with ICE, has Arpaio thereby violated his agreements with ICE, both old and new? In Section XVIII, paragraph two of the freshly minted Memorandum of Agreement, the recently released document, signed by Arpaio on September 30, states that, "The M

  October 6, 2009

• Joe Arpaio on Mexican Migrants: "They're All Dirty"

  Grampa Joe describes his daughter's adopted kids: "I got a black, a Mexican with down syndrome even." GQ magazine just published a damning portrait of Sheriff Joe by writer Alexander Provan titled "The Vigilante," and it couldn't come at better time. I know from experience that way too many reporters who come through town get snowed by our irascible, bulbous-nosed sheriff. They find him colorful and often end up writing pieces that gloss over everything the man does wrong, in favor of the

  October 9, 2009