Cesar Chavez

Cesar Chavez Dinner Protested by Sal Reza, Barrio Defense Committees

Videographer Dennis Gilman's account of the protest outside the Sheraton on Thursday Here's something you don't see everyday: A local Latino group protesting a Cesar Chavez Dinner. See also: -Joe Arpaio Cozies Up to Latino Pastors, Prensa Hispana, and Michael Nowakowski Days Before Employer Raid ... More >>

Jarrett Maupin: White Candidate for District 8 City Council Seat Is Attempted "Political Lynching of Phoenix's Black Community"

Although the election for the Phoenix City Council seat in District 8 -- a seat that has been held by African-Americans for the past 46 years -- is still months away, race is definitely going to be an issue.Several people, including leaders in Phoenix's African-American community, already have publi ... More >>

SB 1070 Fuels a Movement of New Voters

Joe Arpaio and Barack Obama Protested by Puente Moms and Their Children

Many would like to believe that even the most guileful and nefarious of individuals are capable of compassion, particularly toward the weakest among us.Sadly, human behavior argues otherwise. To rationalize away the sufferings of others is a fairly easy mental trick, and when the payoff fo ... More >>

The Life of a State: A Timeline of Arizona's History

Claire Lawton on How the Mural Scene Boomed but Some Galleries Went Bust

Ethnic Studies at TUSD on the Ropes Till Federal Judge Rules

Los Tigres del Norte, apparently not to Judge Kowal's liking...Is there any doubt save in the most muddled of noggins that Arizona's Latino population continues to dwell beneath the bootheel of a hostile political class made up almost entirely of Anglos?Yes, the successful recall of the state's top ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Issues Press Release to Announce He Won't Give "Occupy Phoenix" Protesters Additional Publicity

Interesting headline...for a PRESS RELEASE!​Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio issued a press release this afternoon stating that his office will not give "Occupy Phoenix" protesters additional publicity.That's right -- a press release to announce he doesn't want to help publicize the "Occup ... More >>

Occupy Phoenix: Fliers Titled "When Should You Shoot a Cop" Found at Demonstration

James KingFliers explaining when it's OK to kill a cop were found about 100 yards from where we took this photo of these two gun-toting "occupiers." However, authorities say there's nothing to suggest that "occupiers" wrote the fliers. ​Department of Public Safety officials confirm to New Times th ... More >>

Occupy Tucson: 351 Total Arrests. Now That's an Occupation, Phoenix "Occupiers"

www.carlolfe.com​Tucson's "occupiers" can straight-up occupy.According to the Tucson Police Department, 20 arrests were made yesterday during the "Occupy Tucson" demonstrations at two different parks in the city.The 20 arrests made yesterday make a grand total of 351 arrests since the "Occupy Tucs ... More >>

Occupy Phoenix Folks, Tea Partiers Earn Phoenix "Angriest Cities" (Gulp) Honors

James King​Regardless of political affiliation, people across the country are pissed off about one thing or another, but there's only a few cities that -- as a whole -- are more pissed off than Phoenix, according to a recent ranking of pissed off cities.The Daily Beast website recently ranked Phoe ... More >>

Lawyer Tom Ryan Attempts a Hail Mary Legal Pass to Boot a Fraudulent Candidate Off the Recall Ballot

Ethnic Studies Smear: Wingnuts Slime Corky Gonzales, Civil Rights Hero

A nativist nutcase sticks Corky Gonzales quotes into the cheap blender of her brain and makes mush of it allIt's always amazing to me the way ignorance spreads like a vicious rash through the Internet. One idiot spouts some bull that the confirms the prejudices of the far right, it makes it onto You ... More >>

SB 1070 Has Been Bad for Arizona and Worse for Mexicans, But It Inspired a Year's Worth of Great Art

Sound Strike Responds To One-Sided Salon.com Article

Zack's been coming to AZ long before 1070 was an issueWhen I read the recent Salon.com article "How a boycott meant to save Arizona is hurting it," I wondered to myself how its author, a woman by the name of Drew Grant, ended up writing such an insipid, one-sided piece about the Sound Strike, a piec ... More >>

Jesse Jackson Speaks of the Shared Struggle of Blacks and Hispanics to Puente's Sandra Castro

Puente activist Sandra Castro's interview with Rev. Jesse JacksonI want to turn your attention to these two videos by Sandra Castro, an activist in Sal Reza's Puente Movement, which is based here in Phoenix. This footage of the Rev. Jesse Jackson was taken at the big pro-immigration rally in Washing ... More >>

A New Law Spawns Fear in the Immigrant Community, and Artists Tackle the Ongoing Repression in Maricopa County

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, November 19, 2009

Jarrett Maupin II Responds to Quotes in Sheriff's Report; Says He Believes Sheriff's Office Racially Profiles

Jarret Maupin II, in an impassioned phone call to New Times and in a comment posted today on our blog, now says that he "unequivocally" believes the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office commits racial profiling. Maupin claims his quotes to the contrary that turned up in a deputy's report were "complet ... More >>

Barack Obama's Shame: Joe Arpaio Wrecks Families, Wounds a Business, Makes a Little Girl Cry, All with Federal Authority

Dennis Gilman's account of Joe Arpaio's car wash raid, and an interview with one of Arpaio's littlest victims. This Saturday, while real cops were out hunting down murderers, rapists, burglars, and so on, Sheriff Joe Arpaio -- true to his nickname, "Nickel Bag Joe" -- was at Li ... More >>

Hermosillo, Mexico, Day-Care Fire Spurs Relief Fund by Phoenix Officials

Image: Wikimedia CommonsPhoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, Councilman Claude Mattox and officials with the Sister City program will kick off a fundraising effort this morning to benefit families of children burned in a Mexico day-care facility fire. At least 44 children were killed in the blaze. Abou ... More >>

Zack de la Rocha Signs Hundreds of Autographs at Fundraisers for Tonatierra, Macehualli

Zack de la Rocha Friday night, just before signing hundreds of autographs to benefit Tonatierra and the Macehualli Day Labor Center Apologies for leading with my stomach (something I do in real life, physically), but the mole sauce at Garibaldi's Real Mexican Grill -- the site of a fundra ... More >>

White-Supremacist Activity Is on the Rise in Sand Land, and One Latino-American Family Is the Victim of a Vicious Hate Crime in North Phoenix

Cardinal Francis George, Bishop Thomas Olmsted, and an Anti-Arpaio Protest in Guadalupe

pic from Joe's old re-election site JoeArpaio.orgBishop Olmsted and Arpaio get chummy in the tents...Chicago's Cardinal Francis George could school Phoenix's Bishop Thomas Olmsted on moral courage when it comes to the subject of immigration. While Olmsted refuses to condemn attacks on immigrants in ... More >>

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

De la Rocha, raging against Arpaio and Janet Napolitano. 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 Phoenix to protest Sheriff Joe Arpaio's imm ... More >>

MCSA Leader Raquel Teran Served with Bogus Summons by Sheriff's Deputies

MCSA lead organizer Raquel Teran: Maricopa County's version of the KGB paid her a little visit today. Seems like Sheriff Joe's goons at the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office can't go a day without abusing their power, and attempting to intimidate and silence their critics. Following the absurd arres ... More >>

Free Light Rail Rides for 500 People Saturday at Downtown Phoenix Holiday Event

In a few months there'll be gum on the slightly dingy seats, graffitti on the windows, and sticky, unidentifiable stuff on the floors. But tomorrow, you and a few hundred other enthusiastic rail riders can breathe in that new-train smell as some of the very first passengers on the Pho ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, December 11, 2008

The Bird joins the anti-Arpaio siege at Wells Fargo, postmortems the Pearce- Gibbons race, and knocks Napolitano for defending Sarah Palin

Arpaio's thugs threaten to arrest a New Times reporter for looking at public records

Protesters Rally in the Streets of Phoenix on May 27, 2008

Sheriff Joe wants to read Phil Gordon’s e-mail

Columbus D-Day: Activists crash Joe Arpaio fete at Italian Club; Joe and Andy Thomas hang with redneck bikers.

Tequila Town

The Bird on Mayor Phil and why the Fonz can't tell the world, "Fuck the police"

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

The Battle of Bell Rd., Part Deux: Mayor Phil Gordon blasts Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

Patriot Games

The grass has got to be greener someplace else

Daddy's Little Girl

What do you do when the biggest name in the race is the least qualified?

Douchebag Larry Gaydos: Dork After Dark.

Hall of Famer

Legend, yes. But Clint Eastwood's not done yet

Whores Truly

Desert Stages musical puts the 'ho in hoedown

See Worthy

Crave the wave at Caribbean culture fest

Hypocrisy and the Herd

Letters from the week of December 26, 2002

Goober-natorial

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

Brown Out

Teatro Bravo takes on show biz's dim view of Chicanos, among other things, in The Mission

Best Spanish-language News Radio Station

KNAI-FM 88.3

Mujeres Don't Cry

All-Chicana stage production lifts gritty curtain on inner-city life

MisJudged

U.S. District Court Judge Carl Muecke ruled on the letter of the law, but his liberal views and tough courtroom style made him the judge that conservatives love to hate

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