Human Rights

Sal Reza, Tonatierra March 13.4 Miles for Justice on Saturday

The human rights activists of Tonatierra and the Barrio Defense Committees will do the annual PF Chang's 13.1 mile marathon one better this Saturday by holding a 13.4 mile march for human rights and dignity, beginning at Sheriff Joe Arpaio's notorious Fourth Avenue Jail and ending at Glendale Police ... More >>

Five Things to Eat and Drink This Weekend

Looking for something to put in your mouth this weekend? We've got you covered. Check out what's on our plate. See also: - Pie Social 2012: All the Sweet Details - Biltmore's Central Bistro Announces Grand Opening Date (It's This Sunday!) Human Rights Campaign's COOK Phoenix The Human Rights Camp ... More >>

Every Little Helping

Quiet Riot

Cupcake Love-In, Arizona Taco Festival and More: Mark Your Calendar!

See also: Cork Answers Foie Gras Debate With Foie Gras Fridays It's been too long since our food-related events calendar went into summer hibernation. Lucky for us all, the end draws near; we've got a few dates already marked on the books. From returning "love-ins" to first-time Phoenix events, her ... More >>

Is Trent Franks Just Wasting Congress' Time?

See also: Trent Franks Successfully Wastes Everyone's Time as His Abortion Bill FailsWhen Republican candidates for the House of Representatives campaigned in 2010, just about every single one of them talked about these things called "jobs."As Congressman Trent Franks passed the 90-minute mark of ti ... More >>

Puente Kicks Off "Undocubus" with Pro-Immigrant March

See Also: Puente's "Undocubus" Set to Travel to Democratic National ConventionSee Also: The complete slideshow of Puente's "Undocubus" Pro-Immigrant March.About 200 hundred people peacefully protested Saturday morning against the immigration policies of Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the federal government ... More >>

Mexicans Pay in Blood for America's War on Drugs

Lemons: SB 1070 Civil Disobedience Must Escalate

Schools Ignore Bullying of Gays at Their Own Peril

Joe Arpaio's Tent City: Shut It Down, Puente Protest Demands

Shut down Sheriff Joe Arpaio's notorious outdoors-deathtrap Tent City? Sounds like a solid idea to me, and one the Phoenix human rights organization Puente will be pushing Saturday, June 23 during a rally and vigil outside Joe's al fresco gulag.I had to look twice at the announcement for this action ... More >>

SB 1070 Protest March Led by Puente Starts at 3p.m.

It's like 2010 all over again, with the Phoenix-based civil rights group Puente leading an anti-SB 1070 protest with a "march route [that] exposes collaborators in Arpaio's human rights crisis."As you can see on the map, the demonstration begins at 3p.m. at Phoenix's Civic Space Park, 424 N. Central ... More >>

Paul Babeu Touts Gay Rights While LGBT Inmates in His Jail Suffer

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, January 12th, 2011

Amnesty International Local Chapters Host Localpalooza for Human Rights

Anamieke Quinn and her band Treasurefruit play Localpalooza at The Sail InnEven if you dont' know exactly what Amnesty International does, chances are you jive with the organization's mission. Tempe and Arizona State University Amnesty International chapters are hoping to gain a little more exposure ... More >>

Immigrant Abuses at Hands of Border Patrol Agents Documented by Human Rights Organization

​No More Deaths, a Tucson-based human rights advocacy group, continues its push to end the abusive treatment immigrants suffer while in U.S. Border Patrol Custody.The group shares the stories of abuse, neglect and humiliation of 13,000 people detained by Border Patrol in a report released today -- ... More >>

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu Sued by National Prison Legal News, With Help From ACLU

Image: www.prisonlegalnews.orgPrison Legal News editor Paul Wright, (with movie star Danny Trejo).​ A national news magazine for prisoners is suing Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu in federal court for the right to distribute its publications to jail inmates.Paul Wright, editor of the Vermont-b ... More >>

Immigrants Who Fight Deportation Are Packed Into Federal Gulags for Months or Years Before Their Cases Are Heard

Burning Times

Jan Brewer and Tom Horne's Silly Rebuttal To the Ninth Circuit

Horne, born in Canada to Nazi-fleeing parents, knows better...or shouldGovernor Jan Brewer and Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne have issued a joint press release denouncing the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' 2-1 decision today upholding District Court Judge Susan R. Bolton's injunction of four ke ... More >>

Brooklyn Band Outernational Doesn't Boycott, Plans to Release EP Discussing Border Issues Instead

Outernational: Bundled up in Brooklyn, but still thinking of Arizona.​It's not often that a Brooklyn-based band takes up an interest in Arizona. In fact, it's usually the other way around. But for punk rockers Outernational, our desert home is of particular fascination. Their members see Arizona a ... More >>

Cloaked Brutality: The Feds Bury Border Patrol Abuses of Immigrants, But What's Been Unearthed Reveals a Culture of Cruelty

Russell Pearce Freaks Out When Confronted by DREAM Activists

Pearce goes ballistic when he's confronted by some of those he's victimizedCheck out this priceless video, a link to which was sent to me by Carmen Cornejo, executive director of CADENA, an Arizona group of professors and professionals who lobby for the DREAM Act. That's the proposed legislation tha ... More >>

Jan Brewer on Blast at United Nations Periodic Review by Arizona ACLU and Sal Reza

Reza in Geneva, where he's telling the world about human rights abuses in ArizonaI'm anticipating a silly press release from Governor Jan "We Have Did" Brewer's camp tomorrow condemning the U.S. State Department, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and the United Nations, as well as the New World Or ... More >>

China's One-Kid Policy Turns 30 Tomorrow -- So Congressman Trent Franks Bashes Barack Obama

Congressman Trent Franks​Tomorrow marks the 30th anniversary of China's one-kid policy and pro-lifers were out in force today in Washington D.C., bashing the Communist nation for it's less-than-human-rights-friendly means of enforcing the law.China has about 1.3 billion people. To slow the rapid p ... More >>

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers @ U.S. Airways Center

Mariachi Mania

Practice your gritos mexicanos

Jan Brewer's U.N.-Bashing PR Stunt, and Its Sliver of Truth

courtesy of Dennis GilmanJan finds the State Department's mention of 1070 "downright offensive." Governor Jan Brewer's political operatives are by no means as dumb as their candidate. Evidence the PR stunt they let drop Friday, berating the U.S. State Department for daring to mention Arizona's brea ... More >>

Asylum Denied: Unlike Refugees from Other Troubled Countries, Only a Fraction of Mexicans Seeking U.S. Asylum Are Accepted -- No Matter Their Wounds or Stories

Anti-SB 1070 Activists Scale Phoenix Crane To Deploy Protest Banner

Activists unfurl an anti-SB 1070 banner high over downtown PhoenixIn a daring act of civil disobedience in downtown Phoenix this evening, at least four activists occupied a tall crane near Central Avenue and Jefferson Street and deployed a huge banner that read "Stop the Hate," with red lines crossi ... More >>

Alto Arizona's Festival for Human Rights

A Report from Juarez, Mexico, the Bleeding Front Line in the War on Drugs

Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Reign of Terror Becomes State Policy, Thanks to State Senator Russell Pearce and Governor Jan Brewer

An Opportunity to Stand Up

An Opportunity to Stand Up

Russell Pearce Bigot Bill Scuttled by Freedom's Phoenix? And Ernie Hancock Calls Pearce a "Judas Goat"

ErnestHancock.comErnie Hancock and Freedom's Phoenix to the rescue? Sure looks like it...Let's hear it for the Libertarians. It seems civil liberties concerns raised by writers like John Green over at Freedom's Phoenix may have gotten the Ron Paul-wing of the local GOP up in arms over a provisi ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, March 11, 2010

Cracking Wise

Laugh for a good cause at Forbidden

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, January 7, 2010

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, December 24, 2009

The Pink Negro: As an Ivy League Lawyer, is President Barack Obama Hard Enough to Confront the Evil Personified by Sheriff Joe Arpaio?

Help Sal Reza's Macehualli Center Tomorrow by Eating at Applebee's

Macehualli's in trouble, and you can help by stuffing your facePhoenix human rights activist Sal Reza's Macehualli Day Labor Center at 25th Street and Bell Road is in dire financial straits, and you can help by eating at one of two Applebee's locations tomorrow.As part of Applebee's Dining to Donate ... More >>

Freedom Film Festival: The Least of These

Ling/Lee Vigil

Expatriate Act

Phoenix photog gives names and faces to Arizona castaways

Expatriate Act

Phoenix photog gives names and faces to Arizona castaways

March to Stop the Hate

Nationalist Enquirer

Filmmaker/artist gives voice to patriots, real and imagined

Can't Miss: Icehouse

In the Crosshairs

County lawmen boffing hookers isn't Sheriff Joe's only problem. Fed up with his thuggery, Arpaio's own political party has targeted him for defeat