Lydia Guzman

Bill Montgomery Skewered in Puente March, SANE Defends Monty

Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery took it on the chin today, as about 120 demonstrators protesting Monty's discriminatory policies toward undocumented workers marched more than 3.5 miles from Steele Indian School Park to Montgomery's offices in the county administration building in downtown P ... More >>

Maricopa County Elections Department Starting Spanish Campaign Due to Election-Date Error, Which Supervisor Wilcox Calls a "Tragedy"

The Maricopa County Elections Department released some of the details this morning about the Spanish-language campaign it's putting on, in an effort to set the record straight for any Spanish-speaking voters who may have been confused by errors made by the department.On two occassions, people notice ... More >>

Helen Purcell: Accusation About Spanish Errors a "Malicious Lie," Says Office Will Publicize Election Date of Martes, 6 de Noviembre

As our colleague Stephen Lemons reported last night, Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell set the record straight about the early-ballot collections -- it is not illegal for someone to deliver your early ballot to the elections office for you.Purcell also addressed the multiple errors on county el ... More >>

Maricopa County Elections Office Had More Materials With Wrong Election Date in Spanish, So It Got a Calendar

The Maricopa County Elections Department documents showing the incorrect date for the election -- but just in Spanish -- were not the only things offering the wrong date for Spanish speakers.See also:-Helen Purcell Urged to End Confusion Over CBS 5 Early Ballot Report-Maricopa County Elections Depar ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Taliban, Nativist Steve Camarota, and More Problems for the MCSO

See also: MCSO Sergeant Says Main Goal Is to Catch Illegal Immigrants, Contradicting Deputy Chief Brian Sands' Testimony See also: Joe Arpaio Struggles in Racial-Profiling Trial See also: Joe Arpaio Looks Like Tired, Old Racist on Stand During Racial-Profiling Trial See also: Joe Arpaio's (ahem) Leg ... More >>

DREAMers Vulnerable to Scams, Activists and Feds Warn

See Also: DREAMers Score a Win with Obama's Immigration Initiative, But the War Is Far from Over Young illegal immigrants should be wary of scam artists promising work permits as a result of the Obama administration's new immigration policy toward them. That's the message from pro-immigrant activi ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Reign of Terror Blasted in New Documentary Two Americans

Anyone who knows award-winning Phoenix journalist Valeria Fernandez knows that for four years now she and her collaborator, filmmaker Dan DeVivo, have been working on a documentary about Sheriff Joe Arpaio's reign of terror and error in Maricopa County, a film ultimately titled Two Americans.Fernand ... More >>

Lydia Guzman, Local Immigrant Rights' Activist, Calls on Department of Justice to Investigate Allegations Against Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu

Lydia Guzman, a prominent immigrant rights' activist, has asked Deputy Assistant Attorney General Roy L. Austin of the U.S. Department of Justice to launch an investigation into the allegations against Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu. Read details of those allegations leveled by his ex-boyfriend, J ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Hammered by Politicians, Activists Praising DOJ Report

Supervisor Wilcox, with the DOJ report on Joe's racial-profiling ways...Flanked by community activists and fellow elected leaders at her El Portal restaurant in central Phoenix, Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox held aloft the recently-released U.S. Department of Justice report on Sheriff ... More >>

Guatemalan Boy Missing in the Desert, as His Mother Clings To Hope

Nelson Omar is the child in the center, wearing the Spider Man T-shirt... New American Media recently published a heartbreaking story by reporter Valeria Fernandez about a young Guatemalan boy who may have been left behind in the desert by smugglers, and who is now feared dead. Thir ... More >>

Don Stapley, Mary Rose Wilcox Call for FBI Investigation of Chief Deputy David Hendershott; Ask Feds to Consider Taking Over Sheriff's Office

  Images: Ray Stern Don Stapley and Mary Rose Wilcox want the FBI, not Pinal Sheriff Paul Babeu, to review new allegations of corruption in Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office.​Maricopa County Supervisors Don Stapley and Mary Rose Wilcox have asked the feds to consider taking control of the S ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Twitters That Ava's Urging His Run for Guv; and Russell Pearce's Apartheid Bill Goes to House Floor

Ernesto YerenaWell, if he needs a poster, he could just clip off the "Re-"...Maybe Sheriff Joe figures that if he runs for Governor of Arizona, the federal grand jury now investigating him won't indict him. Could that be why he keeps playing up the drama of a possible candidacy for Governor of Arizo ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Next Headache: Sal Reza Pushes Eric Holder to Take Over MCSO

Sal Reza: Taking it to the streets, and to Eric Holder's deskHot on the heels of news that Wells Fargo wants Joe Arpaio out of his pricey executive suites in the bank's downtown Phoenix tower, human rights activist Salvador Reza is raising the stakes, asking that Attorney General Eric Hold ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Latest Silly Press Release About "Pro-Texters," and Why Arpaio's Made All of His Press Releases Suspect

Notorious "pro-texter" Lydia Guzman with Rage Against the Machine frontman Zach de la RochaWhy should we buy anything that comes out of Arpaio's PR department considering the sheriff's statements under oath during his deposition in the Melendres racial profiling case? There, confronted with his own ... More >>

Neo-Nazi NSM Scum at the Arizona Capitol: Should Sane People Give Them the Time of Day?

Will Phoenix ignore the Nazi goon squad November 7?Let's not mince labels, here: The neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement members who'll be rallying at the state Capitol this coming Saturday afternoon are lowlife degenerates. And I don't just mean that their anti-Semitism, outright racism and adorat ... More >>

One Mother’s Suffering, Joe Arpaio’s Bigotry, and Stories of Racial Profiling by the MCSO

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, bo ... More >>

944 Magazine Apologizes to Hispanics for Exec's Racist Comments

944 says it really likes Hispanics now. No, honest... Some of you may be familiar with the legal donnybrook Scottsdale's 944 Magazine is engaged in regarding the handling of its 2008 Super Bowl party, which 944 hosted along with its business partner in the venture, California-based Explosive P ... 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 >>

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

Zack de la Rocha Leads a March of Thousands to Joe Arpaio's Jails, Neo-Nazis and Nativists Back Arpaio

Zack de la Rocha addresses the crowd at the end of Saturday's Walk for RespectBefore today's successful march of thousands from the Wells Fargo building in downtown Phoenix to Sheriff Joe Arpaio's gulags, many in the Phoenix activist community tried to dissuade civil rights leader and march organi ... More >>

Zack de la Rocha Talks 287(g); and a Desperate Letter from Inside Estrella Jail

Zack talks about Arpaio and 287(g) with artist Ernesto Yerena I'll give you two reasons why demonstrators will be marching May 2 in Phoenix from the Wells Fargo building downtown -- where Sheriff Arpaio maintains two floors of pricey executive offices -- to Joe's Estrella Jail, a hellhole that's ho ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Guards Break Woman's Arm (Allegedly), ICE Releases Her on Own Recognizance

Maria del Carmen Garcia Martinez, after being released from ICE custody. Immigration and Customs Enforcement released a suspected illegal immigrant Thursday night after it was determined that her arm had been broken while she was in MCSO custody. Maria del Carmen Garcia Martinez was released ... More >>

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

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 >>

Joe Crummey, KTAR's L.A. Wing-Nut, and What the MCSO and Al-Qaeda Have in Common

www.ktar.com KTAR's Joe Crummey (in what must be a very old photo), still phoning it in after all these years... Is there a lip-flapper at the Mormon Church-owned, right-wing talk radio station KTAR 92.3 FM that doesn't have his lips surgically connected to Joe Arpaio's flaccid penis? Excludi ... More >>

Anti-Joe Arpaio Action Scheduled for This February 28 in Phoenix

Time to get pissed by this clown, and to march... Looks like February will be going out like a lion, with a massive anti-Joe protest scheduled for the 28th demanding the termination of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's 287(g) agreement. Some 70 activist groups will march by the Arizona ICE office, the Well ... More >>

The Wily Warbler Visits Ciria Lopez-Pacheco and Courtney Bisbee Behind Bars

Mother's Day: My Visit with Ciria Lopez-Pacheco in Maricopa County's Estrella Jail

Already, Lopez-Pacheco looks a few pounds lighter than in this January 9, MCSO mugshot.Ciria Lopez-Pacheco looks longingly at children in the Estrella Jail visitation room who have been brought in to see their mothers. The activist I'm with, Lydia Guzman of the human rights organization Respect/Resp ... More >>

Huffington Post Picks Up on Plight of Immigrant Mom Torn from Children by Joe Arpaio's Goons

When, I wonder, will Ciria Lopez-Pacheco finally be reunited with her children? The extremely well-read site Huffington Post just picked up on the plight of undocumented mom Ciria Lopez-Pacheco, who was torn from her children the evening of January 9, during Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio' ... More >>

Masked MCSO Deputy Takes Away Children's Mother During West Valley Sweep (w/2 UPDATES)

(NOTE: Please see below for update and mugshot of the mother.)This disturbing video was taken last night by Phoenix civil rights activist Sal Reza during Sheriff Joe Arpaio's latest anti-immigrant sweep in the West Valley, which is ongoing as I type. Reza witnessed two MCSO deputies, at least one of ... More >>

The Bird tsks at Phoenix Magazine, revisits Guadalupe’s recalls and takes one more swipe at Russell “White Pride” Pearce

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.

Guadalupe made it clear that Joe Arpaio’s attacking anyone with brown skin

Dems, activists at state convention demand Gov. Janet Napolitano veto HB 2807. (w/UPDATE: GUV COMPLIES, VETOES BILL.)