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 arrested this morning while sitting quietly in a lobby outside where a BOS executive meeting was taking place.Apparently it took some 15 deputies from the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office to arrest the fo
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 arrests by sheriff's deputies of four women on Monday who were sitting peacefully in a lobby outside a Board of Supervisors executive meeting, and the arrests of four members of ACORN and MCSA (Maricopa Ci
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 organizer Salvador Reza from taking on Arpaio in such a bold, uncompromising way. They feared violence. They feared a backlash from the public. They feared the worst.
Arpaio, looking deflated and moroseBut
Supervisors Kunasek, Brock and Wilson kowtow before the Great and Mighty King Arpaio, in a satire performed by activists outside the BOS auditoriumIt all played out like political kabuki today at the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors. At issue was the $1.6 million the legislature, at the behest of neo-Nazi-hugger extraordinaire and state Senator Russell Pearce, granted Sheriff Joe Arpaio to hunt Hispanics as a part of the MCSO's spendthrift racial profiling sweeps. This was meant to replace t
