Sal Reza

Joe Arpaio's New Pal Michael Nowakowski Snuggles Up to Tom Horne and John Huppenthal?

I'm beginning to wonder if Phoenix City Councilman Michael Nowakowski is still a Democrat. By now, everyone in Sand Land knows that Nowakowski, executive vice president of the Cesar Chavez Foundation and the head honcho of that foundation's communications arm, the Radio Campesina Network, recently ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Pal Michael Nowakowski on Blast in Dennis Gilman's New Video "Negotiating with the Devil"

Gilman's latest rakes Nowakowski over the coals for his parley with El Diablo Which side are you on? The recall effort is underway, and even Sheriff Joe Arpaio's campaign guru Chad Willems has acknowledged that if the recall committee Respect Arizona scores the needed signatures for the ballot, th ... More >>

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 >>

Russell Pearce Scores Lame Summary Judgment Against Sal Reza in Federal Court (w/Update)

You could say Russell Pearce beat the lawsuit (for now), but lost his career. Today, U.S. District Court Judge Frederick J. Martone sided with recalled, disgraced ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce, finding that Pearce did not violate the constitutional rights of Phoenix activist Sal Reza wh ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Nemesis Sal Reza and His Bad News Bears Soccer Team

There's not much that would get me out on a hot Arizona afternoon to watch a high-school soccer match, but Sal Reza as "coach" is one of them.Reza, the bane of Sheriff Joe Arpaio and former state Senate President Russell Pearce, the guy who's led thousands in marches protesting both Senate Bill 1070 ... More >>

Russell Pearce: No "Absolute Legislative Immunity" for Him, Court Says

While recalled ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce was away in D.C. (likely on Judicial Watch's dime) preparing for his big day before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, and, later, to hear oral arguments on Senate Bill 1070 before the U.S. Supreme Court, a different court here in Sand Land w ... 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 >>

SB 1070 Boycott Over? NCLR Says, "Yes," Sal Reza Says, "Hell, No!"

irregulartimes.comBoycott over? Depends whom you ask. Sand Land's nativism, however, persists.Friday evening, I received the letter below signed by Janet Murguria of the National Council of La Raza, essentially declaring that the boycott of Arizona over Senate Bill 1070 is finito.Granted, the letter ... More >>

Morning Poll -- Worse Publicity Stunt: Sal Reza's SB 1070 Protest or Joe Arpaio's Elvis-Themed Panty Party?

James KingThis is a picture of Joe Arpaio singing a duet with an Elvis impersonator as female jail inmates throw pink panties at him. You're not gonna find a publicity stunts better than this.​Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio yesterday announced that it was "about time" immigration activist Sal ... More >>

Joe Arpaio on Sal Reza Conviction: "It's About Time." Says Protest Was Publicity Stunt

www.immigrationbuzz.comImmigration activist Sal Reza​Immigration activist Sal Reza was convicted last week of failing to follow police orders during a protest last year over Arizona's controversial immigration law, SB 1070, and according to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, "it's about time" Rez ... More >>

MLB All-Star Game Fans Confronted by SB 1070 Protesters

Kholood EidThe scene outside Chase Field Tuesday...Members of the human-rights group Puente greeted sports fans with anti-Senate Bill 1070 chants and signs outside Chase Field Tuesday, as the Major League Baseball All-Star Game got under way.About 100 protesters from Puente demonstrated against Ariz ... More >>

Mexican Soccer Match's Low-Fan Turnout Due To Juvenile World Cup, Puente Claims Credit Anyway

Uriel GarciaClub America played a stellar game Sunday regardless of low-fan turnout.​A Mexican soccer match between Club America and Morelia at the University of Phoenix Stadium  on Sunday was hoping to draw 50,000 attendees, but fell way short of that mark. Actual attendance n ... More >>

Club America, Famed Mexican Soccer Team, Plays Glendale Despite SB 1070

Club America is returning a year later after canceling a 2010 game because of SB 1070                         Last year one of Mexico's most revered soccer teams cancelled its game in Glendale in opposition to Arizona's immigration law ... More >>

Russell Pearce Sued by Puente's Sal Reza

Uriel GarciaStephen Montoya (left) and Sal Reza at a press conference Tuesday announcing the lawsuit filed against Senate President Russell Pearce.​Pro-immigrant activist Sal Reza, leader of the Phoenix human-rights group Puente, announced Tuesday that he's suing state Senate President Russell Pea ... More >>

Arizona Boycott On Like Donkey-Kong, Say Pro-Immigrant Groups

Puente's Sal Reza, and others, want the boycott of Sand Land to continueIn the wake of the defeat of five anti-immigrant bills in the state Senate last week, there's been some question about whether the boycott of Arizona over Senate Bill 1070 should continue.There's no doubt that the boycott has be ... More >>

Senator Scott Bundgaard Plays Patty-Cake with Jason Rose, and Russell Pearce Goes KGB on Pro-Immigration Activists

Russell Pearce, Bald-Faced Liar? You Decide

The Mad Cap'n of Sand Land's Ship of StateState Senate President Russell Pearce wants the public to believe there's not a list of folks who're persona non grata at the Arizona state Senate building. And in a bit of a contradiction, he also wants you to believe that part of him "banning" people from ... More >>

Zack de la Rocha, Soundstrike, Donate Food, Toys To Arizona Families

The Posada will feature food giveaways to migrant families and toys for the childrenFor those who have kvetched about the boycott of Arizona over SB 1070, here's an interesting riposte: Zack de la Rocha's musicians-boycott, Soundstrike, along with other groups such as Puente, the National Day Labore ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Sued By Sal Reza, and JJ Hensley's Love Affair with the MCSO

Sal Reza and lawyer Stephen Montoya, takin' Sheriff Joe to court Phoenix civil rights activist Salvador Reza filed suit two days ago in federal court against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and several high-ranking Arpaio henchmen over Reza's false arrest on July 30 by a pack of MCSO ... More >>

August 2 In Blogs: Tent City, Lady Gaga, Warren G, Nobuo Fukuda, and Assassins

​​​In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries:

JOE ARPAIO POLICE STATE: Video of Sal Reza's False Arrest

Is this America, or is this a Third World dictatorship? You decide.Puente has posted this new video of Phoenix civil rights leader Sal Reza's arrest Friday. Literally, it looks like something out of a film by Costa-Gavras. The sort of thing that happens in Third World dictatorships. That is, a polit ... More >>

SB 1070 Rage: Salvador Reza, Alfredo Gutierrez, Scores of Others Arrested in Phoenix

Rubin Lucio and the Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray being arrested at Fourth Avenue Jail today Phoenix exploded today in a fit of anti-SB 1070 rage that only a summer rain seems to have dampened for the moment. Scores of activists including Phoenix civil rights leader Salvador Reza of the organization Pue ... More >>

Anti-SB 1070 Protests Announced for All Arizona

Statewide anti-SB 1070 protests begin this week A coalition of activist groups including Somos America, Sal Reza's Puente Movement, and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network has just announced that tomorrow they'll be detailing a series of anti-SB 1070 protests and actions that will be o ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Could Be Booted from Pricey Wells Fargo Pad by 2011

They're evictin' me, ma! Sniff. Is hobo row next?For those of you who've been wondering whatever happened to those plans to kick Sheriff Joe Arpaio out of his pricey executive suites in downtown Phoenix's Wells Fargo building, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors has a plan to get Arpaio into a ... More >>

Barack Obama's Bald-Faced Hypocrisy on Immigration, and the Puente Crew Protests Eric Holder Monday Morning

Start raising hell and keep raising hell, because otherwise Obama won't do diddlyToday, President Barack Obama buffaloed tens of thousands of activists demanding immigration reform in Washington, D.C., appearing via video on jumbo screens, and telling the masses, according to the New York Times that ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, March 18, 2010

Arizona's Down on Brown and Suffering Economically; Plus, Tohono O'odham Chairman Ned Norris Finally Gets in Touch

No Room for Arpaio at the Wells Fargo Inn; and a Hispanic Homemaker Bears Witness Against ICE and the MCSO

January 8 In Blogs: Sal Reza, Lady Gaga, Rachel Wood, and Avatar

​In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Feathered Bastard: J.T. Ready, Sal Reza, and a Horde of Racist Tea Party Tards in Big Noise Films' White Pow ... More >>

J.T. Ready, Sal Reza, and a Horde of Racist Tea Party Tards in Big Noise Films' White Power U.S.A.

I met Big Noise filmmakers Richard Rowley and Jacquie Soohen while they were in town to cover the National Socialist Movement march on the Arizona state Capitol in November. Though the duo live in New York, they fly all over the world, from Afghanistan and Iraq to Mexico and Ecuador producing docume ... More >>

Nativist Violence: "Angry Jim" and the Hatred and Bigotry He Represents

Why do local nativists feel emboldened and increasingly willing to express themselves violently? Well, it's no coincidence that most local nativists are rabid supporters of Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Arpaio's tactics and rhetoric play to the nativists. He green-lights their hatred of Mexican immigrants, an ... More >>

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

Nativists Harass Applebee's Over Macehualli Fundraiser, Fail Miserably

One of the nativist geezers outside Applebee's yesterdayThe nativists talked a big game on the United for a Sovereign America Web site, calling for a protest of two Applebee's restaurants in Phoenix that were participating in a fundraiser for Sal Reza's Macehualli Work Center. But other than harassi ... More >>

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 >>

The Kids Put Joe Arpaio on Blast: Video of Friday's Children's Walk to Wells Fargo

Above is Phoenix pro-immigration activist Dennis Gilman's video of this past Friday's successful Children's Walk for Family Unity, organized by Sal Reza's organization Puente. Despite the fake outrage over the demonstration from radio lunkheads like Mac and Gaydos on local wing-nut stati ... More >>

Rage Against the Machine's Zack de la Rocha Rocks Tonatierra (video added of Zack singing People of the Sun)

THIS JUST ADDED: Zack doing a kick-ass version of "People of the Sun" at Tonatierra. Sal Reza (left) and Zack de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine, ready for battle.The closest thing to compare it to that I can think of, is that famous footage in the documentary Don't Look Back of a young Bo ... More >>

Huffington Post, Amy Goodman Cover Joe Arpaio's Misdeeds; and Don't Forget, Desert Politics is Back on 1190 AM Tomorrow

photo by Adolfo Maldonado and Dennis Gilman.The classic Arpaio snarl, patented in 25 countries, including the Emirate of Kuwait ...Both the Huffington Post's Dawn Teo and Amy Goodman of Democracy Now have produced long pieces in the past week covering Joe Arpaio's recent outrages against those with ... More >>

Video of Joe Arpaio's 200 Mexican March, Footage of a Redneck Riot, and KPHO's Piece on the Posse's Big Lie

A video of Joe's medieval Mexican march from the organization Puente. Two timely videos have made their way to me. The first is from Sal Reza's organization Puente, and documents Joe Arpaio's racist 200 Mexican March last week segregating undocumented and mostly Mexican inmates from Tent City's  ... More >>

“Baby Man” William Windsor Found Dead in Home

Joe Arpaio Goes Medieval, While Barack Obama's America is a Million Miles Away

Welcome to the 14th century... We live in two Americas: Joe Arpaio's medieval Maricopa County, where barbarism reigns, and our corrupt top cop parades hundreds of Hispanics through the streets in chains, like captives taken in some feudal conflict from faded memory. And then there's Barack Oba ... More >>

Redneck Riot: Nativists Terrorize Macehualli's 6th Anniversary Celebration

photo by Dennis GilmanWhat separates these guys from Klan members circa 1950? Hoods, maybe?It was a beautiful celebration of the 6th Anniversary of the Macehualli Work Center in North Phoenix, with music, carne asada, Native American dancing and rituals, and children playing in the confines of the o ... More >>

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

New York Times Blogs Video of Kids Traumatized by MCSO; and I'm Blocked from Latest Arpaio Presser

"Frankie the Snitch" groveling before the Board of Supervisors in September. I had a funny feeling the MCSO might block yours truly if I headed down to the love-in between Guadalupe Mayor Frankie Montiel and Joe Arpaio today at the Wells Fargo Building, where Joe has his high-rent offices. But ... More >>

Forecast for the Feathered Bastard, and Free Speech Radio News Covers the Wells Fargo Siege.

Joe Arpaio Visits the Wells Fargo Protesters, Suffers a Senior Moment.

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

The Rep's Screwy Coverage of the Supes, and Sal Reza's Army of Anti-Arpaio Activists at Wells Fargo

Week Three of the Siege of Wells Fargo, and Dennis Gilman's Latest Video.

MCSO's missing press release, and the siege of the Wells Fargo bank building.

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