Salvador Reza

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 >>

SB 1070-Influenced Operations Order Leads to Alleged Racial Profiling Incident by Phoenix PD

No doubt you've heard of driving-while-brown, particularly regarding Arizona's infamous ethnic cleansing law Senate Bill 1070. Well, if you're Hispanic and plan to continue living in this state, get ready for running-out-of-gas-while-brown, walking-to-the-7-11-while-brown, picking-up-your-kids-from- ... More >>

Russell Pearce Claims "Absolute Legislative Immunity" in False Arrest of Sal Reza

Humiliated 12-point loser and ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce figures the rules don't apply to him. That's been a life-long pattern, from the shenanigans that got him fired from his post as head of the Arizona Department of Motor Vehicles to the sham candidacy of Olivia Cortes in last ... More >>

Salvador Reza, Anayanse Garza Allege Abuse During Arrest at State Capitol

Reza at today's press conferenceThe Arizona police state rolls on. Today, outside the Arizona state Capitol, human rights activists Salvador Reza and Anayanse Garza of the group Puente held a press conference with their lawyers. This, following their arrests the day before in the state Senate buildi ... More >>

Salvador Reza Arrested at Arizona State Senate

Reza, in a picture from his false arrest last year by the sheriff's officeWelcome to Muammar Gaddafi's Lybia. Details are sketchy, but civil rights activists Salvador Reza and Anayanse Garza of the group Puente were arrested inside the Arizona state Senate building today, apparently for the bogus c ... 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 >>

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 >>

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Joe Arpaio, Salvador Reza, and Fox 10's Miriam Garcia

Reza in court after his false arrest and imprisonment on July 30 I recently obtained paperwork related to the MCSO's July 30 arrest of Phoenix civil rights leader Salvador Reza. The file is chock full of absurd, asinine attempts by the sheriff's office to deflect criticism ... More >>

Phoenix Turns Into a Hurricane of Civil Disobedience After SB 1070 Smack-Down, and the MCSO's Police State Tactics on Parade

New York Times Criticizes Salvador Reza's False Arrest

Reza's false arrest: Not big enough for the Republic?Though the false collar of Phoenix's best known civil rights leader by a goon squad of sheriff's deputies has rated only begrudging coverage in the Arizona Republic, the New York Times evidently thinks the incident significant enough to condemn.In ... More >>

Joe Arpaio vs. Salvador Reza: MCSO's Probable Cause Statement Indicates, Um, No Probable Cause

The MCSO's pathetic "probable cause" statement in Reza's wrongful arrestYesterday, I obtained the "probable cause statement" in the false arrest of Phoenix civil rights leader Salvador Reza -- a summary both the county prosecutor and night court Commissioner Julia Lopez reviewed early Saturday ... More >>

Maricopa County Attorney to Drop Charges Against Salvador Reza; Charges Against Other Protesters Going Forward

Salvador Reza being hauled off to jail by MCSO deputies last Friday. ​As far as we can tell, the crime " being Latino on a Friday afternoon" isn't on the official books in Maricopa County. Nor is "activist on a Friday afternoon," or "enemy-of-Joe-Arpaio on a Friday afternoon."That did ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Worst Nightmare: Salvador Reza Triumphant

Sheriff Joe's bully boys in beige targeted him for a political arrest on Friday, July 30, but now Phoenix civil rights leader Salvador Reza is sitting pretty, with even Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley agreeing that there was no probable cause for his arrest by the MCSO. Reza has Arpaio on ... More >>

Joe Arpaio, Salvador Reza Go Toe-To-Toe, in Fourth Avenue Jail

Salvador Reza, with an admirer, outside Fourth Avenue Jail Thursday nightA cluster of supporters were there to meet Phoenix civil rights leader Salvador Reza when he stepped out of the Fourth Avenue Jail around 10:30 or so Thursday night.The 58 year-old veteran activist, who heads up the pro-immigra ... More >>

July 30 In Blogs: SB 1070, Steam Crow, Jugheads, Arizona Stronghold, and Jan Brewer

​​​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's Goons Grab Salvador Reza Off the Street and Arrest Him, Again

A photo of Reza being taken away in a van, sent to me by a Reza supporter Like you needed more evidence of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's police state tactics, civil rights leader Salvador Reza of the group Puente was arrested this afternoon by a contingent of MCSO goons, apparently on Ar ... 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 >>

Salvador Reza Discusses Joe Arpaio on GRITtv, and Dennis Gilman's Video on Nazis in Arizona

Dennis Gilman's outdone himself yet again in his latest video, this time focusing on the November neo-Nazi march to the state Capitol, and the links between the Nazis and the nativists. It's a creepy, almost apocalyptic vision of Arizona dominated by racist politicians such as state Senator Russell ... More >>

Transgender Nativists? MySpace for T-Girls and the Curious Case of Lynne Stevens

Lynne Stevens has always been one of the odder figures in the local anti-immigrant movement, mainly because she doesn't fit the profile of angry old coot, as personified by her peer, convicted public urinator Buffalo Rick Galeener. A persistent protester of Salvador Reza's Macehualli Day Labor ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Cries Wolf, Links Self to Lou Dobbs Threat, Slanders Activists

Is Sheriff Joe "America's Toughest Sheriff," or "America's Biggest Wimp"? That's what I can't help wondering as I read this latest press release from his PR staff. It lamely attempts to link the folks who protest Joe almost daily outside downtown Phoenix's Wells Fargo Building -- where Arpaio keeps ... More >>

Zack de la Rocha Returns to Phoenix January 16 to Lead National Day of Action

by Ernesto Yerena This time, they're protesting Barack The third time's the charm, and according to civil rights leader Salvador Reza of the Puente Movement, the pleasure will be ours January 16 as Rage Against the Machine/One Day as a Lion frontman Zack de la Rocha returns to the Arizona cap ... More >>

Salvador Reza Calls for Anti-Joe Arpaio March This Friday, October 16

Sal Reza: On the front lines, as always... In case you haven't noticed, Maricopa County will be coming to a boil this Friday. Not only is it the day of Arpaio's announced anti-immigrant sweep -- his first without 287(g) field authority, but the Rev. Al Sharpton will be back ... More >>

October 13 In Blogs: Lou Dobbs, Nick Cave, Lola Tapas, and Arizona Democrats

​​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: Salvador Reza Calls for Anti-Joe Arpaio March This Friday, October 16 The Anti-Lou Dobbs ... More >>

Letter to Obama Urges End to 287(g), Signed by 521 Organizations

from the White House President Obama gets whacked, but from the left this time​A just-released letter to President Barack Obama endorsed by a diverse group of 521 civil rights, legal and cultural organizations -- including the ACLU, the ADL, MALDEF, the NAACP Legal Defense Fu ... More >>

James Garcia's New Play Tears of Lives a Hit: Four More Shows Added This Weekend

​Good news for those who missed watching local playwright James Garcia's newest play: Due to overwhelming popularity, Tears of Lives will have four more shows this weekend. Ripped from the headlines of stories about recent raids and deportations, the play adds a third dimension to the much-re ... More >>

World Premier of Play "Tears of Lives" this Friday to Help Save Phoenix Day Labor Center

​Macehualli Day Labor Center Director Salvador Reza is in a pinch: Despite valiant fund raising efforts, the 6-year-old day labor center is in imminent danger of closing due to financial woes. The story could easily be the subject of local writer James Garcia's plays, so it's only appropria ... More >>

More Shawna Fordes in the Making? Violent Rhetoric and Unbalanced Actions from Phoenix Nativists

Dennis Gilman asks the timely question: Which racist nativist will pop off next? My June 22 post last week on alleged kid-killer and minutewoman Shawna Forde received a number of comments from the immigrant-bashing side of the argument accusing me of painting their prejudiced movement with too bro ... More >>

White House Delays Immigration Powwow (Again), and Why U.S. Hispanics Need to Raise Some Hell

Wanna snag the administration's attention? Borrow a page from the (peaceful) protesters in Iran. So I've just thumbed through a passel of recent White House statements and releases, looking for something about that big immigration meetup that President Barack Obama was ... More >>

The Lumley Vampire Attacks Arizona Department of Corrections’ Charles Ryan for the Death of Marcia Powell, Arpaio’s Goons Zip-Tie a 12-Year-Old, and the Jail Lockdowns Are Over

Joe Arpaio Declares End to Jail Lockdown, Admits Hunger Strike Involved 1800 Inmates

photo by Dennis Gilman A recent candlelight vigil at Arpaio's Fourth Avenue Jail in support of the hunger strikers Sheriff Joe has just declared the jail lockdowns caused by massive hunger strikes ongoing in his vast incarceration complex to be over. The MCSO issued a press release on the mat ... More >>

Hunger Strike in Joe Arpaio's Jails: 500 Reportedly Refusing to Eat Because of Bad Food

from MCSO.org Durango Jail, where some of the 500 hunger strikers are being held Phoenix civil rights activist Salvador Reza and Univision Channel 33 are reporting that there is a hunger strike on in Joe's jails, with about 500 prisoners joining in the action to protest the atrocious food ser ... 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

A Word to Joe Arpaio Foes on the Huffington Post's Cynicism

The latest video from HumanLeague002 and Puente. There is one sure way to prove the cynical, prissy pundits, the professional tut-tutters right in regards to Sheriff Joe Arpaio: Do nothing. "Do nothing" is essentially the message to the streets from Huffington Post's Dawn Teo, a former PR  ... More >>

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

The Anti-Arpaio Protests at Wells Fargo, and the Latest Dennis Gilman Video.

Evil Friday cometh: Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaks before local hate group United for a Sovereign America, posse dragnets promised for Good Friday.

Darrell Ankarlo rags on Buffalo Chip; Salvador Reza threatens to close Macehualli; Rusty Childress' ongoing hypocrisy.

A Joe Arpaio Christmas at Pruitt's: Bigotry and hate aplenty.

Roger Sensing: The Eveready jackass who just keeps on losing...

Lefty Linda Valdez disappoints; plus, wing-nut Robert Robb's neo-Nazi fans!

Self-Mutilation

AZ's new employer-sanctions law will hurt workers, employers, and the economy, in what can only be seen as a massive self-inflicted wound

Lil' Casey Newton pulls out kneepads for Mayor Phil Gordon; Santa's papers get checked at Pruitt's.

New York Times article and slideshow on Pruitt's clash in Phoenix.

The impending bloody Christmas at Pruitt's.

Collar-Crazy

The cracked cockatoo defends the ACLU’s Dan Pochoda, wings by Pruitt’s for the day-laborer donnybrook, and searches for a tranny’s package

MEXICAN STANDOFF: Joe Arpaio, Roger Sensing, and the manure (for real) at Pruitt's.

Herding People

When undocumented workers gather to wait for jobs at the city's first day-labor center, complaints about them should subside. But don't count on it.

Taco Hell

Mexican food vendors circle the wagons as community activists fume over neighborhood blight

Lost in the Translation

Top city official at center of racial controversy