Salvador Reza

County Attorney Bill Montgomery's Endorsement Rejected by Pastor Warren Stewart in District 8 Phoenix City Council Race

Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery apparently either was asked for his endorsement or offered it -- depending on whom you ask -- to Pastor Warren Stewart's District 8 campaign. We asked Stewart's campaign, and we didn't get a straight answer at first, other than getting informed that Stewart ... More >>

Russell Pearce Can't Shake His Ties to Neo-Nazi J.T. Ready

Arpaio Corruption: The Feds Have Spoken, But Justice Won't Be Served Until the Sheriff's Indicted

Manu Chao in Arizona, 9/21/11

Photo by Anthony Sandoval​ Manu Chao The Lot Across From El Portal Restaurant Wednesday, September 21, 2011 Last night's Manu Chao appearance ended up being more than just a free concert on an empty parking lot across the street from a Mexican restaurant. I mean, those were definitely the bas ... More >>

Sheriff Joe Arpaio Faces New Lawsuits Over Last Year's Arrest of Demonstrators at Jail; One Protester Claims He was Beaten by Guards

Image: Democracy NowSunita Patel says in a federal complaint that she was acting as a legal observer when sheriff's deputies arrested her during a protest last year at the 4th Avenue Jail.​Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is being sued again -- this time by four immigration activists arrested la ... More >>

Under Mark Spencer's Leadership, the Phoenix Police Union Has Become an Anti-Immigrant Juggernaut, to the Detriment of Its Members

The Big Four, Railroad Revival Tour, A Year of Resistance Against SB 1070, and the San Tan Wheelie Jam Over the Weekend

​Railroad Revival Tour in Tempe There might be no grouping of more high-spirited entertainers than the three groups that took the stage yesterday evening in Tempe. Throughout the night, each band invited members of other bands to join them for collaborations for a few songs. Marcus Mumford wa ... More >>

Cornel West Addresses Hundreds of Pinkos and Hippies at Anti-SB1070 Rally in Phoenix

Elaine MulliganPrinceton professor and lauded lefty author Cornel West brings the funk to North High School on Saturday, October 2.​We're not the only ones to have noticed that progressives, Democrats, and their ilk don't currently have a central charismatic leader whose every utterance is sociopo ... More >>

Alex Rivera, Director of Sleep Dealer, Talks Sci-Fi, Immigration, and Robot Doctors Controlled from India

Filmmaker Alex Rivera at Fair Trade Cafe: He'll be at a screening for his film Sleep Dealer in Tempe Saturday night For anyone interested in immigration, sci-fi or both, director Alex Rivera's debut feature Sleep Dealer is a must see, a futuristic and at times Blade Runner-ish trek through a w ... More >>

Sleep Dealer Director Alex Rivera To Appear in Tempe for Fundraiser Screening

The film Sleep Dealer, showing Saturday at Madcap Theaters in a benefit for Puente/TonatierraThe future might look something like director Alex Rivera's dystopian sci-fi flick Sleep Dealer if the nativists get their way. In it, an impenetrable wall guards the southern border, and workers on the Mexi ... 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 >>

Rage Against the Machine, Conor Oberst To Headline Anti-SB 1070 Concert

Zack de la Rocha, back when all we had to worry about was ArpaioTrue to its June 29th promise, the Zack de la Rocha-led, anti-SB 1070 musicians' movement Sound Strike has announced a benefit concert for Friday, July 23 at the Hollywood Palladium to benefit organizations fighting SB 1070 on the groun ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Indictment Called for by Mary Rose Wilcox in New Video, and Puente's Protest of Eric Holder

Video of Mary Rose Wilcox in D.C. by videographer Dennis GilmanTelling the crowd at the big immigration rally on Sunday in Washington, D.C. that Sheriff Joe runs Maricopa County like a "police state," county Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox urged listeners to call the U.S. Department of Justice and tell ... More >>

Scuffles Between "Anarchists" and Cops, and The Use of Pepper Spray, Mar Today's Anti-Arpaio March

California videographer Naui's footage from the pepper spray incidentI am so disgusted by today's events at the big anti-Arpaio march to Joe's jails that I hardly know where to begin. The saddest part of it is that a mostly-peaceful demonstration of over 10,000 persons, which ended with a concert by ... More >>

Nativists Go Nuts at a Phoenix Walmart, and the Arizona Republic Belittles the U.S. Attorney’s Investigation of Sheriff Joe Arpaio

Deputies Raid Chicanos Por La Causa Building, Take Boxes of Papers Out; Protest Sought by Activists

Deputies are taking boxes of files from the Chicanos Por La Causa buildings at 11th Street and Buckeye Road as the group's supporters prepare for a possible anti-Sheriff-Joe-Arpaio demonstration. (See update below -- a demonstration is now looking less likely). A regional conference of Chicanos Por ... More >>

A Skinhead-Collaring Cop, Nazis at the State Capitol, and a Lesbian Nativist Reveals Homicidal Fantasies Toward Mexicans

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 >>

Easley's Fun Shop Sells Out of Illegal Alien Costume. Is the Costume Racist? Nah.

From a 2008 anti-Arpaio demo: This alien is definitely pro-immigration I dialed up the venerable Phoenix costume and party supply store Easley's Costumes and Fun Shop to see if they had one of the illegal alien outfits currently causing a stir, and if anyone was raising Cain about it. I spoke ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's 287(g) Stalled: Board of Supervisors Says It'll Sign After Feds Sign

courtesy of Dennis Gilman/HumanLeague002 Supervisor Don Stapley, who backed Wilcox's move to table the sheriff's new MOA today The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors passed the buck back to the feds on Sheriff Joe's new 287(g) jails agreement this morning, authorizing Supes Chair Max Wilson ... More >>

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 >>

Sheriff Joe’s Got Arizona ACORN in his Crosshairs, Plus a Black Cowboy from Tucson’s Got a Rap for Our Loony Lawman

Joe Arpaio, Paul Chagolla and the Veil of Fear in The Tears of Lives

courtesy of Salvador Reza Andrew Valenzuela (standing) as Captain Montoya, with Masavi Perea as jornalero Regino Ortega I don't know if playwright James Garcia modeled the character Captain Montoya from his new play The Tears of Lives on Deputy Chief Paul Chagolla of the Maricopa County Sheri ... More >>

Phoenix's "Elements of Hate" Panel Discussion, What Was Good and What Was Missing

www.PhotosByJoseMunoz.com Wednesday's Elements of Hate panel discussion​Mayor Phil Gordon is to be congratulated for the Elements of Hate panel discussion his office organized, which took place Wednesday at the newly-renovated AE England Building at Civic Space Park in Downtown Phoenix. The ... More >>

Phoenix Law Enforcement Association Prez Mark Spencer’s Latest Outrage, and Arpaio Surreptitiously Tapes the Feds During Latest Sweep

Bill Maher Interview of Janet Napolitano Focus of Demo by Immigration Activists

from Maher's Facebook profile Maybe the immigrant rights crowd can "help" Bill question Janet...  The National Day Laborer Organizing Network has announced a demonstration outside the studios where Bill Maher will be interviewing Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano for Friday's ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Confronted by Channel 5 Over Video of Crying Child Robbed of Her Parents by MCSO

Katherine Figueroa weeps, and all Joe can think about is himself KPHO Channel 5 has picked up on the story of Katherine Figueroa, the nine year-old girl robbed of her parents by the MCSO during its raid on Phoenix's Lindstrom Family Auto Wash last Saturday. Her tearful testimony pleading ... More >>

Neo-Nazis and Extreme Right-Wingers Love Joe Arpaio, and There’s Evidence that the MCSO Keeps Them Close

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

First Friday, Zack de la Rocha, Back Ted N-Ted and Dogfish Head Beer Over the Weekend

First Friday in Photos Local music was the focus of First Friday on May 1, 2009. Back Ted N-Ted hit up Roosevelt Row for an outside gig, while local favs What Laura Says, and Dry River Yacht Club battled it out for band supremacy at Phoenix Art Museum. See more shots in our First Friday slide show ... More >>

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 >>

Arpaio and the 287(g) Hearings, Direct from D.C.

U.S. House 287(g) Hearings: Judiciary Committee Chairman Says in Opening Remarks That "Immigrant Bashing" is a "Pretty Popular Sport" in Some Places

Things are just getting under way here in Room 2141 of the Rayburn House Office Building for the House Judiciary Committe's 287(g) hearings. There's a packed house, with plenty of representation from Arizona, including Mesa Police Chief George Gascon, civil rights activist Salvador Reza, and la ... More >>

Who's Afraid of Joe Arpaio? The House Judiciary Committee, Claim Some

from Congressman Conyers' Web siteHouse Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers...Several credible sources in the pro-immigrant activist community have informed me that they believe the House Judiciary Committee is afraid of taking on Sheriff Joe Arpaio directly, and is wary of having him become t ... More >>

New York Times, Huffington Post Weigh in on Anti-Arpaio March

Proving once more that the anti-Arpaio march that went down this weekend in Phoenix has, um, legs, both the Huffington Post and the New York Times editorial board have put their respective two cents in on the Zack de la Rocha-led anti-Arpaio protest. The Huffington Post had a two-wom ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

The relentless raptor sinks his beak into the tyranny of Sheriff Joe Arpaio and County Attorney Andrew Thomas

Columbus D-Day: Activists crash Joe Arpaio fete at Italian Club; Joe and Andy Thomas hang with redneck bikers.

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

The Bird covers the waterfront on Sheriff Arpaio’s racial profiling patrols and demands freedom for First Friday bohos

The Battle of Bell Road: Hundreds protest Sheriff Joe Arpaio's anti-immigrant dragnets.

The Bird praises L. Ron Hubbard, skewers a bladder-challenged bigot and offers a warning to the Big Cactus

AZ neo-Nazi icon Elton Hall hit by vehicle while protesting Salvador Reza's day-labor center.

The Bird wonders just what Joe Arpaio's top dog is doing down in Honduras

Sheriff Arpaio unleashes posse on illegals; Depends stock skyrockets.

Another neo-Nazi in the nativist woodpile: "Scott Hume," alias "Shawn Hughes."

Weekend Roundup: Nativist Elvis Presley rocks Paradise Valley Mall; Anderson's becomes Tranderson's....

ACLU legal director Dan Pochoda popped by Sheriff's deputies; Pochoda says there was, "No reason for arrest."