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Valeria Fernandez

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    April 9, 2012

    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 >>

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    December 21, 2011

    Joe Arpaio's Expectant Mom-Shackling Earns Him Another Lawsuit

    Miriam Mendiola-Martinez, and her son angel, born Christmas week, 2009. Living in Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Maricopa County is like living in a medieval version of the movie Groundhog Day, where each morning one awakens with further reminders that we do not live in the civilized world.Two years ago, I fi ... More >>

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    July 20, 2011

    Russell Pearce's Desert Divas Connection and Chuck Coughlin's Threats

    Give and give generously, lobbyists, or feel the wrath of KhanI have to give a nod to the Arizona Republic's Mary Jo Pitzl for nabbing a little item I'd been sitting on regarding a fundraising e-mail to fellow lobbyists sent from Mike Williams of the Phoenix firm Williams & Associates. This, on ... More >>

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    July 5, 2011

    SB 1070 Shooter Gary Kelley Sentenced to 27.5 Years in White-on-Brown Slaying

    Gary Kelley: SB 1070's new poster-boy, now sentenced to 27.5 years in the state penA note to Sand Land's hillbilly gun-huggers: Beer and firearms don't mix. And they mix especially poorly with bigotry, latent or otherwise. Case in point is Gary Kelley, the South Phoenix man who gunned down his ... More >>

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    June 23, 2011

    Joe Arpaio, Help a New Documentary Put Him on Blast

    Filmmakers Valeria Fernandez and Dan DeVivo talk about Two AmericansWant to help tell the world what a sadistic, bigoted power-mad nut Sheriff Joe Arpaio is? Well, here's your chance, by ponying up the dough to help local journalists/filmmakers Valeria Fernandez and Dan DeVivo complete their documen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2011

    Joe Arpaio Laughs as a Little Girl Cries

    You remember Sheriff Joe Arpaio, our bete noir before Russell Pearce ascended to the state Senate presidency?Well, Sand Land's smarmy, strutting, pseudo-lawman takes top bill along with little Katherine Figueroa in a recently-released teaser for the documentary Two Americans, which is currently ... More >>

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    September 27, 2010

    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 >>

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    August 2, 2010

    Joe Arpaio: Tent City a "Concentration Camp"

    Kudos to Valeria Fernandez and A.J. Alexander for their work on this video You never know when Sheriff Joe is going to blurt out a bit of the truth. Case in point: This video from the crew at 90daystoPhoenix.com, part of a documentary about Arizona currently in post-production. Crusading independe ... More >>

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    June 8, 2010

    Russell Pearce Speaks Spanish with a Woman's Voice

    Phoenix journalist Valeria Fernandez has single-handedly emasculated neo-Nazi hugging state Senator Russell Pearce, and in Spanish no less.How she got Pearce to sit down for an interview for CNN en Espanol, I don't know. But listening to the best known Hispanic-bashing bigot in the state, and perhap ... More >>

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    January 7, 2010

    MCSO Shackling Pregnant Moms, and Singer Linda Ronstadt Plans to March Against Arpaio

    Phoenix journalist Valeria Fernandez has single-handedly emasculated neo-Nazi hugging state Senator Russell Pearce, and in Spanish no less.How she got Pearce to sit down for an interview for CNN en Espanol, I don't know. But listening to the best known Hispanic-bashing bigot in the state, and perhap ... More >>

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    January 15, 2009

    The Bird Dogs Joe Arpaio About Conan O’Brien and His Actions in the West Valley

    Phoenix journalist Valeria Fernandez has single-handedly emasculated neo-Nazi hugging state Senator Russell Pearce, and in Spanish no less.How she got Pearce to sit down for an interview for CNN en Espanol, I don't know. But listening to the best known Hispanic-bashing bigot in the state, and perhap ... More >>

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