SREK’s work, for instance, would look impressive on the side of a light rail car.Keith Haring. Jean-Michel Basquiat. The creators of Arizona’s petroglyphs. What do they all have in common? They were all practitioners of graffiti. Indeed, graffiti is the oldest art form known to man. The earliest found examples…

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…

Ever wanna see someone get arrested for clapping? Well, here you go. As a community service, I give you your government in action, folks: the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors allowing sheriff’s deputies to arbitrarily arrest people for applauding at a public meeting. Tell you the truth, after watching this…

Let’s just hope the MCSO never has to help protect President-elect Obama. By now, many of you have already read about our corrupt top constable Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s flipping the verbal bird to President-elect Barack Obama and his soon-to-be U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. Concerning his ethnic profiling sweeps and raids, Arpaio…

The four activists arrested by the MCSO Wednesday for applauding: from left, Jason Odhner, Kristy Theilen, Monica Sandschafer, and Joel Nelson.After spending about 12 hours in jail, four members of ACORN and MCSA (Maricopa Citizens for Safety and Accountability) who had been arrested for applauding during a public Board of…

While the rest of the civilized world is preparing for Christmas, here in Maricopa County, the Board of Supervisors is in complete meltdown, and members of the public are being arrested for applauding. I kid you not. Following on the heels of Monday’s arrest of several women in a peaceful demonstration by MCSA…

Sorry, ICE, but it’s time for you to go…Let me be the first to propose a total moratorium on all ICE activities, as preparation for the agency’s ultimate demise. Why? The explanation is simple. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has itself become an outlaw organization, one responsible for significant violations…

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…

Is it just me, or is MacEachern looking more and more like the old dood from Family Guy these days?Here’s a big surprise, the Republic’s lead curmudgeon Doug “Mossback” MacEachern doesn’t like it that the New York Times recently labeled Cactus Country a “State of Fear,” due to our loss…

Obviously, Sen. Larry Craig’s private preferences did not make him a friend to the GLBT community.  Regarding Arizona Governor and soon-to-be Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, some in the gay community seem outright delusional when it comes to her appointment. I wonder if they secretly think that because many consider…

Just a few of the undercover deputies used on “Smile…You’re Under Arrest!”L.A. publicists are wonderful folks. As I blogged a while back, a PR flack for the firm 5W PR contacted me in November and hooked me up with an interview with The Dirty’s Nik Richie, a.k.a., Hooman Karamian, a.k.a.,…

FIRE’s video of its December 4 “ICE raid.”Check the graphic at the end. FIRE melts ICE, get it? Well, here’s a man bites dog story, if there ever was one. Seems that on December 4, several orange jumpsuit-clad members of FIRE, which stands for “Flagstaff Immigrant Rights Enforcement,” delivered a…

Roy Warden addresses the troops, all six of ’em…I confess, I’m drawn to the deep and abiding weirdness of the nativist movement for the same reason I watch televangelists, bird-dog neo-Nazis, and listen to on-air wackjobs like Michael Savage or Glenn Beck. Freaks are fascinating, let’s be honest. Or, to…

What did Blago get from Obama? Not even a cigar after the show…It’s a tad late here at New Times’ offices, but I want you to read the following excerpts from the federal criminal complaint filed against Illinois Governor and Serbian-American wild-man Rod Blagojevich. This, of course, regards Blago’s alleged…

Ipso schmucko can’t fathom why the hoi polloi hate the photo enforcement cameras.The Arizona Republic’s smug, smarmy scribbler E.J. Montini is clueless (yet, again) as to why so many of the Republic’s online readers are so pissed off by the Department of Public Safety’s photo enforcement cameras. You can almost…

It loves the Napster a little too much…The New York Times has one thing correct. Once Janet Napolitano has boarded her flight for D.C., Hispanics in Arizona are right to be fearful of a ramped-up, czarist Russian-style pogrom, with little concern for their civil rights, be they citizens or non-citizens. In…

Embedded video from CNN VideoArpaio defending Nappy on Rick Sanchez’s CNN broadcast. Why won’t the Napster go on CNN anchor Rick Sanchez’s afternoon show? Following President elect Barack Obama’s pick of Arizona Governor Napolitano to be his administration’s Homeland Security czar, Sanchez has repeatedly invited Nappy to be on his show…

Right off the bat, I have to say that in this video Travis Munroe Townsend, 26, the alleged attacker of a Glendale photo enforcement camera (and, if guilty, an American hero, in my opinion), doesn’t look a thing like the photo of him released yesterday by DPS. In that pic,…

What will it take before the pro-immigrant crowd starts a real campaign to stop this woman? Hispanic leaders in Arizona and elsewhere need to start raising hell over the nomination of border hawk Janet Napolitano to be Obama’s Secretary of Homeland Security. And I don’t just mean giving the occasional…

Roy Warden: Este pendejo, indeed…Anti-immigrant nutjob and Mexican flag-burner Roy Warden’s coming to town Wednesday, December 10 for a “rally” to “impeach” Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice Ruth McGregor. Well, supposedly. According to e-mails the wacky Warden’s sent out to the state Supreme Court and others, Warden’s been inspired by…