The New York Times has just reported that President Barack Obama will soon announce that he’s sending 1,200 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, in what looks like an obvious election year cave to the right.The Times’ Randal Archibold writes that Obama will announce the move today following a…
The Phoenix Police Department has released its report on the May 6 fatal shooting of Juan Varela in South Phoenix, allegedly by his neighbor Gary Kelley. Some have suggested Arizona’s new “papers please” law was a motive in the killing. However, the witnesses cited in the report never mentioned SB 1070 to…
Does it matter that one of William Gheen’s Facebook buddies is a well-known Phoenix-area neo-Nazi, a neo-Nazi that likes to go out on “patrols” with wannabe stormtrooper J.T. Ready, totin’ assault rifles, searching for illegal aliens? Normally, it wouldn’t, save for the fact that Gheen’s made such a big stink…
Kweli promotes the big May 29 march in this YouTube short(Please see update below on Kweli’s new anti-SB1070 track “Papers Please.”)Brooklyn emcee Talib Kweli, one of the most respected names in hip-hop, known for his collaborations with fellow master of the mic Mos Def in Black Star, has done a…
At least six activists were cited Friday after occupying Tucson’s Border Patrol headquarters at Davis-Monthan AirForce Base in an act of civil disobedience similar to that which occurred on April 20 at the Arizona state Capitol in Phoenix, and to the sit-down strike of DREAM activists on Monday at U.S…
As much as the right-wing has fumed over Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s address to Congress yesterday, the statements right-wingers are fuming over are essentially correct.Indeed, Calderon’s address, which centered on cooperation with the U.S. and the building-up of the Mexican economy to retain migrants fleeing to America for jobs, offered…
Fascist tool (and I mean that literally): William Johnson of the white supremacist American Third PositionIf you haven’t heard of the California-based American Third Position party, or A3P as it’s otherwise referred to, consider this a heads up. The racist, white nationalist organization would like to get on the Arizona…
Channel 5/KPHO’s Morgan Loew did a segment for last night’s newscast on state Senator Russell Pearce’s plan to punish the American citizen children of undocumented parents, by making it illegal to accept or issue the birth certificate of such a child, unless one parent is a citizen.In fact, Pearce’s plans…
Rush wants a civil war? Hey, bring it, sandbillies.Waistline-challenged ex-OxyContin addict Rush “Do As I Say, Not As I Do” Limbaugh seems to think America is ripe for another civil war over Arizona’s “papers please” law SB 1070. And he reckons it’ll begin on the border of Arizona and California.Speaking…
And a little child shall lead them…In case you missed it, the video above is of First Lady Michelle Obama, accompanied by Mexico’s First Lady Margarita Zavala, visiting with a group of Maryland second graders on Wednesday. One kid asked if it was true what her mommy says that Barack…
The North Carolina-based nativist group ALIPAC (Americans for Legal Immigration PAC) is pulling out of a planned June 5 anti-immigration/pro-SB1070 rally at the Arizona state Capitol over what it claims are the white supremacist ties of one of the event’s organizers.ALIPAC head honcho William Gheen blasted “Phoenix Rising” event planner Dan…
Three undocumented DREAM activists who had been arrested Monday on second degree trespassing charges after staging a sit-in at U.S. Senator John McCain’s Tucson office were released last night from ICE custody, according to ICE spokesman Vinne Picard.Picard said the three activists were issued notices to appear in their immigration…
Finally, a way to get rid of Maricopa County’s geriatric gendarme Sheriff Joe, and he doesn’t even have to get indicted by the feds! Though that would still be pretty sweet.In a message to Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon publicized today, La-la Land Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa says the City of Angels will…
Several months before signing SB 1070, Governor Jan Brewer accepted hundreds of dollars in “seed money” for her clean elections campaign from corporate executives and others with a possible stake in Arizona’s “papers please” legislation becoming law.In all, seven executives with the Tennessee-based private prisons giant Corrections Corporation of America…
Note to readers: Please see updates and video below.The Arizona Daily Star is reporting that four young pro-immigration demonstrators, three of them undocumented, were arrested during a protest at U.S. Senator John McCain’s Tucson office today. The Star reports that five students showed up at the office in support of…
As it had announced it would do last week, the ACLU along with several other groups filed suit in federal court today, seeking to have Arizona’s “papers please” legislation enjoined before it’s scheduled to take effect by the end of July.”SB 1070 is unconstitutional,” asserts the complaint. “It violates the…
Is Lakers head coach Phil Jackson — generally known for his lefty ways — a nativist as well?That’s the only conclusion one can draw from his recent statements to ESPN in support of SB 1070, a law sponsored by neo-Nazi hugging Mexican-hater, state Senator Russell Pearce.In speaking with ESPN’s J.A…
In an effort to un-muddle the debate around SB 1070, Dan Nowicki’s article in this Sunday’s Arizona Republic further muddles it when he quotes the law’s author, nativist attorney Kris Kobach, in a section titled “papers, please.”Kobach — the guy being paid $300 per hour to tutor Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s boys…
In a media event that lasted less than 20 minutes, before a crowd of red-shirted Brewer-for-Governor supporters at the Marriott Desert Ridge in north Phoenix, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin stood with Arizona Governor Jan Brewer as part of a propaganda effort to counter the tsunami of criticism over Arizona’s…
Sarah Palin will be in Phoenix Saturday at the Marriott Desert Ridge, joining her fellow Republican, Governor Jan Brewer in an event billed at launching a “national effort and Web site to educate America on border security and encourage support for Arizona.”In other words, Brewer’s hoping Caribou Barbie can do…
Cuban-American rapper Armando “Pitbull” Perez is taking a bite out of Arizona over the state’s “papers please” legislation by canceling a stop in Phoenix at the Celebrity Theatre as part of his “Mr. Worldwide’s Carnival” tour.The popular rapper, perhaps best known for the joint “Culo,” which partnered him with rap…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office released records to New Times that seem to contradict our notion that the SCA fishing trip in Alaska may have been funded by the county. To the office’s credit, the taxpayer-funded trip to Alaska taken by Sheriff’s Office personnel in late October to early November 2006…
