Democratic Diva’s Donna Gratehouse went in search of big companies being represented out at the pro-SB 1070 “buycott” at Tempe’s Diablo Stadium this Saturday. Know how many she found? Zip. Zilch. Zero.Well, Tempe’s Xtreme Bean Coffee was there. (Hardly a biggie.) But otherwise, it was just vendors selling buttons, flags,…
I mentioned in my roundup of Saturday’s big anti-SB 1070 march that local neo-Nazi Harry Hughes attended the pro-SB 1070 “buycott” rally at Tempe’s Diablo Stadium later that same say. Along for the ride was at least one other local neo-Nazi, Scott Hume.I’ve been getting e-mails aplenty about how white…
Despite threats of disruption from extremist elements, Saturday’s anti-SB 1070 demonstration produced a diverse, spirited crowd of anywhere from 30,000 to 100,000 that walked some five miles to the Arizona state Capitol without incident.The Phoenix PD made no arrests, and there was no clash between anarchists and cops, as there was…
Arizona Republic opinion writer Robert Robb just got the shellacking of his existence by our own Emil Pulsifer, a frequent commenter on this blog.Robb recently penned a column called, “A proposal for immigration reform light,” to which Pulsifer has written an extensive rebuttal. It’s so good, I’m publishing the entire thing here,…
How will “America’s Toughest Sheriff” respond to four undocumented students who will attempt to confront the geezer gendarme this coming Tuesday morning, by essentially daring the sheriff to arrest them?So far Arpaio’s playing possum with the Dream Walkers, a crew of undocumented college students who’ve been heralded in the media…
View more news videos at: http://www.nbcchicago.com/video.If Sand Landers want a preview of how SB 1070 will play out on the street once it goes into effect at the end of July, they should look north to the Windy City.There, a Puerto Rican man was threatened with deportation by ICE agents…
Has Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard gone nativist on us, or is he just playing politics with Arizona’s new “papers please” immigration law?Goddard just announced that he’d had in-person meetings with law dogs from U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s Justice Department and told them that if the feds seek to…
Could the May 29 anti-SB 1070 march be heading for disruption by some anonymous, underground group of pseudo-revolutionaries?That’s the concern raised by a flier circulating in town that shows a group of masked individuals, one of whom is holding a rifle.The flier decries SB 1070 and Arizona’s ban on ethnic…
In an interview with George Stephanopoulos for ABC’s Good Morning America, former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor said that her native Arizona has to “put a good step forward to show that Arizona is not as a whole, a biased state.”An excerpt from the interview’s transcript is given below.She…
In a hilarious spoof of Cops sure to redden the face of every cracker nativist in Sand Land and beyond, L.A.’s “Josh on the street” skewers Arizona’s “papers please” law by flippin’ the script on white folks and asking them for their documentation to be on what was originally Native…
In case you hadn’t heard, SB 1070 will be protested on Saturday, May 29 with a massive march to the Arizona state Capitol from Phoenix’s Steele Indian School Park. Things kick off with a rally, speeches and performances beginning at 8 a.m., then the march will begin from 3rd Street and…
At a meeting this morning, county supervisors voted unanimously to curtail Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s access to county credit cards — putting a $200 per-purchase limit on cards issued to the Sheriff’s Office after the sheriff refused to cooperate with a routine audit.But, at the meeting, County Manager David…
Everyone gets a piece of hand sandwich in Dennis Gilman’s new YouTube video on the hypocrisy of our political leaders over SB 1070 and the plight of the 12 million undocumented in this country.This time Gilman spares no one on the left or the right. Everyone from John McCain and…
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…
