I’ve discovered the true identity of the neo-Nazi who posed for a pic with Sheriff Joe Arpaio on May 2, which he then posted on Stormfront.org. His name is Thomas Vito Coletto, birth date 8/23/1989. And he has a record. Specifically, He was arrested back in 2007 and later indicted…
Following up on yesterday’s blog item about the hunger strike in Joe’s jails, I spoke with Maricopa County Board of Supervisors spokesman Richard DeUriarte this afternoon, and he confirmed that a massive hunger strike did take place yesterday in MCSO’s Durango Jail. DeUriarte said that on Cinco de Mayo, 500…
Joe brags about the $1.6 million, and threatens BOS Chairman Max Wilson Here are two YouTube videos that’ve made their way to me, covering Joe Arpaio’s recent appearance before the College Republicans at ASU West. The first was shot by someone using their cell phone camera, so the quality is…
Phoenix civil rights activist Salvador Reza and Univision Channel 33 are reporting that there is a hunger strike on in Joe’s jails, with about 500 prisoners joining in the action to protest the atrocious food served in Arpaio’s incarceration complex. Reza, who led a march of thousands on Joe’s jails…
As mentioned in a previous blog post, at Saturday’s Walk for Respect to Joe Arpaio’s Tent City, I spoke with neo-Nazis J.T. Ready and “Vito Lombardi,” both of whom were throwing up the sieg heil sign as they verbally attacked the marchers passing by on Durango Street. They told me…
Here we go again. With the announced retirement of Supreme Court Justice David Souter, the buzz is that the White House wants to pick a non-judge female to become one of the nine. So of course this means some analysts with nothing but time on their mitts are suggesting that…
Zack de la Rocha at the anti-Arpaio rally Saturday in front of Tent City — footage by Dennis Gilman If you only read the coverage of Saturday’s anti-Arpaio march in Phoenix’s paper of record, and/or watched it on our local news channels, you wouldn’t know that neo-Nazis were present in…
Before 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 organizer Salvador Reza from taking on Arpaio in such a bold, uncompromising way. They feared violence. They…
Apologies for leading with my stomach (something I do in real life, physically), but the mole sauce at Garibaldi’s Real Mexican Grill — the site of a fundraiser Friday night for the Macehualli Day Labor Center — played like a tejano band in my mouth and made me long for my…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio is officially freaking out over the May 2 anti-Arpaio Walk for Respect, which will begin at 9 a.m. tomorrow at the Wells Fargo building downtown (100 West Washington Street) and continue on to Estrella Jail, site of a litany of abuses against female inmates. A press release…
Joe Arpaio has always bragged that he wants the feds to “come on down,” like in The Price Is Right. This week, they’re taking him up on his offer. One of the news outlets Joe loves to leak stuff to, aka the Arizona Republic, just posted a little ditty on its…
Gilman’s latest, which takes apart certain sheriff ‘s deputies’ statements one-by-one This latest mini-doc from Dennis Gilman supporting the May 2 Walk for Dignity is a doozy. In it, Gilman contrasts the inflammatory statements that certain sheriff’s duputies made during a recent MCSO press conference to news footage of Joe’s…
What do you get when Shepard Fairey, creator of the iconic Obama “Hope” poster and the artist behind the “Obey Giant” phenom, puts his noggin together with those of Rage Against the Machine/One Day as a Lion frontman Zack de la Rocha and L.A. artist Ernesto Yerena? You get some…
Where the right-wing meets the sick and surreal. That’s my succinct definition of Arizona. Every day in this state, one’s faith in humanity is challenged when it comes to the subject of immigration. I half expect to awake each morn and find Russell Pearce’s recipe for parboiled immigrant infant in…
Zack talks about Arpaio and 287(g) with artist Ernesto Yerena I’ll give you two reasons why demonstrators will be marching May 2 in Phoenix from the Wells Fargo building downtown — where Sheriff Arpaio maintains two floors of pricey executive offices — to Joe’s Estrella Jail, a hellhole that’s home…
Video footage of an MCSO arrest and search during Friday’s sweep The sheriff’s recent two-day anti-immigration sweep in Avondale was disastrous on so many levels. The MCSO’s own press release states that “200 deputies and volunteer posse members” were mobilized for the operation, which would make 400 men total, assuming the…
Footage shot by civil rights activist Salvador Reza of “the cone incident.” Despite everything, I try to keep an open mind when it comes to Joe Arpaio’s boys in beige. As I’ve mentioned previously in this blog, I’ve met numerous ex-sheriff’s deputies who seem like decent human beings, emphasis on…
What’s the first thing that Rage Against the Machine frontman Zack de la Rocha is gonna do when he touches down in the PHX May 1 — a day before the big anti-Arpaio march from the Wells Fargo Building downtown to Joe’s Estrella Jail on May 2? Kick it with…
KTAR 92.3 FM, the unofficial PR arm of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s MCSO, has announced that the sheriff’s department is conducting one of its notorious anti-immigration sweeps in the West Valley town of Avondale today and Friday. According to an article on KTAR’s Web site, the command post for the sweep will be at the sheriff’s command substation near…
I want to thank Minuteman Civil Defense Corps founder Chris Simcox from the bottom of my little black heart for his decision to run against Arizona Senator John McCain in the 2010 Republican primary. In doing so, Simcox is giving me a year-plus of material to blog and comment on. Talk…
Transfer of Jail Inmates in Maricopa County @ Yahoo! Video Eduardo Barraza scores with this video of Joe at the latest prisoner parade Sheriff Joe’s ready to rumble with the Rev. Al Sharpton. At least that’s the smack the sheriff was talking the other day to journalist and editor Eduardo…
Monday night, faux right-winger Stephen Colbert showed how long it takes to make pastry out of Maricopa County’s corrupt top constable: exactly six and a-half minutes. The whole Colbert Report segment was predictably goofy. Sheriff Joe didn’t even lead. Instead, he followed the second mate from the Maersk Alabama, Ken…
