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Awesome! When are you all going to get here???? I'll be waiting by the tikki bar............
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Don't forget Chinese and French for the illegal immigrants from China and Canada, too... :| |
Not that I'm supportive of the GOP, but AZ just lost the chance to host the 2012 Republican convention to Tampa.
Read that on Yahoo News. |
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1) Salt Lake City - pain in the ass to buy alcohol 2) Phoenix - hotbed of controversy (plus, in August, just damn hot) 3) Tampa Bay - lap dance capital of the world linkyloo Gee, color the choice obvious...... |
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Oh.... ROTFL!!! Why is it that one can usually follow the pee-pee tail in politics?? I swear, much of the time, I am reminded of adolescent boys (mine, especially back then- at 6, no one could see it, at 16- the whole world was invited to take a gander) with this stuff! |
From Democracy Now
Don't know if this has been cited here (parts have, I think)- I was deeply troubled watching this- best to see video as there is a lot in the guy's voice, tone, inflection, etc. that is telling- more than in just reading the transcript.
Ex-Bush Admin Attorney Advises Arizona Offices on Detecting Immigrants A video has been published on the internet showing a former Bush administration attorney training police officers in Arizona on how to detect undocumented immigrants. The training is conducted by Kris Kobach, a Kansas-based attorney who helped draft Arizona’s law that orders police officers to stop and interrogate anyone they suspect is undocumented. Kobach is a former Justice Department attorney who helped John Ashcroft create a program that required all visiting citizens from twenty-five mostly Arab countries to be fingerprinted and monitored. Kris Kobach now works for the Immigration Reform Law Institute. During the training, he listed twenty ways police officers can detect undocumented immigrants. Kris Kobach: “Indications from the dress or appearance of an individual that he has been—has recently—that he’s an illegal alien and perhaps that he has just entered without inspection, based on the totality circumstances. Number nineteen, related indications that the vehicle and/or its occupants have been on a very long trip. And number twenty, the individual avoids making eye contact with the officer, and this, of course, can give rise to reasonable suspicion, not only in the immigration context, but in other law enforcement contexts, as well.” http://www.democracynow.org/2010/5/13/headlines |
arizona: good times.
2 days ago i was a passenger in the car with ez--he got pulled over, and along with ez's license, registration and proof of insurance the cop looked over at me and asked to see my ID.
i said no, he asked if i had ID, i said yes and asked, 'why do you want to see it?' and the cop said, 'i just want to look at it' so i said 'no'. i wasn't doing anything wrong, i was even wearing my seatbelt... after 20 minutes of detaining us (and honestly, i'm getting increasingly nervous), he comes back and gives ez two fix-it tickets and never mentions my ID again--we're allowed to leave. i was 'existing' while appearing brown. i discussed this with my local friend (who's femme and latina) because we often have *opposite* experiences because she often passes as white. she thinks that i didn't seem as 'suspicious' once i spoke and she's probably right--had i spoken with an accent, maybe he would have pressed the issue, or maybe he would have arrested me, i don't know. |
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OK.... we gotta do that road trip and posse-up with apretty and ez!! And Chester needs to meet his father. Oh, that could be a snarly experince! Yanno... Frenchies could do a number on cop ankles.... |
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Way kewl! Hope you have as much patience with one more French Bulldog with attitude that you do with Chester! Oh geez..... T just know Super & Snow will have me blushing the whole way!! But I can count on T to explain things to me.... right? |
from JMG: John McCain: Go After The Undocumented Workers, But Not Their Employers
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GO COLUMBUS!!!
:new: Mayor of Columbus, Ohio, bans travel to Arizona in response to state's new immigration law http://www.fox8.com/news/sns-ap-oh--...,6582569.story |
Who’s Boycotting Arizona?
By Casey Purcella Rudolfo Anaya, New Mexico’s most celebrated writer, gave the Alibi this statement: "The recent anti-immigrants Arizona law is an assault on our basic civil rights. It is most hideous because it targets people of color. It should be protested by everyone. If there ever was a time for civil disobedience, it is now." Here is an incomplete list—incomplete due to the rate at which it’s growing—of groups that are taking a stand against Arizona’s new laws through a boycott or other displays of condemnation. Municipal Organizations • Oakland, Calif.’s city council decided early this month that it would have nothing to do with Arizona; it voted unanimously to ban the city government from sending employees to the Grand Canyon State on official business, prevent the city from signing new contracts with Arizona-based businesses and require city employees to review current contracts between itself and Arizona. • San Francisco's mayor is set to approve a resolution boycotting businesses headquartered in Arizona. The resolution also requests that sports leagues refrain from holding tournaments and championship games in the city. In addition, city employees are discouraged from conducting official business in Arizona. • The City Council in San Jose, Calif. scheduled a vote on June 8 to decide whether it will join several of its Californian peers in boycotting their neighbor. The boycott would restrict travel by government employees to Arizona as well as contracts with businesses headquartered in the state. • Los Angeles joined many nearby cities in approving a boycott of Arizona this month, banning city government from doing business with companies in Arizona and preventing the government from entering into new agreements with companies from the state. • By a 5-0 vote early this month, West Hollywood became the most glamorous city to approve an Arizona boycott. The resolution forbids government employees from traveling to the state on official business and lets the government impose other sanctions until the law is repealed. • San Diego's City Council voted to condemn Arizona's new immigration law. • Boulder, Colo.'s city manager announced that city employees would not be traveling to Arizona for any official business. The city is planning a vote on a more extensive boycott. • The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Metro Denver announced that it is supporting a boycott of any entity in support of Arizona's immigration bill. • The Austin, Texas City Council unanimously approved a resolution ending government travel to Arizona. It also requires the city manager to review current and future contracts with businesses based in Arizona, or businesses with significant investments in the state, and then present the council with plans to replace them. • St. Paul, Minn. city employees will no longer travel to Arizona on official business, a result of a declaration by the ciy's mayor that bans city-funded travel to the state. • The city council of Boston adopted a resolution calling for the city to end relations with Arizona-based businesses, making it one of the first east coast cities to legalize a boycott of the state. The resolution condemns the bill for giving city and state law enforcement officers the power to enforce laws that are supposed to be enforced by federal law enforcement, adding that the law allows Arizona's police officers to engage in profiling. The resolution states that Boston government must review all associations with Arizona and, “to the extent reasonable,” eliminate contracts with the state. • The El Paso county commissioners passed a boycott resolution by a 3-2 vote limiting county relations with Arizona businesses. The resolution also asks residents of the county to do the same. • Las Cruces Mayor Ken Miyagishima was preparing to introduce a resolution condemning Arizona's immigration bill but changed his mind after reading the replacement bill, which is supposed to alleviate concerns that the bill will enable racial profiling. • Pressure to reverse the law is coming from inside the state of Arizona as well. The Tucson City Council voted to sue the state early this month, alleging that the new immigration law will harm the city's economy, which Tucson's mayor said is largely driven by Mexican tourism. The mayor also said that he hopes the resolution will exempt the city from boycotts affecting the state. • Flagstaff also decided not to take Arizona's new immigration bill lying down; its City Council unanimously voted to take action against the state to prevent the new law from going into effect. The resolution calls the bill “an unfunded mandate ... to carry out federal immigration enforcement responsibilities,” and predicts that illegal immigrants or those with a family member in the United States illegally will not report crimes, therefore preventing the city's police from enforcing the law. National Organizations • The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, an organization which aims to promote rights for those in the United States, announced a boycott of Arizona, pledging to hold no conferences in the state as well as promising to pressure its 200 member organizations to do the same. • The League of United Latin American Citizens said that a broad list of Latino organizations have banded together to coordinate a boycott of Arizona and support legal challenges to the state's new immigration law. A press release announcing the campaign, which the league has named “Unite Arizona,” states that the boycott will focus on companies who support politicians who voted for the immigration bill. In addition, none of the groups in the campaign will hold conventions in the state. • The National Council of La Raza declared a boycott of Arizona, stating that it will not hold any events in Arizona and asking its members and affiliates to do the same. It also said it will “widely disseminate the adverse consequences of this legislation” and asked other American institutions to consider not doing business with Arizona or Arizona-based companies. An extensive list of organizations signed the statement as well; a full list can be found at nclr.org/section/boycott_intolerance_petition. • The Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) announced that Phoenix was no longer being considered as a site for its 2012 conference. In a press release, it stated that the new law “virtually guarantees harassment of its conference attendees.” The convention would have brought 3,000 people to the state for four days. • The Seattle-based Glass Art Society decided not to hold its 2011 convention in Tucson, Ariz., depriving the city of 2,500 potential visitors that would have stayed for three days. • The International Communications Association, National Association of Black Accountants and National Urban League all canceled their planned 2012 conventions in Phoenix, according to the Arizona Republic. • The American Educational Research Association voted at its annual meeting in Denver to stop holding meetings in Arizona while the new immigration law is still in effect. • The historically black Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity moved its 104th annual convention, which was scheduled to take place in Phoenix from July 21 to 25, to Las Vegas, Nev., citing safety concerns for some of its members. The fraternity estimated that moving the convention would deprive the state of up to 10,000 visitors. • The Republican National Committee passed over Phoenix and instead chose Tampa, Fla. as the location for its 2012 national convention. While officially this decision had nothing to do with Arizona's new immigration law, one can't help but speculate that Arizona missed out as Republicans try to avoid any setbacks and negative press as they prepare for this year's elections. Schools • Two Mexican universities, the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí, canceled their exchange programs with the University of Arizona, according to the Arizona Republic. However, Arizona's other universities remain unaffected, and so far none of the other 29 Mexican universities with exchange agreements with UA have canceled their agreements. • Denver's public school employees are forbidden from taking district-sponsored trips to Arizona. • In a unanimous vote, the San Diego Unified School District Board condemned Arizona's controversial immigration law. • The Huffington Post reported that Arizona's universities have been hit by the backlash to Arizona's new immigration law. University of Arizona President Robert Shelton said that some students have told the university that they will be leaving to attend school elsewhere. In addition, Arizona State University revealed that several of its applicants have called to decline admission. Sports Teams •The girls basketball team at Highland Park High School in Illinois was set to travel to Arizona for a basketball tournament in December 2010 until the school's district decided to cancel the trip, saying that it could not sent its students to a place where their liberties might be compromised. While officially the school says that this decision was based purely on safety concerns, some are suspicious the decision is actually a political statement, pointing out that the district superintendent told a Chicago newspaper that the district could not justify sending students to a place not “aligned with our beliefs and values.” • Arizona's National Basketball Association team, the Phoenix Suns, wore their alternate “Los Suns” jerseys on Cinco de Mayo to “honor our Latino community and the diversity of our league, the state of Arizona, and our nation,” according to the team's owner. http://alibi.com/index.php?scn=feature&di=&story=32264 |
I was curious about what businesses had their corporate HQ in AZ.......here is a partial listing:
~Best Western ~Coldstone Creamery ~Discount Tire ~Dial Corp. (which includes~Coast, Purex, Renuzit, Right Guard, Boraxo, Twenty Mule Team) ~Fender Musical Instruments ~Fredericks of Hollywood ~Go Daddy ~Kona Grill ~Mesa Airlines ~PetSmart ~Ping Golf ~U-Haul ~US Air Other businesses that have significant operations in AZ (but not HQ'd there): Alaka Air Albertson's AmEx Bank of America Boeing General Dynamics Home Depot Honeywell J. P. MOrgan Chase Intel Kroger Marriott International Motorola Pulte Homes Safeway Southwest Air Target Wal~Mart Walgreen's Wells Fargo Interesting............... |
They might as well have taken out their pistol and shot themselves in the foot.....
[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es3hq0XM-cw"]YouTube- Racist Anti-Immigration Arizona Law Backfires[/nomedia] |
OMFG. Seriously? Seriously?
Crops need to be harvested? But he doesn't want a Mexican washing his car, mowing his lawn and he doesn't need to eat at fast food restaurants? Come here, work the job, pay taxes, don't have babies here or be a "burden" on the taxpayers and then get the fuck out and go home when the state of AZ is done with you? Seriously? |
ARIZONA: Gay Professor Booed For Denouncing Immigration Law
via JoeMyGod: Dr. Sandra Soto is the Assistant Professor for Women's Studies at the University of Arizona, where she used this week's graduation ceremony to denounce her state's racist immigration law. It's a bit surprising/depressing that so many students would boo her. (Although she did get some decent applause at the end.) The Freepers are thrilled by the students' reaction. |
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I have seen the delight in many a person's eyes as they eat their fresh salad on the table in front of them. I have heard jokes about "those" people that picked that very salad they were eating. I have listened to many a white boy complain about not being able to get a job; yet you never saw a white boy go apply to work in those fields. I never saw a white boy standing on the corner at the 7-11 or home depot looking for work; yet they would complain about not getting a job and make fun of the very people willing to work in deplorable conditions just to make a few pennies to feed their families. I think it is time that some of these people get off their high horses, take off their rose colored glasses and take a serious look at how asinine their laws really are; whilst eating their fresh salad at their $1000 a plate fund raiser to create a racist law. There ego's need to be put in check. They need to get off that all might white cloud they are sitting on. Oh and I wonder if they enjoyed that nice little mint placed upon their $500 dollar a night hotel room. The whole law makes me ill and it also makes me wonder how terrified some of these people are. I wonder if those great law makers realize the danger and fear of their own lives they just put these people in. I wonder how many of them chased an illegal farm worker through the fields just to give them the information on where to go to get medical care, etc. The whole thought process behind this law makes me ill. sweetcali |
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Also reminds me of how many stories from the mouths of kids from various Latino families I keep hearing while listening to NPR (mostly). Makes out of the mouths of babes even more pertinent. The fear, the process of a little kid internalizing and speaking their truth in recognizing that they are the target of such hatred is heartbreaking beyond belief. |
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We need to wake up. This stuff is not harmless talk. And it isn't just taking hold in AZ. Look at Texas and people there wanting to re-write history to align with WASP culture! It isn't just Limbaugh and mega-wacko Beck on the airwaves spreading right wing BS. More and more of these jerks are running for elected office and winning! What is going on in AZ and TX presently is a serious threat to every disenfranchised population in the US and to democracy. Movements like this always take hold more deeply during difficult financial times when the majority of the population is more worried about a job, keeping a home (owning or renting), putting food on the table. I hate to be an alamist, but alamed is exactly what I feel 2010 is a critical mid-term election year. If you have even a small amount of time to get involved with political organizations that fight this kind of crap- please do so! |
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It was certainly brought home to Mrs. Obama......AND the rest of us! I hope all works out well for the Peruvian family.....and I hope the other daughter is brought to the US...........soon. |
Sixty-four percent of Americans support the Arizona immigration law -- Glenn Beck
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-me...tep-nation-ar/
Although he only quotes one poll, what is sad is that the rest are 50% or higher in favour of this law. That's pretty sad, IMO. :( |
Are you shitting me?
Arizona Elementary School Will Whiten The Faces Of Its Own Students On A Mural Because Some Racists Yelled At It
Jason Linkins jason@huffingtonpost.com | HuffPost Reporting Via Ken Layne at Wonkette, this is just the worst story in the world: An Arizona elementary school mural featuring the faces of kids who attend the school has been the subject of constant daytime drive-by racist screaming, from adults, as well as a radio talk-show campaign (by an actual city councilman, who has an AM talk-radio show) to remove the black student's face, and now the school principal has ordered the faces of the Latino and Black students to be changed to Caucasian skin. F'ing hell. Read the rest of the details here. And here's Richard Lawson's reaction, at Gawker. What can I say about this? We are talking about a bunch of mentally deranged adults, who have terrorized an elementary school, for daring to paint a mural featuring the faces of black and Latino children -- actual black and Latino children who live in Arizona. And we're also talking about a group of adults who have decided to send a stirring message to their students and the world: when a bunch of mentally deranged adults -- and we are not talking about people who are particularly threatening, this is a bunch of utterly gutless mopes, yelling racial slurs from their cars, egged on by some pinhead city councilman cowering behind a radio microphone -- threaten a bunch of children, the best thing to do is to accede to their psychotic, racist "demands." Seriously, educators of Prescott, Arizona, when some creep demands you whiten the faces of your own students on a mural, the correct response is to say, "No, we will not be doing anything of the sort." This story really should be blasted, far and wide. You cable news producers need to get this story in the mix with a quickness. And let me be clear to you all: there are no "two sides to this story." This is not something you need to have a panel discussion about. CNN, I don't want to see you plumbing the depths of your counterintuition on your website, or lending credence to the notion that the gutless mopes in their cars, shrieking racial slurs at the images of children have an interesting point of view that we should "hear out" because of the need to be "balanced." This is your moment to decry, condemn, and brutalize these evil people. Blast them to hell, or go jump in the Gulf of Mexico. |
I read about that yesterday, U.
It's almost too horrific to believe. I don't understand these people and the fact that the school (!) conceded to ugly racism makes me ill. |
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This is not the country that I learned to love. I am so sad seeing what is going on, and not just in AZ, but nationwide. |
Guess I could have just done this!
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two birds, one stone
I'm thinking we could solve two problems currently plaguing our nation.
Let's send the Arizona racists to the gulf to plug/sop up the BP oil spill. Just cram a few dozen down that hole in the pipe, use some others to soak up oil, like white bread in gravy, and maybe we could wipe down some oil fouled pelicans with still others. Who do I need to write? |
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The further whiting of america.. Because no other peoples have made ANY impact on this country...
It makes me fucking sick.. really.. like I need to toss my cookies.. WHAT THE FUCK DOES IT MATTER WHAT COLOR ANYONE IS?????? You respect someones culture, you try to understand that you might have been raised differently and have different responces to the world... But really.. Every race... EVERY Race have the same type of people in it.. You take a cross cutting from any culture, any color spectrum and you are going to have the exact same personality spectrum.. *rant* When I was a young teenager just starting to think about dating boys.. My brothers gathered round me and told me why I couldn't date boys of certain races.. Now, only one of these boys that I called brother was my biological brother.. the other four were his best friends... Each of these boys told me why I couldn't date a boy of their race.. You know what? The reason was all the same.. Beat me and get me pregnant... They just prefexed it with race... I remember looking at them and thinking.. Ya'll are crazy.. you just don't want me to date... /end rant* I'm really starting to think that this world has a soul sickness.. |
Has this story broken into MSM in the USA? CNN or any of the major network news?
This story needs to be all over the place. It needs attention and exposure. I want to see the people interviewed who made the school *whitening* decision. So angry. |
Random, it is pretty sickening. Racism is alive and well in North America. It just seems to me that there is a new wave of it and the scary part is that this time around they are actually proud of it and taking it to the streets and it is deep in government.
HSIN, I haven't seen it anywhere else but HuffPo and the Marion Observer. This is one of the problems, mainstream media is not covering this mostly because those who own it are in on it. My opinion. |
I don't know, U, it seems SO outrageous to me that even the MSM would want a stab at it despite owners/bias etc.
Maybe Maddow will pick the story up...I'd love to see THAT interview. |
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I would love to see it too. I don't get MSNBC here but I follow it online. Maybe they have the story bury somewhere in there, I will take a look around. |
Yahoo News
Prescott, Ariz., elementary school to 'whiten' image of child in mural
An artist's decision to prominently feature a non-white child on an elementary-school mural in Prescott, Ariz., sparked so much controversy that school administrators asked him to "lighten" the child's face after a city councilman launched a campaign against the mural, according to the Arizona Republic. The Prescott episode isn't likely to help Arizona's growing reputation as a battleground of racial and ethnic confrontation, as the state faces a widespread boycott campaign over its harsh new immigration law. The mural, which was funded by a state grant, features the faces of four actual students at the school and is intended to promote biking and other environmentally sustainable modes of transportation. The most prominent face on it belongs to a Latino student. Steve Blair didn't like that. Blair, local city councilman and talk-radio host, inveighed against the mural on his show last month, according to the New York Daily News: "I am not a racist individual," Blair said on a radio show last month, "but I will tell you depicting a black guy in the middle of that mural, based upon who's President of the United States today and based upon the history of this community, when I grew up we had four black families — who I have been very good friends with for years — to depict the biggest picture on that building as a black person, I would have to ask the question, 'Why?' " Good question, to which there are two answers: 1) The boy in question is of Latino heritage (but it's hard to tell them all apart sometimes, right?), and 2) because the boy in question is of Latino heritage. It is suspicious, though, seeing as how only 42 percent of Arizonans aren't white. R.E. Wall, a Prescott artist who worked on the mural along with several other members of the city's Downtown Mural Project, told the Republic that local residents driving by the mural as they were painting it — sometimes with children helping — shouted ethnic slurs. Wall claimed the school's principal asked him to make the child's skin tone lighter in response to the pushback. The principal acknowledged receiving three complaints about the child's race but insisted that the lightening was an "artistic" decision. The important thing to remember here is that Steve Blair is not a racist individual and that he has been very good friends with Prescott's four black families for years. Blair didn't immediately return a phone call from Yahoo! News. — John Cook is a senior national reporter/blogger for Yahoo! News. |
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