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Resist Arizona racism
On May 3, the Tucson Unified School District board met once again to take up
the issue of Ethnic Studies. This meeting had been rescheduled from the
previous week, when nine courageous youth occupied the TUSD board
members’ seats and forced cancellation of the meeting....
Posted May 12, 2011
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Racist, reactionary forces in Arizona suffered a setback in the attempt to push
their racist program through the state legislature on March 17 when five bills
targeting immigrants and Latinos/as were soundly defeated in a Senate
committee....
Posted Apr 1, 2011
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This attack on the right of oppressed people to learn their own history is a
continuation of the racist, right-wing offensive unleashed in Arizona, which is
accelerating as the capitalist economic crisis deepens. Banning ethnic studies
and passing the infamous anti-immigrant law SB 1070 are attempts to whip up a
racist frenzy against Indigenous and Latino/a peoples and blame them for the
misery and suffering imposed by the capitalist system itself....
Posted Feb 6, 2011
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The Pima County Tea Party Patriots are holding a rally Jan. 28 in Tucson,
Ariz., to launch a campaign to oust County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik. The Tea
Party and right-wingers all over the country have opened a campaign of
vilification against Dupnik because he pointed the finger at the ultraright in
his press conference on the day of the attempted assassination of Rep.
Gabrielle Giffords, an attack that claimed six lives....
Posted Jan 26, 2011
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A week after the assassination attempt on Congressperson Gabrielle Giffords,
the political climate in Arizona remains unchanged...
Posted Jan 23, 2011
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Sarah Palin commented on the Arizona massacre on Jan. 12: “Especially within
hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a
blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence that they
purport to condemn. That is reprehensible.” How dare Sarah Palin compare
her situation to that of the Jewish victims of anti-Semitism, which included 6
million murdered by the Nazis, one-third of all world Jewry, during World War
II....
Posted Jan 23, 2011
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The Jan. 8 shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson was a planned
political assassination attempt....
Posted Jan 12, 2011
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El 8 de enero, veinte personas fueron víctimas de disparos y seis de
ellas murieron mientras asistían a un mitin político para la
representante Gabrielle Giffords en Tucson, Arizona. Las autoridades ahora
dicen que tienen evidencia de que los disparos fueron un intento de asesinato
de la congresista demócrata, quien se encuentra en estado
crítico....
Posted Jan 12, 2011
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A protest took place Aug. 25 at the new Petco Park in San Diego when the Padres
played the Arizona Diamondbacks. The protest opposed SB1070 and supported the
boycotting of Arizona....
Posted Sep 12, 2010
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Many people heaved a sigh of relief when a federal judge enjoined portions of
Arizona’s anti-immigrant law SB 1070 in response to a lawsuit filed by
the federal government. But, court order or no court order, the situation on
the ground in southern Arizona has worsened. Arrests and detentions are
increasing, and there are noticeably more Border Patrol agents roaming the
streets of cities like Tucson, which is more than 60 miles north of the border
with Mexico....
Posted Sep 2, 2010
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On July 29 the racist, anti-immigrant law SB1070 went into effect in Arizona.
On July 28, federal judge Susan Bolton temporarily blocked the worst parts of
the law from being implemented. Nonetheless, July 29 was a day filled with
nonstop protests and bold actions as people took to the streets to show their
outrage at this bigoted attack against immigrants and workers....
Posted Aug 4, 2010
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Despite a continuous onslaught of attacks against immigrant workers, resistance
and opposition continue to grow in the U.S. — not only against
Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070, but also against the entire campaign to
criminalize and drive workers born outside this country underground...
Posted Jul 28, 2010
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Organizations from Arizona’s three major population centers —
Tucson, Flagstaff and Phoenix — met on July 17 to prepare coordinated
activities for July 29, the date of SB 1070’s implementation. SB 1070 is
a racist, anti-immigrant state law that is opposed by immigrant rights
advocates, progressives and justice-loving people in Arizona and around the
country....
Posted Jul 26, 2010
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Once again Tucson activists filled the intersection of Congress and Granada to
call for resistance to the notorious SB 1070 law, slated to take effect on July
29. Gathering in front of the state building on July 9, Tucsonans protested and
listened to local poets and spoken-word artists denounce SB 1070 and proclaim
“We will resist” this racist law....
Posted Jul 15, 2010
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Hundreds of people rallied for immigrant rights in Seattle on June 23....
Posted Jun 30, 2010
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On June 18, a multinational crowd of spirited demonstrators protested the
Arizona Diamondbacks at Comerica Park in downtown Detroit before the baseball
team’s game with the Detroit Tigers. ...
Posted Jun 28, 2010
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A massive march filled the streets of downtown Phoenix on May 29 as close to
200,000 people gathered to denounce the racist SB 1070 law and show their
determination to fight back against this anti-immigrant attack. The streets
were packed from curb to curb for over three miles as demonstrators made their
way along the six-mile route that began at Steele Indian School Park, snaked
its way through downtown and ended at the state Capitol building....
Posted Jun 3, 2010
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Protests in support of immigrants and against Arizona’s racist
anti-immigrant legislation were held across the U.S. in solidarity with a
national march and rally in Phoenix May 29 of 200,000 people. In many cities
demonstrators also targeted similar legislation being pushed in their states as
well as Obama’s failure to pass promised progressive national legislation
for immigrant rights....
Posted Jun 3, 2010
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Immigrant students and their supporters in Houston held a press conference
and demonstration outside the federal building in solidarity with students
arrested four days earlier in Arizona....
Posted May 27, 2010
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Momentum is growing for the national march to stop SB 1070 to be held May 29 in
Phoenix. The march will demand the repeal of SB 1070, Arizona’s
“Show me your papers” law, and an end to racist immigrant-bashing
and the blaming of immigrants for economic and social problems which in reality
result from the capitalist economic crisis....
Posted May 26, 2010
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Imperialist plunder of natural resources and the attempt to colonize an entire
nation and its people is the sum of the history between the U.S. and
Mexico.
And today, not only do Mexicans and other immigrants have to seriously endanger
themselves, even die to cross that border, Mexicans living on this side of the
border cannot even study that history....
Posted May 26, 2010
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On May 11, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law House Bill 2281, which
eliminates ethnic studies programs from the state’s K-12 schools. This
came just three weeks after she signed the repugnant anti-immigrant Senate Bill
1070....
Posted May 21, 2010
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Dozens of opponents of Arizona’s apartheid law criminalizing
immigrants gathered in front of Turner Field in Atlanta on May 15 to hold a
“Don’t Play Ball with the State of Hate” pep rally, complete
with a band, cheerleaders, street theater, large banners and signs....
Posted May 21, 2010
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Ever since the signing of Arizona’s racist SB 1070, protests and outrage
against this apartheid-like law have continued nonstop. In addition to the
protests and demonstrations demanding the repeal of SB 1070, the call for
“Boycott Arizona!” has emerged and caught fire....
Posted May 15, 2010
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It was a significant event that not even the big-business-owned press could
ignore, hard as they wanted to do. May Day 2010 in the United States was the
largest national outpouring of protests since the May Day Immigrant Uprising of
2006, when millions of people, the great majority of Latin American and
Caribbean origin, took to the streets against the reactionary Sensenbrenner
bill that denied full immigrant rights....
Posted May 5, 2010
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Eyewitness reports from some of the cities where May
Day activities were held. Other protests took place in Boston, Chicago, Dallas,
Miami, Minneapolis, Trenton, N.J., and elsewhere....
Posted May 5, 2010
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There have been growing
protests at stadiums where the Major League Baseball team Arizona Diamondbacks
play. The team’s owners financially backed Republican legislators who
supported and pushed through the bill....
Posted May 5, 2010
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Four years ago on May Day millions of immigrants and their supporters forced
the capitalist government to back away from the vicious, anti-immigrant
Sensenbrenner bill.
This May Day more than 1 million immigrants and supporters demonstrating in
more than 100 cities sent a powerful message to anti-immigrant racist forces in
Arizona to drop their police-state, apartheid law that legalizes racial
profiling....
Posted May 5, 2010
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Besides the ones in Arizona itself, protests in the United States and abroad
greeted a new Arizona anti-immigrant bill that was signed into law on April
23....
Posted May 1, 2010
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Arizona’s reactionary new anti-immigrant law has given another impulse to
the already growing pressure for powerful May Day marches around the U.S.
focusing on immigrant rights....
Posted Apr 29, 2010
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Arizona’s sweeping, racist anti-immigrant bill has unleashed a firestorm
of outrage from Arizona’s oppressed communities. Even before Gov. Jan
Brewer signed it into law on April 23, Arizona students and youths had called
for protests of all kinds. The May Day action is expected to demonstrate this
outrage....
Posted Apr 28, 2010
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Despite all the assurances by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, the recent passing of
Senate Bill 1070 is a racist attack against the U.S. working class. SB 1070
— which uses local police forces to question people about their
documentation, and criminalizes immigrant workers — smacks of South
African apartheid and a host of other repressive laws from U.S. history and
elsewhere....
Posted Apr 28, 2010
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In the early morning hours of April 15, agents from Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, the FBI and other Homeland Security agencies launched a military
operation against Tucson’s mostly Latino/a and Indigenous south side
neighborhoods. Activist Kat Rodriguez said: “What we have experienced for the
last six hours is the terrorization of our community. People are afraid to
leave their home, afraid to go shopping, afraid to go to the hospital, afraid
to go anywhere.”...
Posted Apr 21, 2010
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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed a state budget for 2011 that slashes $1.1
billion from needed social programs, eliminates more state workers and cripples
public education and health care. While preparing this anti-worker and anti-poor budget, legislators whipped up
anti-immigrant racism by introducing a series of bills targeting the Latino/a
and immigrant communities. These laws are designed to terrorize the oppressed communities while confusing
and disorienting the white workers who are losing their jobs, their savings and
their homes in record numbers....
Posted Apr 9, 2010
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Prisoners began a hunger strike May 2 to protest the degrading and inhumane
conditions they endure in the jails run by the notoriously racist Maricopa
County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The crimes of Arpaio are well documented: housing
inmates in sweltering tent-cities, parading them through the streets of Phoenix
like slaves on their way to the auction block, serving spoiled food referred to
as “slop” by the inmates, and denying adequate medical treatment.
Arpaio has continued to try to whip up anti-immigrant hysteria in any way
possible....
Posted May 28, 2009
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