SB1070

Aug 7-9: Three Days Of Action To Shut Down ALEC In Chicago

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) will be meeting in Chicago on August 7-9 at the Palmer House Hilton Hotel. ALEC connects corporate lobbyists with legislators behind closed doors to write "model legislation". This Legislation is then put on the floor of state legislatures across the country, without indication that it is an ALEC model bill. Put simply, corporations are writing state laws. That type of concerted effort in favor of profit between business interests and the state is NOT acceptable. ALEC's model bills include Right to Work (for less) laws, "Ag-gag" bills which brand environmental and animal rights activists "terrorists", Arizona's racial profiling law (SB1070), Wisconsin legislature's attack on public-sector collective bargaining, and so many others.

Arizona Police Racially Profile Mexico Baseball Player At The WBC

Team Mexico, including Giants star Sergio Romo, feels hostility amid Arizona's immigration battle as racial profiles being.

Radical Resistance Tour: Tucson, AZ

Episode 06: Tucson from Radical Resistance Tour on Vimeo. Get a closer look at localized resistance based around ethnic studies, badass kids, border deaths, racist laws and the Derechos Humanos coalition. The Radical Resistance Tour is an

Brewer Backtracks After Saying Immigration Reform Is 'Fine And Dandy'

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's office is walking back comments from the Republican governor, that it was "fine and dandy" to work on comprehensive immigration reform before the border was secured. In an interview with KPNX that aired on Sunday, host

Will A Surging Latino Vote Turn Arizona Blue This Election?

Many of you may recall that back in 2010, we predicted that the backlash created by the politics of anti-Latino bigotry practiced by Sharron Angle and her fellow Republicans was going to create a tsunami of Latino voters who would sweep Sen.

As Arizona's SB1070 Becomes Law, 'Dark Chapter' Of History Looms, Author Warns

We knew this was coming, so it didn't raise many heads last week when a federal judge cleared the way for Arizona to begin enforcing its "papers please" provisions in the anti-immigrant law, SB1070, it passed two years ago: U.S. District

C&L On The Young Turks: Jan Brewer's Victory Dance On SB1070 And Romney's Trouble With Latino Voters

Our own managing editor Tina Dupuy joined the set of The Young Turks along with The American Prospect's Paul Waldman as part of Cenk Uygur's Power Panel this Tuesday. The topics for the panel included Mitt Romney's problems with Latino voters and

That Fake Latina Candidate Drops Out When Russell Pearce's Nieces Are Subpoenaed

So it seems that the fake Hispanic candidate propped up by the corrupt author of SB1070, Russell Pearce, in his recall election in Mesa has suddenly dropped out: Candidate Olivia Cortes on Thursday withdrew from the Legislative District 18

Tea Partiers In Arizona Prop Up Fake Latina Candidate In Hopes Of Saving Russell Pearce From Recall

I guess we already knew that Russell Pearce -- author of SB1070 and our favorite Nazi-coddling nativist politician -- has nothing but contempt for Latino voters. Now he's demonstrating the same contempt for every voter in his Arizona legislative

Karmic Update: Russell Pearce Recall Campaign Turns In 18,000 Signatures -- More Than Twice What's Needed

We've been tracking the recall campaign against Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce, author of SB1070, because he insisted on playing his nativist fiddle in the Senate while Arizona's economy burned to the ground. It probably hasn't helped