20,000 march to protest anti-immigrant sheriff

[amyrose2712]

PHOENIX - Brown, black and white, young and old, more than 20,000 people marched here Jan. 16 to protest the indiscriminate attacks and race-based raids conducted by Sheriff Joe Arpaio against residents of Maricopa County. United Farm Workers union leader Dolores Huerta and singer Linda Ronstadt were among the participants.

The sheriff has conducted these raids based upon the hated "287(g)" regulation that allows his county officers to work with federal officials based upon phony allegations of terrorism. "These raids are criminalizing entire communities," Salvador Reza, president of the committee that organized the march here, said at a press conference Saturday before the event. "We cannot move forward on immigration rights unless we address human rights," he said.

It was a national day of action. Buses and vans arrived from all over the country for the noontime march. In addition to places like Los Angeles, San Diego and San Jose, Calif., El Paso, Texas, Las Cruces N.M., and Tucson, Ariz., contingents came from as far away as New York, Chicago, Washington D.C., Oregon, New Orleans and Miami.

After a rally at Falcon Park marchers proceeded past the sheriff's prison, which has been condemned by Amnesty International for its brutal treatment of prisoners. Marchers carried signs reading, "No More Hate," "We are Human" "and Si Se Puede." Anther rally was held across from the prison.

http://peoplesworld.org/20-000-march-to-protest-anti-immigrant-sheriff/

more here...

Linda Ronstadt, Zack de la Rocha, and Little Joe Blast Joe Arpaio, Raise Dolo for Macehualli/Tonatierra

The event's honored guests will be leading the march today: Linda Ronstadt, Little Joe of Little Joe y La Familia, and Zack de la Rocha of One Day as a Lion. They gave a little press conference before going into Wilcox's restaurant for a $100 a head dinner there. You can see them yourselves for free by getting yourself down to 3420 West Roosevelt Street, next to Carl Hayden High School. The march should begin around 10 a.m. and will proceed to Joe's gulag center down at 35th Avenue and Durango. You can catch all the pertinent details, here.

The plan is to encircle the jails, then end with a concert by Little Joe. Folks are hoping Ronstadt and Zack may join in.

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/2010/01/linda_ronstadt_zack_de_la_roch.php

[intheflow]

1. Nine recs & no replies?

Well let me be the first to K&R! :kick:

[alstephenson]

2. K & R

[galileoreloaded]

3. Short of a Federal indictment, and the following running gun battle

between his deputies and US Marshals, he will just keep getting elected. Over, and over.

[sweetloukillbot]

5. Sad but true... I hate AZ politics... n/t

[bobburgster]

4. About time!

That idiot was treated as a god by the news media throughout Bushes years. Glad people are protesting....only way to keep torture and abuse from becoming in vogue.