It's Time to Boycott Arizona

[apretty]

littleshug: maybe you'd like to a thread on the subject of drugs, the pros and cons of legalization/government regulation vs. increasing the police/build a bigger wall or whatever you'd like.

'boycott arizona' and SB1070 are about *racial profiling* nothing more, nothing less. SB1070 is about creating a fascist police-state, dividing further an already fractured community in the state of arizona.

i understand that the topics of crime/drugs/economy/human trafficking are all *related* but they're frequently used to intentionally put blame on BROWN people which for some, justifies their underlying racist beliefs which leads to fascist laws like SB1070.

"never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal." -MLK, Jr.

[Canela]

Originally Posted by apretty

littleshug: maybe you'd like to a thread on the subject of drugs, the pros and cons of legalization/government regulation vs. increasing the police/build a bigger wall or whatever you'd like.

'boycott arizona' and SB1070 are about *racial profiling* nothing more, nothing less. SB1070 is about creating a fascist police-state, dividing further an already fractured community in the state of arizona.

i understand that the topics of crime/drugs/economy/human trafficking are all *related* but they're frequently used to intentionally put blame on BROWN people which for some, justifies their underlying racist beliefs which leads to fascist laws like SB1070.

"never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal." -MLK, Jr.

apretty,

I apologized for my derail. I responded to someone who quoted only that part of my original post. Funny, I don't see you reply to his post to me.

[MsDemeanor]

I agree that the legalization topic should be a new thread. So far we've managed to stay fairly drama free, and I'm hoping to keep it that way. There's been a lot of good information and insight so far.

[Soon]

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo3wrwqHOZw&feature=player_embedded"]YouTube- Kristol praises new AZ immigration law[/nomedia]


of course, the white guys cannot believe that a POC would be stopped due to their brown skin or Hispanic accent (with the one person who IS a POC tellling them, umm...no, they will!)

[AtLast]

Originally Posted by HowSoonIsNow

YouTube- Kristol praises new AZ immigration law


of course, the white guys cannot believe that a POC would be stopped due to their brown skin or Hispanic accent (with the one person who IS a POC tellling them, umm...no, they will!)

Especially THIS white guy!!

Originally Posted by Jess

If there is always a good side to every bad situation, then perhaps this latest "maverick " action on the part of AZ goverment will FORCE congress/ senate to take more immediate action toward the simplifying the legalization process.

I fear that until the Fed government steps up and handles the business of running this country properly, more states ( particularly border states) will try to take the reigns in their own hands and we can see how that is working.

What we can do :

http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/...ction_KEY=2481

Thanks for the link. My hope is that some concentrated rallies with people from within and outside of AZ will take place. I'm game. I think it is important for non-Latino people to join forces and articulate outrage.

[Jess]

Originally Posted by AtLastHome

Especially THIS white guy!!



Thanks for the link. My hope is that some concentrated rallies with people from within and outside of AZ will take place. I'm game. I think it is important for non-Latino people to join forces and articulate outrage.

Absolutely! We sit half a country or world in some cases apart from one another and see this shit daily. Instead of yelling at the poor folks living with this shit, we need to be seeking ways we can help from our own little corner of the world! Amen!

[AtLast]

Originally Posted by Jess

Absolutely! We sit half a country or world in some cases apart from one another and see this shit daily. Instead of yelling at the poor folks living with this shit, we need to be seeking ways we can help from our own little corner of the world! Amen!

Yes, we do! Any other links to organizations putting together events (or analysis) is greatly appreciated...

Link for MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense Fund)-

http://www.maldef.org/

[apretty]

AMERICAN arrested for driving while brown and not having the correct papers.

(sheriff joe is a disgusting piece of garbage that makes his own rules, constantly at odds with the POLICE department of phoenix. he's a criminal and his people chained a woman to her hospital bed, forcing her to GIVE BIRTH while in handcuffs.)

[UofMfan]

Originally Posted by apretty

AMERICAN arrested for driving while brown and not having the correct papers.

(sheriff joe is a disgusting piece of garbage that makes his own rules, constantly at odds with the POLICE department of phoenix. he's a criminal and his people chained a woman to her hospital bed, forcing her to GIVE BIRTH while in handcuffs.)

I thought the LAW doesn't go into effect until August, what gives?

And yes, Sheriff Joe is all those things and more.

[Toughy]

I heard an interesting spin of this bill on the radio. It seems AZ has tons and tons of newly registered Democratic Party folks and guess what...... they are almost all brown........

So if you want to intimidate new brown voters........hey just put a rent a cop in an uniform and station him/her outside the polling place to stare at all the brown folks waiting to vote or better yet put a real cop out there and have him/her check every brown person in line to see it they have their proper papers..........

The governor of AZ was the Secretary of State before she was moved up and apparently she tossed hundreds of brown folks off the voter rolls..........She is right in there with that Harris woman down in FL around the 2000 elections.