¡Alto Arizona!

Music Video: Gil Scott-Heron: Alien (hold on to your dream) LIVE

 

Gil Scott-Heron's dedication to migrant's plight in the U.S. (Circa 1980)

Lyrics:

Midnight near the border trying to cross the Rio Grande
Runnin' with coyotes to where the streets are paved with gold
You're diving underwater when you hear the helicopters
Knowing it's all been less than worthless if you run into patrols
Hiding in the shadows, so scared you want to scream
But you dare not make a sound if you want to hold on to your dreams

Hold on. Though it may not be a lot, you got to
Hold on. Cause you know it's all you got
No matter the consequences or the fear that grips your senses
You have got to hold on to your dreams.

Exclusive Footage: Arizona Senator Russell Pearce endorsed White Supremacist J.T. Ready

 

This video shows State Senator Russell Pearce endorsing JT Ready (AZ's most famous White Supremacist) in 2006 for Mesa City Council. The footage has never been seen by the public until now. The footage and the Mormon Document and picture was given to Steve Lemons (Phoenix New Times) by a confidential source. He gave me a copy. You can get more info here: http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2010-12-16/news/webline/

Inauguration of the Day Worker Center in Mountain View - What Immigration Reform Looks Like at the Neighborhood Level

 

More than 1,000 people turned out for the inauguration of the Day Worker Center of Mountain View. (from NDLON Youtube Channel).

Tupac Enrique with Cornel West

"If you want to stay in America you might just get deported back into colonization, however, we're headed toward Liberation!" -Tupac Enrique

MISTACHUCK - Tear Down That Wall

CHUCK D - Tear Down That Wall

Video By Eclectic Method
http://eclecticmethod.net

Shot By David CDOC Snyder for Command Films

Manu Chao in Support of Alto Arizona!

Ex Mano-Negra front man, Troubador, poet and human rights advocate, Manu Chao, sends a message to the migrant communities in Arizona who are suffering under oppressive anti-immigrant laws such as SB 1070, HB 2281 and now the attempt to revoke birthright citizenship. Alto Arizona! ¡Proxima Estación, Esperanza!

Inmigrantes piden ayuda a los Dodgers

Aficionados protestan para que cancelen el juego de estrellas en Arizona

Fuente: KMEX

Arizona's Photo Radar

Thursday July 8, 2010

Olivia Munn explores the controversy over Arizona's highway safety versus invasions of privacy.

(Source: The Daily Show)

Democracy Now! Feature: Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award Honors Activists [Pablo Alvarado]

"...the Washington-based progressive think tank Institute for Policy Studies has honored two Latin American groups and a US labor group with the annual Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award...

...In the domestic category, the National Day Laborer Organizing Network was honored for fighting to improve working conditions for day laborers in the United States. Pablo Alvarado accepted the award.

Pablo Alvarado: "In the face of indignity, exploitation, humiliation, hatred and bigotry, stigma, fear, and in some places, terror, like in Maricopa County, Arizona, there is courage, courage to peacefully resist, courage to defend and protect ourselves and, yes, even courage to love our detractors."

Worse Than Joe Arpaio? Tucson Police Department Turns Over Mom and Dad To Border Patrol as Kids Cry

By Stephen Lemons, Tue., Aug. 24 2010 @ 4:45PM

Standard practice by the Tucson PD, as captured by Three Sonorans

Although activists are normally up in arms about Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio separating mothers from their children and otherwise breaking up families during his anti-immigration sweeps, this video by Tucson's Three Sonorans blog reveals that things may be even worse in the Old Pueblo.

In the blog post, the author states that it was just a dad who was taken away by Border Patrol after a routine traffic stop by the Tucson Police Department. But there's a woman being taken away by BP agents as well.

Arizona Business Loses $3M Bid Over Immigration Law

Updated: Wednesday, 18 Aug 2010, 8:06 PM MDT
Published : Wednesday, 18 Aug 2010, 8:06 PM MDT

For the city of Santa Monica, California, it doesn't matter that Arizona's new immigration law was partly blocked. They are sticking to their boycott, and it's costing an Arizona business a contract worth millions of dollars.

ABC's Diane Sawyer Puts a Face to Victims of #SB1070

by Jorge Rivas
Thursday, July 29 2010, 11:20 AM EST

Yesterday, in a segment titled "The Conversation: My Undocumented Life" ABC's Diane Sawyer interviewed a young woman named Erika, an undocumented Arizona resident who has been in the U.S. since age 11. Sawyer produced a beautiful short interview where she put a face to those being affected by the harsh policies going in to affect today in Arizona.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Supporters And The Agenda Of Hate

This video clearly shows the unstable and dangerous following Sheriff Arpaio attracts and encourages. They express extreme hatred for Mexicans or anyone that disagrees with them. They harass and intimidate those that get in their way. They literally terrorize Day Labor centers on a daily basis. In a State known for its hate crimes, who will be the next to commit one?

(via Humanleague002 Youtube.com Channel)

Video: Hate Crimes in Arizona post-#SB1070 (early May, 2010)

Days after Governor Jan Brewer signed SB 1070 into law, ASU students impersonate police officers to ask students for immigration paperwork & another incident where a white man kills his Mexican neighbor over racist beliefs...Gary Kelley is suspected of murdering his Latino neighbor, shouting "Hurry up and go back to Mexico, or you're going to die!"

Do I Look Illegal? - 30 second version Video (NCLR)

This PSA was produced in response the Arizona's SB 1070, which makes Latinos suspect in their own communities and potential victims of racial profiling. Produced by EKG Films in association with Afro Taino Productions.

(via NCLR Youtube.com)

Sound Strike Press Conference (Zack de la Rocha, Tom Morello, Conor Oberst) Anti-#SB1070

Sound Strike Press Conference (Zack de la Rocha, Tom Morello, Conor Oberst) from Shaun Kadlec on Vimeo.

Two Arizona Fans Move Lady Gaga to Speak Out Against #SB1070

Pop Star says Arizona is in a "state of emergency" calls on fans to actively protest discrimination.

08.02.2010 – Two Arizona Fans Move Lady Gaga to Speak Out Against SB 1070

Pop Star says Arizona is in a "state of emergency," calls on fans to actively protest discrimination.

Phoenix, AZ. 7/31/2010.

One week before the pop phenom, Lady Gaga, was scheduled to perform a concert in Phoenix, AZ, two young gay migrant rights organizers posted letters to the star on Facebook asking her to meet with them.

Victor Medina and Amelec Diaz wanted Lady Gaga to understand the humanitarian crisis in Maricopa County and its particular affect on Latino and migrant members of the LGBTQ community. (Letters can be found at http://bit.ly/gagaletters)

The letters sparked growing support and launched on-line petitions by LGBTQ rights groups like GetEqual.org that supported the youth’s request for a meeting so that she could be a champion of migrant rights issues in Arizona as she has stood up for the gay community elsewhere.

Amelec Diaz is an undocumented student who experienced his own home being raid by immigration enforcement. Victor Medina explained in his letter, “The situation in Arizona has come to a boiling point. Our people are being attacked, targeted by the color of our skin, and how we speak by certain recent laws passed.”

2 Activists Storm Citifield to Protest #SB1070

July 30th, 2010 - 2 activists run onto Citifield during the Mets/Diamondbacks game to protest SB1070, Arizona and the repression of immigrants around the United States.

(via JoelBitarProductions Youtube.com Video Channel)

SB1070 is in FULL Effect in Tucson, AZ

Tucson, Arizona: On August 2, 2010 around 3:15 p.m. Officer Zinn and Officer Koontz of the Tucson Police Department called Border Patrol on a woman during a traffic stop. Border Patrol came and took her into detention.

This is Arizona.

Injunction or No Injunction. SB1070 or Not. We face this every day.

(via Panleft Youtube.com Video Channel)

GRITtv: Sarahi Uribe: Is #Arizona to Blame?

GRITtv: Sarahi Uribe: Is Arizona to Blame?
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In recent months, many have blamed, boycotted, and blasphemed Arizona for SB 1070. However, it is not all state law that is to blame. A few years ago, the United States Justice Department passed 287 G, a statute that puts immigration control in the hands of local police. Would SB 1070 be possible without these deeper, more established roots? Nevertheless, U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton put controversial sections of the law, such as police officers checking immigration status, on hold, handing a legal victory to the bill's opponents. Though the law will still go into effect this Thursday, this ruling could criminalize otherwise legal aspects of the crackdown. Sarahi Uribe from the National Day Laborer's Organizing Network joined us from Arizona to elaborate on this law, and describe the local, national, and international reaction as SB 1070 goes into effect this week. Distributed by Tubemogul.

(via DailyMotion.com GRITtv)

'Rage' Against Arizona Law #SB1070 (Video)

Rap metal giants Rage Against the Machine headlined a concert benefiting organizations fighting SB 1070.

TABOO from "Black Eyed Peas:" new song 'One Heart, One Beat' opposing #SB1070

Music video for Taboo's new song 'One Heart, One Beat' opposing Arizona's Bill 1070 against illegal immigration. In the song you will hear Dolores Huerta, Eva Longoria, Oscar De La Hoya, Shakira & Juanes also in opposition to the bill. Produced & Directed by D Zapa Media, LLC. Contact 323-388-7273 or dzapamedia@yahoo.com

Community Members Arrested in Phoenix #SB1070 #altoarizona

By: Barni Qaasim

Today 7 people were arrested outside of the court house in an act of civil disobedience. his week in Phoenix a federal judge is hearing arguments from immigrant and civil rights groups, the Department of Justice and the State of Arizona over whether or not SB 1070 should be implemented on July 29.

While immigrant rights groups wait on a ruling from Judge Bolton about whether or not the law will go into effect, they are preparing locals, especially citizens, to not comply with SB 1070. The groups will ask people not to carry their ID's when they are out and about, and record their interactions with the police. The Alto!Arizona website urges people: "Don't work! Don't buy! Don't comply!"

Tom Horne, Arizona State Superintendent, & Michael Eric Dyson, Professor of Sociology at Georgetown, debate Anti-Ethnic Studies Law HB 2281

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This CNN Anderson Cooper interview pretty much sums up the true intentions of conservative white supremacy in Arizona and America right now. The same arguments used to do away with affirmative action are now used to deny ethnic studies in our public schools. After all, it's crazy to think there's discrimination in America. With the election of our first black president, we should be celebrating our post racial future. Horne's use of Martin Luther King Jr.'s words "we should be judged by the content of our character and not the color of our skin" is out of context and typically used by the right as a way to deny racism exists.

Sup. Horne's insistence the Chicano/Mexican American studies programs is divisive is xenophobic enough to get him elected as the states next attorney general.

(via jpeter4333 Youtube.com)

MALDEF president Thomas Saenz on Tavis Smiley (PBS)

July 8, 2010

Civil rights veteran Thomas Saenz, president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, explains the constitutional battle between the federal government and the state of Arizona over immigration.

Tavis: Thomas Saenz is president and general counsel of MALDEF, the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Founded in 1968, MALDEF is the nation's Latino legal civil rights organization. Tom, good to have you back on the program.

Thomas Saenz: Good to see you, Tavis.

Tavis: Let me start by going right at this argument, as I've been following this and discussing it here on TV and on my radio show. I'm starting to hear now an argument that's being made by you and others against this law in Arizona, and I'll let you explain it, but what I'm hearing is an argument being made on constitutional grounds that this is about the unity of the country or the disunity of the country if it's allowed to go forward.

As you know, there are other states now wanting to copycat what Arizona did. Tell me what the epicenter of the argument is that you all are going to levy against the law. Then we'll come to the Justice Department decision to file the suit in just a second.