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9500 Liberty In AZ Theaters

4:54 pm By BiancaLaureano · arizona|Immigration|Movies · 1 Comment

29 Apr 2010

Last summer Mala shared with us a trailer for the film 9500 Liberty about Virginia’s Prince William County’s Anti-Immigration legislation acts that she saw at Netroots (which she is also seeking to attend this year so go vote for her to get a scholarship to attend!). She wrote:

On Day 2, I decided to make a more concerted effort to attend panels and events related to immigration and to meet up with some of the other immigrant blogger scholarship winners. After some morning blogging, it was to a lunch time screening of 9500 Liberty.

The independently made documentary by Annabel Park and Eric Byler takes the audience through Virginia’s Prince William County’s anti-immigrant and anti-Latino legislative actions and the protests against them. I thought it was really important for people to see how local initiatives across the country help add to the wider anti-immigrant rhetoric. It was also interesting to see how in progressive spaces, lip service can be paid to bloggers of color, specifically Latinos, while the hustle and dance is all about self-promotion and marketing.

Earlier this week my homegirl Elena, who lives in Surprise, Arizona, sent me an email announcing the premire of the film in Tempe, Avondale, and Scotsdale, AZ this week. Below is the screening information as it hits theaters tomorrow, Friday:

9500 LIBERTY
Tempe, AZ
9500 Liberty Theatrical Premiere
Starts Friday, April 30, 2010
Showtimes 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00*, 9:00*
Harkins Harkins Valley Art Theater
509 S Mill Ave.
Tempe, AZ 85281-3607
(480) 829-6666
* Director Eric Byler in person for Q&A after these shows on Opening Night,
Friday, April 30.

Avondale, AZ
9500 Liberty Theatrical Premiere
Starts Friday, April 30, 2010
Showtimes 10:00, 12:30*, 3:00*, 5:30*, 8:00, 10:30
Harkins Harkins Gateway Pavilions 18
10250 W. McDowell Road
Avondale, AZ 85323
(623) 478-9411
Director Eric Byler in person for Q&A on Sunday, May 2.

Scottsdale, AZ
9500 Liberty Theatrical Premiere
Starts Friday, April 30, 2010
Showtimes 10:40, 1:20*, 4:15*, 7:15*, 10:00
Harkins Harkins Scottsdale/101 Theatre
7000 E Mayo Blvd
Phoenix, AZ 85054
(480) 538-1707
Director Eric Byler in person for Q&A on Saturday, May 1.

I think the screening is coming at a very important time and if you are in the area please attend if you can. Both of the directors will be present to discuss the film on Friday evening. There also seems to have been an extended trailer that was created which is posted below.

Before Coffee Video : Undocumented Responsible for 9-11

7:12 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration|Politics · 1 Comment

21 Mar 2008

I haven’t had my coffee yet for my brain to be functioning, but you don’t need that much brain power to interpret this video coming at us via / Proinmigrant.

And yeah, don’t forget, the war in Iraq too! That’s the fault of the undocumented too!

Pat Buchanan is Just Rehashing Old Hate

11:54 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Bilingualism|Books|history|Immigration|race · 7 Comments

24 Aug 2006

While Pat Buchanan makes the media rounds pimping his new book, Think Progress points how the his arguments really are the same rhetoric used over time in the United States against various immigrant groups.

Immigrants will dilute the white race:

If we do not get control of our borders, by 2050 Americans of European descent will be a minority in the nation their ancestors created and built. No nation has ever undergone so radical a demographic transformation and survived. [Buchanan, p. 11, 2006]

VERSUS

The number of purely white People in the World is proportionally very small…in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are Germans also, the Saxons only accepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth. [Benjamin Franklin, 1751]

Whoever said racism isn’t part of the national character of the U.S. needs to read all the comparisons put out there. Sadly hate never dies, the rhetoric around it just changes ever so slightly.

Via / Think Progressive
Image Via / AsianWeek.com

Minutemen : Now On Tour!

2:30 pm By Maegan La Mala · Immigration · Comments Off

4 May 2006

The minutemen are coming! The minutemen are coming! Yesterday the Minuteman Project border patrol group began a 10-day cross-country caravan to Washington DC demanding tighter immigration contrl including a fence. Jim Gilchrist, who founded the volunteer border control group in Southern California a year ago said:

When you have 1 million illegal aliens marching on the streets, that is a declaration of domination over the United States. And that is not acceptable.

The caravan consisted of four camper vans and a handful of cars leaving Los Angeles and is set to arrive in DC on May 12.

Via / Yahoo

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Posts Tagged ‘anti-immigration’

9500 Liberty In AZ Theaters

Before Coffee Video : Undocumented Responsible for 9-11

Pat Buchanan is Just Rehashing Old Hate

Minutemen : Now On Tour!

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