9:12 am By Maegan La Mala · Activism| Immigration| Music| arizona · Comments Off
10 Feb 2009If you’re in the Tempe, Arizona area tonite, you can put you can move to musica por el movimiento. In direct response to the continued racist and anti-immigrant antics of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, renowned musical artists from Chicago, Detroit, New York, and from the Arizona area are unleashing their lenguas for “Stop the Circus! (Fight for Tolerance, Stop Arpaio)”.
On Wednesday, February 4, 2009 in a shocking display of anti-immigrant racism, the man who calls himself the “Toughest Sheriff in America” publicly chained and paraded 220 immigrant detainees through a gauntlet of media cameras from the Maricopa county jail to outdoor tents. The immigrants housed in the “tent city” will be surrounded by electrified fencing and subject to different disciplinary standards than other prisoners. Disobedience of Sheriff Joe’s “tent city” rules is punishable by chain-gang labor; eerily reminiscent of totalitarian regimes.
Donde :
Stray Cat
2433 E. University Drive
Tempe, AZ
8pm
Scheduled to perform: One Be Lo, Wordsworth, Verbal Kent, G-Owens, Fiyah Station, Nobuddie, Bliss-Writers Bench: Hosted by Wild Life Refuge.
Check out Wordsworth aqui:
Let us not forget the roots of hip hop, as a way of speaking truth to power and reflecting realities ignored in the mainstream media and in portraits of the “American dream”. Protest comes in many forms so let us build movimiento con musica.
For mas informacion contact: Jill Garvey(jill@newcomm.org) at the Center for New Community
312-266-0319 or 773-787-6353 (mobile)
9:24 am By Maegan La Mala · Immigration| TV| arizona · 1 Comment
23 Dec 2008There’s a reason it’s said that t.v. rots your brain. Most of the time, even when tuned in to alleged reliable news channels, we are being distracted with tales of violence and sex that are disconnected from complicated relationships among sex, class, race, ability, and gender (among other things). No wonder FOX is trying to make a star out of asshole Sheriff Arpaio.
8:33 am By Maegan La Mala · Immigration| Politics| arizona · 1 Comment
24 Nov 2008
President-elect Obama has made another cabinet pick, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano to head the always troubled Department of Homeland Security. The decision is being praised left and right because of her experience inside the border state and a “practical” attitude. And while I suppose being practical might be useful in a national government post, it doesn’t bode well for the millions of immigrants hoping that the change line Obama has been feeding people includes them and their families.
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