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Entries for May, 2010

THE MAY 29TH MARCH IN ARIZONA!

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Music inspired by the 2006 Marches around the country
From CRNLive Blog  May 29, 2010 11:24 p.m.
By Frank M. Miranda 
(Phoenix, Arizona)— Today was a great day! I was surrounded by wonderful peaceful people from at least seven states. We were gathered to voice our opposition to the bills passed [...]

Thousands descend on Phoenix to protest immigration law

(CNN) — They came from Los Angeles and San Diego, and Wisconsin, Texas, Illinois, Chicago, Seattle and, of course, Arizona — a river of humanity flooding the Phoenix streets to protest the state’s controversial immigration law.
The Arizona legislature passed the bill earlier this year and the state’s Republican governor, Jan Brewer, signed it. In two [...]

Thousands descend on Phoenix for immigration march, rallies

http://www.azfamily.com/outbound-feeds/yahoo-news/Arizona-Immigration-rallies-drawing-crowds-to-Phoenix-95179624.html
PHOENIX — People from out of state came to Phoenix in the thousands to express their opinion, both support and opposition, on Arizona’s new law targeting illegal immigration.
Thousands gathered Saturday morning to rally and march towards the state Capitol to show their opposition to SB 1070.
Those opponents were bused in from around the country to [...]

CRNLive is delighted to have Stevie D as one of our new writers!

Steve will welcome any topics you feel are important for discussion on our Blog. Steve has been on radio in Arizona, and Oregon. He served on a Tucson station as a political adviser. He served in the military for the official paper, where his topics ranged from environment, government just to name a few. He [...]

Raul Grijalva Immigration – Arizona Immigration with Congressman Raul Grijalva – Esquire

You have to think that none of this would have happened had John McCain still been living.
It’s been one week since SB 1070 became the law in Arizona, and now 30 percent of the state’s population has been relegated to the status of second-class citizens, and are open to harassment and arrest, all in a [...]

Isabel Garcia, Pima County Public Defender and Derechos Humanos member speaking out against Arizona’s SB1070. Sign the petition at altoarizona.com and come to the National Day of Action in Phoenix, AZ on May 29, 2010.

¡Alto Arizona! Isabel Garcia from Barni Qaasim on Vimeo.
Isabel Garcia, Pima County Public Defender and Derechos Humanos member speaking out against Arizona’s SB1070. Sign the petition at altoarizona.com and come to the National Day of Action in Phoenix, AZ on May 29, 2010.
On Friday, April 23rd, Governor Jan Brewer joined the ranks of George Wallace [...]

Rallies for and against SB1070 being held in Phoenix Saturday

PHOENIX – On Saturday thousands of people will be speaking out against SB 1070 the immigration bill.
Protesters of SB 1070 will gather at Indian Steele Park around 8 a.m. and make their way to the State Capitol.
With people marching to the rally there will be road closures in an around the central/downtown Phoenix area.
Streets to [...]

Jan Brewer’s CCA Money and Her Possible Conflict of Interest Over SB 1070

Several months before signing SB 1070, Governor Jan Brewer accepted hundreds of dollars in “seed money” for her clean elections campaign from corporate executives and others with a possible stake in Arizona’s “papers please” legislation becoming law.
In all, seven executives with the Tennessee-based private prisons giant Corrections Corporation of America contributed $980 for the governor’s [...]

Phoenix loses suppliers convention over new immigration law

A minority suppliers group that would have brought 7,000 convention attendees to Phoenix this fall has moved the meeting to Florida because of Arizona’s new immigration law.
The National Minority Suppliers Development Council, Inc. released a statement, which Phoenix officials received today.
The council is the latest of several out-of-town groups that have canceled Valley meetings because [...]

SIGN PETITION TO STOP SB 1070!!

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