WITHIN HOURS of Arizona's immigration bill being signed into law, 1000s began taking to the streets

[Hannah Bell]

Phoenix, the state's capitol, saw several demonstrations over April 23-25, as hundreds--and in some cases, several thousands--of immigrant rights defenders turned out against the new law. As many as 2,000 students walked out of several Phoenix high schools in protest. Other demonstrations occurred in cities across the state, and furious immigrant rights supporters around the U.S. met and organized a response to this latest assault...

Another 3,500 protesters turned out the following day in Phoenix. Wearing T-shirts that read "Legalize Arizona" and carrying signs saying "We are human" and "We have rights," protesters called for the Obama administration to block the law by passing federal immigration reform, and for activists to carry out civil disobedience, if necessary, to oppose the unjust law...

Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon told the crowd: "We'll go to court. We'll go to the state courts, we'll go to the federal courts, and we'll go all the way to the Supreme Court. The law is unconstitutional, the law makes it unsafe for everyone and the law will harm us economically. Most importantly, it is just plain wrong."

http://socialistworker.org/2010/04/26/anger-builds-over-arizona-law

[EFerrari]

1. It looks like this whole project was a really bad idea.

:evilgrin:

[Hannah Bell]

2. couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch of assholes.

and provides the "threat of a good example" to others, besides.

here's to the state shut down by massive civil disobedience.

[mod mom]

8. They don't control the DoJ so they use the states to suppress the vote.

:mad:

[EFerrari]

10. That's their aim and it's going to backfire so big. Just watch.

:hi:

[pinboy3niner]

3. Wish I could've been there

I thought gay rights was the civil rights issue of this era, but I was wrong--it's not the only one. On the positive side, the wingnuts have SERIOUSLY miscalculated in pushing draconian and racist anti-immigrant measures. There's an expression I can't quite recall that goes, "da da da da da, da da da da da, wouldn't want to be you." :)

[old mark]

4. I am very very happy to see that people have FINALLY had enough of the evil

bullshit put out by the right in our country. It is about time someone actually got angry at them.

Possibly we can get some people to vote for Democrats in November to remove some of these trash from public office, if that is not offensive to anyone....


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[kevinbgoode]

5. Gosh..were all the media there?

Or do they only show up for all-day coverage of a couple of hundred teabaggers shouting the same old tired slogans. . .

Seems like no one else counts in this country except conservatives.

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[EFerrari]

7. Kick

[blindpig]

9. k&r