Protest SB 1070, the new "Jim Crow" White Supremacy legislation of Arizona!

Huge rally May 1st Phoenix, AZ @ capitol

www.ProtestArizona.com

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Arpaio's policies regarding prisoners should be grounds to issue an international warrant for his arrest on grounds of crimes against humanity. He should be taken to an internal court, tried, convicted, issued pink underwear and imprisoned in a tent somewhere in the deserts of Libya. During his lifetime state in the tent prison, he should be forced to run a large hamster wheel hooked up to an electrical generator and the power should be used to light the homes of a nearby village.

what this does is add a further burden on law enforcement and add to an already too large prisoner population.
Even in tents, food and medical and operational costs will rise.
and you can *only* vote a county sheriff out.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2767709820100427

UPDATE 1-Baseball, tourism caught in boycott of Arizona law
6:51pm EDT
* California state, city officials urge cutting contracts

* Conferences canceled in tourism-dependent state

* Adds pressure for national immigration reform

(Updates with California Senate leader comment, details)

By David Schwartz and Tim Gaynor

PHOENIX, April 27 (Reuters) - Immigration rights activists called on baseball fans on Tuesday to stay home from Arizona Diamondbacks games as part of a broad economic boycott to protest a statewide crackdown on illegal immigration signed into law in Arizona.

As a backlash by Hispanic groups, organized labor and civil liberties activists gained steam, the leader of the California Senate and officials in two of the state's biggest cities also moved to cut ties with companies based in neighboring Arizona.

Opponents of the state immigration law, the toughest on the books in the United States, urged travelers to avoid the tourism-dependent Grand Canyon state and for business groups and other organizations to hold their conventions elsewhere.

The Arizona Hotel and Lodging Association said six organizations had canceled conventions in the state, including the 11,000-member Immigration Lawyers Association, which had planned to hold its annual fall meeting in Scottsdale.

"There is widespread indignation not only in Arizona but throughout the country, and where people are under siege, they will look for ways to fight back," said Pablo Alvarado, executive director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network.

The furor was sparked on Friday when Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law a controversial measure designed by Republican sponsors to drive the state's illegal immigrants, the majority of them from Mexico, back to their home country.

Slated to take effect 90 days after the current session of the state legislature adjourns, the statute requires state and local police to determine a person's immigration status if there is "reasonable suspicion" that they are undocumented -- a mandate that critics say opens the door to racial profiling.

Opponents charge the measure amounts to an unconstitutional infringement on the exclusive authority of the federal government to control immigration, and a court challenge to the measure is widely expected.

Enactment of the measure has spurred a renewed push on President Barack Obama to make good on his campaign promise to press for comprehensive federal immigration reform. His administration said on Tuesday it was considering a court challenge to the new law.

But Arizona's Major League Baseball team, the Diamondbacks, became the first high-profile target of immigrant rights activists seeking to roll back the Arizona law, known as Senate Bill 1070.

BASEBALL 'AMBASSADORS' TARGETED

"The Diamondbacks are like ambassadors from Arizona to the rest of the country, and the world for that matter, and we want fans to stay away until the law is rescinded or neutralized," said Tony Herrera, an activist with a national group calling itself the Great Arizona Boycott 2010.

Herrera said his group is urging fans to refrain not only from going to Diamondback games, but also from buying the club's T-shirts and other merchandise. He said activists would form picket lines to pressure fans not to attend a game in Chicago against the Cubs scheduled for Thursday.

The Diamondbacks had no immediate comment on Tuesday.

Arizona is home to an estimated 460,000 of some 10.8 million illegal immigrants in the United States and form the backbone of a shadow labor force that works in industries ranging from construction and agriculture to restaurants and child care.

Calls for an Arizona boycott spread beyond the state.

On Tuesday, California Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, a Democrat, called on Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to do everything "legally possible" to sever the state's economic ties with Arizona.

In Los Angeles, a city councilwoman introduced a resolution calling for America's second-largest city to end all contracts with Arizona-based companies and "stop doing business with the state." It followed similar calls by San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera on Monday.

Some Arizona Democrats who opposed the immigration crackdown nevertheless are uncomfortable with the boycott and said their state as whole should not be punished.

The call was taken up on social networking site Facebook, where one group said any such move "unfairly targetted" 200,000 hotel workers in the state.

(Additional reporting by Steve Gorman and Dan Whitcomb in Los Angeles, and Peter Henderson in San Francisco; Editing by Mary Milliken and Cynthia Osterman)

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Ahnold and the Dems. in Cal.
take your bankrupt, looted by Enron economy and their pet politician, Ahnold & Co. and stay in Cal. You can have your Pacific Ocean but keep your graft and La Raza on your side of the whimp line where you have to kiss your cops behind, unarmed and helpless while they beat tazer or kill your unarmed ass.

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"Jim Crow law"????

The AZ law is basicly the same thing as the federal law. And gives AZ police the same authority that the federal government already gives federal cops in dealing with the illegal aliens.

How about putting Obama and Pelosi in Klan rags on your next poster. That would make as much sence. Or how about all the USA with a NAZI flag background and call the USA a red country.