Gustavo Arellano: How Mexican Food Conquered the U.S. (tags)
Gustavo Arellano, who in the last decade has risen from food editor at the O.C. Weekly in Orange County to investigative reporter at the paper and author of the popular syndicated column “¡Ask a Mexican!,” a witty send-up of anti-Mexican stereotypes published in at least 38 media outlets, came to San Diego April 11 to promote his latest book, "Taco U.S.A.: How Mexican Food Conquered America."
Border and Community Vigilantism (tags)
state terrorism
Claremont Authorities Promote Fascism at Hate Rally (tags)
Saturday, March 19, 2011
CLAREMONT, California - Despite the best efforts of the City of Claremont and the Claremont Consortium of Colleges to obstruct, befuddle, and otherwise thwart a popular demonstration against fascism, the Southern California community succeeded in doing precisely that at two parallel demonstrations in response to a heavily-armed presence of a band of racist paramilitaries and their state-funded protectors.
Republinzi Chris Simcox On The Run (tags)
You may remember this lovely Republican Christian when he came to California under the fake names "Save Our State" a.k.a. "Minutemen" a.k.a. "National Vanguard" a.k.a. "National Alliance" and so many others. They're all the same neo-Nazi Klan regardless of what names they give themselves.
Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit Against Costa Mesa Mayor Goes to Trial on Wednesday (tags)
A federal civil rights lawsuit filed in March 2006 by an Orange County immigrant rights activist accusing Costa Mesa Mayor Alan Mansoor of violating his constitutional right to free speech is scheduled to go on trial on the morning of Wednesday, December 2nd at 8:30 a.m. in Santa Ana.
Paid Lying: What Passes for Major Media Journalism (tags)
state of today's major media
Authorities on both sides of the border detain suspects in regard to the killing of U.S. B (tags)
Whether it was illegal immigrants or drug smugglers is not immediately clear. What is certain is Border Agent Robert Wimer Rosas, was killed in the line of duty by unidentified individuals at 9:15 PM on July 23rd while on duty patrolling the U.S. Mexican border.
Minuteman imposter Shawna Ford charged in double murder (tags)
The attempts at damage control at the anti-immigration groups in the United States following the arrest of Shawna Forde and her gang is on going, but as more and more information becomes available, it’s clear that Forde was not an unknown outsider within the anti-immigrant (and… more to the point… anti-Mexican) movement.
"Minutemen" Domestic Terrorism Arrests (tags)
When the Minutemen 'go tactical' for dollars: Forde intended gang to rip off dealers, and may have struck in CA already
May-June 2009 National Immigrant Solidarity Network Monthly News Digest (tags)
No Immigrant Bashing! Support Immigrant Rights!
Local activists oppose police, minuteman harassment of day laborers (tags)
UPLAND, California - January 26, 2008 Supporters of the human rights of immigrants and workers filled the Upland City Council chambers tonight to support speakers decrying injustices against Upland day laborers. The Minutemen, who are themselves responsible for many of these injustices, also arrived to address the council. And while the council may have been more receptive to their racist rhetoric than to our pleas for justice, we maintained the moral high ground and refused to retreat.
Minuteman Founder To Lecture on La Raza and Racism at Long Beach State (tags)
The Conservative Student Union at long Beach State will host Jim Gilchrist and Ted Hayes to speak on La Raza and Racism.
XENOPHOBIA and the KPFK ELECTIONS (tags)
This is Eben Rey, Committee to Strengthen KPFK staff candidate for the local station board.
Blackwater's Run for the Border (tags)
There are signs that Blackwater USA, the private security firm that came under intense scrutiny after its employees killed 17 civilians in Iraq in September, is positioning itself for direct involvement in U.S. border security. The company is poised to construct a major new training facility in California, just eight miles from the U.S.-Mexico border. While contracts for U.S. war efforts overseas may no longer be a growth industry for the company, Blackwater executives have lobbied the U.S. government since at least 2005 to help train and even deploy manpower for patrolling America's borders.
ACLU attorney interviewed on KPFK about Coyotl Tezcatlipoca's case (tags)
Belinda Escobosa Helzer, an ACLU attorney representing Coyotl Tezcatlipoca, talks about his case on the KPFK program, Uprising, on Monday, September 24, 2007.
Criminal Trial for Costa Mesa Activist (tags)
The charges of “disrupting” a city council proceeding stem from a free-for-all that broke out during a public comments session of the Jan. 3, 2006, Costa Mesa city council meeting after police, acting on Mayor Allan Mansoor’s orders to take an early recess, pulled Acosta away from the speaker’s podium and pushed him outside the council chambers before his three minute speaking limit had expired.
Defend free speech! Attend Coyot Tezcatlipoca's criminal trial, Sept. 25th (tags)
This case highlights the absurdity of Orange County's backward system of criminal justice in the era of Minutemen: Tezcatlipoca is facing prosecution for offenses that were committed against him by police and government officials!
POLL: Is a Minuteman group in Ridgecrest a good idea? (tags)
The Daily Independent, A local Ridgecrest, California newspaper asks readers "Is a Minuteman group in Ridgecrest a good idea?"
Attorney requests delay for Acosta case (tags)
They're trying to criminalize Mr. Acosta's speech," said Belinda Escobosa Helzer, an ACLU attorney representing him. "It's very unusual that they would decide to bring criminal charges for a person exercising their 1st Amendment right at an open City Council meeting."
"They're trying to criminalize Mr. Acosta's speech," said Belinda Escobosa Helzer, an ACLU attorney representing him. "It's very unusual that they would decide to bring criminal charges for a person exercising their 1st Amendment right at an open City Council meeting."
Defend free speech! Attend Coyot Tezcatlipoca's criminal trial, Aug. 15th (tags)
This case highlights the absurdity of Orange County's backward system of criminal justice in the era of Minutemen: Tezcatlipoca is facing prosecution for offenses that were committed against him by police and government officials!
Shooting At Mexicans By Gilchrist Minutemen (chilling video) (tags)
The Intelligence Report has obtained a chilling video that Robert Crooks, the leader of the nativist extremist group Mountain Minutemen, recently E-mailed to several other prominent nativist leaders, including Jim Gilchrist, co-founder of the original Minuteman Project.
Defend free speech! Attend Coyotl Tezcatlipoca's trial, Aug 15th (tags)
Defend the right of free speech, assembly, and fair and equal treatment in the criminal justice system! Show your solidarity with Tezcatlipoca by attending his upcoming criminal trial!
Hayes/Minuteman Rally Is A Flop (tags)
Rally permit expired. Infighting among Minutemen. Ego battles take place for control. Rally is abandoned by Minutemen as Hayes and four others are arrested.
Public Terror: Escalating the War on Migrants (tags)
The mass public assault on the May 1st rally and a public raid on migrants at a shopping mall in Chicago shortly before May 1st mark a brutal and highly public escalation in the ruling class's war on migrants. Increased resistance like the upcoming May 17th march to MacArthur Park is exactly what the situation calls for.
Ku Klux Klan crashes Minuteman rally (tags)
Wearing black T-shirts with the KKK insignia, their faces covered with bandanas and sunglasses, the group chanted and waved American flags.
BTL:Protesting Iraq War, Over 200 Christian Peace Activists Arrested at the White House... (tags)
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary
A Minuteman meets his hour of crisis (tags)
Minuteman Project co-founder Jim Gilchrist is battling three of his board members in court for control of the organization. By Jennifer Delson, Times Staff Writer March 11, 2007
THe Takeover of the Minuteman Project (tags)
THE PUPPETEER TAKES THE REINS
And Humpty Dumpty Had A Great Fall... (tags)
Minuteman Founder, Jim Gilchrist, Gets The Boot!
Anti-Immigrant Minutemen Defeated in Hollywood (tags)
Protesters Outnumber Racists, Demand Equality for Immigrants
Minutemen Stumble, ANSWER Steps Up (tags)
Yesterday protesters in Hollywood used a confused minuteman march to take their message to the streets.
Protest Racist Minutemen in Hollywood (tags)
Come to a counter-protest against the Minutemen and Save Our State, two neo-fascist, anti-immigrant organizations.
Armed and Dangerous - Arizona Vigilantes
Lake Forest: Crackdown on Day Laborers (tags)
Minutemen, OC Sheriffs, and a private security company are working hand in hand to harass day laborers.
Minutemen and Apocalypto at City Hall (tags)
Unity against Laguna Beach minutemen (tags)
A few photos of what has become too usual at the Laguna Beach Day Labor Center.
Area cops lead minuteman invasion of Maywood (tags)
Residents of Maywood and their supporters outnumbered minutemen objecting to their sanctuary city, but the counterprotestors were met by a hostile array of local and area cops fronting for the racist invaders.
2 border agents get decade in prison for shooting smuggler (tags)
This is really unusuall. Two cops actually get punished for shooting a Mexican in the back. Usually the cops involved in these crimes get a pat on the back along with a raise. But the racist Minutemen think the piggies got a bum rap.
Jim Gilchrist Storms off DN! Debate With Columbia Student Organizer (tags)
Look at the coward who doesnt want to debate
Full Statement of Columbia Students Who Occupied the Stage (tags)
October 6, 2006
Protest at Columbia University against Gilchrist (tags)
Full statement of those who occupied the stage at Columbia University at a event with Jim Gilchrist on Oct. 4th.
Gilchrist Attacked at Columbia; Violence Erupts, Loud Shouts and Fists Thrown in Anger (tags)
Gilchrist such down by angry crowd at Columbia University, reports right-wing World Net Daily. Ends in celebration and gleeful chants of 'Asian, Black, Brown and White, we smashed the Minutemen tonight!'"
Sanctuary City, National City (tags)
Hundreds of residents of the small community of National City outside San Diego proudly celebrated their new sanctury city, a refuge for the foreign-born, free from profiling and discrimination.
New progressive newspaper starts in Costa Mesa and Huntington Beach, Orange County, California. A small newspaper, but packed with hard news about important social and environmental issues. Here's a sample.
New progressive newspaper starts in Costa Mesa and Huntington Beach, Orange County, California. A small newspaper, but packed with hard news about important social and environmental issues. Here's a sample.
The signs read, “No Terrorist Racism in Ventura County,” “Shame on You Borders” and “No Human Being is Illegal.” The shouts from the crowd of approximately 30 protestors outside of Borders Book Store in Thousand Oaks ranged from the boilerplate “Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, the Minutemen have got to go” to an angry “Racists go home” to an even more creative “Down with the geriatric fascist.”
Minutemen Deflated in Thousand Oaks (tags)
The anti-Minutemen outnumbered the supporters of Jim Gilchrist in Thousand Oaks, Ventura County, and fought geriatric, armchair fringe rightwing fools with a youthful, energetic spirit of internationalism, positivity, and community solidarity!
Hate Crime at Laguna Beach Day Labor Center (tags)
Two white men were held on suspicion of attempted murder and committing a hate crime Sunday at the Laguna Beach Day Labor Center.
Minuteman Project in Ventura County (Thousand Oaks) (tags)
Minuteman Project founder speaks at Thousand Oaks Borders 9/25 - - hiss, hiss, BOOOO
Minuteman Project in serious troubles? (tags)
Dear MySpace Minuteman Project Friends,
Jim Gilchrist coming to L.A. this Saturday (tags)
TOGETHER, let's let Gov. Arnold and the attendees know how much loyal, law-abiding citizens support our own courageous JIM GILCHRIST, Founder of the MINUTEMAN PROJECT (MMP) and all the great patriots who support his efforts to enforce OUR laws, secure OUR borders and protect OUR families.
Internal Strife at SOS – Part III (tags)
Part 3. The fall of SS187.
Immigration Protesters Scuffle in New York (tags)
by Michelle Nichols 07/26/2006 6:14 pm
Tens of Thousands Rallied for Immigrant Rights in Chicago. (tags)
More than 40,0000 immigrants and their advocates marched in Chicago despite the heat wave that struck the United States. The massive march to stop deportations, sanctions, raids and against family separations was held from Union Park at mid morning, 9:00 AM and ended with a rally at 1:00 PM at the Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois.
Laguna Beach: Minutemen drop their mask (tags)
Faced with the solidarity of day laborers and their supporters and a defeat in Laguna Beach, Minutemen and Save Our State joined forces Saturday and dropped their facade.
Here is a list of Antis, some are known hate groups and the rest have the potential of being hate groups.
MEXICA MOVEMENT LAUNCHES DISNEY BOYCOTT (tags)
Disney’s white supremacist radio talk show hosts incite a bomb threat against children and promote smallpox genocide against Indigenous People.
CM Protest Against Three Little Pigs: Silly, Garbage & Baloney (tags)
The Minuteman Junta that controls the Costa Mesa City Council (Mayor Allan Mansoor, Eric Bever and Gary Monahan) call allegations that they pander to extremists the equivelent of the Three Little Pigs fairy tale and "silly garbage baloney," but local residents who marched through Costa Mesa July 8 feel otherwise.
MM Prove Too Much for GOP (tags)
Minutemen prove to be too much even for Texas Republicans
Press Conference to Denounce LAPD Brutality (tags)
Say No to Police Brutality Against Immigrant Rights Protestors in Hollywood
Protest Racist Minutemen in Hollywood (tags)
All progressive, anti-racist people are encouraged to protest the racist Minutemen in Hollywood this Saturday.
Laguna Day Labor Center Ordered Closed (tags)
Minuteman tip to Cal Trans leads to its closure
Evolution and the Antis (tags)
Evolution has had little affect on the xenophobic mind in that past 100 years. Indeed, knowledge and understanding have also fallen short of reaching the advent xenophobic trend.
“HUNG JURY” FOR ANTI-MINUTEMAN PROTESTER (tags)
Tuesday, May 30, 2006 “HUNG JURY” FOR ANTI-MINUTEMAN PROTESTER An Orange County jury deadlocks on three charges; issues “not guilty” verdict for two others.
Provoking Violence: The Minutemen Confront Migrants and Supporters in Downtown LA (tags)
A month ago and the month before, migrants and their supporters put a million people in the streets. Today the minutemen countered with a hundred-person "civil rights march," proclaiming no civil rights for immigrants or their children. Luckily for the minutemen, the protestors were inclined to be non-violent.
Activist clash with Minuteman Project (tags)
Two protesters including a well known Chicano activist was arrested in Downtown, Los Angeles during a confrontation with members of the volunteer border patrol the Minuteman Project.
SOS Thread on May 21 Demo (tags)
It is not impossible that Joe Turner has hired someone smart enough to put an IP sniffer on www.saveourstate.org This thread enables shy folk to read SOS worry free.
Protest Racist Minutemen in Downtown LA - Sun, May 21, 11 am (tags)
This Sunday, the racist Minutemen are marching through downtown LA. Join progressive, pro-immigrant organizations to protest against them. Also, participate in informational community leafletting.
Minutemen, protesters square off at Capitol (tags)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Illegal immigration protesters wrapped up a cross-country caravan on Friday with a rally in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol, as immigrant-rights activists chanted for them to "go away."
Antis Email Intercepted - Agenda of Violence (tags)
An email sent on April 3rd, 2006 by a prominent anti-immigration leader has secretly urged the nation’s largest neo-Nazi group to launch a campaign of violence and harassment against undocumented workers in the United States.
Racist extremists advocate "killing" Mexicans (tags)
Neo-Nazis and anti-immigration extremists responded to a highly publicized wave of immigration reform demonstrations in major U.S. cities with open calls for terrorist violence, including truck bombs, machine gun attacks, and assassinations of U.S. senators and members of Congress.
Ted Hayes Quits Minutemen, Recruits Gang Members (tags)
In the wake of his assault on a pro-amnesty protestor Sunday, Black Republican Ted Hayes quits the Minutemen. In the meantime a Hayes associate issues a call for active gang members to join Hayes new anti-migrant group, the "New Buffalo Soldiers."
Burbank: Standoff in the Street (tags)
On Saturday morning, during an immigration confrontation at Burbank Home Depot, Save Our State and other minutemen spouted their frustration and unsuccessfully tried to provoke violence after a month of pro-migrant victories.
Report on Anti-Minutemen Protest in Burbank (tags)
Report on Anti-Minutemen Protest in Burbank The People Drive Out the Racists! No Human Being is Illegal!
Protest vs. Protest: Immigration Shouting Match Forecast (tags)
Well, the day-laborer hiring center in the 1200 block of Flower Street in Burbank should be a pretty noisy place at around 8 a.m. this Saturday:
JC Outs Himself. Ending Years of Denial He Says "I'm proud to be a Vigilante" (tags)
Founder of the anti-immigrant vigilante group, the Minuteman Project. Says he won’t try to stop violence by his members and “I’m proud to be a vigilante.”
Costa Mesa demonstration attracts 1,500 people defending immigrant rights (tags)
Minutemen flee from Orange County as opponents stage huge rally on their home turf
Save Our State Pops Its Head Up; Counterprotests Planned (tags)
Save Our State joins with student trying to shut down MEChA at Jurupa USD Board meeting and talk about taking on MEChA nationwide. Counterprotesters plan response.
The Ghost of George Wallace: Immigration and White Racism (tags)
They were on the verge of a walled off country, a police state whose target would be Brown people. Then, on Saturday, their dominace cracked.
Jim Gilchrist speaks on LA march (tags)
Words from Jim Gilchrist on the march in L.A.
Minuteman Mayor's ICE Cracks In Costa Mesa Immigration War (tags)
Reeling from pointed public comments and revealing testimony from police Chief John Hensley, Costa Mesa Mayor Allan Mansoor tried but failed to silence fellow City Council member Katrina Foley as she attacked his proposal to use police as immigration law eLooking upnforcers under the auspices of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau of the U.S. Department of Justice.
IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS FORUM !!! (tags)
Immigrants rights forums
"What have you done to Costa Mesa?" Minuteman Mayor Allan Mansoor turns city u (tags)
Costa Mesa’s Minuteman Junta has brought terror, racism, incompetence and shame to the city.
The Arizona Minuteman comes to Costa Mesa (tags)
Blasting President George W. Bush for being weak on "homeland security," Simcox demanded that National Guard and U.S. military troops be placed in "civic observation posts" all along the U.S./Mexico border. "I don't care if it offends the government of Mexico or the people of Mexico," Simcox told the approving crowd. "I don't care about the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo! Your country got beat! Our army got what it wanted! And that's history! You follow by our rules now!"
Costa Mesa: Council member says Guinness Beer justifies immigrant crackdown (tags)
Protester: "Gary, you're a racist pig! Ha! Ha! We'll be back!" Reply from city councilman: “You...you’re a fag!” Monahan says that his experience selling Guinness instead of Coors Light justfies Costa Mesa’s immigrant (ICE) crackdown Extra: Jim Gilchrist goes crazy over Green men
from slave patrol to border patrol (tags)
Screening of Rights on the Line and Panel Discussion with Arnoldo Garcia, Monica Hernandez, and Chris Newman SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2 P.M
OC police clamp down on immigrant-rights activists (tags)
Whether posing as protesters or cutting off speeches, OC police clamp down on immigrant-rights activists
Letter to the editor about Costa Mesa Mayor (tags)
"Before Tezcalipoca's speaking time expired, the mayor suspended the meeting and said or did things that by prearrangement caused the police to move in on Tezcalipoca. While Tezcalipoca was telling the officers who had surrounded him that he would leave on his own and that he did not want them to touch him, they grabbed him around the neck and forcibly removed him from the council chambers." -- Chris Blank
PROTEST ANTI-IMMIGRANT RACISTS IN BURBANK - SAT, JAN 21, 8 AM (tags)
Stop Attacks on Immigrants! No to "SOS" and Minutemen! Unite to stop the racists in their tracks!
CM Mayor Puts Choke-hold On First Amendment During Immigration Crackdown (tags)
Mayor Allan Mansoor of Costa Mesa lets lets Minuteman followers have there say, but cuts off immigrant rights activists.
MARCH FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS - JUSTICE FOR GUILLERMO MARTINEZ - SAT, JAN 14, 10AM (tags)
March and rally to demand justice for Guillermo Martinez! Stop racist violence against immigrants!
Protest Costa Mesa City Council 1/17 (tags)
see above
¡NO MAS! A Day of Anti-Minuteman Protest (tags)
On Saturday, counterprotestors, activists and day laborers, across Southern California coordinated efforts and shut down the Minutemen's attempt at a "secret" day of national anti-immigrant rallies.
CCIR welcomes Costa Mesa mayor to their next meeting (tags)
The CCIR welcomes Costa Mesa mayor Allan Mansoor to their next meeting.
Extensive statement from Jim Gilchrist about Cliff May (tags)
Jim Gilchrist awards Cliff May aka Jammer CC the first annual "Benedict Arnold Award."
Poor Hardworking Immigrants Not Represented At Lake Forest City Council Meeting (tags)
SHAMEFUL! Poor Hardworking Immigrants Not Represented At Lake Forest City Council Meeting
Since the September 11th attacks, racist groups have gained increasing size and political power.
Report on Gilchrist/Minuteman day labor protest in Lake Forest dec. 17, '05 (tags)
Gilchrist and his supporters at a Lake Forest day labor protest.
Minuteman leader has troubled past (tags)
Minuteman leader Chris Simcox paints himself as a heroic guardian of national security. Those close to him see him differently.
Illegal Immigration - A Native American Indian's View (tags)
By Carlos Estrella December 13, 2005
Going public on the Gilchrist campaign (tags)
Photo of the Gilchrist campaign van at their "victory party." Noting my intention to type a complete statement on my experience with SOS/Gilchrist campaign/Minuteman groups.
Theresa Dang Not Guily: Article and Audio Interviews (tags)
The case of the missing police flashlight remains unresolved, but local activist Theresa Dang can go back to her San Francisco law school now and finish studying for her first final exam after a jury of her “peers” voted her not guilty on two separate counts of petty theft of a Garden Grove police officer's flashlight during a May 25th demonstration at the Garden Grove Women's Club.
Gilchrist critic is exonerated in May theft of police light (tags)
A woman was acquitted Thursday on charges of stealing a flashlight from a police officer while she was protesting against Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist.
Theresa Dang's trial ended Nov. 30 (tags)
Hello all: Theresa Dang's trial unexpectedly happened to end today, with the jury going into deliberations at around 4:00 pm. We're expecting them to come up with a verdict sometime tomorrow morning (December 1st).
Minutemen Exposed By Their Own (tags)
James Chase pulls back the curtain on Gilchrist, Simcox, and the Minuteman Project. Reposted from CalNews.com.
Fascists to hold campaign fundraiser for Jim Gilchrist (tags)
Fascists to hold campaign fundraiser for Jim Gilchrist
It's official: Minuteman Jim Gilchrist is a nut! (tags)
Faced with increasingly tough questions from conservatives about his recently stated support for Peter Camejo, revolution and redistribution of the wealth, as well as his high praise of the Seattle anti-WTO demonstrators, Minuteman candidate says five Greens were charged for attempted murder in Garden Grove and that Greens are domestic terrorists.
Rally Against the Minutemen! (tags)
A case of desparation resorting to lies
RALLY AGAINT THE minutemen! Disrupt the Minutemen's Rally! (tags)
Rally against the Minutemen! English followed by Spanish
Voices of Color: Unite against the border vigilantes! (tags)
Minuteman armed thugs are gathering on the U.S.-Mexico border to try to stop undocument- ed immigration. The good news: protesters are building a movement that can stop them. To reprint, please credit the author & Freedom Socialist newspaper. Notice is appreciated.
Green Party Demands Retraction of False Statements by Jim Gilchrist (tags)
The Green Party of Orange County demands a retraction of slanderous statements made by Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project and American Independent candidate for Congress in the 48th Congressional District, accusing the Green Party of being "terrorists" and individual Greens of orchestrating "mayhem" and "attempted murder."
Garden Grove 5 face Preliminary Hearing (tags)
The Garden Grove 5 (victims of police and political repression arrested for speaking out against the Minuteman Project) face their Preliminary Hearing on October 3. Please attend and support this court date in anti-racist solidarity.
"Minuteman Project" founder faces possible slander suit over "attempted mur (tags)
"Gilchrist's allegation that I was involved in a organizing a counterdemonstration where protesters tried to murder an 80 year old woman who came to hear him speak about the 'Minuteman Project' is bald-faced lie. No such incident ever occured on May 25th. No one -- not even the Garden Grove Police -- will back up such garbage."
KKK rally site changed to Irvine Marriot Hotel (tags)
According to Jim Gilchrist's website, the KKK rally will not be held in Irvine Regional Park as originally planned, but in the Grand Ballroom of the Irvine Marriot Hotel.
Drive the Minutemen out of Irvine! (tags)
Below is text from a flyer that Jim Gilchrist has been circulating in Orange County, California.
For those of you that were not able to make it to Carlsbad, here are links to audios of the racists speeches.
FBP May Be Run Out of Imperial Valley (tags)
Early reports from leaders of the anti-minutemen forces in Calexico indicate Friends of the Border Patrol rousted.
HOW A MINUTEKLAN CO-FOUNDER GOT MORE THAN HE BARGAINED FOR IN LONG ISLAND, NY (tags)
Well, it looks like our friends in the Minuteklan Project wanted to come out and see if they can bring their crap to the East Coast, so they held another meeting, this time in Babylon, Long Island in New York. About 100 people came out to see him, but they were all of us, and that made for an interesting afternoon on the Island. Chris Simcox, the co-founder of the Minuteklan Project, was the featured speaker at this meeting, and that was what prompted so many people to come out. We have at this link a slew of pics from the day, and as always, if you recognize anyone in the pics, hit us up and give us the story.
California Minutemen Attempt to Send Message on September 11 Border Watch (tags)
A CALL TO ACTION-Join the Human Rights Coalition of California against the RETURN OF THE CALIFORNIA MINUTEMEN. Jim Chase, California Minutemen Founder has announced a Border Watch to begin SEPTEMBER 11, 2005. Join the Human Rights Coalition of California and other human rights activists at the VFW in Campo, CA to protest the racism of the Minuteman Project.
STOP Jim Gilchrist from winning the Congressional District of Orange County! (tags)
The Human Rights Coalition of California urges the people of Los Angeles County to contact fellow Orange Country friends, relatives, and co-workers to STOP JIM GILCHRIST
COMMUNITY OBJECTS TO L.A. ANTI-IMMIGRANT CONFERENCE (tags)
A crucial demo to stop the mainstreaming of the Minutemen on Friday, August 26 from 4:00-6:00 p.m. at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel at 9500 Wilshire Blvd in Beverly Hills.
Campo: Hunting the Migrant Hunters (tags)
For two weeks, brave members of Gente Unida and the Desert Angels have pitched their tents along the border to stop the California Minutemen there. On the past two weekends, they've been joined by protestors from throughout Southern California. This weekend, however, they were on their own. This is a report on one night among the protestors at Campo. Next Saturday, August 6, the last weekend of the California Minutemen's presence on the border, a major counter-demonstration will begin at 4:00 p.m. at the Gente Unida camp to say goodbye to the California Minutemen.
Join The SECOND Virtual Sit-In Against The MinuteMen (tags)
Join the SwarmTheMinuteMen.com and Electronic Disturbance Theater Virtual Sit-In Against Anti-Immigrant Websites, from Tuesday July 20th -Thursday, July 22nd To join, click here: http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html
2 IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS (tags)
a) SAVE OUR STATE TO BULLY MORE DAY LABORERES IN LAGUNA BEACH THIS SATURDAY b) MINUTEMEN HAVE OFFICIALLY ARRIVED IN SAN DIEGO--GROUPS CALLED ON TO COUNTER--THEIR PRESENCE!!!
SOS not Welcome with Minutemen Part 2 (tags)
SOS and their members are apparently not welcome with Friends of the Border Patrol, a CA based Minuteman group. The following is a FAQ from the Friends of the Border Patrol website. Note question #8.
Garden Grove Police launch smear campaign against anti-Minutemen protesters (tags)
I wonder how Lt. Handfield would have tried to spin this story if Lafferty had been crushed to death? California state law doesn't give persons driving 3,000 lb. minivans the right to roll over pedestrians, does it?
Garden Grove Police launching smear campaign against May 25th protesters hit by Netkin? (tags)
The real question that people need to ask now is this: Is it the policy of the Garden Grove Police to smear people who have been struck by automobiles? Do they smear people who have been involved in other kinds of accidents, as well? Does Lt. Handfield have qualifications to diagnose people's injuries based on what he sees on videotape? I thought his job was to fight crime?
The Minuteman Project: Modern Day Slave Patrols (tags)
The political context of white vigilantism and why white people need to fight it.
Joe Turner Hero In The New Again (tags)
Joe Turner in the News Again...ever wonder why there are SO many stories on Joe Tuner and NONE on the indymedia leaders?
MINUTEMAN CO-FOUNDER JOINS HATE GROUP (tags)
Add another log on the hate fires that the Minuteman Project built. They have repeated the refrain over and over again that they have no tolerance for hate groups or their members joining them. Sean Hannity has been their television personality cheerleader parroting the declaration. Well, that hasn't been the case, as hatemonger after hatemonger have been using the Minuteman Project as a springboard for their little race war. One would think that if a group are so adamant about racists in their midsts, they would do something to stifle this activity. Well that didn't happen, nor did it look like it's going to. Minuteman co-founder, Jim Gilchrist, on the left in the picture above with the other founder Chris Simcox and cheerleader Hannity, joined the California Coalition for Immigration Reform. That's a group that's close to, among other groups, the Council of Conservative Citizens, and it is noted by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group. It is getting tiresome finding example after example of the race-based vigilantism that the Minuteman Project keeps trying to deny they are engaged in, but now it is even harder to do so. That is just fine for the scores of groups looking to seal the fate of these lowlifes.
Another Side of Resistance to Racism - June 25,2005 (tags)
Besides the mass mobilization, something more was happening to resist the lies and hatred of SOS and the Minutemen on that day.
Baldwin Park 2: La reconquista continúa (tags)
Report from the second invasion of Baldwin Park
NJ TO MINUTEMEN AND THEIR SUPPORTERS: ¡BASTA YA! (tags)
The United Patriots of America (UPA), a group allied with the Minuteman Project, announced this public recruiting drive in Bridgewater on a radio station whose hosts are pretty sympathetic to their cause. Logic would say that they should have expected the press to show up, but when they did, they turned them away. Logic would also say that they should have expected protests, but they didn't seem prepared for that either considering most of the people that were in their meeting was there to disrupt it! Finally logic would say that if you are going to have a meeting to get support for your group while at the same time try to deflect charges of working with racists and the hate groups they belong to, the last thing you would want to do is have as your keynote speaker a guy who is a member of not one, but two groups that the Southern Poverty Law Center designate as a hate group. Well, all of that happened this weekend, and we got it all down for you. All of the attendees were lily white, except for two people. One was a black dude who was working for Ron Bass, the guy who runs UPA. The other was DLJ - and he was asked to leave because he was taping the meeting! He managed to BS them into allowing him to stay, and he was able to get some good footage prior to them trying to give him trouble. The pics going along with this story come from that video, so some of them are a little fuzzy, but they are still good enough for folks to see what went down. Mad props have to go to Casa Freehold, who alerted everyone to what was happening in our backyard. The summer is getting hotter and hotter.
PHOENIX: ALL OUT IN SOLIDARITY WITH IMMIGRANTS (tags)
Join the counter-demonstration against the “Anti-Illegal Alien Rally” on July 1st. Protest the Minuteman project! Where: Arizona State Capitol When: Friday, July 1st, starting 10am
Why the Minuteman Project may look real familar (tags)
The similarities are astounding!
Minuteman Flap Leads to Home Search (tags)
The search for the flashlight angered Dang's attorney, who called it political retaliation for Dang's open criticism of police tactics during the demonstration. "It's seems bizarre," said attorney B. Kwaku Duren.
"We scream and cry until we get our way. " --MMP Website (tags)
Selected excerpts from the Minuteman Project's plans for California, from their website.
SOLIDARITY ACTIVIST W/ GARDEN GROVE 5 INTIMIDATED BY POLICE (tags)
COINCIDENTALLY, the same protestor who was struck by a vehicle on may 25th speaking out against Jim Gilchrist, who has since been very instrumental in organizing solidarity action for those arrsted same night--HAS NOW RECEIVED SEARCH WARRANT and other harrassment by PD
Minuteman "Flavor of the Month" for Repubs (tags)
Gilchrist hooks up with Republicans in Saddleback.
Minutemen Project Gearing Up For Another Round of Vigilante Actions (tags)
Conservative Alerts Just Went Out to the Same People Who Are Pro-War, Pro-Globalization, and Pro-Bush are sending out calls for action, spreading lies and enlisting people for their racist war on the poor people of Mexico and other Central and South American countries that have fallen victim to the United States Neo-Policies. Below is the email:
Nazis, racists join Minuteman Project (tags)
The nazi, racist underbelly of the Minuteman Project, exposed by the Southern Poverty Law Center on April 22, 2005.
No surprise, Netkin is the guy who was arrested for driving into crowd (tags)
Valley dingbat Hal Netkin ran a phone bank during the mayoral election that called voters with automated anti-Villaraigosa messages. He's obsessed with immigrants and the mayor-elect, and on his website calls Villaraigosa "the MECHista mayor who virtually takes his orders from Mexico City." So, no surprise, Netkin is the guy who was arrested last night in Orange County for driving his van into a crowd of Latinos protesting an appearance by the head of the Minuteman Project.
Hal Netkin identified as driver of Minivan that struck persons at Minuteman protest (tags)
The Orange County Register is reporting that Hal Netkin of Van Nuys was the driver of a Minivan that struck three persons who were attending the protest against Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist's appearance at the California Coalition for Immigration Reform meeting in Garden Grove last night..
URGENT: Open Letter to Legal Guild and Video Activists (tags)
Right Wing Radicals use threats to intimidate political activists from conducting a legal and peaceful protest.
Border Vigil Planned for California (tags)
By Jerry Seper THE WASHINGTON TIMES Published May 19, 2005 WASHINGTON -- Minuteman organizer James T. Gilchrist, whose 850 volunteers shut down the flow of illegal aliens along a 23-mile section of Arizona-Mexico border last month, has joined forces with another citizens group to help organize a new border vigil in California -- beginning in August.
Protest Against MinuteMen - Garden Grove (tags)
Protest MinuteMen in Garden Grove, May 25th
MinuteMan Found in Garden Grove (tags)
Jim Gilchrist, the founder of the fascist "Minuteman Project", will be speaking at the Garden Grove Women's Club on Wednesday, May 25th at 7:30 pm.
Hunters and the Hunted on the Arizona Border (tags)
Minutemen Vigilantes Target Immigrants
April 2005 U.S. Immigrant Alert! Newsletter (tags)
Monthly Newsletter For National Immigrant Solidarity Network No Immigrant Bashing! Support Immigrant Rights!