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A proposed new law in Arizona would give employers the power to request that women being prescribed birth control pills provide proof that they’re using it for non-sexual reasons. And because Arizona’s an at-will employment state, that means that bosses critical of their female employees’ sex lives could fire them as a result.
http://veracitystew.com/?p=35429A proposed new law in Arizona would give employers the power to request that women... more
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The United States Supreme Court is hearing arguments in Arizona v. United States, the Obama administration's challenge to Arizona's anti-immigration law, SB1070. What they won't be hearing is what and who has fueled this discriminatory legislation.
The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is one of the most dangerous groups in the country.
Along with like groups in the John Tanton network FAIR has written and pushed laws like SB1070.
Will justice triumph over racial profiling and discrimination fueled by supremacist and nativist fringe groups? We need to stand together in this most pressing time.
Take a stand against FAIR! Sign the pledge and show that we will not tolerate justice being trampled by racism! http://mycuentame.org/justiceoverracismThe United States Supreme Court is hearing arguments in Arizona v. United States, the... more
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VOTE UP if you think it's about time Joe Arpaio be held accountable for his flagrant racial profiling!
Joe Arpaio has recently revived the birther movement. In a press conference Arpaio stated that President Obama's birth certificate is likely a fake. Ridiculous, we know.
But all this seems like a strange strategy for Arpaio as the Department of Justice's patience is running low. Arpaio has refused an independent investigator into his office to investigate complaints of civil rights abuses. Thus, the Dept. of Justice has cut off negotiations as is threatening to sew.
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"Goodness me! Could it be that the greater half of the population of the United States of America has been mistaken in thinking that the Republicans have been waging war on the collective uteri of the nation since they swept into office in 2010 under the false pretense that they were going to concentrate on the economy and get this country back to work?
Not so fast, Slick Willies."
http://veracitystew.com/?p=33506"Goodness me! Could it be that the greater half of the population of the United... more
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This video contains one of the most blatant displays of right-wing racism that we've seen in a very long time! --The next time you feel a pang of guilt for calling a Republican right-winger moronic, obtuse, vacant, soulless, ridiculous, dense, mindless, senseless, vacuous, or just plain f**king stupid, remember Michael Hicks and remember that you’re probably not too far off the mark.
http://veracitystew.com/?p=33165This video contains one of the most blatant displays of right-wing racism that... more
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Jan Brewer Republican from Arizona is really one UGLY AMERICAN... inside and out! Her rudeness to President Obama was unprecedented. She is so full of bigotry, its thick enough to see and one can literally cut it with a knife!
You can tell she is lying when she speaks because, believe it or not... SHE ISN'T GOOD AT IT. She reminds me of a little child trying to fool the grownups. How pathetic that she was able to win the governorship of Arizona. How many lives has she ruined so far...? I wonder, HOW MANY? I'm sure it's in the 4 digits, maybe even 5 or 6.
When I saw how rudely she treated our President (he is President to us all) …and we all know why... She doesn't like his skin color and probably believes the police should have asked him for his papers. She knew that it wasn’t possible for her brown-shirts to confront THE PRESIDENT... so she decided to do it herself.
What Hubris, she is so cocksure of herself it’s pitiful but that's not new within the GOP, they all believe they are the ELITE and everyone else should be at their beck and call, completely subservient to them..
Well, maybe it's easy to convince their diehard followers that they really care about people, we, the other half of America… you know the ones with half a brain, know exactly what they (GOP) are up to. That's why they hate us, that's why they hate President Obama, that's why they hate INTELIGENCE AND CRITICAL THINKING. They hate anything that will take away their power and will do ANYTHING to maintain or grab control.
Thinkingblue a member of the 99%
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PCW Politics is War on P-SPAN Report
Viking Hall
Bristol, TN
Thursday January 26th, 2012
Host: Johnny Suave
Suave begins but is interrupted by a commotion in the back.
Bernstein is in the back. In the background, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) is in the middle of an intense conversation with PCW CEO Barack Obama (D-IL).
MATCH #1
Charlie Blackwell (American Heartland) vs. ‘The Japanese SuperDestroyer’ Yamamoto Tanaka (D) w/Reika
Charlie Blackwell (American Heartland Coalition)
HT: 6′ 4″ WT: 215 HOME: New Braunfels, TX
FIN: Tazzmission (Katahajime)
MGR: Kenzie Blackwell
Yamamoto Tanaka (D)
HT: 6′ 9″ WT: 350, HOME: Nagano, Japan
FIN: Japanese Super Destroyer
MGR: Mrs. Miyagi
Tanaka is furious and storms into PCW Executive Committee Chief Harry Reid‘s (D-NV) office.
MATCH #2- Hostages on a Pole Match
Navy Seals 1 and 2 vs. Pirate Captain Jack Suarez and Pirate First Mate Jay
Steve Hunter’s Three Sentence Political Commentary- because three sentences is all you need to get your point across.
TOPIC: Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona v. President Obama- Dust Up in Arizona
Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post walks out and announces that Newt Gingrich can’t win.
Steve Hunter’s Three Sentence Political Commentary- because three sentences is all you need to get your point across.
TOPIC: Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky (Ill.) re: Keystone XL- “Twenty thousand jobs is really not that many jobs, and investing in green technologies will produce that and more…”
K-Roy is still in the ring. Finally, ‘American Citizen’ Kevin Scott runs out and it’s on again.PCW Politics is War on P-SPAN Report
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PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on Tuesday ordered a special election for November 8 to decide the fate of a high-profile state lawmaker behind Arizona's controversial immigration crackdown.
Brewer ordered the vote to recall Republican Russell Pearce, the state senate's president and chief architect of Senate Bill 1070, after a citizen's group turned in enough valid signatures to force it.
Barring any legal challenges, voters in Pearce's Mesa, Arizona, district will go to the polls in what is believed to be the first recall election of a state legislator in Arizona history.
Pearce said he had no plans to resign and would launch an aggressive campaign against those seeking to oust him from office. He said in a statement he plans to focus on his record on key issues including economic recovery, job creation, balanced budgets, law enforcement and border security.
"These are the issues that my constituents believe in and why they have voted 16 times to send me to the legislature," Pearce said.
"I have never lost an election and will fight these outside forces that support lax law enforcement, amnesty and open borders."
Last week, the state verified that Citizens for a Better Arizona had collected 10,365 signatures to force the election. The group needed 7,756 valid signatures.
The group launched the recall drive because of legislation pushed by the fiery conservative lawmaker, including a wide range of bills designed to stem the flow of illegal immigrants into the country and crack down on the rights of those already in the state.
"We believe that Senator Pearce's agenda and behavior is too extreme for Arizona," the group said in a statement to Reuters late on Tuesday.
His efforts have gained Pearce nationwide notice, peaking in April last year when Brewer, a Republican, signed the immigration bill into law amid massive protests.
The bill mandated police check the immigration status of anyone they might detain and suspect is in the country illegally. Key provisions were blocked by a federal judge, and the state has said it will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Similar measures have been drawn up in states across the nation.
(Editing by Tim Gaynor and Cynthia Johnston)PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on Tuesday ordered a special election... more
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A new bill signed by Arizona Republican Governor Jan Brewer authorizes the construction of a security fence along the state's portion of the U.S.-Mexico border, by itself or in an agreement with other states.
The bill was one of 28 Brewer signed on Thursday. The Arizona legislature, which wrapped up its legislative session this week, sent numerous bills to the governor's desk to be approved. In all, Brewer approved more than 350 bills while vetoing nearly 30 as of Saturday.
SB-1406, "Allows the governor to build a border fence along the Arizona-Mexico border located on private, state or federal property if permitted," the Arizona Republic reported.
It's unclear how much the bill will cost. The Associated Press reported, "The bill does not specify a cost or make an appropriation but says the state would use donations, inmate labor and private contractors."
Brewer's spokesperson, Matt Benson, declined to comment Friday on whether she planned to invoke it.
On Monday, Brewer sent a letter to President Obama asking him to extend the National Guard's deployment--which ends in June--along the state's border. "I am concerned that when the current mission ends in June, the gains we have made will be immediately lost" Brewer wrote.
Arizona already has a 646-foot fence that covers about 30 percent of the approximately 2,000 mile border between the two countries. http://www.neontommy.com/news/2011/04/gov-brewer-signs-bill-authorizing-construction-border-fence-arizonaA new bill signed by Arizona Republican Governor Jan Brewer authorizes the... more
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Don’t tread on them. Drive with them.
Thanks to a new law signed by Gov. Jan Brewer, Arizonans will now be able to wear their activism just above their bumpers. The local tea party’s commemorative “Don’t Tread on Me” license plates have been approved.
Though Brewer vetoed bills requiring presidential candidates to provide evidence that they were born in the United States and to allow guns on college campuses, she made a small nod to the tea party movement this week by green-lighting the new plates, which will have a deep yellow background and a rattlesnake symbol, visual references to the Gadsden flag that has been adopted by the movement.
Similar tea party license plates already are available in Texas, on tap in Virginia and under consideration in South Carolina and Nevada.
The Arizona bill passed with unanimous support in the state Senate, where it was introduced by Sen. Don Shooter, the former chair of the local Colorado River tea party. All except nine Republicans in the state House backed the bill as well.
With Brewer’s signature, supporters must raise $32,000 to design and produce the plate. Once available, it will be sold for $25, with $8 going to the state and the rest going to a 13-member “Arizona tea party committee” created by the bill. Unlike other states, Arizona allows proceeds from plate sales to be directed to entities other than the state government. For the tea party plates, the $8 fees will be put to tea party causes.
Democrats had complained that the license plates would be interpreted as a state endorsement of the tea party movement, while some Republicans and tea party members said it violated the movement’s principles of smaller and less-intrusive government.
The legislation also includes provisions for plates supporting hunger relief and multiple sclerosis research.
No word from Brewer yet on why she signed the bill.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53933.html#ixzz1KwvUYpsk
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53933.htmlDon’t tread on them. Drive with them.
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by Catherine A. Traywick, Medica Consortium blogger
A year ago this month, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed SB 1070 into law, effectively pushing an already vibrant anti-immigrant movement to a new extreme. Over the following months, immigrant rights advocates prepared for the worst, and grappled with multiple setbacks as other states threatened to follow Arizona’s example.
Looking back, though, it’s clear that the draconian immigration law hasn’t quite measured up to its bad reputation—in part because a federal injunction blocked several of its more pernicious provisions. Kent Peterson at New America Media/Frontera NorteSur suggests that anti-immigrant policymakers “overreached” with SB 1070, pushing the restrictionist movement to its own peak with the controversial law.
Arizona’s political influence has waned
Certainly in the long term, the law seems to have done more harm than good to the movement. While it initially added plenty of fuel to the restrictionists’ fire, it has ultimately failed to spread through other states the way many expected it to. While a few states (see Colorlines.com’s infographic or Alternet’s rundown) are still considering SB1070-type laws, most others have backed off the idea.
As Seth Hoy explains at Alternet/Immigration Impact, “states learned from Arizona — the numerous protests, Supreme Court challenge, costly litigation, economic boycotts that are still costing state businesses millions — and rejected similar laws.” Peterson similarly notes that a number of states have moved away from Arizona’s example because of SB 1070’s unexpected economic consequences—chiefly, an estimated $769 million in economic and tax revenues lost as a result of boycotts.
Immigrants still marginalized
That’s not say that the law has had no effect on immigrants. While a federal judge stayed several of its provisions last summer, SB 1070 proved to be a precursor to other insidious state laws targeting immigrants. Empowered by their success with SB 1070 and the ensuing media frenzy, state legislators quickly moved forward with several other harsh laws. As Feet in Two Worlds’ Valeria Fernandez explains, many immigrants in Arizona continue to live in fear even though SB 1070 is only partially enacted. She writes:
When you talk to immigrants in the street, they’ll tell you that not much has changed. Some continue to live in fear that they could be stopped by the police and deported. Others are having a difficult time getting work due to another Arizona law that harshly sanctions employers who hire undocumented immigrants.
At Colorlines.com, Seth Freed Wessler elaborates on the real impact of bills like SB 1070. He writes:
[The bills] send waves of fear and confusion into immigrant communities. … In the period since SB 1070 passed, uncounted numbers of immigrants have fled their homes in Arizona. … And the provisions in the law that were not blocked by the court, including one that makes it a crime to harbor or transport undocumented immigrants, put everyone at risk.
The role of the federal government
Nevertheless, Wessler points out that the federal government—not SB 1070 and not Arizona—is to blame for the brunt of the damage inflicted upon undocumented immigrants in the last year. Besides deporting record numbers of immigrant detainees and significantly expanding border enforcement, the Department of Homeland Security laid the groundwork for SB 1070 with its 287(g) program—which enabled local law enforcement to act as ICE agents. Adding insult to injury, President Barack Obama never came to close to fulfilling his campaign promise of passing comprehensive immigration reform.
Whether he will do so this year is up for debate, but many reform advocates remain skeptical after last year’s ups and downs. As Marcos Restrepo of the American Independent reports, several immigrant rights activists voiced disappointment after Obama convened a White House meeting on immigration last Tuesday. Chief among the critics was Pablo Alvorado, director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, who said in a statement:
While we appreciate the President’s effort to keep immigration reform on the national agenda, his actions belie his intent…If the President genuinely wanted to fix the broken immigration system, he would respond to the growing chorus of voices calling for the suspension of the secure communities program and move to legalize instead of further criminalize our immigrant communities.
The American Prospect’s Gabriel Arana is similarly skeptical of both the president’s approach to the problem, and his ability to enact meaningful reform:
On one hand, it is laudable that the president has revived the immigration debate, but there is a reason it died last year, even with Democrats in firm control of Congress and the executive branch. Instead of trying to tack immigration reform to an enforcement bill, the president should change the frame and stop talking about immigration as a national-security issue rather than an issue in its own right.
This post features links to the best independent, progressive reporting about immigration by members of The Media Consortium. It is free to reprint. Visit the Diaspora for a complete list of articles on immigration issues, or follow us on Twitter. And for the best progressive reporting on critical economy, environment, and health care issues, check out The Audit, The Mulch, and The Pulse. This is a project of The Media Consortium, a network of leading independent media outlets.by Catherine A. Traywick, Medica Consortium blogger
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OK, I admit it. I'm not a US citizen. I'll never be President. Jan Brewer will kick me out of the country. I'm disappointed that I'm an exotic, white "anchor baby". But then, I met The Donald™ and he said,"I have a fabulous opportunity for you." And the rest is fabulous history.OK, I admit it. I'm not a US citizen. I'll never be President. Jan Brewer... more
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he governor of Arizona has vetoed a bill requiring presidential candidates to prove US citizenship in order to get on the state's election ballot.
Republican Jan Brewer said the bill would have allowed officials to judge who is eligible to run for office.
A lingering "birther" conspiracy theory asserts US President Barack Obama was not born in the US and is thus ineligible to hold the office.
But the bill's Republican backers insisted it was not aimed at Mr Obama.
The Arizona legislature was the first to pass such a law.
It would have allowed the state's top election official, the secretary of state, to determine whether candidates met citizenship requirements to hold the office of president.
"I do not support designating one person as the gatekeeper to the ballot for a candidate, which could lead to arbitrary or politically motivated decisions," Ms Brewer said in a statement.
She was secretary of state until she became governor in 2009.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13125337he governor of Arizona has vetoed a bill requiring presidential candidates to prove US... more
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Arizona Governor Jan Brewer wants Arizona to be a nanny state. She wants to impose fees on those who smoke and on those who eat too much.
Childless adults who are obese or suffer from a chronic condition and who fail to work with their doctor to meet specific goals would be charged $50 annually. The $50 annual fee also would apply to all childless adult smokers.
“If you’re not going to manage those things and take some personal responsibility, and in turn that costs the state more money, then you need to have some skin in the game,” said Monica Coury, assistant director of Arizona’s Medicaid program.
So, the next time a conservative accuses liberals of wanting a nanny state, remember Governor Jan Brewer.
http://www.alan.com/2011/04/01/az-gov-jan-brewer-wants-to-fine-smokers-and-fatties/Arizona Governor Jan Brewer wants Arizona to be a nanny state. She wants to impose... more
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A gathering of signatures for a recall of Gov. Jan Brewer is underway in Arizona...it will require 432,021 signatures by May 28, 2011.
http://www.recallgovernorbrewer.com/index_7.htmA gathering of signatures for a recall of Gov. Jan Brewer is underway in Arizona...it... more
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By Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger
Days after Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and Attorney General Tom Horne filed suit against the federal government for allegedly failing to protect the state from a Mexican “invasion,” the high-profile murder conviction of a Minutemen border vigilante underscores the state’s misguided border priorities.
Earlier this week, a jury found Shawna Forde—leader of the Minutemen American Defense (MAD)—guilty of murdering 8-year-old Brisenia Flores and her father, Raul Flores, Jr. during a racially motivated home invasion in 2009. Forde faces the death penalty for orchestrating the robbery and murders.
ColorLines’ Julianne Hing reports that Forde had planned a number of elaborate home invasions to raise funds for her border patrol activities—targeting individuals whom she (erroneously) believed to be drug dealers. Though no drugs were found in the Flores home, Forde—who, incidentally, has close ties to both the Tea Party and the conservative think tank Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)—nevertheless justified Brisenia’s murder on the grounds that “people shouldn’t deal drugs if they have kids.” After watching Forde’s accomplices shoot her mother and kill her father, Brisenia was shot twice in the face.
While Latino advocacy groups have characterized the Flores murders as hate crimes provoked—at least in part—by state leaders’ incendiary anti-immigrant rhetoric, many regard Forde’s conviction as one of many indicators that the tables are turning on anti-immigrant politicos like Brewer who have curried political support through fear-mongering and misinformation.
Less tolerance for border vigilantes
As Valeria Fernandez reports at New America Media, the verdict comes just weeks after another Arizona court upheld a decision against rancher Roger Barnett who, in an act of unwarranted border vigilantism, assaulted a group of migrants traveling across his property. Barnett was fined $80,000. While the Forde and Barnett cases are only two incidents of a nationwide rash of anti-Latino crime, their convictions are particularly significant in Arizona, where state leaders have long tolerated and even encouraged border vigilantism as a necessary response to purported border-related violence.
A year ago, state politicians—including Brewer—fomented a national anti-immigrant mania (which handily ushered in SB 1070) by promoting false reports of border violence. As Valeria Fernandez reported at Feet in 2 Worlds last March, lawmakers were quick to attribute the shooting of Arizona rancher Robert Krentz to an unidentified, undocumented Mexican immigrant—though the sheriff in charge of the case later told the press that the prime suspect was not actually Mexican.
Brewer, for her part, gained national notoriety after fabricating tales of beheadings in the Arizona desert—which, as I wrote for Campus Progress at the time—generated support for her anti-immigrant political agenda while diverting public attention away from the reality that most of Arizona’s border violence is directed at immigrants, rather than perpetrated by them.
Arizona’s countersuit against the federal government
Brewer’s recent countersuit against the federal government—which alleges that Arizona is under invasion from the south and that the feds have failed to protect the state accordingly—similarly conjures nativist fantasies of immigrant-fueled border violence. But, as Scott Lemieux posits at TAPPED, the suit idly and transparently villainizes immigrants:
It is (to put it mildly) a stretch to argue that Arizona is undergoing an “invasion.” Illegal immigration does not constitute a military threat or an attempt to overthrow the state government; anti-immigration metaphors are not a sound basis for constitutional interpretation.
Like those propagated by state lawmakers during Arizona’s nativist heyday last spring, this new offensive belies the reality that, while anti-Latino hate crimes have risen by 52 percent nationally in recent years, border crime has been on the decline for quite some time—a fact noted by Alternet’s Julianne Escobedo Shepherd in her coverage of the countersuit.
Yet, in an effort to further their extreme, anti-immigrant agenda, Arizona’s nativist lawmakers determinedly maintain the myth that Latin American immigration somehow generates a groundswell of violent crime—even when doing so requires the hasty revision of a rancher’s death, and the callous disregard of an innocent child’s murder.
This post features links to the best independent, progressive reporting about immigration by members of The Media Consortium. It is free to reprint. Visit the Diaspora for a complete list of articles on immigration issues, or follow us on Twitter. And for the best progressive reporting on critical economy, environment, and health care issues, check out The Audit, The Mulch, and The Pulse. This is a project of The Media Consortium, a network of leading independent media outlets.By Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger
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Fox News promoted Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's claim that the federal government has failed to "do its job" on border security without mentioning that border security efforts have increased measurably under President Obama: Deportations, drug seizures, and the number of Border Patrol agents have all increased.
*Fox Promoted Brewer's Claims, Ignored Increase In Border Security Efforts
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*The Obama Administration Has Ramped Up Border Security Efforts
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*Data Show Crime Has Not Increased In Arizona
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