Mayor Julian Castro of San Antonio

The Post-Hispanic Hispanic Politician

By ZEV CHAFETS

New York Times Magazine - Published: May 3, 2010

In early December, Julián Castro, the newly elected mayor of San Antonio, visited the White House to attend President Obama’s national jobs-and-economic-growth forum. Castro was one of only five mayors in attendance and, at 35, the youngest. When his turn came to speak — the subject was the creation of green jobs — the president looked at him, midway down the long conference table, and said: “I thought he was on our staff. I thought he was an intern. This guy’s a mayor?” The other participants — world-famous economists, environmentalists and politicians — burst into laughter.

“Of San Antonio, Tex.,” Castro said evenly.

Obama grinned. “I’m messing with you,” he said. “I know who you are.”

Castro was neither flustered nor flattered by the president’s bantering familiarity. Of course Obama knew who he was — gate-crashers might make it into White House social events, but they don’t get to the table of high-level West Wing policy meetings led by the president himself. Castro smiled politely at Obama’s jest and then proceeded to the business at hand, delivering prepared remarks about employment and the energy market in San Antonio. He is cerebral, serious, self-contained and highly efficient. If he were an energy source, he’d be zero-emission. A video of the event shows the president listening intently to Castro’s presentation and nodding occasionally, Harvard Law ’91 silently encouraging Harvard Law ’00...link to complete NYT Magazine article  

La Jornada y La Opinion - Narcoguerra

Delimitan acción de marinos en la estrategia Paz en la Frontera
La Jornada - Mexico D.F. - 9 mayo 2010


Se expanden ‘Zetas’ en Centroamérica

La Opinion - Los Angeles - 9 mayo 2010

Censoring Your Life on the Web

Tell-All Generation Learns to Keep Things Offline

By Laura Holson   

New York Times - Published: May 8, 2010

...While participation in social networks is still strong, a survey released last month by the University of California, Berkeley, found that more than half the young adults questioned had become more concerned about privacy than they were five years ago — mirroring the number of people their parent’s age or older with that worry...  

 ...Mistrust of the intentions of social sites appears to be pervasive. In its telephone survey of 1,000 people, the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at the University of California found that 88 percent of the 18- to 24-year-olds it surveyed last July said there should be a law that requires Web sites to delete stored information. And 62 percent said they wanted a law that gave people the right to know everything a Web site knows about them.

That mistrust is translating into action. In the Pew study, to be released shortly, researchers interviewed 2,253 adults late last summer and found that people ages 18 to 29 were more apt to monitor privacy settings than older adults are, and they more often delete comments or remove their names from photos so they cannot be identified. Younger teenagers were not included in these studies, and they may not have the same privacy concerns. But anecdotal evidence suggests that many of them have not had enough experience to understand the downside to oversharing.

Elliot Schrage, who oversees Facebook’s global communications and public policy strategy, said it was a good thing that young people are thinking about what they put online. “We are not forcing anyone to use it,” he said of Facebook. But at the same time, companies like Facebook have a financial incentive to get friends to share as much as possible. That’s because the more personal the information that Facebook collects, the more valuable the site is to advertisers, who can mine it to serve up more targeted ads...

 link to complete NYT article  

New York Immigration Policy

New Paterson Policy May Reduce Deportations
By DANNY HAKIM and NINA BERNSTEIN
Published: May 3, 2010
The New York Times


ALBANY — Gov. David A. Paterson announced on Monday that the state would accelerate consideration and granting of pardons to legal immigrants for old or minor criminal convictions, in an effort to prevent them from being deported. The move sets up a confrontation between the governor and federal immigration officials, who have taken more aggressive action to increase deportations in recent years. Immigration lawyers on both sides called the step extraordinary and said it could ultimately affect thousands of people in New York.


“Some of our immigration laws, particularly with respect to deportation, are embarrassingly and wrongly inflexible,” Mr. Paterson said in a speech on Monday at an annual gathering of the state’s top judges. “In New York we believe in renewal,” he added. “In New York, we believe in rehabilitation...link to complete article

Arizona Immigration

La legislación, represiva, dice Calderón

Mitin dominical en el Hemiciclo a Juárez para protestar contra la ley que discrimina a migrantes en ArizonaFoto Luis Humberto González


Claudia Herrera Beltrán
Enviada
Periódico La Jornada
Lunes 3 de mayo de 2010, p. 5
La Jornada

Bonn, 2 de mayo. El presidente Felipe Calderón llamó a los mexicanos a que omitan en lo posible viajar a Arizona, como medida de protesta por la promulgación de la ley antinmigrante.


Aun con los matices que la gobernadora de ese estado, Jan Brewer, dio a la ley SB 1070, afirmó que México mantiene serias preocupaciones sobre la misma, porque representa una vía represiva y de discriminación a la migración. Al iniciar su gira por Alemania, recordó que la cancillería ya emitió una llamada de alerta a los mexicanos para que actúen con precaución y omitan en lo posible la realización de viajes innecesarios hacia ese estado.


En el palacio de Schaumburg, Calderón ofreció una conferencia de prensa junto con la canciller alemana, Angela Merkel, quien a pregunta expresa comentó que espera que se solucione la problemática en Arizona...link to complete article

Bees and Global Warming

Fears for crops as shock figures from America show scale of bee catastrophe

The world may be on the brink of biological disaster after news that a third of US bee colonies did not survive the winter


Alison Benjamin
The Observer, Sunday 2 May 2010

guardian.co.uk

Honey bees are vital insect pollinators, responsible for the healthy development of many of the world’s major food crops. Photograph: David Silverman/Getty Images


Disturbing evidence that honeybees are in terminal decline has emerged from the United States where, for the fourth year in a row, more than a third of colonies have failed to survive the winter.


The decline of the country's estimated 2.4 million beehives began in 2006, when a phenomenon dubbed colony collapse disorder (CCD) led to the disappearance of hundreds of thousands of colonies. Since then more than three million colonies in the US and billions of honeybees worldwide have died and scientists are no nearer to knowing what is causing the catastrophic fall in numbers...link to complete article

New Alarm Bells About Chemicals and Cancer
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: May 5, 2010
The New York Times


The President’s Cancer Panel is the Mount Everest of the medical mainstream, so it is astonishing to learn that it is poised to join ranks with the organic food movement and declare: chemicals threaten our bodies.
The cancer panel is releasing a landmark 200-page report on Thursday, warning that our lackadaisical approach to regulation may have far-reaching consequences for our health.


I’ve read an advance copy of the report, and it’s an extraordinary document. It calls on America to rethink the way we confront cancer, including much more rigorous regulation of chemicals.


Traditionally, we reduce cancer risks through regular doctor visits, self-examinations and screenings such as mammograms. The President’s Cancer Panel suggests other eye-opening steps as well, such as giving preference to organic food, checking radon levels in the home and microwaving food in glass containers rather than plastic...link to complete article

Obama calls on Congress to work on immigration reform
By the CNN Wire Staff
May 6, 2010 -- Updated 1439 GMT (2239 HKT)


CNN

President Obama addresses immigration reform Wednesday at a Cinco de Mayo reception in White House Rose Garden.


Washington (CNN) -- President Obama on Wednesday called on Congress to work on comprehensive immigration reform this year, saying it would be the best way to fix the nation's broken immigration system.


Speaking at a Cinco de Mayo celebration at the White House, Obama again criticized the recently enacted Arizona immigration law as the wrong approach.


"The answer isn't to undermine fundamental principles that define us as a nation," Obama said to applause. He called instead for "common-sense comprehensive immigration reform."


In an apparent effort to clarify his comment last week that the political climate might be too difficult to take up immigration reform, Obama said Congress should begin work now on the issue...link to complete article

An acceptable arena for politics

'Los Suns' statement comes in a perfectly fine arena for politics
By Mike Wise
Thursday, May 6, 2010
The Washington Post
On the edict of their owner, the Phoenix Suns wore "Los Suns" jerseys in Game 2 of their playoff series with the San Antonio Spurs on Wednesday night. Because this gesture is less about honoring Cinco de Mayo than standing in solidarity with Latinos and other people upset with Arizona's new immigration law, the predictable lament has already begun...link to complete article

The Future: No Ethnic Studies in Arizona?

If they plan to take out Latino/Chicano Studies, they should stop African American Studies, Jewish Studies, Women's Studies, and Asian Studies.  Then the students of Arizona would move forward to be the least educated of the United States..

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Arizona bill takes aim at ethnic studies classes

It's causing an uproar among Latinos already angry about the recent immigration law.

Students, faculty and others at Tucson High Magnet School protest a proposed law that would ban some ethnic studies classes. It has angered many Latinos and others who already are upset by a recent law cracking down on illegal immigrants. (James S. Wood, For The Times / May 8, 2010)

By Paloma Esquivel and Nicole Santa Cruz, Los Angeles Times

May 8, 2010

Reporting from Tucson and Los Angeles

At the main entrance to a campus in Tucson, a sign greets visitors with "Welcome to Tucson High, Home of the Largest Xicano Studies Program in the Nation."

"Xicano," or Chicano, studies is a 14-year-old program in the Tucson Unified School District that offers classes from elementary through high school in topics such as literature, history and social justice that emphasize Latino authors and history.

In the wake of Arizona's adoption of a law to crack down on illegal immigration, such classes are the subject of another ethnically tinged fight in the state. Another bill approved by the Legislature seeks to ban such courses, which critics say promote "ethnic chauvinism."

Supporters of Mexican American studies say the aim is to offer subjects and perspectives ignored by academia, as well as foster pride in a marginalized community.

In teacher Curtis Acosta's literature class at Tucson High, the walls are plastered with the faces of labor leaders Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta and Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara. Students read fiction by Luis Alberto Urrea and Junot Diaz and plays by the Los Angeles-based theater troupe Culture Clash. A poster proclaims "United Together En La Lucha"—In The Struggle...link to complete LAT article

Wife of Iraq Veteran Can't Get Regularized

Illegal Status of Army Spouses Often Leads to Snags

by JULIA PRESTON

New York Times -n Published: May 7, 2010

Lt. Kenneth Tenebro enlisted in the armed forces after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, signing up even before he became an American citizen.

Lieutenant Tenebro during his tour of duty in Iraq in 2008.

He served one tour of duty in Iraq, dodging roadside bombs, and he would like to do another. But throughout that first mission, he harbored a fear he did not share with anyone in the military. Lieutenant Tenebro worried that his wife, Wilma, back home in New York with their infant daughter, would be deported.

Wilma, who like her husband was born in the Philippines, is an illegal immigrant.  “That was our fear all the time,” Lieutenant Tenebro said. When he called home, “She often cried about it,” he said. “Like, hey, what’s going to happen? Where will I leave our daughter?”

Immigration lawyers and Department of Homeland Security officials say that many thousands of people in the military have spouses or close relatives who are illegal immigrants. Many of those service members have fought to gain legal status for their family members — only to hit a legal dead end created in 1996, when Congress last made major revisions to the immigration laws...  link

Los Suns is a Hit

La Times

"The Phoenix Suns' team store in US Airways Arena sold all 50 of its "Los Suns" jerseys Wednesday [May 5]— at $95 each...."

Muslims and South Park

click here to watch an interview with Tariq Ramadan on the South Park Muslim controversy

Divine Impulses: Tariq Ramadan says Comedy Central is 'scared' of the Muslim reaction to South Park

Washington Post - Ramadan on tension between free speech and Islamic principle of not depicting the prophet, as seen in South Park. (Elizabeth Tenety and Andrea Useem)

South Park Muhammad episode censored, London Guardian

If Men Had to Practice Birth Control?

How would life be for women if men were the ones responsible for birth control?


Would there be fewer shot gun weddings?


Would there be fewer babies?


How would affect the independence of women?

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CNN) -- ...For the men
"The joke in the field is: The male pill's been five to 10 years away for the last 30 years," said Dr. John Amory, researcher at the University of Washington.


Researchers have been promising a male hormonal contraceptive option for a long time, but there are good reasons why it's so hard to get that technology right. While women make one egg a month, men produce about 1,000 sperm every second, Amory said.  "It proves more difficult to shut down that level of production," he said.


The female pill uses hormones to make the woman's brain think she is pregnant and turns off egg production. But men don't have periods where they turn off sperm production, so it's harder to get them into that state, he said...link to complete CNN article

Danger: Cellphones-Teens Driving at Night

Night, phones can be lethal for teen drivers

Chances of a fatal crash are on the rise, data show

By TERRI LANGFORD and YANG WANG
HOUSTON CHRONICLE

May 6, 2010, 9:41PM

The likelihood that a teen driver will have a fatal accident at night is on the rise nationwide — and in Harris County, the odds are even greater...

...According a Texas Transportation Institute study released Thursday.  Cell phones are suspected as one of the underlying causes when coupled with the unfamiliarity of driving in the dark.

“The Department of Public Safety urges parents to monitor their novice driver's nighttime driving and encourage that new drivers have plenty of practice with an experienced driver in the front seat of the car, said Tela Mange, spokeswoman for the Texas DPS. “Driving at night can be difficult to adjust to.”

Researchers at the Texas A&M University-based institute examined Fatality Analysis Reporting System data collected by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration from 1999 through 2008, the most recent 10-year period available.

Looking only at the fatal crashes in which light conditions were either “dark” or “dark, but lighted,” they determined that nighttime driving was the most common factor in fatal accidents involving the most rookie of drivers: young teens....link to complete article

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yang.wang@chron.com

Looking at the Stars (in the sky)

One unfortunate thing about living in Houston is that we can only see a couple of stars at night.  That's called "light pollution."  

When my kids were little we used to go camping often.  They came to know many of the constellations in the night sky.  Its kind of sad to have to drive 200 miles away from the city to be able to see the stars

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A Mysterious Light on the Darkest Night

Category: Astronomy • Solar System
Posted on: May 5, 2010 2:59 PM, by Ethan Siegel

New York Times

It will shine still brighter when night is about you. May it be a light for you in dark places, when all other lights go out. -J.R.R. Tolkien

The night sky is no stranger to most of you. Once the Sun goes down in the west, the sky darkens, turning ever-deeper shades of blue until it approaches blackness, and stars and planets begin to come out against the fading backdrop.

Many things pollute the darkening sky, and can obscure your vision of the dimmest objects in the sky. Getting away from the city and light pollution is important, as is having clear skies without too many clouds in them.  But even with those conditions -- an isolated location and a cloudless night -- you need a little more for some really great astronomical viewing....link

Imigracion y la Narcoguerra

Ley anti-inmigrante llega a Pensilvania

• CRISTINA LOBOGUERRERO/EDLP |
• 2010-05-06
• | El Diario NY       

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Mayúsculo, el problema de la criminalidad: Marina Mexicana

Jesus Aranda

6 mayo 2010

La Jornada, MX

Ever Want to Know the Real Story About Blackwater?

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Democracy Now - May 4, 2010

Secret Recording of Erik Prince Reveals Previously Undisclosed Blackwater Ops

Investigative journalist and Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill obtains a rare audio recording of a recent, private speech delivered by Erik Prince, the owner of Blackwater, to a friendly audience in January. The speech, which Prince attempted to keep from public consumption, provides a stunning glimpse into his views and future plans and reveals details of previously undisclosed activities of Blackwater. In a Democracy Now! exclusive broadcast we play excerpts of the recording and speak with Scahill about the revelations. link

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Obama Humor on Arizona..

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Its Bigger Than Arizona

The Tea Party, Birthers, and Illegitimacy - all lead to SB 1070 and other things...

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Op-Ed Columnist - New York Times - May 1, 2010

If Only Arizona Were the Real Problem

by Frank Rich  

...to label this development “Arizona’s folly” trivializes its import and reach. The more you examine the law’s provisions and proponents, the more you realize that it’s the latest and (so far) most vicious battle in a far broader movement that is not just about illegal immigrants — and that is steadily increasing its annexation of one of America’s two major political parties...link to complete NYT article

For Those Who Celebrate in Arizona

This image is from a 1930 Saturday Evening Post Cover, made in the days when Jim Crow was alive and well.  This romantic scene brings to mind what could be left of Arizona when all the brown people leave.  Some of those people who won't be picked up by the police will be celebrating - sort of like bringing back those chivalrous times of the Old South.

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Washington Post - May 3, 2010

by

Professor, Chicago Theological Seminary

Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite

Suspect thy neighbor

Arizona's new and far-reaching immigration law is bad on a lot of levels, including economic, social and legal , but it is also profoundly corrosive from a moral standpoint.
"Reasonable suspicion" as the pretext for law enforcement deciding whom to investigate relies on the idea that it is OK for our primary approach to our neighbor to be one based on distrust, before that neighbor has done anything that might be considered wrong. This is a disastrous attitude for a democracy to develop because it will erode the very cement that holds us together as a people.


This new Arizona immigration law is morally corrupting of who we should want to be as an Americans who live in an open society and cherish freedom and democracy. It's more like the closed and suspicious societies behind the "Iron Curtain" that we decried so much during the Cold War...link to complete WP article

Immigration Fables - Please Read

5 Myths about immigration

Despite the fact that we are a nation of immigrants -- or perhaps because of it -- immigration continues to be one of America's most contentious topics. The new law in Arizona authorizing police to arrest individuals who cannot show documents proving that they are in the country legally...

from the Washington Post

"Arizona immigration law: baseball players cry foul" by Richard Adams

London Guardian

Professional baseball players' union hits out at Arizona's immigration law for its 'negative impact' on America's pastime.

Opposition to Arizona's immigration law is springing up from all quarters, including an unlikely duo of Shakira and Florida's former Republican governor Jeb Bush, the brother of George W. And the players of America's national pastime, baseball, have added their opposition to the law that makes it a crime to be in the state of Arizona.


Already there have been calls – including on these pages by Dave Zirin – for spectators to boycott baseball games involving the Arizona Diamondbacks, in part because one of the team's owners, managing general partner Ken Kendrick, is a major donor to the local Republican party. And politicians outside Arizona have asked for Major League Baseball, the US pro sport's governing body, to shift the site of the 2011 All Star game from Phoenix.


Now the organisation that represents professional baseball players, the Major League Baseball Players Association, has consulted its members and made public its opposition to the law because of the "negative impact" it could have on international and home-grown baseballers.

The association points out that "hundreds of international players" and their families move through the state during spring training or to play against the Diamondbacks, and that they could be targeted by the law.


In the 2008 season, 27% of MLB players were Hispanic. In addition, the league now includes foreign players from all over the world, including Japan, Korea and Taiwan as well as Latin America – so that 28% of current MLB players were born outside the US.
The Arizona Diamondbacks management has sought to defuse the controversy, declaring: "[Ken] Kendrick personally opposes State Bill 1070," the law in question. The team also said: "The D-backs have never supported State Bill 1070 and have never taken political stances." link to complete Guardian article

Houston Immigration March

7,000 show solidarity in immigration rally

Protest among others across the nation in the wake of Arizona crackdown

By MOISES MENDOZA
HOUSTON CHRONICLE

May 2, 2010, 12:14AM

Brett Coomer Chronicle

A protester displays the Spanish word for "illegal" at Burnett Bayland Park in Houston on Saturday.

Protests around the nation

RELATED REPORTS

20,000 march in Dallas

Nationwide outcry

The marchers danced, chanted and sang as they proceeded down Bellaire Boulevard and onto Chimney Rock in southwest Houston, led by a phalanx of police officers in cars and on horseback on Saturday.

“Sí, se puede” and “Yes, we can,” they shouted while waving American and Mexican flag.

Police estimated Houston's crowd at about 7,000, substantially smaller than rallies elsewhere held in the wake of the passage of Arizona's controversial immigration law. About 20,000 turned out in Dallas, and roughly 100,000 participated in Los Angeles.  While smaller, Houston's event didn't lack emotion. link to complete HC article

Datos de Arizona

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ICE detiene a más de 500 inmigrantes

LA Opinion

Según las autoridades, los arrestados tienen récord delictivo previo

• Isaías Alvarado/isaias.alvarado@laopinion.com |
• 2010-05-01     

Presentar el resultado del mayor operativo emprendido por la Oficina de Control de Inmigración y Aduanas (ICE) contra extranjeros delincuentes en el sureste del país a pocas horas de que inicien marchas pro inmigrantes en distintas ciudades, fue tomado como una provocación por organizaciones comunitarias.
Autoridades federales anunciaron ayer el arresto de 596 inmigrantes con antecedentes penales en un operativo de tres días efectuado en Florida, Georgia, Carolina del Sur, Carolina del Norte, Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee y Puerto Rico.Participaron 400 agentes de la Patrulla Fronteriza, el Servicio de Alguaciles, así como fuerzas policíacas estatales y locales. Los detenidos, quienes han cumplido sus condenas, serán deportados a sus países. El anuncio se produce cuando ICE enfrenta fuertes críticas por su programa Comunidades Seguras, que identifica a indocumentados con antecedentes criminales en las cárceles a través de datos de los departamentos de Justicia (DOJ) y de Seguridad Interna (DHS). La Red Nacional de Jornaleros (NDLON), que interpuso una demanda contra dicho programa, afirma que esos arrestos son reflejo de la insensibilidad del gobierno de Obama y la incapacidad de los legisladores demócratas para emprender una reforma migratoria.
"No me sorprende que la administración Obama siga haciendo esto. Cada vez que hacen este tipo de acciones están creando las condiciones para que hallan más propuestas como la SB1070 (criminaliza a residentes sin papeles en Arizona)", reclamó Pablo Alvarado, presidente de NDLON. articulo completo
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Shakira une su voz a las de activistas y el alcalde de Phoenix contra la ley Arizona

Arturo Cano

Enviado

Periódico La Jornada
Viernes 30 de abril de 2010, p. 13

Phoenix, 29 de abril. Menudita, a sus casi 80 años, con blusa bordada y colorida, la dirigente del sindicato de jornaleros Dolores Huerta grita en inglés y en español: ¡La revolución comienza ahora mismo! ¡Sí se puede, sí se puede!, le responden decenas de manifestantes abajo del camión de la estación de radio La Campesina, fundada por César Chávez.

La revolución, al menos hoy, se mueve al ritmo de la belly dance. No soy experta en la Constitución, pero sé que existe por una razón, afirma Shakira, la reina del pop latino, que viene a Arizona a protestar contra la ley SB 1070, para reunirse con el alcalde de Phoenix, Phil Gordon, con los concejales y los jefes de la policía (no con Joe Arpaio, claro). articulo completo

Arizona Turns Back the Clock on Civil Rights
NILC
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, April 23, 2010
CONTACT: Adela de la Torre | 213.674.2832 | delatorre@nilc.org


Today, Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona signed SB 1070 into law. When it goes into effect, SB 1070 will be the harshest anti-immigrant law in the United States. Below is a statement from Marielena Hincapié, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center:


"By signing SB-1070, Governor Jan Brewer has made it clear that civil rights for the myriad multicultural communities in Arizona are not a concern for Arizona's elected officials. This law is not only racist; it also usurps the exclusive right of the federal government to regulate and enforce immigration laws.


"As a lawyer, I am shocked that Governor Brewer has, with a stroke of her pen, turned back the clock on the progress we've made in the United States on civil rights. As a person of color, I am frightened about the disastrous ramifications this law will have on all communities in Arizona and across the country. Governor Jan Brewer has given the green light for Arizona authorities to racially profile people at the expense of keeping the peace. This law is not about keeping neighborhoods safe. It is state-sanctioned discrimination that will make life miserable for Arizonans of all colors."
link to http://nilc.org/pubs/news-releases/nr008.htm

The Pariah State

Arizona branded America's pariah state for law that gives police right to stop and quiz people who LOOK like illegal migrants

By Sara Nelson
Last updated at 4:38 PM on 29th April 2010 - DAILY MAIL UK

• Critics say the law opens the door to racial profiling
• Arizona Sheriff refuses to uphold it
• Pressure on President Obama to overhaul immigration laws
• Colombian pop-star Shakira to campaign against it
• AriZona Iced Tea reasserts NY credentials amid boycott fears
• But Texas, Maryland, Utah, Georgia and Ohio could impose it

Arizona is fast becoming a pariah state amid calls to boycott the region over its crackdown on illegal immigrants.  Rallies protesting against the legislation are planned in more than 70 cities across the U.S. this weekend.  Critics say the law, which requires authorities to question people about their immigration status if there is 'reasonable suspicion' they are undocumented is unconstitutional, opens the door to racial profiling and is already seeing challenges to block it.  The backlash began on Friday after Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed the law, which makes it a state crime to be in the U.S. illegally...

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1269749/Arizona-immigration-law-spurs-May-Day-protests-70-US-cities.html#ixzz0mg3PWSGR

May 1 Immigration Marches

HOUSTON

March for Dignity and Respect

May 1, 2010 at 4:00p.m. 

The Coalition in Defense of the Community is proud to announce our May First community action in the City of Houston.  Given the political situation in which we find ourselves in, it is time that we make our voices heard and let the Nation know that we will no longer be silenced! We need immigration reform now! ! Our community deserves respect and dignity

Date:	Saturday, May 1, 2010
Time:	4:00pm - 6:00pm
Location:	Starting Point: Bellaire and Renwick
Street:	5900 Bellaire Blvd.
City/Town:	Houston, TX

                   For more info 

Visit: www.houstonmarches.info - Or call: (832)497-5035

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LOS ANGELES

11 a.m. at Olympic Boulevard and Broadway