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If Governor Jan Brewer gets her way, Arizona radio stations will soon be prohibited from playing Latino music over the airwaves. On May 3, the Arizona House will vote on a bill that would ban any music that:
1. Promotes the overthrow of the United States government.
2. Promotes resentment toward a race or class of people.
3. Is designed primarily for listeners of a particular ethnic group.
4. Advocates ethnic solidarity instead of treating listeners as individuals.[language straight from HB2218]
guess who is on that list….guess who isnt (jlo…)
Can these mothafuckas go back to europe or something.? They are really gettin on my nerves…
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BOOM
Crickets….
So he never sat in on a class, but chose to shut down the whole program. Cool. I swurrtagot these people are belligerent dummies for fun. Their motto in life literally is “Fuck logic.”
And we must tell the truth… Mexicans didn’t illegally cross the U.S. border. The U.S. border CROSSED THEM.
Tucson: there is a man on your school board who doesn’t understand the implications of the word “hearsay.” And that’s, like, problem #1,459 on the list of things wrong with this dude. He says the law specifically targeted the Mexican American Studies program. He claimed the teacher was buying kids burritos to indoctrinate them. He NEVER EVEN SAT IN ON A CLASS. Who allowed this man to vote on children’s educations?
-Jess
But Devon, why are you so angry?
^^^^^
OMG THIS!!!
also, dude’s one-liner synopsis of US History for that part of the country is pretty spot-on. Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon… all formerly part of Mexico until the US got all Manifest Destined & was like “I WANNIT!!!” & started a war for it. Now the descendants of people who were formerly Mexican, formerly indigenous, formerly there-before-any-of-these-political-entities-existed are still there & white Arizonans don’t wanna get uncomfortable when these topics come up? Yeah but no. Your emotional comfort is not more important than the emotional & psychological welfare of these people. Having a sense of history is important, or you wouldn’t be so set on trying to remove/prevent it.
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An app for undocumented immigrants arrested in traffic stops
An app in the works would help undocumented immigrants who are pulled over by police notify family and friends of their whereabouts. (Flickr: Steve Rhodes)By JUAN GASTELUM
Channel: ImmigrationAn Arizona-based immigrant rights group is aiming to develop a smartphone application that would help undocumented immigrants alert friends, family, and their attorney if they are detained or arrested during a traffic stop, New America Media reports.
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Says my friend/former writing instructor Matt de la Peña: “On March 13, the NY Times followed me into Tucson High School (where Mexican WhiteBoy [his novel] was banned from the curriculum) — it was the most powerful school visit I’ve ever been a part of.”
Read the full story: Racial Lens Used to Cull Curriculum in Arizona.
This article is not about a Chicana writer but the story is definitely worth sharing. What is happening in Arizona to Chican@ studies is inconceivable. I started my journey though Chican@ Studies in high school, and I can’t imagine what my life would be like if I had not done so. When the young lady in the article says, “Most books I read, I don’t know the people … This book is the truth.” I couldn’t help but think of all the books I read once I started Chican@ Studies that made me feel this way. The more we talk about this, the more it will stay in our consciousness, and the more we will demand change. -Monze](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m14z0lhifS1qzc0kho1_500.jpg)
Says my friend/former writing instructor Matt de la Peña: “On March 13, the NY Times followed me into Tucson High School (where Mexican WhiteBoy [his novel] was banned from the curriculum) — it was the most powerful school visit I’ve ever been a part of.”
Read the full story: Racial Lens Used to Cull Curriculum in Arizona.
This article is not about a Chicana writer but the story is definitely worth sharing. What is happening in Arizona to Chican@ studies is inconceivable. I started my journey though Chican@ Studies in high school, and I can’t imagine what my life would be like if I had not done so. When the young lady in the article says, “Most books I read, I don’t know the people … This book is the truth.” I couldn’t help but think of all the books I read once I started Chican@ Studies that made me feel this way. The more we talk about this, the more it will stay in our consciousness, and the more we will demand change. -Monze
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This Seems Kind Of Wrong of the Day: Arizona’s Supreme Court upheld a ruling issued by a lower court ordering the removal of a San Luis city council candidate’s name from the ballot because she wasn’t sufficiently fluent in English.
Alejandrina Cabrera is an American citizen who was born in Yuma, but raised in Mexico for a number of years before returning to Arizona at 17. She admits that her Spanish is much stronger than her English, but says can speak as well as she needs to.
But how much does she really need to? According to the most recent census data, 98.7% of San Luis residents are of Hispanic descent, and 87% speak a foreign language at home.
San Luis’s mayor Juan Carlos Escamilla disagreed with Cabrera’s assessment that her English “is good enough to hold public office in San Luis.” It was he who filed a lawsuit with Yuma County Superior Court, alleging Cabrera’s poor grasp of the English language precluded her from running.
The court sided with the mayor after she failed to pass a test administered by a sociolinguistics expert.
“When [the judge] took my right to be on the ballot, he took away the right of the people who want to vote for me,” Cabrera said in reaction to the ruling. The executive director of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, Arturo Vargas, agrees.
“I think it should be up to the voters to decide what kind of representative they want,” he told CNN. “I don’t think it’s necessarily fair to not be able, to not allow someone to present themselves to the voters as a candidate because of their language abilities.”
English has been the official language of Arizona since 2006.
[yumasun / cnn.]
Wtf
“English has been the official language of Arizona since 2006.”
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU, ARIZONA???
when are they gonna just make “WHITES ONLY” their state motto & be done with it?](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz3al4qIxP1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
This Seems Kind Of Wrong of the Day: Arizona’s Supreme Court upheld a ruling issued by a lower court ordering the removal of a San Luis city council candidate’s name from the ballot because she wasn’t sufficiently fluent in English.
Alejandrina Cabrera is an American citizen who was born in Yuma, but raised in Mexico for a number of years before returning to Arizona at 17. She admits that her Spanish is much stronger than her English, but says can speak as well as she needs to.
But how much does she really need to? According to the most recent census data, 98.7% of San Luis residents are of Hispanic descent, and 87% speak a foreign language at home.
San Luis’s mayor Juan Carlos Escamilla disagreed with Cabrera’s assessment that her English “is good enough to hold public office in San Luis.” It was he who filed a lawsuit with Yuma County Superior Court, alleging Cabrera’s poor grasp of the English language precluded her from running.
The court sided with the mayor after she failed to pass a test administered by a sociolinguistics expert.
“When [the judge] took my right to be on the ballot, he took away the right of the people who want to vote for me,” Cabrera said in reaction to the ruling. The executive director of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, Arturo Vargas, agrees.
“I think it should be up to the voters to decide what kind of representative they want,” he told CNN. “I don’t think it’s necessarily fair to not be able, to not allow someone to present themselves to the voters as a candidate because of their language abilities.”
English has been the official language of Arizona since 2006.
Wtf
“English has been the official language of Arizona since 2006.”
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU, ARIZONA???
when are they gonna just make “WHITES ONLY” their state motto & be done with it?
… so this is my Mexican-American Literature professor
he’s gonna smuggle Latin@ books into Arizona over Spring Break.
Arizona lawmaker proposes white heritage holiday
By MANUEL RUEDA
Channel: Latin American AffairsIn a tit for tat legislative battle, an Arizona state lawmaker proposed creating a holiday for white people, if and when they become the minority in that state, CBS five news reported earlier this week.
The proposal is no joke. It came about on Monday during a heated debate in the Arizona state legislature, in which state representative Richard Miranda proposed creating a holiday to celebrate the Latino Community in that state.
I’M ABOUT TO FUCKING LOSE IT STOP IT ARIZONA
Ban ethnic studies because they “favor” one ethnicity over the other but we need to promote and recognize the most favored ethnicity of all time… of all time.
Ain’t this some shit…
@Arizona:
That’s all I got. I’ve been reduced to gifs from AHS.
(You should be ashamed of yourself, Arizona.)
Banned 500 Years of Chicano History offered free to AZ students by ABQ publisher
500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures, edited by Elizabeth Martinez and published by the SouthWest Organizing Project (SWOP), is included in a set of primarily Chicano and Native American books that have been banned by the Tucson Independent School District. The school district says it’s not a ban, but the books were removed from classrooms after the Mexican-American Studies program was eliminated, and teachers in that program have been instructed to not teach these books through the lens of ethnic studies. To us, this is a ban.
The SouthWest Organizing Project, in response to the current ban and the overall climate of fear and scapegoating of people of color in Arizona, is offering the book at a 50% discount to Arizona residents, and will give it for FREE to any Arizona Student who requests the book by sending a letter describing why they think the teaching of Chicano and Native American history accurately to young people is essential. Many Arizona students have already shown their disapproval of the ban, as hundreds walked out of class and marched on the Tuscon Unified School District’s headquarters earlier this week.
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UNIDOS Tucson student grassroots ethnic studies teach-in happening NOW.
Day two of mass walkouts in Tucson in defense of the Mexican American Studies programs. Day one of grassroots ethnic studies teach-ins led by students.
This is the people’s education! Education was denied in schools, so the students have taken their education elsewhere. MUST WATCH.
As the nation watches the Tucson Unified School District’s spiral into disarray, hundreds of students have walked out of their Tucson schools today in a coordinated protest against the banishment of the district’s acclaimed Mexican American Studies program.
Pouring into the downtown Tucson area from Pueblo, Cholla and Tucson high schools, among other institutions, the students brought their march to the offices of floundering Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) administrators. In recent days, administrators and board members have issued a series of conflicting and inaccurate statements and carried out the extreme actions of confiscating books in front of children. Last week, a recently hired assistant superintendent from Texas made a troubing call for the deeply rooted Tucson students–many of whom trace their ancestors to the town founders– to “go to Mexico” to study their history.
Supporters of the Ethnic Studies/Mexican American Studies program, which was terminated indefinitely on January 10th by the school board, launched walkouts last week and have vowed to step up their actions for a large-scale walkout, teach-in and launch of a “School of Ethnic Studies” on Tuesday, January 24th.
— Students Step Up Tucson Walkouts: Protest School District Folly and Mexican American Studies Banishment, AlterNet 1/23/12 (via racialicious) hell yeah! (via ihavethisblog)(via ayiman)
By: UNIVISION NEWS
Channel: ImmigrationOn Tuesday leaders of the Asian American community gathered in Phoenix to express their frustration with Sheriff Arpaio as Maricopa County’s top law enforcement official. African American and Latino leaders were also present and demanded…
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TUCSON — Outrage was the response to the news that Tucson schools has banned books, including “Rethinking Columbus,” with an essay by award-winning Pueblo author Leslie Marmon Silko, who lives in Tucson, and works by Buffy Sainte Marie, Winona LaDuke, Leonard Peltier and Rigoberta Menchu.
The decision to ban books follows the 4 to 1 vote on Tuesday by the Tucson Unified School District board to succumb to the State of Arizona, and forbid Mexican American Studies, rather than fight the state decision.Students said the banned books were seized from their classrooms and out of their hands, after Tucson schools banned Mexican American Studies, including a book of photos of Mexico. Crying, students said it was like Nazi Germany, and they were unable to sleep since it happened.
The banned book, “Rethinking Columbus,” includes work by many Native Americans, as Debbie Reese reports, the book includes:
Suzan Shown Harjo’s “We Have No Reason to Celebrate”
Buffy Sainte-Marie’s “My Country, ‘Tis of Thy People You’re Dying”
Joseph Bruchac’s “A Friend of the Indians”
Cornel Pewewardy’s “A Barbie-Doll Pocahontas”
N. Scott Momaday’s “The Delight Song of Tsoai-Talee”
Michael Dorris’s “Why I’m Not Thankful for Thanksgiving”
Leslie Marmon’s “Ceremony”
Wendy Rose’s “Three Thousand Dollar Death Song”
Winona LaDuke’s “To the Women of the World: Our Future, Our Responsibility”
The now banned reading list of the Tucson schools’ Mexican American Studies includes two books by Native American author Sherman Alexie and a book of poetry by O’odham poet Ofelia Zepeda.
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“I think it was racism, for being Hispanic,” said the pastor, who is talking with lawyers to file a legal appeal after being deprived of his liberty.
Hernández said that as soon the detective stopped him, he asked for his documentation, obviously doubting his legal status in the country.
The pastor showed his Mexican passport and his Mexican Consular ID card, as well as a card issued by the American Association of Chaplains, which he uses to identify himself as a pastor during his visits to hospitals and prisons.
The detective questioned the validity of all his documents, the pastor said. The officer also told Hernandez that he was committing a crime for having a chaplain identification cared with the state’s official seal.
“[The officer] accused him of not being a pastor,” said Fernando Rodriguez, who is a pastor at a different church, the House of Prayer Church in Albertville, Alabama, who had been traveling with Hernandez at the time. The officer also questioned Rodriguez, a native of Honduras, on his immigration status but fortunately he had his green card.
Hernández ,however, was arrested on charges of carrying identification with the Alabama state seal and spent several days in a Warrior, Alabama jail where he claims he was discriminated against for being Hispanic.“I asked for a Spanish [language] Bible to pray, and they did not want to give me one,” Hernández said. He also heard detention officials making comments behind his back thinking he didn’t speak English. “He is illegal and must be treated as an illegal,” he remembers hearing.
This is fucking fuckery and dehumanization. Nothing about this is acceptable whatsoever. No person in this country should at any point be stopped and required to show identifying documents without probable cause, and probably cause in Arizona has become ‘uhh… he looked Mexican.’ No. Fuck off, Arizona lawmakers.
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CENSORED NEWS: Neo Nazis show up armed to counter protest Occupy Phoenix
CENSORED NEWS: Neo Nazis show up armed to counter protest Occupy Phoenix
The Phoenix Class War Council said the reaction to the armed white supremacists, recognized as members of the National Socialist Movement, was predictable at the gathering.
“This attitude towards the NSM scum played out, quite predictably, along racial lines, with whites being the only ones to express attitudes of tolerance towards them. This points to the continuing importance of addressing racism and the continual appeal and relevance of racial privileges within the movement. Indeed, we can expand this argument to the whole attitude of the bulk of the white movement towards the police. Experiencing policing in quite different ways than people of color in general, white middle class liberals mistake their own experience for that of others, and routinely attack anyone who questions the alleged 99 percent status of the police, or points out their quite obvious tendencies towards violent action, as violent themselves. To question the violence of the police is to be violent, according to this backwards analysis.
“The presence of an armed fascist street-level opposition to our movement, in the form of the National Socialist Movement and it’s ‘Arizona Border Guard’ front group, is one major reason to reject dogmatic pacifism and poorly thought-out nonviolence. Instead, what we heard from protesters speaking during the general assembly were declarations of the most naive nonviolence imaginable. Arizona is a right wing state and the forces of reaction are huge and easily overwhelming if they want to be.
“Occupy Phoenix organizers should not kid themselves about their numbers or power. This movement clearly has capability to attract large numbers, as evidenced by the several thousand that showed up today for the general assembly and will march later to set up camp at Margaret T. Hance park. But we need to be honest about our political circumstances and the forces of reaction arrayed against us. Today is a reminder for those who are paying attention.”
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Sign Of The Times of the Day: Spotted in Florida.
That which you have done has been seen.
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Sign Of The Times of the Day: Spotted in Florida.
That which you have done has been seen.
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