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Stephen Lendman | 01.12.2011
America's culture of violence Roots of Arizona's Violence - by Stephen Lendman As expected, America's major media won't explain it. Nation magazine editor Katrina vanden Heuvel ducked the issue, saying it's "a time for grief, not grievance." Blaming a "crazed act of a clearly unstable man," she called it "an assassination of democracy....shut(ting) down speech to slay those seeking its exercise," then added "we still don't know whether (violent rhetoric) was responsible for last weekend's horror." A Wall Street Journal "Murder in Tucson" editorial deflected blame from hard right extremists, and rejected political reasons for the attack, saying:
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David A. Love | 01.10.2011
The recent assassination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona, which left 18 wounded and 6 dead, is a reminder that all is not well in that state. With anti-immigrant legislation, a ban on Chicano studies in the public schools and lax gun laws, Arizona is ground zero for hate and intolerance in America. Related: Change you can be afraid of: AZ shooting should give us all pause Past Feature with Discussion: Rep Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) shot, survives, but six others dead | More from the newswire: Roots of Arizona's Violence | BTL:In Wake of Tucson Shooting Rampage, Nation's Leaders Must Confront Political Hate and Violence  Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said it all. “We have become the mecca for racism and bigotry,” Dupnik said of the political climate in his state of Arizona. Of course the sheriff was referring to the attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) in Tucson. Jared Lee Loughner went on a shooting spree in front of a grocery store, wounding at least 18 people, including Giffords his intended target, and killing six, including U.S. District Court Judge John Roll and a 9-year-old girl born on 9-11. “Mein Kampf” was reportedly listed as one of Loughner’s favorite books.
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Internationalist Group | 07.06.2010
Today in the United States, under the Democratic administration of Barack Obama, xenophobic and racist violence is escalating. The criminal agents of the Border Patrol have reached the point of killing in cold blood, before the eyes of hundreds of witnesses. On May 28, construction worker Anastasio Hernández Rojas was beaten to death by some 20 agents of the U.S. Border Patrol. Then on June 7 in Ciudad Juárez, across the river from El Paso, Border Patrol agents fired into a group of youths on the Mexican side of of the border, murdering 14-year-old Adrián Hernández with a shot to the head. These crimes are part of a policy of racist repression looking for scapegoats, typified by the legalization of xeonophobia and police use of racial profiling in Arizona’s SB 1070 law. But while Obama criticize the law, “Obama, listen, we are in the struggle,” his thugs are killing on the border. It is an illusion to think that the commander in chief of U.S. imperialism, or his counterpart and semi-colonial underling, Mexican president Felipe Calderón, will defend the workers. It is necessary to mobilize the power of the working class to defend immigrants.
After Racist Arizona Law, Obama’s Border Patrol Kills MexicansBlood on the Border
Protest march in San Diego, June 3, over the killing of Anastasio Hernández Rojas, murdered by the U.S. Border Patrol on May 28. (Photo: Alexandra Mendoza/Diario San Diego)
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Conrado Garcia Jamin | 06.30.2010
Invisible Victims: Migrants on the move in Mexico, documents the alarming levels of abuse suffered by tens of thousands of irregular migrants from Central America every year trying to reach the United States through Mexico. Conrado Garcia Jamin "The widespread abuses against migrants in Mexico are a human rights crisis.
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Rich Gardner | 05.22.2010
Arizona's law designed to deal with the influx of undocumented immigrants. Seattle has now become the 11th city to boycott Arizona in reaction to their draconian "Show me your papers" law. Several other cities are considering following suit. The law is scheduled to go into effect on July 23rd, but may be overturned before then as there are presently five legal challenges against it. What would those challenges be based on? Well, a phrase that jumped out at me from Section 2, paragraph B is:
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Austin Nolen | 05.09.2010
¡Coja la frontera, coja la migra, coja las fascistas, y lucha la poder!
The following statistics are from a Wikipedia table that cites the State Department and the USCIS. I use this table only because it is neater.
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Mumia Abu-Jamal | 05.07.2010
Out of the fear, anxiety and trepidations of modern American life has sprung the latest immigration law from Arizona legislators, a declaration of war against the state's large (and growing) Hispanic population. |
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