US Attorney General: Arrest the militia members who murdered 2 migrants in the Arizona border.

Every human life is valuable. The patrolling of the US Mexico Border by armed right wing militias is yet another racist physical assault on immigrants. In this case, a deadly one. The escalation of hatred in America has led to violent attacks that are not only becoming acceptable, but promoted by right wing hate groups.

On Easter Sunday two men were killed while travel with over a dozen migrants in Arizona by armed men “camouflage.”

Read more about this here.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8469-arizona-gunmen-wearing-camouflage-kill-two-immigrants-in-ambush

Arrest the militia members who murdered 2 migrants in the Arizona border.

Greetings,

I just signed the following petition addressed to: Eric Holder, Department of Justice.

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Arrest the militia members who murdered 2 migrants in the Arizona border.

Every human life is valuable. The patrolling of the US Mexico Border by armed right wing militias is yet another racist physical assault on immigrants. In this case, a deadly one. The escalation of hatred in America has led to violent attacks that are not only becoming acceptable, but promoted by right wing hate groups.

The US Attorney General’s office must stop the escalating right wing violence in America by sending a strong message. We have no faith in Arizona law enforcement given their close ties to right wing hate groups. Intervene now!
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Sincerely,

[Your name]

sign the petition at:

http://www.change.org/petitions/us-attorney-general-arrest-the-militia-members-who-murdered-2-migrants-in-the-arizona-border?utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=share_petition&utm_term=friends_wall

Indigenous authors speak at Indigenous Alliance without Borders

Indigenous Alliance Without Borders Fundraising Event: Indigenous Authors Speak

By Jose R. Matus
jrmatus@aol.com

Censored News

http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/05/indigenous-authors-speak-at-indigenous.html

TUCSON — The Indigenous Alliance Without Borders and community partners will host a fundraiser featuring Indigenous authors on May 26 from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson at 4831 E. 22nd Street. Admission is a $10 suggested donation.
Indigenous Authors Speak will feature: Simon Ortiz, Leslie Marmon Silko, Ofelia Zepeda, Kenny Dryer- Redner, Laura Tohe, Bojan Louis, Henry Oso Quintero, Joseph A. Quitana, Natalie Diaz, Shining Soul with Emcee Alex Soto and Emcee Franco Habre.

The Indigenous Alliance Without Borders, an inter-tribal advocacy and human rights community organization was created in the San Xavier District of the Tohono O’odham Nation’s territory in 1997, to be the international voice for our traditional southern borderlands Indigenous peoples and to carry out diverse activities designed to contribute to the promotion, respect and protection of indigenous rights.

The Indigenous Alliance Without Borders consists of individual members of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, Tohono O’odham Nation, Kickapoo Tribe, Gila River Indian Community, Yaqui in Mexico, Chicanos/Chicanas and five ( 5 ) community organizations working together in promoting respect for indigenous rights.

Now, the Indigenous Alliance and the following community partners: Yoeme Commission on Human Rights, Tonatierra, Yoeme Tekia Cultural Center & Museum, Immigrant Rights Group of UUCT, Derechos Humanos, Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development, Protect Shuck Shon and Calpolli Teoxicalli have come together to bring to you this fundraising event.

Indigenous Authors Speak: Internationally and Locally renowned voices blend their voices in support of the Indigenous Alliance Without Borders:
Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson, 4831 E. 22nd Street – Tucson, Arizona, Saturday, May 26, 2012 – 6 pm -10 pm. Suggested Donation: $10.00, Dinner: Chili/Bean Burritos & Rice – Raffle Tickets will be sold.

Indigenous Alliance Without Borders
P.O. 826 –Tucson, Arizona 85702

my immigrant ecstasies by Jennifer Tamayo (author of Red Missed Aches)

see also

http://smokinggluegun.com/2012/03/01/jennifer-tamayo/

Praise for [Red Missed Aches] from 2010 Gatewood Prize judge Cathy Park Hong: Jennifer Tamayo’s writing is cacophonous, rude, and stripped. She uses equal measures of English, Spanish, and Spanglish; she landmines her poetry with malapropisms so the music is startling and pleasingly discordant. [Red Missed Aches] feels defiantly unfinished, adhering to a DIY feminist punk aesthetic so that it is more rough assemblage than bound book, a palimpsest that provocatively revises female sexuality and citizenship. Tamayo’s debut collection is a daring and astonishing work that refuses borders.

order the book at http://www.switchbackbooks.com/redmissedaches.html

Advertizement #6 by Sesshu Foster

1. find yourself at the gas station starved of freedom, could use your children and stuff back?

—Fill out this paperwork with this phillips screwdriver.

2. are you lost a long way down the highway caught in back of your dusty throat?

—Nothing calls to us; immigrants are advised to crash courses in the vocabulary of reply.

3. Would you like to be a moving part on this fantastic modernization machine?

—Purchase fresh electricity from someone whose tenacity has undergone extensive decay.

4. Would you like drippy tattoos of gimpy images on the outside as well?

—Take in a couple fake movies of actors playing the role of your guts, eating popcorn.

5. how you like the yellow taste of Idaho, Colorado, Nevada, Illinois, Oklahoma, Alaska?

—stand on this side of the magazine, remove your identification with your fingers.

May 1, from Haymarket to Occupy May Day: Published on rabble.ca (http://rabble.ca)

Reblogged from NonviolentConflict:

April 24, 2012

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The call for Occupy May Day [2] emerged out of Oakland, California in mid-February and swiftly gained momentum within the United States and beyond. A people’s movement that took root in encampments across North America last fall — one that was brutally uprooted by coordinated police action — was calling for an American Spring and the day of action it chose was May 1, International Workers Day.

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Among several important issues, this post highlights role of immigrant workers in labor movement.

COMMON GROUND ON THE KILL FLOOR – ORGANIZING SMITHFIELD by David Bacon

Interviews and Photos by David Bacon

Labornote website

http://labornotes.org/blogs/2012/04/common-ground-kill-floor-organizing-smithfield

Keith Ludlum and Terry Slaughter are two slaughterhouse workers who helped organize the union at the Smithfield Foods plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina. Here they tell the story of the way African American, white and Mexican immigrant workers were able to find common ground in that campaign, and how the company used immigration enforcement to try to defeat them. The original interviews have been edited into narrative form by David Bacon.

Two Step Program

Step #1

Step #2

(or in another order.)