Yesterday in the skies above Phoenix, 5 activists pulled off this brilliant action in solidarity with Arizona-based communities who stand against the enactment of SB1070.
Can you help us get $1,760 together to get these remarkable activists out of a Phoenix jail cell?
In love and solidarity,
Adrienne Maree Brown + John Sellers
PS. 287g is the parent law of SB1070, and in spite of 11th hour shifts, this struggle is not close to over!
We have dropped the Stop Hate banner in Arizona just hours before SB1070 goes into effect. We will not comply, we will not be silent, and we ask you to join us.
Statement from the Activists:
“SB 1070 and the federal program 287g are hateful laws. President Obama has the power to immediately stop them both.
We came to Arizona to support those at the epicenter of one of the largest human rights crises of our time. We join Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Cardinal Mahoney, and an outraged global community in denouncing SB 1070 in its entirety.
We know a partial injunction is not a solution for the people already living under Sheriff Arpaio’s terror, the day laborers who will be treated as criminals, or the communities soon to see their police enforcing immigration laws.
We say ‘stop hate’ because SB 1070 is not immigration policy. Like the experience of the Irish, Italian, Chinese or others, SB 1070 is simply scapegoating and targeting of the most vulnerable among us in these uncertain times; times that should call us to stand together as a people. Within days of SB 1070 passing, we witnessed vicious hate crimes against Latinos in the Southwest. We know that hateful laws legitimize hateful acts and that tolerating their passage signals a dangerous direction for the country.
We call on President Obama to do more than sue the state. Actions speak louder than lawyers. President Obama could solve the human rights crisis in Arizona with the stroke of a pen. Obama’s 287g program is what gave birth to the monster in Arizona he is now trying to slay. Stopping the hate means not just stopping SB 1070 and Sheriff Arpaio in Arizona but stopping all the Arpaios that the president’s ice access program is creating all across the country.”
Follow at @puenteaz, @nohateinaz, or search #altoarizona to see the latest updates today, and for the next few days as we support the community to escalate this campaign.
Ruckus is proud to be supporting this action effort in Arizona right now! We will update y’all as information comes!
While Judge Deliberates, Arizona Communities Pledge Non-Compliance on July 29th. With or Without SB 1070 Injunction, Human Rights Crisis in Arizona Continues
What: National Day of Non-Compliance with Arizona’s SB 1070. Protests, Rallies, & Peaceful Resistance.
When: July 29th, 2010.
Who: Puente Movement, National Day Laborer Organizing Network, Somos America, and allies
Where: 9:00am pacific Sheriff Arpaio’s Office. 1st ave & Washington. Rally & Civil Disobedience
4:00pm pacific County Jail. 5th ave & Madison. Concert & Rally
(Phoenix, Arizona) On July 22nd, civil rights groups and the United States Department of Justice presented arguments in two separate hearings to block the implementation of SB1070 in Phoenix, Arizona. During the hearings, hundreds rallied outside the courthouse to demonstrate opposition to the racial profiling law. The day ended with seven individuals arrested in acts of civil disobedience after blocking the main intersection in front of the courthouse with a banner that read, “Stop SB1070: We Will Not Comply.”
Last week’s civil disobedience marks an escalation of a growing movement for human rights in response immoral and unjust immigration laws. The recent 100,000 person march on May 29th as well as the groundswell of community efforts in the past two months has galvanized the nation in opposition to Arizona’s anti-immigrant, racial profiling law.
July 29th, the day SB1070 goes into effect, marks a “Day of Non-Compliance” for groups across the state and throughout the country. In Phoenix, groups will rally at 9:00am outside of Sheriff Arpaio’s office and hold a concert outside Arpaio’s county jail at 4:00pm that afternoon.
Carlos Garcia of Puente explained, “In Maricopa County, we’ve been living under SB 1070 conditions without the law in effect. The Judge’s decision will not stop the rampant racial profiling, extreme terror, inhumane detention, and persecution lived under Sheriff Arpaio and others like him. Our community’s response will continue to grow until real justice comes to Arizona.”
Pablo Alvarado, Director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, also acknowledged the deeper roots of Arizona’s crisis, “Empowering states and cities to enforce federal immigration laws is a dangerous trend that led to the rise of SB1070. A real solution to the growing hatred and targeting of people of color requires President Obama to assert the federal government’s authority to enforce immigration laws. Anything short of that leaves communities in jeopardy.”
Throughout the state there will be marches, rallies, religious events, and decentralized acts of civil disobedience. San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia, and other cities are also rallying on the 29th in support of Arizona to protest SB1070 and unjust immigration enforcement policies. Community groups against SB1070 vow to continue to protest, organize, and boycott against this unjust law.
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