The atmosphere here in Tucson is tense and emotions are running very high due the shooting of 18 people, including Congresswoman Gabby Giffords this morning outside of a grocery. I’ve gotten calls from friends wanting to make sure I wasn’t at the grocery store gathering where the shooting happened. I wasn’t. I could have […]
Behaviors Are Illegal, NOT People!
Fercryingoutloud folks, please, please, please stop using the word illegal to describe people. People engage in illegal activities. Behaviors are what are declared legal or illegal, not individual people. What a person does can be ruled to be illegal. But to characterize a person in his or her entirety as “illegal” is not only demeaning […]
I love Arizona, but…
I love Arizona, but we are in the throes of violent oppression. My CODEPINK friends – who engaged in actions all over the U.S. and in war torn countries couldn’t believe the overt and thuggish collusion between recruiters and police here. Basically they couldn’t believe what routinely takes place here in Arizona, and in Tucson, […]
Huge Turnout at Phoenix Healthcare Rally Outside Obama's VFW Address
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy As I posted earlier in the day, I was at the demonstration outside the VFW gathering where Obama spoke today. I was also near these kooks who were carrying weapons. A few pieces of information that I haven’t seen mentioned in the media […]
RNC protest – it's a wrap.
There is so much that didn’t make it in to the corporate media — I don’t know where to begin. So I will start with CODEPINK. It is interesting to note that the dark blond woman who had the banner ripped out of her hands is a constituent of John McCain who knows he has […]
Wake Up America. John McCain is Senator from a Pit of Corruption.
This is the first of many posts that will be made over the next couple of months that highlight John McCain and what his interests and protection of interests vital to his family’s continuing wealth have done to Arizona. This article by Halbfinger in yesterday’s New York Times offers tantalizing details that require further investigation […]