America Must Boycott Arizona - HuffPo

[WillyT]

America Must Boycott Arizona
Mario Solis-Marich
Progressive talk radio show host
Posted: April 15, 2010 01:10 PM

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Arizona is the Alabama of the new century and Maricopa County is the new Selma. America and the world should boycott GOP Governor Jan Brewer's red state.

While Arizona struggles with budget deficits its' legislature has decided to legalize racial profiling in a effort to arrest and deport undocumented families. While Arizona has been a hotspot in the immigration debate for some time the lightning rod has been Joe Arpaio, the publicity starved Sheriff who is under federal investigation for civil rights violations. This week the Arizona state legislature has trumped Arpaio by giving local police a statewide mandate to pull people over based on the color of their skin or their facial features.

While we hear Glenn Beck and his cult members rhetorically worry about fascism and socialism coming to America via the White House it appears as if the Arizona State House has actually hit a real police state milestone. Even leading law enforcement figures in the state are openly rejecting the provision that will allow police officers to pull over anyone suspected of being undocumented. When Arizona residents or tourists are pulled over, they must present their "papers" or be arrested. Arizona residents and tourists now have something in common with occupied France of the 1940's.

Arizona GOP Governor Jan Brewer is ready to sign the bill passed by Republican legislative majorities. The unwelcome mat is out for anyone brown in hue. American must reject this and the world must join in.

The only way we can pressure the Arizona legislature to its senses is to embark on a boycott of the "Grand Canyon State."

The world can also join the boycott effort and be quite effective. Arizona is wildly dependent on producing world exports. Ironically its largest world customer is Mexico and its second is that hot bed of socialized medicine -- Canada. Both of those countries should join Americans from every state in the union and boycott Arizona.

The battle is on. Americans can ignore the menace in our midst or we can join hands and push back with moral authority and economic resistance. People often wonder and are asked what they would have done during the times in history when people were scapegoated through the force of law based on their race or ethnicity. Americans have an opportunity to answer that question either again or for the first time. Once again the whole world is watching.

Join Mario at the Facebook Page : "Boycott the Police State Known as Arizona"

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Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mario-solismarich/america-must-boycott-ariz_b_539160.html

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[Grand Taurean]

1. The economy of Maricopa County needs to S-C-R-E-A-M!

The citizenry of the county continually votes for the right wing racist Joe Arpaio. A massive lawsuit that will make their economy tank may be the only thing to rid Joe short of a federal case.

[Warpy]

2. Next door is New Mexico, an island of sanity

along a highly xenophobic line of border states. Honestly, I've really never understood the rage toward Mexicans. Some of my neighbors were born there, many of my patients were Mexican, and nearly all of my coworkers were from families that settled this part of the country from Mexico. I just don't get it.

I could understand the anger were it up where the last few manufacturing jobs are being handed to underpaid illegal aliens in order to bust what's left of the unions, but it's just completely out of place in the cities here. I could understand the anger of people with property right at the border who have faced vandalism and worse from narco trafiickers up from Mexico, but it's not confined to those parts of the border.

I guess most people really will obligingly hate who they're given permission to hate and New Mexico is the only state in this part of the country where hating Mexicans is just not cool.

I keep hoping people in California, Arizona, and Texas will wake up some day and realize horrible men like Arpaio and the rest of the far right are using hate to grab power, but I'm not optimistic.

It's only going to stop when we get an FCC with the balls to tell those users of the public airwaves that broadcasting hate does not serve the public interest. I don't see that happening, either.

[Tansy_Gold]

3. if Arizona didn't get its annual quota of Canadian snowbirds,

This state would be in a world of hurt. All the Canadian govt would have to do is refuse to honor medical bills run up by Canadian citizens in the state of Arizona.

I love Arizona, but I hate its proto-fascist government. We've got a Joe Arpaio wanna-be in Paul Babeu, the sheriff of Pinal County.

Boycott us, please!

And my fellow Arizonans, maybe we should all be like Denmark with the Jews: Instead of yellow Star of David armbands, we should put on brownface, tune our car radios to 95.1 KVIB, and let Fuhrer Joe sort us out. ¡Nosotros venceremos!



Tansia del Oro

[WillyT]

4. Check This Out !!!

Grijalva: Boycott my home state

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Usually it's outside activists that call for boycotts of states whose policies they don't like.

But Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), is calling for businesses to boycott his home state of Arizona after the state legislature passed a tough immigration bill that would essentially allow local police to check the ID and arrest anyone under "reasonable suspicion" that they might be an illegal immigrant.

POLITICO's Kasie Hunt picked up on Grijalva's comments in a story about the Arizona proposal:

“There has to be an economic sanction for this,” Grijalva said. “Our economic sanction is: Do not do business with a state that is propagating the idea that separate but equal treatment under the law … can be codified.”

In a press release, Grijalva compared the situation to the boycott of Arizona in the 1990s when the state refused to recognize the Martin Luther King holiday.

"A Super Bowl ban by the National Football League Players Association after the state refused to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. day was effective in changing the policy in 1993," Grijalva's office said.

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Link: http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0410/Grijalva_Boycott_my_home_state.html#

Plus Keith just reported on it and had the congressman on.

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[Tansy_Gold]

6. Raúl Rocks!

I'm sorry I'm not in his district!


Tansy Gold, who would boycott Arizona except for the fact that she lives here.


P.S. -- Don't boycott Basha's.

[WillyT]

7. I Would NEVER Boycott Basha's !!!

Damn... this is gonna be tuff.

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[Tansy_Gold]

8. Which one is that?

[SargeUNN]

10. if only Eddie Sr. was still the one calling the shots

His kid has a leaning toward the dark side. Remember them and the fight against the Union?

[SargeUNN]

5. I think this state is going to suffer due to this

I called Jan Brewer's office today and had to wait a few minutes, then when I got on with a staffer I was told I had 25 callers behind me. I wanted to make a statement but the lady (who sounded like she is a black woman) said I could have only a few seconds. I told her I thought it was a racist law which she responded that they had heard that a lot today. I told her I came from Jim Crow Mississippi and I knew it was.

A fact to concern others about this, other states might decide to test these waters, like Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, etc. Just imagine this being tried in your state and even if it is struck down by the court, look at all the money spent to defend this garbage. Yeah tell me again how the Libertarians aren't so bad. They are big here and Grover Norquist owns this legislature.

[pezDispenser]

12. AZCenteral is reporting

"As of Monday, the Governor's Office had received 1,356 calls, e-mails and faxes in favor of SB 1070 and 11,931 against the bill." That is good news. I'm still holding out hope Brewer will do the right thing here.

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[Bluenorthwest]

9. I'm in

I have done very public business there, over all I loved the people I met. Yet I will gladly, gladly not go back until they get their asses into the 21st Century. Fly over and go to New Mexico, where the food is so much better anyway!

[Bobbieo]

11. jLuckily. Grijalva is my Congressman and the sheriff is a Democrat and against

SB 1070,he said so today!!! This is a very bad bill and if passed will have disastrous results for the state. I feel for the Hispanic police officers in my community and what they will be forced to do.

[krabigirl]

13. No problem..it's too hot there for me.

[Scurrilous]

14. K & R

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[arcadian]

15. Tell Arizona you won't being touring their state

http://www.azot.gov/contacts.aspx