Read: Going to Arizona to Protest SB1970- July 29

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Blessings on your Journey of Solidarity!
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make violent revolution inevitable."
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Southern California Immigration Coalition- SCIC is going to Arizona July 29 to stop SB1070 > http://bit.ly/dey2tx

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From: immigrationcoalition.org <contact@immigrationcoalition.org>
To: contact@immigrationcoalition.org
Sent: Mon, July 19, 2010 8:42:24 PM
Subject: Going to Arizona to Protest SB1970- July 29

Southern California Immigration Coalition- SCIC is going to Arizona.

Be at Arizona July 29 to stop SB1070

Cost $35.00 per person

Meeting place is Centro Cultural Francisco Villa
2100 Maple Avenue, Los Angeles CA 90011

We leave Wed night July 28
We return Thursday night July 29.
Please RSVP right away.
phone # 323-602-3425

Immigration reform: Obama's political dilemma + Comment

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Immigration reform: Obama's political dilemma

President Obama wants comprehensive immigration reform, and he's suing to block Arizona's tough new law. But most Americans – including many Democratic officials – are against him.

Immigration reform: Four people sneak away from the US/Mexico border fence after illegally crossing into the border town of Nogales, Arizona, in May. They tried to stay low until they could blend into the town streets, but were caught and arrested shortly afterwards by US Customs and Border Protection agents.~ Newscom

By Brad Knickerbocker, Staff writer posted July 18, 2010 at 9:42 am EDT

Immigration policy is tough for any president – just ask George W. Bush, who tried and failed to get comprehensive immigration reform that included a guest-worker program, which opponents in his own party said would lead to "amnesty" for illegal aliens.

President Obama finds himself in the same kind of hornet's nest on immigration, and again it's many in his own party as well as Republicans who are unhappy with his stand.

Obama wants comprehensive reform, including a process allowing illegal aliens in this country to gain residency by paying back taxes, undergoing background checks, and waiting their place in line behind others seeking to come to the United States. Meanwhile, Obama's Justice Department is suing to block Arizona's tough anti-illegal immigrant law, which is scheduled to go into effect next week.

The political fallout is not encouraging for Obama, according to recent reports.

"The White House's infatuation with immigration reform is a lose-lose proposal for Democrats this election year," a senior Democratic aide told Time. "Talk of immigration angers independents, at the same time angering Hispanics because there is more talk and no action just in time for an election."

Western Democrats uneasy

Democratic governors – particularly those in the West – are very uneasy about the administration's thrust on immigration, especially in light of the nation's troubled economy.

"This is an issue that divides us politically, and I'm hopeful that their strategy doesn't do that in a way that makes it more difficult for candidates to get elected," Democratic Governor Bill Ritter, Jr. of Colorado (who's not seeking reelection) told the New York Times.

"Universally the governors are saying, 'We've got to talk about jobs,' " Gov. Phil Bredesen (D) of Tennessee told the Times. "And all of a sudden we have immigration going on."

Meanwhile, Republicans officials around the country are organizing in support of Arizona against the Justice Department lawsuit.

Last week, the attorneys general of eight states – all Republicans – filed an amicus brief in federal court supporting Arizona's tough new immigration law.

"It is appalling to see President Obama use taxpayer dollars to stop a state's efforts to protect its own borders," said Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox in a statement. "My mother was a legal immigrant who faithfully carried her green card with her for years before gaining citizenship – it certainly is not too much to ask legal immigrants to do the same today."

As Obama (and others) decry a "patchwork" of state laws as reason to assert federal authority over immigration, most states appear to be going it alone at an accelerating pace.

States passing more immigration laws

Between 2006 and 2009, the number of state bills and new laws related to immigration more than doubled, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

"In the first quarter of this year, state legislators in 45 states had introduced 1,180 bills and resolutions relating to immigrants and refugees," NCSL reported in May.

Most Americans support stiffer laws against illegal immigration, polls show. Gallup reported this month that "Americans' initial reactions to the U.S. Justice Department lawsuit against Arizona's new illegal immigration law are more negative than positive, by a 50 percent to 33 percent margin."

"This means the Obama administration is sailing against the tide of public opinion in its efforts to block the law," reports Gallup.

As the debate continues, so does the stream of immigrants entering the US illegally from Mexico.

The Center for Immigration recently posted its second hidden-camera video of illegal border crossings, some involving guns and drugs.

"The inescapable conclusion is that hidden cameras reveal a reality that illegal-alien activity is escalating," the organization reported.

IN PICTURES: The US/Mexico border

Related:

Arizona immigration lawsuit: Obama sails into a political storm

Immigration law in Arizona targeted in Department of Justice lawsuit

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0718/Immigration-reform-Obama-s-political-dilemma

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Comment: Let us be blunt. 'Public Opinion' is White racist U.S. citizen opinion.
Think global. POTUS Obama is living in an insulated bubble that can be popped
by his admitting to see the big picture! Quit the Democratic Party!

Chicanos need to take the lead on this whole issue of immigration reform
and advocating for sane humane legislation in general and eventual open
borders in the Americas. We need to see all of the people of all of the Americas as Americans or else America is only AmeriKKKa, not for non-U.S. citizens and non-White peoples.

Unidos Venceremos! United We Will Win!
~Peta-de-Aztlan~ Sacramento, California, Amerika
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"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible,
make violent revolution inevitable."
~ President John F.Kennedy ~ Killed November 22, 1963
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FYI: Song Book For Liberation, chapbook via Aztatl Garza

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Gracias Hermano Aztatl ~ Sharing is caring!
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From: Aztatl Garza <aztatlxikano@gmail.com>
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Sent: Sat, July 17, 2010 6:25:26 PM
Subject: Fwd: Song Book For Liberation, chapbook

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From: Aztatl Garza <aztatlxikano@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 12:04 PM
Subject: Fwd: Song Book For Liberation, chapbook
To: Aztatl Garza <aztatlxikano@gmail.com>

new chapbook release by a wobbly :

Song Book For Liberation ~

collected, dissected, selected prose, poetry, graphic art ~

             of Aztatl, 1982-2010  155 pages

         75 poems/39 graphics & illustrations

 

Fronteras Nortenas Trilogy excerpt

one:

ay sweltering San Antonio varrio tan lindo see how fresh

your memory remains deep en el corazon warm por

rumbos conocidos donde vive la gente trabajadora

el circulo, "La Lomita" que se llama el southern-most colonia

nuestro pueblo Mexicano-Chicano. Alli donde summer cicada/

hummingbird song movements stir bright orange marigolds

then vanish into abandoned 2 room wood and corrugated steel

roof home near abandoned railroad tracks, rattle snakes and

aging pecan orchards - dinosaur migrant routes run

through that special place old as Pachamama Herself

 

somos tambien los survivors of Ecorse/southwest Detroit

barrio project days of fire trap wooden military housing

compadrazgo homes out of which steam sweet spicy odor

de chile verde, beef, pork y pinto bean tamales/bailes

escandalosos toda la santa Nochebuena ...

 

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Great Aunt Rafaela Sanchez

 

dreams

shooting stars

camouflaged

brown green horned lizards tanning themselves

under scalding south Texas stones the syllables I use

were born inside you tia Rafaela the millenia-aged

secrets de cultura are stored in the genes dormant

for a time in one generation to emerge in the next;

 

safely preserved in the nuance syntax of ritual language

the hardy perennial seed of origins waits patiently

for the soak of water or a carefull niche scored by time

and experience into its toughened dark skin to encourage

germination at precisely the proper moment

 

it only takes a moment does it not

to thank the blessed beauty and

abundance which surrounds us

 

the Sacred Hoop of Life

cannot be broken except

in the mind of our own imagination

 

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La Reconquista

 

You approached us then

in the forties and fifties

from the fields and factories,

vowing your strength/even

your life for La Causa, the union.

When the smoke cleared instead

the remedy to cure the disease

of slavery dispensed in small doses.

 

You approached us next

in the sixties and seventies

from the homes and universities

with your knowledge, your mind

your heart and extended embrace,

and again we failed to understand.

We chose instead seperation

perpetual disconnection we were

afraid that your philosophy

was better than ours.

 

We are in the eighties

approaching the nineties

and you must try again-

men, women, and children together

with our expertise of past ages,

with the healing incantations

of our sacred Mother Tongue,

with intuition, imagination, love

and the same strength that mothered

and tended el movimiento - the struggle,

a southerly vibrant wind; green

                                        white

                                        red

                                        wild flowers

                                        all over Aztlan.

 

                                                          1988

 

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Road Love Poem  #1 excerpt

 

It was your green sweat shirt,

the one you lent me with the hood

against the early morning chill,

with your enticing woman musk

scent still attached to every fiber

             (of my being)

that made me fall in love

with you all over again.

 

Aroma feel of your moist passionate

most perfect body filled my nostrils

inhaling thick lavendar & sandlewood 

carnal cosmic air saturated

sultry afternoon muskrat love.

 

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La Chicanada  excerpt

 

..................blood    saliva

fear  hunger  poverty  racism  indignities

our young minds could not comprehend,

painted red the bar room floor a bright

holiday pinata  "splish !  splash !  I was

taking a bath" number 1 on the hit parade

modern minimalist pain - ting

without a warning Huey

he be crazy white boy

devilish grin he be colored plasma purple

barrio Friday night teenage life glowing

Huey he be down proud Chicano brown...

 

[after birth] :

brother Phil and Andrew Lopez went to Santo

Domingo with the 82nd Airborne, Marcelino "Nino"

Hernandez, Rudy "tootie fruitee" Perez and Dougie

Pinson on the buddy plan wound up grunts in different

parts of Vietnam- Dougie on returning became a cop

 

Jesus "Jessie - Chuy" Villalobos and Frankie "Jughead"

Chavez failed the army entrance examination continued

nightly appearances at Vegas Bar, Ecorse, Michigan

with all night weekend drinking philosophical fishing trips,

cousin John "Stilleto" Garza married moved to San Antonio -

later seperated changed his gender to the dismay of la

familia and cousin Raymond the body builder promised

to turn me into the first Chicano all star to win the Mister

Universe title, he died in Del Rey working class Mexican

Hungarian suberb of Detroit, under the first winter storm

a single bullet to the back of the head left in a parking lot

not discovered until the spring thaw we thought he had

left Detroit, the killer was never arrested...

so much for those loco dreams eh ?

 

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De Lo Buena excerpt

 

Alvin Jones

McCoy Tyner

Joe Henderson

Ron Carter

jazz quartet

metaphor for life

broken Night Train

fine wine homeless bottles

'Nam war at home broken cliche's 

 

...I was born hip

San Antonio raised hip

from brown gravy barbacoa mix

of Pedro Infante-Mariachi Vargas-

Flaco Jimenez-Little Joe y La Familia...

 

alive hip in a Motown Mack Avenue-

Woodward-Willis sidestreet- Ornette

Coleman search for the tone of Saturday

night; Chaka Kahn-Blue Rondo A La Turk

scat hip asi que a Xikano beat poet

 

post graduate of southwest Detroit

School of Barrio circumstance

neither by choice you understand

most times it was up to the blues

to decide what is hip...hip trip

                                             hipper than hip

                                    for the anguished spirit

                                    for the too-cool head

                                    for the ones left behind

                                     

                                    boogie woogie

                                    be-bop night tapestry

                                    albuquerque all star galaxy

                                    blues tint wounds...

                                    passion is the melody that

                                    scrambles to reassemble...

 

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Untitled

 off the cuff the things we do reflect

the things we understand the least,

the air is filled with floating Cotonwood seeds,

flying, becoming an Erika Higgens sonnet

to rebellion in the streets, black sooted faces

from struggle and sweet precious love songs...

 

from those cumbersome off notes the wind

trying to find itself a home, or al least a place

to rest while the remainder of the tune catches up-

becomes a whirlwind, or a delicate afternoon breeze;

I am prepared for this, the smile is real, the reaching

out to embrace you is not a wish in a dream

 

nor do I seek compensation,

                      justification

                      recrimination

                      or explanation

I will honor you

respect you

love you

 

without regret 

 

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OLD mAN cOYOTE excerpt

 

when animals were people too,

the earth green, the sky still blue,

shape shifter magician ogre Navaho

Ma'i is charming mix human animal,

trickster-

transformer-

culture hero-

outer ego grossly erotic, always hungry,

vain, greedy, cunning, impulsive,

creative, adaptable, his unreliable

 

uncontrolable urge to leave town

without suitcase or money;

 

if coyote did not fullfill these roles

then those things would never get done...

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OLD mAN cOYOTE says:                    1121 Nashville SW, Apt. A Check or Money Order for $10.00     Albuquerque, NM 87105-3713

aztatlxikano@gmail.com

(505) 967-1393 

http://bit.ly/davl1T

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 15, 2010 2:40 PM

CONTACT: America's Voice Michael Earls (202) 494-8555

Without a Washington Fix, Immigration Debate Spirals in Dangerous Direction

Latinos Feel Under Siege, Utah's Immigrant Hit List Shows Why

WASHINGTON - July 15 - New polling of Latino voters under siege, along with news of a "hit list" with the names of Latinos, accused of being undocumented by anonymous anti-immigrant sources in Utah, show that the immigration debate continues to spiral in a dangerous direction and the federal government must intervene. 

Said Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America's Voice, "Washington needs to step up and fix the broken immigration system soon, so that rogue elements and irresponsible politicians cannot continue to drive the debate with witch hunts and demagoguery.  The Obama Administration took the important first step to challenge Arizona's anti-Latino immigration law, but much more needs to be done to stand up to vigilantism and hate that tramples on civil rights and community safety."

New polling of Latino voters conducted by LatinoMetrics for the Hispanic Federation and League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), shows that immigration is now tied with the economy as the most important issue to Latinos, a dramatic surge fueled by fallout over the Arizona "papers, please" anti-immigration law.  Additionally, both U.S. born and foreign-born Latino citizens are massively in favor of a comprehensive fix to the immigration system and motivated to vote this election cycle.  As Brent Wilkes, LULAC's Executive Director said in a statement about his organization's polling, "The fact that immigration reform is now a higher priority for Latinos than the economy and education demonstrates that Latinos have taken offense to the way immigrants have been demonized by politicians and political interest groups and are prepared to vote accordingly."

Finally, and most disturbingly, the poll shows that Arizona's SB1070 law has already had a real impact on Latinos' level of comfort with law enforcement.  Polling of Latinos conducted for the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund and to be released next week finds that, "Latinos are feeling less optimistic and more under siege," according to Arturo Vargas, NALEO's Executive Director.

This widespread sentiment among Latinos seems justified in light of disturbing news from Utah.  The Orwellian-named Concerned Citizens of the United States released a list to media outlets and law enforcement agencies naming 1,300 Latino Utah residents they accuse of being "illegal immigrants," and said they would be "listening and watching" to make sure those individuals on the list are deported.  As the New York Times recapped, "each entry contains details about the individuals listed - from their address and telephone number to their date of birth and, in the case of pregnant women, their due dates," and the group "urged immediate deportation proceedings against the people listed, as well as publication of their names by the news media."  No wonder Latinos feel under siege-they are. 

Meanwhile, proving that nothing sells in a Republican primary these days like red meat on illegal immigration, nine state Attorneys General - each of them Republican - signed onto an amicus brief supporting Arizona's SB1070 immigration law.  The brief was organized by Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox, who is running for the Republican gubernatorial primary in a crowded field of five. 

According to Sharry, "The Republican embrace of Arizona's immigration law, the escalating tactics of anti-immigrant groups, and the failure of Washington to enact comprehensive immigration reform has fed a climate that is getting increasingly ugly and dangerous.  Until responsible leaders grab the wheel and steer this debate towards a workable solution, irresponsible actors will continue recklessly drive the nation into a ditch."

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America's Voice -- Harnessing the power of American voices and American values to win common sense immigration reform. The mission of America's Voice is to realize the promise of workable and humane comprehensive immigration reform. Our goal is to build the public support and create the political momentum for reforms that will transform a dysfunctional immigration system that does not work into a regulatory system that does.

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Unidos Venceremos! United We Will Win!
~Peta-de-Aztlan~ Sacramento, California, Amerika
Email: peter.lopez51@yahoo.com 
http://help-matrix.ning.com/
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"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible,
make violent revolution inevitable."
~ President John F.Kennedy ~ Killed November 22, 1963
c/s