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  • Blogs

    July 17, 2012

    Activists Gang Up on Mayor Ed Lee at City Hall

    Today, protesters came at Mayor Ed Lee from all sides -- literally. On the Van Ness side of City Hall, a mix of Bay Area residents, politicos, and average Joes, gathered to oppose the mayor's controversial Stop & Frisk idea. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Hall, residents rallied against Lee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2012

    San Francisco Has Mixed Feelings About Arizona Immigration Decision

    In April 2010, Supervisor David Campos issued an official resolution to boycott the state of Arizona to demonstrate his opposition toward the controversial Arizona Senate Bill 1070, which gave cops the authority to check the status of residents without probable cause. Campos wanted to "stand in soli ... More >>

  • News

    June 6, 2012

    Days of Rage: Immigrants and Allies Must Fight Back

    In April 2010, Supervisor David Campos issued an official resolution to boycott the state of Arizona to demonstrate his opposition toward the controversial Arizona Senate Bill 1070, which gave cops the authority to check the status of residents without probable cause. Campos wanted to "stand in soli ... More >>

  • News

    June 6, 2012

    Bordering on Revolution: America's War on Mexicans Has Gone Too Far

    In April 2010, Supervisor David Campos issued an official resolution to boycott the state of Arizona to demonstrate his opposition toward the controversial Arizona Senate Bill 1070, which gave cops the authority to check the status of residents without probable cause. Campos wanted to "stand in soli ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2012

    Kamala Harris Says Arizona Can't Boot Illegal Immigrants from Country

    ​California has the largest number of illegal immigrants and undocumented laborers in the country. So it should be no surprise that California Attorney General Kamala Harris has joined the fight against Arizona's unfriendly immigration law.Yesterday, Harris filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2011

    Carlos Santana Criticizes Georgia's New Immigration Law

    "Really, Georgia?"​Beware, people of states with drastic immigration laws: Santana is angry with you.  Days after Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal signed off on a new Arizona-style regulation, Carlos Santana brought the immigrant-friendly spirit of Bay Area liberalism to baseball's yearly Civil Righ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2011

    Will Arizona Boycott Keep Tasers Out of San Francisco?

    This Will Stun You​In Police Chief George Gascon's rush to arm cops with Tasers, he seems to have forgotten one important thing: The company that manufactures Taser weapons is squarely located in Arizona. And the Grand Canyon State is a place San Francisco is ostensibly boycotting.Arizona last yea ... More >>

  • Articles

    December 22, 2010

    Return to Sender

    This Will Stun You​In Police Chief George Gascon's rush to arm cops with Tasers, he seems to have forgotten one important thing: The company that manufactures Taser weapons is squarely located in Arizona. And the Grand Canyon State is a place San Francisco is ostensibly boycotting.Arizona last yea ... More >>

  • News

    December 22, 2010

    How Would Immigration Reform Look if the Feds Got Off Their Duffs?

    This Will Stun You​In Police Chief George Gascon's rush to arm cops with Tasers, he seems to have forgotten one important thing: The company that manufactures Taser weapons is squarely located in Arizona. And the Grand Canyon State is a place San Francisco is ostensibly boycotting.Arizona last yea ... More >>

  • News

    December 1, 2010

    FAIR-y Tales

    This Will Stun You​In Police Chief George Gascon's rush to arm cops with Tasers, he seems to have forgotten one important thing: The company that manufactures Taser weapons is squarely located in Arizona. And the Grand Canyon State is a place San Francisco is ostensibly boycotting.Arizona last yea ... More >>

  • News

    December 1, 2010

    Fantasy Voter Fraud

    This Will Stun You​In Police Chief George Gascon's rush to arm cops with Tasers, he seems to have forgotten one important thing: The company that manufactures Taser weapons is squarely located in Arizona. And the Grand Canyon State is a place San Francisco is ostensibly boycotting.Arizona last yea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2010

    Arizona Immigration Law Has Sucked $141 Million From State Economy, Report Says

    ​Remember the Board of Supervisors' tepid boycott of Arizona to revolt against that state's strict "papers please" immigration law? Many lambasted our city's boycott as yet another symbolic, feckless meddling in affairs far afield of San Francisco's issues.  But San Francisco was not alone in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2010

    Immigrants Not Taking Your Job, Study Claims

    No excuses! ​People who hate immigrants often hang their rhetorical hat on the argument that immigrants are stealing jobs from and depressing wages for people born here. Yet a new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco blows that theory apart.Immigr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2010

    White Nationalist Group To Protest 'Machete' Movie With Machetes This Weekend

    Whitey, beware? ​A group of white nationalists will protest the new Robert Rodriguez movie Machete  -- which depicts a Mexican renegade attempting to assassinate an anti-immigrant senator played by Robert DeNiro -- at Bay Area cinemas this week. This gets even more interesting: The protesters ... More >>

  • News

    August 18, 2010

    Held Captive

    Coyotes who smuggle immigrants torture and extort their victims, helped by out government's failure to enact immigration reform.

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2010

    Album That Time Time Sort Of Forgot: Desaparecidos' 'Read Music/Speak Spanish'

    Bill Sitzmann​Today sees the stateside release of the Arcade Fire's third full-length album, The Suburbs, which supposedly kicks ass. Not having heard it, I will instead ruminate on another album about suburbs: Read Music/Speak Spanish, the first and only record by Omaha's Desaparecidos. The ye ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2010

    Arizona Immigration Law's Appeal Will Come Through San Francisco

    The immigration debate is coming our way...​In the wake of Arizona's passage of the draconian and controversial SB 1070, San Francisco kick-started the boycott bandwagon and Mayor Gavin Newsom forbade city officials to travel to the Grand Canyon State. Now that Arizona law will be traveling to San ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2010

    Tom Ammiano Mangles Profane Spanish at Unique Immigration Rally (PICS)

    Tom, what are you saying?​As promised, San Franciscans came out against Arizona's controversial SB 1070 immigration law today, in a protest also aimed at the federal identification program known as Secure Communities ("S-COMM for short"). A picturesque group positioned in front of the Federal Buil ... More >>

  • News

    July 28, 2010

    Arizona and America Join Joe Arpaio in Rushing to Inquire: Are Your Papers in Order?

    Tom, what are you saying?​As promised, San Franciscans came out against Arizona's controversial SB 1070 immigration law today, in a protest also aimed at the federal identification program known as Secure Communities ("S-COMM for short"). A picturesque group positioned in front of the Federal Buil ... More >>

  • News

    July 21, 2010

    The Education Trap

    In California, many undocumented immigrants are offered cheap college tuition, only to find they can’t get jobs after they graduate.

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2010

    Police Chief George Gascon Says Arizona Immigration Law Lets Thugs Run Wild

    ...Gascon says Arizona law will lead to lawlessness​San Francisco Police Chief George Gascon -- known for locking horns with anti-immigrant demagogue Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County while Gascon served as chief of police in Mesa, Arizona -- said the Grand Canyon State's much-maligned immigra ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 30, 2010

    Alto Means "Cut It Out?"

    ...Gascon says Arizona law will lead to lawlessness​San Francisco Police Chief George Gascon -- known for locking horns with anti-immigrant demagogue Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County while Gascon served as chief of police in Mesa, Arizona -- said the Grand Canyon State's much-maligned immigra ... More >>

  • News

    June 9, 2010

    Cowboy Down: Rob Krentz's Family Talks About the Life and Death of the Murdered Arizona Rancher

    ...Gascon says Arizona law will lead to lawlessness​San Francisco Police Chief George Gascon -- known for locking horns with anti-immigrant demagogue Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County while Gascon served as chief of police in Mesa, Arizona -- said the Grand Canyon State's much-maligned immigra ... More >>

  • News

    June 2, 2010

    Badlands: From Ground Zero of the Immigration Crisis Along the Mexican Border

    ...Gascon says Arizona law will lead to lawlessness​San Francisco Police Chief George Gascon -- known for locking horns with anti-immigrant demagogue Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County while Gascon served as chief of police in Mesa, Arizona -- said the Grand Canyon State's much-maligned immigra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 28, 2010

    Arizona Boycotters Will Show Up At Giants Games

    ​Supervisors David Campos and John Avalos slated to appear at 'informational pickets' Opponents of the Arizona "papers, please" law SB1070 will be boycotting the Giants game against the Arizona Diamondbacks tonight and tomorrow by ... showing up at the game. Of course, you could make the case that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2010

    San Francisco to Boycott Arizona

    ​The Board of Supervisors today approved a resolution calling for a boycott of the state of Arizona -- but how sharp the teeth are of said boycott remains to be seen. The resolution that passed today does a lot of "urging." It encourages -- but does not mandate -- cutting ties with Arizona "to the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2010

    Oakland Beats S.F. to the Punch on Arizona Boycott

    They'll be boycotting cacti across the bay in Oakland. But not here in San Francisco. Yet.​San Francisco's proposed boycott of the state of Arizona drew a national spotlight. But the distinction -- be it positive or negative -- of actually enacting a boycott goes to Oakland, which can add that lau ... More >>

  • Articles

    May 5, 2010

    A Report from Juarez, the Bleeding Front Line of the War on Drugs

    They'll be boycotting cacti across the bay in Oakland. But not here in San Francisco. Yet.​San Francisco's proposed boycott of the state of Arizona drew a national spotlight. But the distinction -- be it positive or negative -- of actually enacting a boycott goes to Oakland, which can add that lau ... More >>

  • News

    May 5, 2010

    An Opportunity to Stand Up

    They'll be boycotting cacti across the bay in Oakland. But not here in San Francisco. Yet.​San Francisco's proposed boycott of the state of Arizona drew a national spotlight. But the distinction -- be it positive or negative -- of actually enacting a boycott goes to Oakland, which can add that lau ... More >>

  • News

    May 5, 2010

    Amongst Us

    Sheriff Joe Arpaio's reign of terror becomes Arizona policy, thanks to state Senator Russell Pearce and Governor Jan Brewer

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2010

    SF Weekly Parent Company to Underwrite Legal Challenge to Arizona Immigration Bill

    ​Last week, there were some murmurs among local bloggers about whether SF Weekly would suffer as a result of a proposed city boycott of Arizona businesses because of the Grand Canyon State's harsh new immigration law. Editors at SF Appeal and SFist raised the prospect of city officials refusing to ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 5, 2010

    Everyone's a Comedian

    ​Last week, there were some murmurs among local bloggers about whether SF Weekly would suffer as a result of a proposed city boycott of Arizona businesses because of the Grand Canyon State's harsh new immigration law. Editors at SF Appeal and SFist raised the prospect of city officials refusing to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2010

    Bookie Site Lays Odds on Controversial Arizona Immigration Law

    Can I get some action here? ​If the 9-11 tragedy didn't prove Americans' indomitable will and heroic ability -- to make a buck off anything, this will. The bookmaking site youwager.com has commenced laying odds and taking bets related to the controversial Arizona immigration law that inspired San ... More >>

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