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Oregon Immigrant Rights Coalition Applauds Injunction Against SB1070

Key parts prevented from going into affect on Thursday.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Today, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton issued a preliminary injunction preventing several sections of Arizona's racial profiling law from going into affect on Thursday.

SB1070, signed into law in April, is the most extreme legislation anywhere in the country to deal with the nation's broken immigration system. Opposition to the law includes law enforcement, a diverse coalition of faith leaders, immigrants' advocates, civil rights leaders, and legal scholars.

John McCain: A Closer Look at Evil (Part 1)

Christian-Zionist Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona teamed up with John McCain and Jewish-Zionist Senator Joe Lieberman to market the phony intelligence that took us to war in Iraq.

(TEMPE, Az.) - I am a constituent of Arizona Senator John McCain, a 2008 presidential contender. I reside in the Congressional District where he ran for Congress four years before the expected 1986 retirement of Senator Barry Goldwater.

McCain’s career was modeled after that well-known Republican maverick.

Rage Against the Machine Joins Boycott Fight Against Arizona Law

Sundstrike Artists will play historic concert to benefit Arizona Organizations fighting SB 1070; Rage Against the Machine, with Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band.

(LOS ANGELES) - In their first concert in their hometown of Los Angeles in 10 years, Rage Against the Machine will take the stage at the Hollywood Palladium on July 23, 2010.

Proceeds from the concert along with donations raised by The Sound Strike will provide much needed resources to community organizations, student groups, legal defense funds and assist activists targeting key voting districts for voter registration.

Police Tasers and Excessive Force in America

Taser makes 'less than lethal' products that resemble real guns.

(SALEM, Ore.) - In August 2008, just before heading to Iraq for the first time to cover the war there, I wrote an article about police tasers in America; taking a speculative look at a practice but also citing many hard facts.

Justice Department Files Lawsuit against Arizona over Racial Profiling Law

Justice Department Files Lawsuit against Arizona over Racial Profiling Law

(SALEM, Ore..) - Today the U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit in federal court against the state of Arizona over their racial profiling law, S.B. 1070.

Arizona Immigration Law & Senators John McCain & Russell Pearce

One source suggests that it is little more than a “publicity stunt.”

(LOS ANGELES) - One national report calls it, "Arizona's New Low" and it just might be; the latest idea of State Sen. Russell Pearce is to deny citizenship to people born in the U.S. if their parents happen to be here illegally.

There is no question that laws should be followed, they exist for a reason, but it is not that simple. People who were born in the USA are Americans.

Border Police, Community Meet on Immigration

“This isn’t the situation we were expecting from the (Obama) administration.” - Fernando Garcia, executive director of the Border Network,

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - In an unusual encounter, police chiefs from the Paso del Norte region of the US-Mexico borderland met with community members this past weekend to discuss immigration, racial profiling, identity cards, Arizona’s SB 1070 law, use of lethal force, and overall police-community relationships.

Arizona`s Illegal Immigration Problem

The history of illegal immigration and illegal war in the South-Western states is an interesting and informative one.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - Arizona Senate Bill 1070 has gained the State a great deal of attention recently. Typically, no one would care about the pronouncements of the so called government of that backwater hell hole, but the sheer Nazism of the law was enough to perk even international interest.

The normally subdued Economist led with the headline “Hysterical Nativism.”

Medical Marijuana Qualifies for Arizona Ballot

Arizona Will Join South Dakota in Having Medical Marijuana on the Ballot in November; 14 States and Washington, D.C. Have Similar Laws.

(PHOENIX, Az.) - Today, the Arizona Secretary of State announced that an initiative to pass a medical marijuana law in Arizona has qualified for the November ballot.

In April, the Arizona Medical Marijuana Policy Project, the group that organized the initiative, turned in nearly 100,000 more signatures than were required to qualify.

Oregon Citizens Rally Against Arizona Immigration Law

Thousands across the state came together in solidarity for immigration rights.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Salem hosted one of forty rallies across the United States today in reaction to Arizona’s new immigration law, advocating for realistic immigration reform.