Supreme Court Immigration Protestors

Also known as Occupy activists.  Thanks to some video that has been forwarded to us, we can show you an example of those who were in attendance.  The favorite in the crowd was this gentleman who tried to tell those who disagreed with his point of view that they were simply ignorant of the facts.  He said, "Ignorance is not so great a shame as being unwilling to learn."  They do like to sound intelligent and smarter than everyone else.  They also like to claim that if someone doesn't share their same view, it must be because they are just ignorant and must be educated of the facts.

He then went on to tell about his idea of fixing the immigration problem which was to go after corporations.  In his own ignorance, he had no idea that the state of Arizona already had legislation enacted since early 2008 to crack down on employers who knowingly hire illegals.  Because of this legislation, Arizona has seen both a dramatic drop in the hiring of illegals as well as a significant increase in self deportation.  Other states should follow Arizona's example.  Mr. Occupy was then asked if he had made any effort to try and change the law by going to his state legislature or Congressman (Barney Frank.  Enough said).  He cited something about the Citizens United vs. FEC case.   Last we checked, that case involved allowing companies to make political contributions and had nothing to do with companies hiring illegals.

When asked who his Senators were, he obviously had no idea and decided to distract and deflect from his own ignorance by saying "What are you so afraid of?" 

Someone should point out to him that it wasn't Thomas Jefferson who made the quote on his poster.  It was Benjamin Franklin. 

Perhaps he meant the Jefferson quote that says,

 "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free,

it expects what never was and never will be."

Winning!

More photos and videos to come.....

Occupy Phoenix: We Are One (with leftists)

We will take a closer look at this video that we discussed in a previous entry.  Try hard not to think about the ironic signs in the background that say "LIFE BEFORE PROFITS".  It begs the question, would they lend those signs to someone to use at a pro-life march against Planned Parenthood?

At 4:50, Senator Gallardo steps up to the plate flanked by our Rebekah "Friend" from the AFL-CIO and in true form, brought out his inner Russell Pearce obsession hatred.

I am an Arizona State Senator and I stand with the 99%!  Say no more to the Corporate greed.  No more to those elected officials, those politicians, and some of them are my colleagues, who continue to want to push legislation that doesn't benefit working families, do not benefit the majority of the this state or majority of those in the country, but it benefits themselves.  We're here to say it's a new game!  It's a new day in Arizona and across this country.
  That the working families are going to stand up and say, 'no more! 

 No more to that type of legislation!'

I was so proud early on in November when I saw organizations like organizing labor....Promise Arizona....where are you?  Promise?  (crowd cheers)....who stood up in LD18 to say, 'no more to Senator Russell Pearce.'  No more.  No more to his statements that racial profiling was a good thing.  No more to his statements that operation wetback was a good thing.  No more to his type of legislation that gave 1/2 billion dollars to special interest and corporate America.  No more!  Shame on Russell Pearce and shame on those colleagues who voted with him.  We sent him a message....and it wasn't just Democrats folks!  It was Republicans, Independents, Democrats.  It was the 99%.  We sent him packing and sent him walking.  LD18 was just 1 election folks.  We have more elections coming up in 2012 and we have to work in solidarity to drive a loud message not only to those in the legislature, but those members of congress that you either stand with the 99% of those folks that are struggling day in and day out, or guess what?
  We will send you to the same door we sent Russell Pearce!

The next person to speak was Diane D'Angelo.  Remember Diane?  She's the chairwoman of the Phoenix Human Relations Commission who is working with Randy Parraz in his effort to go after Joe Arpaio.  It was the HRC that voted to call for Sheriff Joe to step down.   D'Angelo spoke and encouraged those in attendance to band together with the Occupy movement.

This isn't any big surprise, however.  We already knew that groups like the AFL-CIO, Moveon and SEIU would take advantage of the situation.  This next April 9-15th,  in honor of MLK, these groups plan to "train" upwards of 100,000 people in homes, places of worship, campuses and the streets to join together "in the work of reclaiming our country".

Sponsors? 

UAW, MoveOn, UNITE HERE, New Organizing Institute, SEIU, Greenpeace, United Steel Workers, Working Families Party, Rebuild the Dream (Van Jones), PICO Network (IAF) , National Day Laborers Organizing Network (NDLO), Progressive Democrats of America (Tim Carpenter from Phoenix, AZ wearing Dodgers shirt standing next to Dan O'Neal and Virginia Haufflaire who helped with the Pearce recall)

Just to name a few.

So, This Is What Promise. Arizona. en Accion. Has Been Up To

We haven't seen Promise Arizona (PAZ) since the recall election when they were campaigning for Jerry Lewis.  They must have had some of the $30,000 infusion they received from the union UNITE HERE and Campaign for Community Change left over, just burning a hole in their pocket.

 
So, they attended the "Occupy Phoenix:  We Are One" rally sponsored by the MALF (Maricopa Area Labor Federation), a branch of the AFL-CIO.  Our next installment will cover the speeches in the video.

The first 10 seconds show the big PROMISE AZ banners which were proudly displayed in their base camp for Jerry Lewis' campaign.  It also serves as a backdrop when the speakers get up to the podium to blather on about the evil 1%.

Raquel Teran was there at the march as well along with a fellow SEIU friend.  It is nice to see that aside from the signs, the yellow shirts are getting some mileage too.

Look for the "union" label, as seen on the photo above.  This symbol means "I support union labor".  The closeup on the right was from a Martin Quezada campaign poster from 2010.