Phoenix, Arizona - More than two thousand miles away from this city where rowdy protests about the immigration and border debate have taken place for years, an incipient grassroots movement is shaping a different debate at another border.
Deemed "Step by Step Toward Peace Caravan," this emerging movement is not...
Posted January 13, 2011 | 17:15:50 (EST)
Longtime organizer and legendary Chicano Movement leader Dolores Huerta stresses the need for effective organizing and voter registration.
Phoenix, Arizona. January 11, 2011 -- Reached via telephone in her office in Bakersfield, California, organizer and Chicano Movement icon Dolores Huerta speaks about the the 14th Amendment, Ethnic Studies, Arizona, the...
Posted December 3, 2010 | 08:39:49 (EST)
Tempe, Arizona -- A coalition of Arizona State University students and activists rallied Tuesday in support of the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, or DREAM Act.
If approved, the proposed legislation would allow thousands of undocumented students in the country to legalize their status, enter the...
Posted October 25, 2010 | 10:43:26 (EST)
Alessandra Soler-Meetze, director of the ACLU of Arizona, talks about her beginnings in journalism, her family influences, and her transition from a reporter's job with a major daily to becoming the leader of an strategic affiliate of the national civil liberties organization.
Posted July 29, 2010 | 08:09:37 (EST)
Phoenix, Arizona, July 28, 2010 -- As a threatening hurricane that weakens before reaching its path of destruction, the potential crackdown effects of Arizona immigration law SB 1070 were at least temporarily diluted by U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton.
Judge Bolton's ruling does not eliminate the entire SB 1070 law, rather prevents its...
Posted June 3, 2010 | 09:27:42 (EST)
Thousands of people marched from Steele Indian School Park to the State Capitol. The march took place exactly two months before SB 1070 in implemented, and more actions against it are expected in the next 60 days. Marches and protests in Arizona have been the rule rather than the exception....
Posted April 28, 2010 | 06:31:08 (EST)
Phoenix, Arizona. April 27, 2010 - Some people from Arizona, or those who have lived here for quite a while, may be appalled but not surprised about the dramatic turn the volatile issue of immigration has taken in this state during the last few days.
The passage of Senate Bill...
Posted April 19, 2010 | 15:37:58 (EST)
Phoenix, Arizona. April 16, 2009 - There was a time when the common assumption about United States-bound immigration was about impoverished people crossing the border...
Posted March 19, 2010 | 10:33:11 (EST)
Posted March 16, 2010 | 16:30:57 (EST)
This "golden boy" of social art has already created historic images. And he's just beginning.
For the thousands of people who have participated in recent pro-immigration marches and demonstrations in Arizona, the name Ernesto Yerena is not as popular as some...

Posted August 15, 2011 | 20:37:37 (EST)