Sharpton, along with city leaders, activists, clergy and representatives from over 30 community groups led a rally at 6 p.m. at Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church.
After the meeting, the capacity crowd of about 2,500 began walking peacefully toward the state Capitol at about 7:30 p.m., with some holding candles and banners as others sang.
Sharpton said that just as freedom riders battled segregation in the 1960s, he would organize "freedom walkers" to challenge the Arizona bill.
Arizona Hotel and Lodging Association President Debbie Johnson said a number of conventions and meetings that have been canceled since Arizona's new immigration law was signed into law April 30. Johnson said in the past two weeks, 21 conventions and meetings have been canceled.
Among the groups backing out, The American Immigration Lawyers Association, League of United Latin American Citizens and Alpha Phi Alpha moved it's 104th Anniversary convention from Phoenix to Las Vegas. Alpha Phi Alpha is the first intercollegiate Greek-letter organization established by African Americans. News culled from several different sources, as local media didn't want to show the pathetic turnout.
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I wonder exactly how many of the people at the rally are non voters in AZ, how many were bussed in for the event, and exactly how many are registered voters in AZ. Oh, and how many were press...
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Why does Sharpton support greater unemployment in the African American community?
Spoiler: the events occurred in 2005. This story is about the report recently issued.
The SAS launched a daring mission to rescue two of its own men held hostage in Iraq against the orders of the Ministry of Defence, the Daily Mail can reveal.
The elite unit was pushed to the brink of mutiny after it was banned from saving the SAS soldiers captured by militants because to do so would embarrass the Government. The astonishing edict drove SAS officers close to mass resignation, according to a hardhitting report by the Tory MP Adam Holloway, a former Guards officer.
The SAS Lieutenant-Colonel on the ground, believing that 'politically motivated' commanders in the UK were 'unable to make rational and effective decisions', sent in a rescue team anyway -- fearful that within hours the captured men could have been spirited away or executed. The rescuers blasted their way into the police station in Basra where the two soldiers were being held and saved them.
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There is some piece of this we are not getting. I like to think that if an officer has an opportunity to rescue captured personnel that he would ALWAYS make that decision. Is it possible that the yahoo on the ground did not recognize his authority to do so? On the FLIP side any American commander who had a chance to rescue captured personnel and did nothing would be relieved of duty (or one would hope). Happy ending, everyone came home.
I was wondering if we could get a show of hands from the other side of the pond as regards who you would like to see in power over here. Yes I used the term power , when in fact we could just be a Euro stooge so please this is just a bit of light hearted fun to find out what you guys want.
Think most will know Im conservative at heart, I remeber the Labour of the 70's and under gordon browns austere leadership , thats where we are heading
Please cast an open vote , Im curious
1) Labour
2) Conservative
3) Lib Dems
4) Other
5) Has no impact on us, there is no special relationship
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From what I've seen discussed here, I'd prefer UKIP. But that would be throwing my vote away, so I'd vote Tory, and work to change the party from within. I'm American, in case you want to tally by nationality as well, Oscar.
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UKIP. Tory if that is the only choice. But it doesn't matter much. Obama will have pissed Britain off so much that none of them will want to cooperate with the US.
Posted by: Formerly Dan ||
05/06/2010 10:35 Comments ||
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First of all, I think there is going to be some serious acrimony based on massive voter fraud, mentioned a day or two ago. Then there is the problem of forming a new government.
The Lib Dems will refuse to join with Labour unless Brown is kicked out, and a lot of cabinet ministers are Lib Dems. The Tories have already refused a potential coalition with the Lib Dems.
Brown ill-advisedly said that he would remain PM unless some other party has a clear majority. The Lib Dems said "Not only 'no', but hell no!", to that one.
For once in a way, I suspect the real entertainment is going to be with UKIP and BNP, who are likely going to get an unexpected surge in the polls. UKIP, in past, has polled at a peak of 15% support at one point.
The reason for this is that there has been huge growth in the English Defense League (EDL), which is not a political party, but is like the Tea Parties. It quickly gained over a thousand chapters nationwide, and has turned out big and enthusiastic crowds several times.
They could blow the polls out of the water. The English media have tried to ignore and disparage them even more than the US media has attacked the Tea Parties as well. But wherever you see a St. George's Cross, they have a foothold.
So if the Tories win, but not enough, the UKIP might well throw in with them for the majority, but demand a LOT more Euroscepticism in exchange.
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Tory first, UKIP second, and who would want a relationship with Bambi?
Posted by: Steve White ||
05/06/2010 11:15 Comments ||
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UKIP if it was an option locally, Tory if there wasn't any other option. The modern Tories make our local Democrats look like models of Heroic Limited Government by comparison. Cameron is a tool.
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05/06/2010 14:56 Comments ||
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Holy Hyperbole, Batman!!! Thee Tea Party people must be doing something right. Carson is squealing like a stuck pig.
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05/06/2010 18:02 Comments ||
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OK - pardon my rant but this must be said. I'll atttempt brevity.
It is beginning to appear that this is surpassing "a narrative", that there is a concerted and orchestrated effort to foment political violence in order to discredit and destroy the Tea Party movement. The extreme provocations on the part of Democrats and their cohorts in the media and unions is quite beyond the pale. And now, with Obama hurling the invective of "teabagger", he has officially thrown the WH into the effort. We've already seen Clinton and assorted lefties proclaim the Tea Party guilty in advance should any violence break out. Witness the early reaction to the Times Square bombing attempt. Too many jumped the gun and showed their true colors in hoping/assuming this was somehow rightwing violence. Yet to date, nearly all political violence over the past year (and there has been plenty) has originated from the Left, yet we hear silence.
Difficult times ahead folks. As November grows near, and then 2012, the Left will get ever more desperate and dangerous. Conservatives and Tea Partiers must increase their vigilence against infiltrators and continue to own their message and maintain their peaceful yet unyielding message of resistance to the Statist Coup that the Obama Admin is attempting to foist on The American People. Failing that, we go the way of Greece, and the Statists win.
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
05/06/2010 18:46 Comments ||
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The left will push, at times violently, but the Tea Parties must keep cool, long past any reasonable breaking point, in order to maintain the moral high ground with the middle majority of the country.
Having said that, the left could go beyond occassional violence - which would result in a different situation than they would see in Greece: we are well armed and hit what we aim at.
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I'm reminded of how the WH &/or the media (so hard to hard to tell the difference sometimes) wanted so badly for the Times square car bomber to be a tea bagger.
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05/06/2010 23:00 Comments ||
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Strong chance the left will overeach in a way they cannot recover from. Leftists have a will to power, but are not particularly smart, especially when feeling desperate.
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Recently, the president and his allies have been talking up a VAT without quite endorsing it. (House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has urged adoption of a VAT.) It has the political advantage of being an indirect tax, imposing a levy at every level of production. It's a hidden sales tax with the potential of raising an enormous amount of revenue.
The president's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, which began its work last week, is required to submit a plan for serious deficit reduction by Dec. 1, four weeks after the November election.
Its recommendations are non-binding, but a lame duck Congress would be in position to take them up, including a possible VAT. Should Democrats suffer a landslide defeat, their large majorities would still be in place for the lame-duck session. What would Democrats who'd been defeated for re-election have to lose by voting for a VAT? Not much.
This scenario isn't as far-fetched as you might think. In a speech at a Democratic reception in Boston on April 1, Mr. Obama boasted of his willingness to do the unpopular: "If you govern by pundit and polls, then you lose sight of why you got into public service in the first place," he said. His "job," he said, isn't to "husband my popularity [and] make sure that I'm not making waves. . . . So I resolved to do not necessarily what was popular, but what I thought was right."
Does Mr. Obama think a VAT would be "right"? Take a guess.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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