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Russell Pearce, Arizona's Immigration Law Author, Says Villaraigosa a Tool of Mexico

Russell Pearce is the psycho ex-state senator from Arizona who authored its infamous anti-illegal-immigration law, SB 1070. (By psycho, we mean this: Pearce recently wrote that the victims in the Aurora massacre should have risen up and taken the suspect down. Yeah). The Arizona Republic recently p ... More >>

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Disruption, Rebellion and Resistance: Activists Call for Action

Love the Beans, Hate the Beaner: Even White Supremacists Can't Resist a Good Burrito

America's War on Mexicans — Embodied in Arizona's S.B. 1070 — Has Gone Too Far

Chuck D, RZA, Shavo Odadjian, Page Hamilton, Angelo Moore and SceneFour "Come Together" at Andrew Weiss Gallery

Keith PlocekShavo Odadjian stands in front of Shavo Odadjian in Nocturnal Art​"They put me next to Dali, and I'm like, Yeah!" said System of a Down's Shavo Odadjian, standing between Salvador Dali's Triumphant Elephant and his own Nocturnal Art. Odadjian's work featured the Armenian genocide o ... More >>

Toothless Arizona Boycott

All-Star Game Boycott Over Arizona's Immigration Law? Maybe Not ...

MLBHey now, you're All-Star.​Update: We told you so. Latinos are really great at boycotts. As long as they don't involve beer (we're looking at you, Coors), strip clubs or sports. (But grapes -- absolutely). Therefore we don't have high hopes for the great All-Star game boycott of 2011. The ... More >>

LulzSec Arizona Leak: We Called Public Safety Officers' Cell Phones, and They're Not Laughing

Department of Public SafetyNo lulz hurr​LulzSec, the anonymous hacker group best known for attacking NPR Sony and wiping the CIA website, took the hacker mission beyond lulz this week with a political statement against Arizona law SB 1070: "Chinga la Migra." (Glossary break. Lulz is like, out ... More >>

L.A. County Economy Would Shrink by More Than $100 Billion If All Illegal Immigrants Were Deported, Says UCLA Report

MPR NewsViolent criminals stealing jobs in Glendale​Awesome: L.A. County just got the Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda treatment. The UCLA Chicano-studies professor released a controversial study back in March, in which he weighed the effects of granting all Arizona's illegal immigrants citizenship agains ... More >>

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Return to Sender

What would comprehensive immigration reform look like if the Feds got off their duffs?

Top 10 Los Angeles Bans Of 2010: They Left Us Bagless, Smokeless And Puppyless, With Nary A Loko In Sight

​Updated after the jump: What kind of awards show would this be without a guest star? Nothing like a good hard ban to make life in this concrete jungle a little more oppressive. Between the L.A. County Board of Supervisors and most other governing bodies within county limits, politicians on ... More >>

Fantasy Voter Fraud

Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was dissed by Russell Pearce over Prop 200's dismissal

FAIRY-y Tales

U.S. Dept. Of Justice Tsk-Tsks LAPD Officers For Saying They 'Couldn't Do [Their] Job Without Racially Profiling'

Salon.comCurrent City Councilman Bernard Parks was L.A. police chief during the last major federal reveal of LAPD corruption: 2001's Rampart scandal​Racial profiling is a given for officers who patrol the border states. How else would they rack up impounds in the name of the deficit or locate ... More >>

L.A. City Councilman Greig Smith Overrides City's Arizona Boycott -- Again -- To Maintain Ties With Taser Company, Of All Things

City of Los AngelesCouncilman Greig Smith likes him an Arizona Taser​When L.A. City Councilmembers approved an economic boycott of Arizona back in May (a trendy move at the time, echoed by the likes of Lady Gaga and Rage Against the Machine), they must have thought themselves mighty noble in t ... More >>

L.A. Council People Hahn, Reyes, Cardenas, Whine About Death Threats Following City's Boycott Of Arizona

​Updated after the jump with a response from Hahn's chief of staff, who says there was no whining involved. First posted at 1:10 p.m. We've ribbed the Los Angeles City Council for taking easy, painless stances (cat declawing) while putting off hard choices (pension reform), but in the case of ... More >>

Seized

Inside the brutal world of America's kidnapping capital

Sick of Lady Gaga Yet?: "The Remix" Record Release Party At The Abbey

Her Facebook and Twitter takeover.... Her words about the SB 1070 at her recent Phoenix gig.... Her just announced VMA nomination domination.... We've all got a lot of reasons to be sick of hearing about Lady Gaga at this point. Hell, we're even sick of hearing from her haters. But no matter what, ... More >>

Parts Of Arizona Immigration SB 1070 Law Blocked; L.A. City Council Won't Remove Boycott Yet

Steve La​ Updated with reaction from labor leaders and the mayor. Local labor leader Maria Elena Durazo declared victory in response to today's decision by a federal judge to stay the more controversial aspects of Arizona's SB 1070 immigration measure. Durazo, head of the county labor fede ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Rage Against The Machine's Immigrant Rights Benefit at the Palladium

Timothy NorrisRage Against Arizona's Controversial Legislation​[For more photos check out Timothy Norris' slideshow,"Rage Against The Machine's Immigrant Rights Benefit @ Palladium."] With all the turmoil and wrongdoing in the world, it's a wonder Rage Against the Machine ever left the stage. ... More >>

This Weekend: Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Rage Against the Machine, Robyn, Jackson Browne, Lyle Lovett, Keith Urban, Delta Spirit

via MySpaceMiguel Atwood-Ferguson​Tonight's installment of Grand Performances at California Plaza -- one of our town's finest, free music al fresco opportunities -- figures to be especially grand. Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, the composer/producer/arranger/multi-instrumentalist who boasts a resume ... More >>

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

Rage Against The Machine To Headline Concert Fighting Arizona Immigration Law [Updated]

By Steve La Steve La(From left) Zack de la Rocha and Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine​ Some rockers are taking on the Arizona immigration law that has stirred a lot of passionate opposition here in L.A., including boycotts of Arizona by several cities. "This is not a Latino or immig ... More >>

Rage's Zack de la Rocha: Arizona Debate is Not about Immigration, but "a Battle for Human Dignity"

​Rage Against the Machine Zack de la Rocha, organizer through his group Sound Strike of a concert in opposition to Arizona's controversial immigration law, gave a press conference today to explain the reasons behind the upcoming show. The Informer, LA Weekly's news blog, sent reporter Steve L ... More >>

LAPD Officers In Arizona This Week Despite Los Angeles City Boycott Over Immigration Law

​Despite the Los Angeles City Council's economic and travel boycott of Arizona over its controversial illegal immigration law (SB1070), four Los Angeles police air-unit officers went to Tucson anyway for law enforcement training. Though funding for the conference was denied by city leaders, th ... More >>

Rage Against the Machine Announces Rare LA Show to Protest Arizona's Immigration Law

​We just received an announcement from LiveNation that "Sound Strike - Zack de la Rocha's organization to protest AZ's immigration law - will have a benefit show at the Palladium on July 23. Rage Against The Machine, in their first LA-proper date in ten years, will perform." Sound Strike iss ... More >>

Gogol Bordello Tackles Immigration Reform in New Music Video, Eugene Hutz Explains Why and Shares Photos from the Set

Timothy NorrisGogol Bordello at The Mayan, June 2010​On June 29 gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello announced its plans to officially boycott the state of Arizona over the highly controversial SB 1070, the toughest anti-illegal immigration bill passed in America in decades -- one that requires auth ... More >>

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U.S. Mayors Pass Villaraigosa's Resolution Condemning Arizona Immigration Law

​A resolution by L.A. leader Antonio Villaraigosa urging Arizona to repeal its controversial immigration law was passed this week at the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Villaraigosa's document, which called the desert state's legislation "unconstitutional and un-American," also encouraged federal i ... More >>

LAPD Chief Beck Accused Of Being Insincere In Anti-Arizona Stance

​Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck was accused over the weekend of being insincere or at least out-of-line with his troops when it comes to his stance against Arizona's controversial immigration law. Pseudonymous Los Angeles Police Department officer and writer Jack Dunphy opines that, " . ... More >>

Cowboy Down

Murdered Arizona rancher Rob Krentz's family talk about his life and death

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

California's Illegal-Immigration Enforcement Law Is Tougher Than Arizona's

​The conservative Washington Times newspaper recently pointed out that California law actually mirror's Arizona's controversial new immigration legislation that encourages police to verify the immigration status of suspects they believe are in the country illegally. The paper quotes Californ ... More >>

Nine Arrested At Westwood Rally Fueled In Part By Arizona Immigration Law

The Westwood Federal Building.​Nine people were arrested for blocking traffic at an immigration rally in Westwood Thursday, a California Highway Patrol spokesman confirmed to LA Weekly. About 200 demonstrators gathered outside the Federal Building on Wilshire Boulevard to show their support fo ... More >>

Mayor Villaraigosa Backs Boycott Of Arizona Over State's Immigration Law

​Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Thursday said he backed a proposed city boycott of Arizona business over the state's recent passage of a law that would allow police to stop people and ask them for proof of their immigration status. The proposal by council members Janice Hahn, who's ... More >>

Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Reign of Terror Becomes Arizona Policy, Thanks to State Senator Russell Pearce and Governor Jan Brewer