The Funeral for Democracy

AZ Maricopa Supervisors/Worst Sheriff Arpaio Arrests Nine Pro-immigrant Activists

Dear NAIR activists, [Please distribute widely.]

See below video entitled THE FUNERAL FOR DEMOCRACY. It calls attention to the arrests of 9 pro-immigrant activists--mostly Anglo-American justice advocates--in Phoenix in protest of racist Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his practice of racial profiling. Video below:



The struggle in Phoenix has sharpened after the defeat of the Democrats in the recent Arizona presidential elections. Aided by Joe Arpaio, Andrew Thomas,20Randy Pullen, and Russell Pearce, the Republicans will now control the Governorship, the state Senate, and the state House of Representatives. (Janet Napolitano is leaving to join the Obama administration.)

Perhaps a similar repression of migrants that ocurred nationally in the 1930s and the 1950s (Operation Wetback) is in the horizon here in Arizona. Migrants families are being torn apart: mothers from children; children from fathers; brother from sister; aunt from nephews.

In struggle,


Manuel de J. Hernandez G.