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Musicians Band Together in Arizona BoycottPosted on May 28, 2010
Anger against Arizona’s recent spate of anti-immigrant laws, most notably the toxic SB 1070 law legalizing racial profiling, has hit the entertainment industry, as musicians are banding together in a “Sound Strike” to boycott playing shows in the state. —JCL
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By Rex Hump, June 25, 2010 at 3:53 pm Link to this comment
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Do thesoundstrike.net have a clue? They have the
impression that Arizonans will be so culturally
devastated by missing out on has-beens like Cypress
Hill, they will petition to get SB.1070 repelled.
Frankly, none of these bands are from Arizona, and
therefore it’s the artists themselves that depend on
Arizona consumption for their survival.
If I lived in Arizona, I would be happy I wouldn’t
Report thishave to hear Connor Oberst/Bright Eyes blurt out his
typical dribble, pleased that Micheal Moore won’t be
pointing a camera on my turf, but disappointed not to
see Sonic Youth unless you saw them in January.
By Peter Knopfler, June 2, 2010 at 3:01 pm Link to this comment
Most bands on the Mexican side of the border, get SHOT AT REGULARLY, its not the music is bad but the lyrics they didn`t like! YES for about 4 years band members have been shot to death, So boycott Arizona, your doing them a favour by staying away. I wonder does Arizona still have the right to bear arms, WHAT! JULY 4!... Annie get my gun”!
Report thisBy Mark, June 2, 2010 at 6:17 am Link to this comment
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Retribution for Gringo Masks — Mexicano Masks!
http://MexicanoMasks.com
Last week a Florida advertising agency created Gingo Masks designed to help illegal aliens pass as legal American residents.
Now IHateTheMedia.com has created Mexicano Masks™ designed to help legal American residents leach off the welfare system, overwhelm our public schools, overrun emergency rooms, crowd our criminal justice system, swamp our jails, and work without paying taxes. After all, who wants to look like an oppressive, racist gringo when there are so many reasons not to?
Gringo Masks
The Mexicano Mask™ was not created for profit, but as a way to show support for and to give a face to SB1070, Arizona’s new anti-illegal alien law……
Report thisBy Mateo, May 31, 2010 at 9:18 pm Link to this comment
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“I aint guna play sun city…”
Report thisBy peptopinkboots, May 31, 2010 at 4:15 pm Link to this comment
Point 1) If people wish to open the borders of the United States to all, they should lobby to make mass immigration LEGAL again.
Otherwise, the LAW states that simply walking over the border - even to do a job no one else wants - is not allowed.
Point 2) The laws of MEXICO are very strict against illegal immigration. If you walk into MEXICO without a visa, you get sent straight to prison. So, this is a hypocritical, no?
Point 3) Country of origin is an accident, its true. But if Mexicans are as proud of their national heritage as they claim they are, perhaps they should stay in Mexico and fight to make their own country better, instead of self-righteously demanding they OUGHT to be allowed into ours?
Point 4) The root of the problem is deindustrialization of the United States. Our country is falling apart. We have no jobs. We have massive debt, which will not be paid down by those who work, but do not pay taxes. The country is in dire straights. If our republic were healthy and strong, there would be no problem taking new people into our society - through a legal process by which they would become tax-paying citizens. If our republic were healthy, people would be proud to become citizens and they would embrace our culture and language, instead of stubbornly insisting we cater to theirs.
Report thisBy PatrickHenry, May 31, 2010 at 10:05 am Link to this comment
Still waiting for the million mariachi march.
Report thisBy Mundt, May 31, 2010 at 7:57 am Link to this comment
Boycott all these punky so-called musicians, who are purveyors of horrible cacaphony and noise.
Report thisBy Neil C. Reinhardt, May 31, 2010 at 2:33 am Link to this comment
I guess they are all just TOO STUPID to understand what the word ILLEGAL means!
The Poor Babies should go back to school and learn how to use a dictionary.
Report thisBy TheBrix57, May 30, 2010 at 11:50 pm Link to this comment
To many Americans, listening to a musician, perhaps liking their music or not, having that musician speak out about causes not related to the music and then believing that the musician has a profound statement about that cause, only shows ignorance. Pure publicity stunt.
To many Americans, an illegal immigrant is merely a concept that does not enter into their daily lives. They can only see the abstract of what is portrayed by the media. To many Americans, they feel that since it is only a concept and not real for them, they can believe whatever they wish.
To those of us Americans that have seen the impact of illegal immigration upon our lives in the lower wages, the fewer opportunities for advancing our careers, the rampant crime and many other items never detailed in the media, we see it every moment. If there are Americans that think that every American makes $50,000 a year or more, they may be sadly mistaken. Those of us at the lower spectrum of American wages cannot afford to have these illegal immigrants clean our homes and offices, pick our food, drive our children around and a host of other jobs. We want those jobs, there is not a job in America that an American would not do.
Report thisBy Bob, May 30, 2010 at 7:26 pm Link to this comment
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There is a county north of Atlanta called Gwinnett. Used to be a fairly decent place to live. Those days are long gone, imported meth/coke and the accompanying drug wars have ruined the place. Here is a collection of mugshots from one day in this county. I will let you figure it out.
http://www.gwinnettmugs.com/
For those that are arguing for “amnesty” for illegal aliens, I personally think it would be justice that you became the victim of Mara Salvatrucha or Sur 13 rather than some innocent someone in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I drive on a fairly regular basis throughout Latin America. I carry a valid license, I do not drive drunk and I respect the laws of the land. It is sheer arrogance for many illegal aliens to come here and take sorely needed jobs and then commit crimes that harm our society. Recently we had a case here in Georgia where a college student was pulled over on the campus of the school that she was attending. She handed the officer a Mexican passport for a license. Turns out that she was almost ready to graduate from this institution….but had been paying in-state tuition. Her parents had brought her here when she was a child and saw nothing wrong with the fact that she had also been working to illegally support herself without the proper documentation. So let’s add this up, 1) living illegally in a country without documentation 2) driving without a license 3) stealing services by claiming to be a Georgia resident 4) working illegally in this country, thus driving down wages and effectively taking a job of a citizen (no big deal according to Bush, just doing a job that an “ordinary American” would not do…). I could go on and on, these are the known crimes that this person had engaged in. Her excuse? “There is no system that would allow me to be a citizen” This coming from a person that was almost ready to receive a four year degree in Political Science…(sad fail).
So….all of you that have some romantic notion about illegal aliens making the world such a better place, pay my school taxes for those students that should not be here in the first place, pay my part of insurance that was not covered by those that sought services in our hospitals and did not pay the bill, and pay the families of the victims that have died through DUI, murder, etc. with the culprit returning without any ramifications to their countries of origin.
Furthermore…do a little research. How many of the 9/11 hijackers were illegal aliens, i.e., they overstayed their visas? Still happy? Didn’t think so…
Report thisBy bravewarrior, May 30, 2010 at 2:22 pm Link to this comment
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People seem to forget that Arizonans have a successful
Report thishistory of ethnic cleansing. They removed the Navajo
and Hopi tribes from their land and gave it to the
Peabody Coal Co. Sometimes ethnic cleansing can be
lucrative. Who cares about treaties when coal, copper
and uranium are at stake. Must have been because the
tribes lacked birth certificates or papers. Wait I
forget the Indians were not illegal immigrants, it was
all those greedy white people.
By Tobysgirl, May 30, 2010 at 2:04 pm Link to this comment
Bob, I live in the United States and I criticize my nation’s policies. This does not mean I think heaven on earth exists in Mexico, France, or Venezuela. The artists in question are protesting a law in an American state. We constantly talk about how we are better than everyone else—BEST health care in the world! BEST justice system in the world! BEST laws in the world!—not how we are kind of like everyone else. I expect Mexicans and people who immigrate there to protest Mexican laws, but it would be rather ridiculous of me to do so.
And I am sick of calling other human beings illegals. I agree that employment law needs to be enforced—people need the right to unionize, to be paid the wages they are owed, to be given basic benefits such as sick time, etc. My understanding, for example, is that meatpacking, which was a unionized job, is now done by undocumented workers who, of course, are not unionized. This didn’t happen because Mexicans came here and busted the unions; the corporations busted the unions. Here in the Northeast corporate chicken producers literally enslaved people, not allowing them to leave the premises where they lived and worked, not paying them for the time they worked, etc.
And as Americans let us remember that our government pursues policies which drive people to migrate here. I’m sure this is done intentionally to provide a large pool of labor who cannot protest at their conditions. If we want immigration to be controlled, we need to oppose wars which drive people here, we need to oppose trade agreements which drive people here.
And by the way, when Mexicans attempt to organize and have a decent country (Chiapas), American troops are marched through their nation to let them know who’s boss.
Report thisBy Carl, May 30, 2010 at 10:16 am Link to this comment
Dear Truthdig editors,
Do you ever read your reader comments? If you do, you see that 90% of your readers support your articles, except for your frequent attempts to convince workers that flooding the nation with millions of illegal foreign workers is a good idea. You insult them daily with attempts to change reality and tell them efforts to stop this mass attack on American jobs and wages is “racist”.
Read all you past issues and ask why 80% of your readers object to you posting these misleading anti-worker articles, and ask yourself why you repost them. Then go down to an unemployment office or a construction site in the Southwest USA and ask regular folks if illegal immigrants take jobs, drive down wages, and take up scarce affordable housing. These workers and unemployed non-workers of all races will give you an earful. Then walk back up to your ivory tower and write about their stories.
Report thisBy Carl, May 30, 2010 at 10:06 am Link to this comment
I see Truthdig has reposted a misleading anti-worker article from one of its corporate sponsored allies—CBS news. Yes, a few feeble minded corporate sponsored millionaire singers support mass illegal immigration to push down wages and employment because their corporate sponsors told them so, and when workers object, the corporate media like truthdig calls them names.
Of all the issues facing Americans, debt, low wages, health care, and unemployment, which does America’s corporate media think is most newsworthy? An obscure law with no real impact passed by small state overrun by illegals. Just look at past “truthdig” issues to see that is plays ball too and fully supports corporate efforts to drive down wages with cheap foreign labor.
Report thisBy Bob, May 29, 2010 at 7:02 pm Link to this comment
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Now I know which artists to boycott….just curious, why are these groups not protesting Mexican immigration law, which is much more repressive than what Arizona has proposed…hmmmm…Mexico’s dirty little secret? Mexican police routinely ask for proof of citizenship from suspected illegal aliens. So again, why isn’t Michael Moore or Zack de la Rocha raisin’ hell about this practice. Looks and smells like a case of “Do as I say, NOT AS I DO”. By the way, Calderon looked like a deer in the headlights when questioned about this practice on CNN the other night. When he opens up the border to Belize and Guatemala, perhaps I will have a smidgen of respect. Fucking hypocrite.
Report thisBy cheyenebode, May 29, 2010 at 3:58 pm Link to this comment
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IF THESE MUSICIANS HAD SOME REAL INSIGHT THEY WOULD BE DIRECTING
Report thisTHEIR CREATIVE ENERGY TOWARD THAT GREAT BLACK HOLE THAT IS OLD
MEXICO•••WHERE OLD SPAIN STILL RULES AND STILL KNOCKS AROUND THE
INDIGENOUS NATIVES•••ARIZONAS LAW IS A POWDER PUFF COMPARED TO
MEXICOS ANARCHY•••MILLIONS OF THEIR CITIZENS FLEEING TO THE U.S.
POINTS OUT WHO THE REAL VILLAIN IS.
By cameron greer, May 29, 2010 at 1:00 pm Link to this comment
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Brix- I’m not sure about the musicians( no question mark needed in my mind)- how many instruments do you play?But I’m quite positive about a lot of folks closing their hearts,minds,and wallets and living off the poverty of these human beings.Not that that situation has ever bothered, or maybe even entered the mind, of the average wingnut.
Report thisBy Tobysgirl, May 29, 2010 at 12:37 pm Link to this comment
TheBrix57, I don’t think anyone thinks SB-1070 includes words such as profile, Latino, or color. Just like the woman who protested that nowhere in the Constitution does it state that there shall be separation of church and state (your synapses have to fire to understand that this is a rewording of “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion”), these are ideas extrapolated from a law that expects law enforcement to be able to look at a person and determine whether they are undocumented.
These invaders. These invaders who pick your food, process your food, cook your food, and bus your tables. These invaders who clean your offices and your homes. These invaders from countries oppressed by American policy, inundated with American factory food which drives local farmers out of business. I’m really sick of this crap, and the only excuse for it is that you’re native American and feel this way about all of us INVADERS. Somehow I doubt it. How recently did your family get off the bloody boat?
Report thisBy espaz, May 29, 2010 at 10:45 am Link to this comment
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I am not a “tea party” wacko or even slightly conservative….. i am in fact a very liberal person who was disguisted by the events that took place durring the bush years. I am very liberal. However, i feel strongly about this whole immigration issue. I don’t feel that it is racism to control the flow of persons entering our country by droves from the sounth, illigally. I’m not sure why i am being made out to be racist because i am concerned about the burdoning costs of health care, education, and housing shouldered by the american citizens who live here. Not to mention the crime associated with degredated neighborhoods. WTF! I do belive it is corporte america, once again, who are manipulating our minds so they may have an endless supply of cheap labor. Am i paranoid?? Here’s a curious thing, most of the responses to articles like this one, and in other publications that i have read, overwhealmingly support arizona’s new immigration law…yet the msm continues to print articles that seem to me to be critical OF THE law. So chalk me up as being a very liberal person who whole heartedly supports vigorously controling our southern border.
Report thisBy PatrickHenry, May 29, 2010 at 9:09 am Link to this comment
No Mariachis for Arizona.
Report thisBy TheBrix57, May 29, 2010 at 8:43 am Link to this comment
Please inform your readers that like many of the so-called media and politicians, that you do not know how to read. If you could read and have read the Arizona law SB-1070, you may be surprised to find that words like ‘profile’, ‘Latino’ and ‘color’, along with the host of others that you used, are not even in the language of this bill.
Federal Law states that all immigrants carry their papers and be able to be presented upon demand.
I certainly do not see any of these musicians(?) opening their wallets, homes and properties to these invaders, allowing them to live off their prosperity for the rest of their lives. Simply trying to profit for their lagging careers with free publicity against a bill they cannot read.
Report thisBy Mr. Buzzard, May 29, 2010 at 2:23 am Link to this comment
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If racial profiling is the target, then this law should continue to move forward. The argument that it “legalizes racial profiling” is based on a play of surface premises and has not the depth of truth. Opponents primarily assume that immigration does not affect Equality (and thus does not affect Freedom which depends on Equality). Also assumed is all immigration is the equivalent to legal immigration because we are all equal. Opponents also assume that only white people are possible racists, and so the larger number of Hispanics, the better. Also assumed, law is outranked by rights. Much like thes musicians, opponents believe law exists as an injustice and reasons to delegitimize it should be sought. These are the major premises that require further errors to sustain them and apply them to this law in order to decry it. But if you look at the major premises above and try to write laws from them, you have complete anarchy with open season on white people. Opponents also seem vague on the relationship between Equality and Sovereignty because they disregard this law and all Sovereignty in order to support the illusion of Equality. Sovereignty, however, is the ablative synonym for Freedom and no one contests Freedom depends on Equality.
Report thisThere is only one real definition of Equality, and it defines Sovereignty as well: a mutual respect for boundaries between persons. Notice the definition disregards the obvious falsehood that Equality is created in Nature. It is created politically, only. So if Arizona is confronted by a huge swaths of foreign nationals disrespecting the peopledom, language, races other than Hispanic and laws of Arizonan harmony, and the Federal government does squat about it, and the Constitution says citizens have the right to secure boundaries, Arizona doesn’t have to stand for that. The Freedoms of Speech, Conscience, and to bear arms are not possible without boundaries. If Free Speech and the right to vote are given to a million foreign nationals, a million nationals are silenced and disenfranchised. Freedom depends on boundaries. As for racism, the Hispanics are the primary perpetrators. Their immigration is an act of racism. The term “ethno-centric” is psychologically inaccurate. Ethno-narcissist is more descriptive. Also, people remember only about a decade ago every fourth person in Arizona wasn’t Hispanic, and that it got this way from illegal immigration. Finally, illegal immigration is a Hispanic phenomenon for all intents and purposes. How can it be racial profiling, then? If a Hispanic American is checked for immigration status during an arrest, unless he was arrested for being Hispanic, there was no racial profiling. And, if he’s a citizen, he’s only charged with what he was arrested for. And if he’s offended for having his citizenship checked, he’s the one guilty of racial profiling because he assumes Hispanics are above American status and are not to be checked. Europeans did not come here to be Scottish, German, Polish, or Italian, etc. etc. We came to be Americans. If Hispanics don’t check their separatism at the door on the way in, they did not come to be Americans, but to invade it out of hatred of white people.