Action in response to SCOTUS decision on SB1070: Updated

UPDATE...

Now that the Supreme Court has made their ruling on SB1070-- keeping some of it and scraping other parts-- here is more specific information from Derechos Humanos regarding the press conference and protests today and tomorrow (June 25-26).

ACTION ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TODAY!!!!! 

Tucson Community Members Demand a Repeal of SB1070: Affirm the Principle that if a Law is Unjust, Our Duty is Resistance!

1. Press Conference TODAY [June 25] At: 1pm @ Arizona State Building in Downtown Tucson, corner of Congress and Granada. 

2. Community rally at 4:30 pm TODAY [June 25] and TOMORROW [June 26], in opposition to SB1070 at the same place. Arizona State Building in Downtown Tucson, corner of Congress and Granada. 

3. Things to bring if you can: noise makers, signs, water and friends.

Original Story...


How will the US Supreme Court rule on Arizona's racist "papers please" SB1070? If the oral arguments are any indication, many of us on the left will not like it. The ruling is expected any day now.

If the SCOTUS rules in favor of SB1070 and allows it to stand, a local coalition is calling on Southern Arizonans to protest.

On the heels of the Supreme Court decision on SB1070, a broad coalition representing various members of the Tucson community is calling on southern Arizonans to stand together in defiance of the law and other racist policies and Practices of which it is a part. The court's expected decision is not definitive and we call on others to stand strong and to stand in solidarity with their neighbors.

WHAT: Community Rally in opposition to SB1070
TIME AND DATE: 4:30 pm on the day of the Supreme Court ruling on SB1070
WHERE: Arizona State Building in Downtown Tucson, corner of Congress and Granada

Grijalva and Sharpton on SB1070 and the Supremes

Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva, the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, discusses what he heard at the Supreme Court oral arguments on Arizona's SB 1070 immigration "crackdown" law on "PoliticsNation With Al Sharpton" April 25 on MSNBC.

Supreme Court to decide liability of corporate 'people'

Corporations want free speech-- like people-- but they want protection from being sued. Hey, ya gotta take the seeds with the apple.

From the Huffington Post...

On Tuesday morning, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument on whether corporations, like real people, can be held liable [check out the video on this link!] in American courts for international human rights violations.

The issue has divided four appeals courts over the past year and a half, as Democrat-appointed judges have uniformly voted for corporate liability while all but one Republican-appointed judge has come down for corporate immunity.

If that pattern holds in the Supreme Court, then the five justices appointed by Republican presidents will surely be hit with more accusations of pro-business bias: Having all voted in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission to extend to corporations the First Amendment right of actual people to independently spend unlimited sums in this country's elections, they will in the current case have refused to hold corporations responsible, as real people are, for their roles in atrocities abroad.

That kind of application of corporate personhood would be enough to make a casual observer's head explode. [Click here for the rest of this article.]