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Archive - Jun 2010
Border Violence claims are BULLSHIT
I've long been making this same criticism but this is so well done and so forceful and eloquent that I just have to slap it up here on this blog. enjoy.
Related commentary here: http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/06/09/border-cities-are-safest-in-na...
The message U.S. Border Enforcement seems to be sending is that Read more>>>
Let Them In: The Case for Open Borders
author: Jason L. Riley
name: Steev
average rating: 3.18
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 2010/06/06
date added: 2010/06/08
shelves: border
interviews from National Day of Action, May 29: part 5
Another of several short interview clips from Pan Left's coverage of the May 29 march against SB1070. In this interview I talked to an entrepreneur with a unique product relevant to this issue.
Cast: steev hise
Numbers
I'm thinking a lot about crowd numbers estimating today. there's a wide range of counts for the march in Phoenix this past Saturday. Most mainstream media just say "tens of thousands". The cops refuse to say, but the AZ Republic says they overheard on police scanners officers saying 30,000. As usual, organizers and some partisans are talking way larger numbers than the police; some say 100K or even more (and I count myself as a partisan, I have a definite position and I don't claim to be "neutral" or "objective" - I am definitely anti-sb1070 and pro-migrant - i'm just not one of those partisans).
I honestly really don't know. I was there, but i was just one person, situated at one point on the march. Sometimes i stopped and shot video of people passing by, but unless you were there counting in one spot for the entire time, or in a helicopter, i don't know how you can have any degree of certainty about the numbers. This is how marches and rallies always are, but this one was especially hard to judge because it was stretched out and a thin line over many many blocks. I do know that the end of the march only reached the Capitol building destination at least an hour after the post-march speeches and such had been going on. So that's a lot of people, but I just don't know how you could say for sure it was a certain number.
I think it does the movement involved with an event, and journalism itself, even "citizen journalism", a disservice to throw around big attendance numbers and act like you're sure of them, and not at least provide sources or corroborating claims or explain the methods you used to come up with your numbers - or who was doing the counting and how. You blow your credibility and create more mistrust and conflict by making such unsupported and casual claims. C'mon people, progressives are supposed to be on the side of science and truth - the other side is the one that employs fantasy and "makes their own reality". Read more>>>
interviews from National Day of Action, May 29: part 4
Another of several short interview clips from Pan Left's coverage of the May 29 march against SB1070. Here I learn from an inventor about his device for telling who is reasonably suspicious.
for more video news on the struggle for immigrant rights and equality in the borderlands, see panleft.org and newsontheline.tv
Cast: steev hise
interviews from National Day of Action, May 29: part 3
Another of several short interview clips from Pan Left's coverage of the May 29 march against SB1070. Here I spoke with Amie Fishman, who works with the U.S. For All of Us No Room For Racism campaign. She told me about the responsibility of white folks to stand up against racism in solidarity with those oppressed by things like the SB1070 law.
Cast: steev hise
interviews from National Day of Action, May 29: part 2
The second of several short interview clips from Pan Left's coverage of the May 29 march against SB1070. In this one I get some quick thoughts from a fellow Tucsonan named Andrew as he walked with the thousands of others on the streets of Phoenix.
More info and relevant video at panleft.org and newsontheline.tv
Cast: steev hise
interviews from National Day of Action, May 29: part 1
The first of several short interview clips from Pan Left's coverage of the May 29 march in Phoenix against SB1070. Here I speak with Felix Carrion, from the United Church of Christ, the only mainstream national church which has come out publicly against the anti-immigration law that Arizona passed this April 2010.
Cast: steev hise
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