Month: February 2014

Homeless Youth project documentary on March 2

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Posted by Carolyn Classen

Press release:

The Homeless Youth Project is a project of Pan Left Productions in partnership with The Carlos G. Figueroa Foundation. We have created a documentary to inform the people of Tucson Arizona of the realities of what homeless youth have to deal with in order to survive on the streets. This documentary and it’s screening will hopefully encourage them to get our youths off the streets into housing with services.
Homeless Youth Project Documentary Screening will be held in the Armory Park Ballroom, 220 S 5th Avenue from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm.

The Itinerary for the event will be:

Welcome, Karin Uhlich (Ward 3 Councilmember)
Host Brian Flagg
Doug Davis & Indic Soul
Screening: Homeless Youth Project
Diana V Figueroa, CO-Founder The Carlos G Figueroa Foundation
Ron Austin, Co-Founder The Carlos G Figueroa Foundation
Appetizers
Wellness Clinic, Healer Heal Thy Self
Mtro Anselmo Rascon Photographic Exhibition: The Forgotten Ones
Background Music, Larry Loud (Piano)
Preview Clip Shelter: Homeless Voices in Tucson Documentary, Tina
Huerta, Producer, Editor

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Blog for Arizona

Blog for Arizona Has New Look, Improved Functionality

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ColumnTopBlog for Arizona– Arizona’s longest running and most prolific political blog– has transitioned into the modern era of mobile communication with a new look and greater functionality on Word Press.

Nearly 20,000 blog posts by 11 authors have been transported from TypePad to Word Press– a gargantuan task. Special thanks to Dave Safier (who was with Blog for Arizona when we started this project) who worked with TypePad, Word Press, and Go Daddy on the technical aspect of the transfer. I worked with Safier and BfAZ founder Michael Bryan to create the new masthead and the HTML for some of the features. (If you knew how long it has been since I coded HTML and how little I know of CCS, you’d be really impressed. I want to add a special shout out to the technical support offered by WordPress.org.)

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Senate Tea-Publicans vote for nullification and minting their own money

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6a00d8341bf80c53ef019103d205f6970c-piTea-Publicans in the Arizona Senate demonstrated that they are just as batshit crazy as their counterparts in the Arizona House this week.

Tea-Publican senators voted to pass SR 1003 (.pdf) the Neo-Confederate Senate Resolution for “nullification” of EPA regulations in Arizona, on a vote of 18-11, with one member not voting. Democrat Carlyle Begay, who represents the SRP Navajo Power Generating Station, voted with the Tea-Publicans.

The long-discredited “nullification” theory is unconstitutional, how many times do we have to go over this? The Supremacy Clause, Article VI, paragraph 2 of the U.S. Constitution, and the post-Civil War 14th Amendment, Section 3 is settled law. These Neo-Confederate dead-enders always want to re-litigate the discredited theories that led to the Civil War.

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The forgotten aspects of slavery in the Southern States

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By Karl Reiner

Slavery had always been a legal institution in the United States despite its degradation of a race and high cost in human misery. On the eve of the CivilSlave1 War, it was a robust enterprise in no danger of dying out.  It was the major cause of the war, the promoters of secession considered the defense of slavery the prime reason for establishing the Confederacy.

Slave ownership was protected by the Confederate Constitution.  Fifty percent of families in South Carolina and Mississippi owned slaves.  About a quarter of the families in Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee, North Carolina and Texas were slave owners.

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House Tea-Publicans approve ALEC’s stealth constitutional convention

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6a00d8341bf80c53ef019103d205f6970c-piEarlier this week, the Tea-Publicans in the Arizona House approved HCR 2017 (.pdf)  on a largely party-line vote of 32-27, with one member not voting. Those voting in favor were all Tea-Publicans, including the “mythical moderate Republican” from Tucson, Ethan Orr.

Earlier this month I told you about how  the Teabaggers want a Constitutional Convention so they can discard the U.S. Constitution and start all over, because that is what happened the last time we did this in 1787 to rewrite the Articles of Confederation. I always find it amusing that the very people who like to call themselves “constitutional conservatives” are so hellbent on wanting to rewrite the U.S. Constitution (many of them much prefer the Articles of Confederation — states rights!)

HCR 2017 (.pdf) is an “application for an Article V Convention to propose amendments to the United States (U.S.) Constitution.”

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