It’s all about showing up folks, and when you do show up, you’ll find the people you met through Facebook are there too. And that’s when it really becomes awesome.
A Political Junkie’s Guide To Facebook
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Author Archive for AmyMcMullen
Amy McMullen is an activist for human rights and social and economic justice currently residing in Arizona. Her former incarnations include back-to-the-land counter culturalist (a euphemism for Hippy), small business entrepreneur, charter boat captain, EMT, and rehabber of distressed homes. She is currently unemployed except for her writing and the required care and maintenance of her husband, three dogs and one parrot. She also volunteers for the Phoenix Urban Health Collective as a street medic and with Medical Providers for Human Rights. Her writings on social justice and other subjects appear in Truthout, Salon, The Tucson Sentinel, The Pragmatic Progressive and on her blog at Open Salon.
Russell Pearce – Extremist
by AmyMcMullen •
Arizona Recalled Senator Russell Pearce Advocates ‘Extremism’ to Fight Affirmative Action, Women’s Choice and Marriage Equality.
White Supremacist And Friend Of SB 1070 Godfather Dead In Murder/Suicide
by AmyMcMullen •
A peaceful early May afternoon in a Phoenix suburb was violently shattered when a notorious white nationalist opened fire on his girlfriend and her family, killing four including an 15 month old baby before turning the gun on himself.
Inside The Matrix: My Night In Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Jail
by AmyMcMullen •
In Joe Arpaio’s world, everyone arrested is guilty and deserving of punishment until proven innocent.
Inmates Running the Asylum in Arizona
by AmyMcMullen •
Sadly it appears that the message sent by the voters when the anti-immigrant, anti-union, anti-healthcare reform senate president Russell Pearce was recalled last November is being ignored by the rank and file in the legislature.
Dropping Out of School Lunches
by AmyMcMullen •
An Arizona state senator is sponsoring a bill to allow public schools to opt out of the federal school lunch program.
Slavery: Alive and Well in the US, Sponsored by ALEC
by AmyMcMullen •
Through cleverly worded ALEC sponsored bills, namely the Prison Industries Enhancement Certification Program and the Prison Industries Act, state, federal and private prisons can use prisoners to labor in many different jobs to bring in more money to support the prison and, in the case of private prisons, to increase the corporation’s bottom line.
Russell Pearce: Anatomy Of A Recall
by AmyMcMullen •
To me, Russell Pearce epitomized all that was wrong in my new home state of Arizona. Whether it was the harsh anti-immigrant law SB1070 that he ushered in the previous year or his extreme right wing agenda to defund services to the poor, slash healthcare and education or the support he happily garnered from wealthy interest groups like private prison corporations, Pearce was an ugly bully up to his neck in dirty politics.
Occupy Phoenix: As Long as it Takes
by AmyMcMullen •
I now realize that it is the most powerless, the most voiceless of our population who have the biggest stake in this movement. They are the ones who’ve lost the most; their homes, livelihoods and their families. And they must battle daily to maintain their self respect. It is only fitting and extremely satisfying that they are the ones who have stepped forward and are assuming these roles in our own little corner of the occupy movement.
How A Bumbling Arizona Tea Party’s Attempt To Run A Sham Candidate Blew Up In Their Faces
by AmyMcMullen •
Arizona State Senate President Russell Pearce is a self-avowed Tea Party patriot, lover of the Second Amendment and hater of undocumented immigrants. But he discovered his Achilles heel last May when a determined group of disgruntled citizens collected over 10,000 valid signatures in his district to force another election this November. To his great annoyance, Senator Pearce had been recalled.