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The Arizona Advocacy Network Board of Directors invites you to join your colleagues from across the progressive spectrum to share ideas on what's working and what's getting in our way as we strive to make Arizona a better place to work and live.

  • What are the issue and organizational priorities of Arizona's progressive organizations for 2010?
  • What will your fellow activists be working on?
  • How can we work together to achieve our goals?
  • How can we streamline opeations and increase effectiveness?
  • How can we attract more resources to our state?


Date: Saturday, December 12th
Time: 9-11 AM
Location: UFCW Hall, 2401 N Central Ave (NE Corner of Vernon and Central), Phoenix
RSVP by calling 602-297-2500 or emailing rsvp@azadvocacy.org


Politicized Justice: Inside the Department of Justice
Thank you to all of our supporters who joined us on November 5th for an evening of celebration. Special thanks to our hosts Janet and Mike Valder, our guest speaker Joe Rich, Phil and the Blanks and El Portal Restaurant.

AzAN Foundation gratefully acknowledges the support of:
Mike and Janet Valder
UFCW Local 99

John Curtin
Eugene Kadish and Mary Statzer
Vinton Lackey
LiUNA
Olga and Jim Strickland


View photos from the evening.

Joe Rich, Director Fair Housing Project Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under Law was interviewd by KPHO about the increasing number of homeowners being scammed by loan modification companies.  Watch the story for six things to help you spot a loan modification scam. Watch the video here.



News

Protecting Clean Elections

Conservative courts may soon invalidate the matching funds provision of Arizona's Citizens Clean Elections Act. Longtime foes of Clean Elections view this as their opportunity to end public campaign financing in Arizona and return to a time when big-money was the primary factor deciding who would represent our communities in legislative and statewide offices. Senator Jonathan Paton, with backing from the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry, is determined to kill Clean Elections through a repeal on the 2010 ballot.  Concurrently, the national health care debate has heightened voter frustration with big-money influence on politicians. See how much each member of Congress has received from the health care industry including President Obama. Special interests have spent millions of dollars on lobbying and contributions for health care, see how much each industry has spent. Efforts to pass the Fair Elections Now Act--Clean Elections for federal races--have significant traction.  With the stakes high we must protect Clean Elections in Arizona.

Endorse Cleans Elections in Arizona now!

Learn about the "hybrid" which AzAN has been working on with a team of national experts.  This is a public financing alternative in the anticipation of the loss of matching funds.

Find out about the benefits of Clean Elections and why it's criticisms don't track with the facts.


Prop 200 Case Heard by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals

On Tuesday, October 20, 2009 Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Chief Judge Alex Kozinski and Judge Sandra Segal Ikuta heard arguments regarding the Prop. 200 voting rights case at the University of Arizona Law School.  Prop 200 required that Arizonans present documentary proof-of-citizenship in order to register to vote and documentary proof-of-identity (one photo ID or two non-photo IDs) if they wish to vote at the polls. For those who vote early or by mail, a signature suffices as proof of identity.  

Listen to the argument


Read the article in the Arizona Republic.

Click here for more information about Prop 200


Ending 287(g) Program

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has chosen to boot Sheriff Joe Arpaio out of the portion of the 287(g) program that allowed him to arrest people suspected of being in the country without proper documentation.  This would never have happened had it not been for a dedicated coalition of grassroots organizations and volunteers who have descended upon each of the Sheriff's racial profiling sweeps with video cameras documenting the abuses and recording interviews with people who were caught in the Sheriff's dragnets.  The video evidence sparked national media coverage forcing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to scrutinize the Sheriff's actions.  

DHS has shown that they lack the capacity to effectively oversee this failed program. 
It must be ended; it cannot be mended. 

In a recent CNN interview Arpaio admits that clothing, speech and conduct help determine if someone is undocumented. Read the article from Think Progress and watch it on CNN

Tell Secretary Napolitano and DHS Enough is Enough!  End the 287(g) program and work to pass Comprehensive Immigration Reform. 
Click here to send a message.

View coverage from October 6th and the call for ICE not to sign the agreement.

Read the letter from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus to President Obama calling to end 287(g).








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