Won’t you come to Arizona for freedom

On October 6, 2012, will you come to the California-Arizona town of Blythe to free your sisters and brothers?

In an act of infamy, it took a boycott of the State of Arizona to force that state to recognize Martin Luther King’s birthday as a holiday, the last state to hold out against that recognition. Today, women, immigrants, and minorities are faced with a political climate-and laws enacted-which emulate Nazi passed legislation from the 1930s in Germany. The Arizona legislature and Governor Jan Brewer are dead set on turning the clock back on liberty, the Constitution of the United States, and even science.

For background on what’s been going in Arizona, see my past postings on the effects of SB 1070 and HB 2281 respectively (anti immigrant and anti Chicano Studies legislation):

http://janbtucker.com/blog/2011/01/25/dr-acuna-on-raza-studies-in-az/

http://janbtucker.com/blog/2010/11/18/arizona-to-boycott-or-not-to-boycott/

Arizona has become infamous around the world, as evidenced by the reporting from Russia’s Television Novosti:

http://rt.com/usa/news/arizona-bill-conception-abortion-387/

On page eight of the proposed amendment to H.B. 2036, lawmakers lay out the “gestational age” of the child to be “calculated from the first day of the last menstrual period of the pregnant woman,” and from there, outlaws abortion “if the probable gestational age of [the] unborn child has been determined to be at least twenty weeks.”

That bill turns science upside down. The language means that life can begin before conception. In fact, even before intercourse! Really! Governor Jan Brewer said the bill was a no brainer. I guess you’ve got to have no brain to sign it into law:

http://rt.com/usa/news/abortion-arizona-law-brewer-003/

Meanwhile, the Huffington Post has reported that in its war against women, Arizona doesn’t care whether women’s health is being destroyed in its fanatical effort to ban abortion by any means necessary, even when a woman is not planning to have an abortion [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/14/arizona-birth-control-bill-contraception-medical-reasons_n_1344557.html]:

House Bill 2625, which the state House of Representatives passed earlier this month and the Senate Judiciary Committee endorsed on Monday, repeals that law and allows any employer to refuse to cover contraception that will be used “for contraceptive, abortifacient, abortion or sterilization purposes.” If a woman wants the cost of her contraception covered, she has to “submit a claim” to her employer providing evidence of a medical condition, such as endometriosis or polycystic ovarian syndrome, that can be treated with birth control.

That is not the only reactionary legislation aimed against women:[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/10/az-abortion-bills-arizona-gestational-age_n_1415715.html]

The Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a bill to prohibit abortions after the 18th week of pregnancy; a bill to protect doctors from being sued if they withhold health information about a pregnancy that could cause a woman to seek an abortion; and a bill to mandate that how school curriculums address the topic of unwanted pregnancies.

Do you care enough to do something about this state of affairs? Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young asked the same question when the repression of civil liberties in Chicago was rampant under then-Mayor William J. Daley, who infamously said of the repression of 1968 Democratic convention protests, “The police man isn’t there to create disorder; the police man is there to preserve disorder.”

So your brother’s bound and gagged

And they’ve chained him to a chair

Won’t you please come to Chicago

Just to sing

In a land that’s known as freedom

How can such a thing be fair

Won’t you please come to Chicago

For the help that we can bring

We can change the world

Re-arrange the world

It’s dying … to get better

Politicians sit yourselves down

There’s nothing for you here

Won’t you please come to Chicago For a ride

Don’t ask Jack to help you

‘Cause he’ll turn the other ear

Won’t you please come to Chicago

Or else join the other side

From the bottom of the ocean

To the mountains on the moon

Won’t you please come to Chicago

No one else can take your place

Yes, we can change the world

Refrain:

We can change the world

Re-arrange the world

It’s dying … if you believe in justice

It’s dying … and if you believe in freedom

It’s dying … let a man live his own life

It’s dying … rules and regulations, who needs them

Throw them out the door

Somehow people must be free

I hope the day comes soon

Won’t you please come to Chicago

Show your face

Click Below to Listen to the Song & See a mini-Documentary on You-Tube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEFsBF1X1ow

CROSBY STILLS NASH & YOUNG - “CHICAGO”

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Miss Revolutionaries, Arizona Independent Voices, and the California League of Latin American Citizens (CALLAC) will protest Arizona repression of human rights on October 6, 2012. For more information as to how you can help, go to http://www.facebook.com/events/154432491363061/ and/or email me at [email protected]

LOCATION: Quechan Park, 12200 Colorado River Road Blythe CA (I-10 to Intake, North to 6th Ave, Rt on 6th to Hidden Beaches, Rt on Hidden Beaches Drive, Rt on Colorado River Road)

DATE/TIME: Saturday October 6, 2012, 12:00 noon

Your sister’s bound and gagged

Brown people are being arrested and dragged

Won’t y0u please come to Arizona if you care?