PDA’s Arizona Peace and Social Justice Road Tour—Day 4 |

Submitted by Anna on Fri, 02/25/2011 - 00:47

February 24, 2011
By Mimi Kennedy, PDA Advisory Board Chair

It’s Tuesday Feb. 22, in Phoenix, AZ and since Saturday, the Progressive Democrats of America Arizona Tour has already mobilized hundreds of activists in Bisbee, Naco and Tucson. We sang with the voices coming through the notorious fence on the hyper-militarized border at Naco, and we joined hundreds of activists today at the Arizona Legislature in Phoenix to protest the shockingly inhumane and probably unconstitutional proposed state law (SB 1113) that seeks every possible way to punish anyone living undocumented in this state—regardless of how long they’ve been here or how embedded and valuable they are in their communities.

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