National Day of Action 2010 Phoenix

On January 16th, 2010, thousands gathered in Phoenix, Arizona's Falcon Park to protest the oppressive tactics of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
On this day, like many past and many ahead, the people united to speak out for what is right.

Not the best editing...I couldn't wait until I got FCP, so I just made this video on iMovie. First time ever using it.
Camera: Canon EOS 7D

Music: Celso Pina - Cumbia Sobre el Rio
Rights owned by WMG

I don't own rights to the above song, and no copyright infringement is intended. Music is being used within fair use.

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[the82spartans]

Great. Let's all protest the Mexican Government next.

Or maybe we can all protest a leader of a gang or the head of the Mexican mafia instead of an elected law inforcement official. Perhaps protest the cop killers from Mexico that murder in cold blood for a traffic stop.

If you can vote, then don't vote for him. If you can't vote, then maybe its best you go back to the country of your origin. Its the best way to find you're happiness & I'm not even an Arpio fan. Thanks for the video.

[hyphenlife]

@the82spartans

My country of origin?

My country is the United States, so I'll happily protest an elected official in my country that goes against my interests before I start worrying about another country's issues.

Your approach isn't clever, and it's not even new. Just one of the many ready-made arguments of the nativist clan.

[the82spartans]

Yes! That is terrific for you to exercise you're right to protest, hyphenlife.

As a United States citizen you can sure do it and I support you.

However I reserve my right to be critical toward those non citizens posing as Americans, especially those who break the law, commit crimes and murder.

I belong to no clan. If it's a ready made argument as you say, it must have merit.

[hyphenlife]

@the82spartans

And I reserve the right to be critical toward elected American officials, who are supposed to serve all Americans, instead of willingly profiling some for the approval of others.

[2vaso]

buen trabajO!!!

[hyphenlife]

gracias!

[NancyLou9]

"Not the best editing.." (Cut and pasted from your own comment)

Obviously since you managed to leave out large chunks of illegal activity from "protesters".

You show a young man having his eyes flushed out, I'm assuming from pepper spray. What was he doing to necessitate it? Certainly he wasn't just standing there and a LEO walked up and sprayed him.

You show a woman being arrested. What did she do? She wasn't minding her own business and then handcuffed.

How about the WHOLE story?

[Xsighting101]

I used to work for the police dept in another state. I remembered when they would bring in illegal immigrants who molested children, were driving drunk or beat up on their wives or were arrested for burglary. They would always have more than one ID with different names. Often times the only way to identify them was to fingerprint them. Then you would see that they had been arrested and deported only to have come back to commit the same offense. Those are the people we don't want here.

[demonikification]

damm that girl in the middle dancing is fukin cute

[the82spartans]

Yes and it is obvious that you are. : )

I apologize if I had insulted you, hyphenlife. There is a lot of middle ground to win when talking about the subject of immigration on the local, state and federal level.

Discrimination is not a new concept and it is certainly not new to America. Most every group of immigrant had been discriminated at some point in history... but then life goes on again.

[2vaso]

gracias a ti por ser parte de movimiento