SB1070 - Injunction from the Streets!

Following weeks of street pressure and before a divided political establishment, an Arizona judge issued an injunction against some of the most odious features of SB1070, the anti-immigrant legislation passed by that state's government. Stripped of its worst aspects, including some of the racial profiling requirements, the law still targets immigrant workers and has the state's police enforcing federal legislation. Together with the expected appeal, this signals months more of grassroots resistance such as the one documented here. Members of the Student Immigrant Movement, the Boston May Day Committee, the Boston Interpreters Collective and many others, rallied at the Park Street Station at 5:30 for an hour-long rally, followed by a march to Fox News' local affiliate and then to the State House.

Suren Moodliar represents Mass. Global Action on the Boston May Day Coalition.