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If the governor is really committed to making sure “everyone is treated fairly,” signing off on SB 1070 would certainly require compromising her stated principles.

Andrea Nill, Think Progress

Since the Arizona legislature passed the “Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act,” a bill which will probably end up establishing the harshest set of state immigration laws in the country, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s phone has been reportedly ringing off the hook with residents encouraging her to either sign or veto Senate Bill 1070. Though Brewer has refused to comment on which action she plans on taking, she did assure attendees of the Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce’s Black and White Ball this Saturday that she will do what is fair. The Phoenix New Times reports:

Speaking to attendees of the Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce’s Black and White Ball Saturday night (April 17) at the downtown Phoenix Sheraton, Governor Jan Brewer refused to say whether or not she would sign state Senator Russell Pearce’s police state/anti-immigrant bill SB 1070. But she assured the crowd that she understood its opposition to the measure.

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• Join us as we tackle wide-ranging subjects from latest in Latino culture, music and arts to exposing Tea Party racism and Glenn Beck's dangerous hate speech.

Robert Greenwald, Brave New Foundation

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As hosts of Cuéntame we want to tell you a bit about ourselves, the project and about our latest campaign against Tea Party racism and violence.

Both Ofelia and I have seen with great sadness and frustration how Tea Partiers have unjustly and unfairly targeted the Latino community to further their political agenda. This is why our latest campaign exposing Tea Party racism has hit a nerve, not only within the Latino community but also with many folks across the country who like us are fed-up of all the hatred, the violence and the bigotry peddled by teabaggers.

From calling Mexicans "filthy, stinking animals," to listening the likes of Tom Tancredo and Sarah Palin deliver hateful speech after hateful speech to the increase use of violence in their words and actions, Teabaggers have come out in full force against our community.

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The fishing action was part of a campaign by Means to discredit the governance imposed by the U.S. on Native peoples and to create a Republic of Lakotah, which would include part of the territories of present-day Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, and North and South Dakota that he said are reserved to the Lakota in the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851.

Carol Berry, Indian Country Today

Russell Means

Six trout were caught – one over the legal limit of five – and some license plate numbers were recorded by law enforcement during a recent fish-in at a lake in South Dakota, according to a long-time Native activist.

This was no ordinary fishing trip, and Russell Means, the head angler, was out for a different kind of catch – an affirmation that treaty rights are still in force and that the U.S. is ignoring its own laws in failing to enforce them.

Such impediments as fishing permits and license tags would disappear altogether in the society envisioned by Means, who was in Denver during the Democratic National Convention – which he dismisses as irrelevant, along with the Republican Convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul.

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• The psychology and pathology of refusing to accept what it means to be white pervades the culture still.
• Wednesday, April 14, 11AM

Andy Driscoll, Truth to Tell, KFAI-FM | MN

This week's (April 11-17) show will bring back our guests and the next phase of our discussion on White Privilege. The dynamic of hatred of a people we once enslaved is not as unusual at it may seem. This is the American Indian experience and the African-American experience. The psychology and pathology of refusing to accept what it means to be white pervades the culture still.

In the wake of an annual conference on white privilege in LaCrosse, Wisconsin last week (April 4-10), TTT will delve deeper into the issue of unconscious entitlement that is so much a part of the American psyche, and the most difficult to extricate from our national inclination toward the colonial European view of race as well as undertand the oppositional subculture we've created from the dregs of slavery over 200, 300, 400 years of American history.

On-air guests:
• Peggy McIntosh,  PhD - Sr. Research Scientist and Associate Director, Wellesley Centers for Women; Author, White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

• Nancy Rodenborg,  PhD - Associate Professor of Social Work (Diversity), Augsburg College; Augsburg College Diversity Committee and the Diversity and Global Learning Collaborative

• It is a chillingly candid - some would say arrogant - document from U.S officials who see little use for Haiti.
• So today, as the "Haiti problem" is once again at the forefront of world discussions, it is worth looking at this document which is akin to the Haitian version of the Pentagon Papers.
• UN Seeks New Model of Cooperation to Rebuild Haiti

Garry Pierre-Pierre, The Grio

People attend a Voodoo ceremony in honor of the victims of the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, March 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Today (April 7), the international community gathered at the United Nations to decide how much each country will donate to the Haiti tin cup. Over the years, what to do about Haiti has seemed to be the preoccupation of many world leaders. The United States, as the most influential power in Haiti, has had its share of ups and downs when it comes to the island nation. Recently, a U.S. document entitled "National Security Study Memorandum 70 - Haiti" began circulating among some in Haiti.