Supporter,

We've got a lot of updates and exciting activities to share with you in this issue of the Border Action Update. Perhaps the biggest of all is the victory at the state legislature: NO anti-immigrant laws were passed this year and NO anti-immigrant measures will be on this year's ballot! I hope you'll read more about this and other successes.
Until next month... --Ana

In this issue:

Summit Cleans Up an Amazing 50 Tons of Trash
Measures Failed to Collect Enough Signatures
No Joe in Pima Co. --Tucson Protests Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Human Rights Promoters On Their Way
Worry-Free Advocacy Training

Saturday, July 19, 2008
Summit Cleans Up an Amazing 50 Tons of Trash

A big "Thank You" goes out to all of you who came out to volunteer for Summit's community cleanup on Saturday, July 19th. It was a huge success!
The community had a very positive response to the effort, piling the trash into the five dumpsters which were placed by Tucson Clean and Beautiful around the neighborhood during the whole week.

Saturday was an exciting day for all of us as we saw how people from the community as well as people from all around Tucson gathered to clean public areas, such as the arroyos. Supervisor Ramon Valadez was there to kick off the effort, as well as B.J. Cordova and his team from Tucson Clean and Beautiful, the Promotoras of Summit/Old Nogales Hwy., and Border Action's Summit Human Rights Committee led the way. A shocking 50 tons of trash and 500 tires were collected during this campaign.

July 3, 2008
Measures Failed to Collect Enough Signatures
The Arizona Republic --By Scott

Two voter initiatives designed to toughen Arizona illegal-immigration laws will not appear on the fall ballot, the chairman of the campaigns told supporters this week.

Don Goldwater, a former GOP gubernatorial candidate, wrote in an e-mail that initiative campaigns working to strengthen the state's employer-sanctions law and to require police officers to enforce immigration law each failed to collect the 153,365 petition signatures required to put the proposed measures before voters on Nov. 4.

Both Goldwater and state Rep. Russell Peace, the Republican sponsor of last year's employer-sanctions legislation, launched the initiative drives in March 2007.

But they lacked the financial backing needed to hire paid signature gatherers.

To read more click here...

Thursday, July 10, 2008
No Joe in Pima Co. --Tucson Protests Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio

Sheriff Joe Arpaio came to Tucson to promote his new book at a local Barnes & Noble chain. Arpaio's ideology is far from upholding the Constitution, promoting public safety or even "law and order". Instead, Arpaio has proudly made a name for himself for violating the human rights of prisoners, rampantly racially profiling anyone with brown skin, and flaunting his disregard for due process and other basic rights. Outside the book store, about 100 people gathered to protest and disrupt Arpaio's book signing and live interview on a radio station.

To read more click here...

Friday, July 25, 2008
Human Rights Promoters On Their Way

Two new groups of human rights promoters are currently in training, and another group will start in August, 2008. The groups are a mix of members of Human Rights Committees, ranging from teenagers to married couples. As some of you already know, our human rights training consists of 40 hours of classroom time, spread over 10 four-hour sessions one day a week. Our goal is to train 30 new Promoters this year, which would bring our total number of Promoters to 79!

The classes are fun and interactive, plus it's a great opportunity for people to meet one another who are active within their own neighborhoods.

To learn more click here...

Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Worry-Free Advocacy Training

The Alliance for Justice and Border Action Network are sponsoring a can't-miss, one-day workshop for nonprofit managers, staff, and volunteers. Attorney-trainers will be available to discuss the following:

What is lobbying and how much can our 501(c)(3) lobby?
What types of election-related activity can our 501(c)(3) engage in?
What are the Arizona rules and regulations we need to be aware of?
How can 501(c)(3)s, 501(c)(4)s, and labor unions work together?

The eight-hour training is scheduled for Wednesday, August 20^th, 2008 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m at Sam Lena Library, located at 1607 S. Sixth Ave., in Tucson.

For more details click here...

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