MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Gardendale Republican Senator Scott Beason thumbed his nose at the Justice Department Tuesday while addressing the tea party on the status of Alabama’s controversial anti-immigraiton law on the first day of the 2012 session of the Legislature.
He said when the Republicans talk about “clarifying” the law, that really means they will be making the law even “stronger.”
“And if the Obama Justice Department doesn’t like it,” he said, “frankly, they can lump it.”
He also claimed the Occupy movement had to bring in protesters from “out of state” to oppose him.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Someone once said that practicing journalism is like capturing “history on the run.”
Sometimes when you are a fly on the wall at important events you think you are witnessing a historical moment. But it is sometimes hard to tell for sure. Like they say, only time will tell.
Did any of the reporters covering George Wallace’s inaugural address in 1963 have any idea what a seminal moment that would be in American political history?
Could anyone have anticipated that the groundswell of rage embodied in Wallace’s fiery rhetoric would lead to such a transformative movement for full-scale civil rights in the United States? Or that Wallace’s message and style would result in such a rising tide of so-called “conservatism” in American politics, a tide that has not yet fully dissipated over the country — or Wallace’s homeland of Alabama?
Alabama College Democrats President Beth Clayton urges more students and young people to get involved in politics, especially with the Alabama Democratic Party at this critical time in history.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Heavy hitters from American labor are now on the ground taking a special interest in Alabama due to the growing controversy surrounding the state’s draconian immigration law.
An AFL-CIO sponsored delegation of union leaders actively engaged in the struggle for civil and human rights recently spent a day in Birmingham and Pelham getting a first-hand view of the law’s impact by hearing from local community leaders and undocumented workers.
Fred Redmond, International Vice President of the United Steelworkers and Vice President of the national AFL-CIO, said the whole immigration situation in Alabama is very disturbing and the AFL-CIO is now committed to the battle.
“It’s disturbing to us as working people. It’s disturbing to us as a movement, and it’s disturbing to us as a country to realize that in 2011, here in the state of Alabama, people are being disenfranchised. They’re being discriminated against. Kids are being denied the right of an education,” he said. “This is not the America that we know.”
Democratic Party Chairman Mark Kennedy answers questions on Alabama’s strict, new immigration law. Watch the video to see what he had to say and share it with your friends and family. You won’t find this kind of honest coverage anywhere else, not in the newspapers, on local television news, on cable news or even in The New York Times.
Alabama Democratic Party Chairman Mark Kennedy talks about the role of labor in politics in the state and country and the agenda for the Democratic Party in the years ahead in this exclusive interview with The Locust Fork News-Journal.
Al Henley of Montgomery was elected president of the AFL-CIO of Alabama this week. In this exclusive interview with The Locust Fork News-Journal, he talks about the state convention, what organized labor’s plans are for the next year in Alabama and the presidential election of 2012, and how unions are planning to use new technology to get its message out to the American people.
Alabama Senate Minority Leader Roger Bedford, a well-liked and respected Democrat, had some interesting things to say about politics and new technology at the AFL-CIO Convention this week. Watch the video to see my interview with him.
During the Bush years, we specialized in covering the politicization of the U.S. justice system as much as any news organization. Our archives are about the most comprehensive for anyone researching the prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, and the original case against Richard Scrushy, which Glynn Wilson covered for The New York Times.
