Zack de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine is leading the charge on The Sound Strike, a movement launched online for artists to boycott taking tours through Arizona in protest of the recently passed immigration law.

Rage, Cypress Hill, Juanes, Conor Oberst, Los Tigres del Norte, Kanye West, Sonic Youth and more than a dozen other notable musicians have already publicly jumped on board; notable movie-maker and activist Michael Moore has signed on as well.

http://www.hitfix.com/articles/2010-5-26-rage-against-the-machine-michael-moore-kanye-swipe-at-arizona-in-boycott

Nice going Zack!
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However...I think the more effective boycott would be through pro sports.  That's where the big money is. 

Then again, who ever heard of a Latin American baseball player anyway?
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I wonder if this group will also be protesting Mexico's immigration laws, which are infinitely more punitive than the dreaded Arizona laws? ???

I wonder if this group will also be protesting Mexico's immigration laws, which are infinitely more punitive than the dreaded Arizona laws? ???


...and put off that trip to Cancun?  I don't think so

...and put off that trip to Cancun?  I don't think so


My brother and sister-in-law just went to Cancun for my brother's friend's wedding.  I was house sitting for them while they were away. 

The way I figure it, Cancun is pseudo Mexico.  It was thrown together for tourists as a substitute for Cuba. 

You never saw the video "Girls Gone Wild: Spring Break in Cuba."  Castro don't play dat.  See, before Castro, that's what Cuba was for: American tourists go there to drink, gamble, lollygag on the beaches, and have a decadent old time.  After 1959, they weren't welcome to do so anymore.  So there was a market for Cancun, which was built in the boonies of Caribbean Mexico.
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My brother and sister-in-law just went to Cancun for my brother's friend's wedding.  I was house sitting for them while they were away. 

The way I figure it, Cancun is pseudo Mexico.  It was thrown together for tourists as a substitute for Cuba. 

You never saw the video "Girls Gone Wild: Spring Break in Cuba."  Castro don't play dat.  See, before Castro, that's what Cuba was for: American tourists go there to drink, gamble, lollygag on the beaches, and have a decadent old time.  After 1959, they weren't welcome to do so anymore.  So there was a market for Cancun, which was built in the boonies of Caribbean Mexico.
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I knew a guy who ran guns for Castro, didn't talk about it(of course) but when anyone went off about Cuba he would ask them how much they knew about Baptista...the answer to the question was, invariably, who?

Batista was one nasty sob.  The waters around El Moro were often red with the blood of his political opponents.

Batista was one nasty sob.  The waters around El Moro were often red with the blood of his political opponents.



It irks me when people want to turn back the clock and become nostalgic and think, for some reason, things were better "before" without the knowledge of what it was really like before.  They vilify Castro without finding out why he was able to come into power.  The same with Lenin. Who, besides nobility, could ever be nostalgic about living under the czars.  I'm not saying that Castro, Lenin, or others who managed similar coups were good, but it is necessary to know what enabled them to come into power.

It irks me when people want to turn back the clock and become nostalgic and think, for some reason, things were better "before" without the knowledge of what it was really like before.  They vilify Castro without finding out why he was able to come into power.  The same with Lenin. Who, besides nobility, could ever be nostalgic about living under the czars.  I'm not saying that Castro, Lenin, or others who managed similar coups were good, but it is necessary to know what enabled them to come into power.


Absolutely, and our "fathers" were upset over taxes, and we see that as sufficient cause.

It irks me when people want to turn back the clock and become nostalgic and think, for some reason, things were better "before" without the knowledge of what it was really like before.  They vilify Castro without finding out why he was able to come into power.  The same with Lenin. Who, besides nobility, could ever be nostalgic about living under the czars.  I'm not saying that Castro, Lenin, or others who managed similar coups were good, but it is necessary to know what enabled them to come into power.


Castro could certainly be nasty and repressive and he was many a time.  He was a dictator after all.  The difference is he didn't cooperate with American corporations. That's the ONLY difference between Fidel and much nastier characters around the world.  It has nothing to do with how he treated people.  The U.S. didn't start complaining about Saddam until what?  Until Saddam stopped cooperating with American corporations!

You know whose health care system they praise on FOX News?  Chile's.  The one Pinochet set up.
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