Report Back on June 25 Rally Against SB 1070

On Monday, June 25, in response to the Supreme Court’s 5-3 decision to uphold a key part of SB1070 that requires police officers to ask about immigration status during stops, more than eighty people attended a rally at the Arizona State Building in downtown Tucson. Carrying signs that said “Resistencia!” “We Reject Racism,” and “Stop Apartheid in Arizona,” the protesters represented a range of groups including Derechos Humanos, Border Action Network, Jobs with Justice, and Occupy Tucson. Several police officers watched the demonstration from across the street. This ruling has inspired the Coalition to Resist and Repeal SB 1070 to “call on southern Arizonans to stand together in defiance of the law and the racist policies and practices of which it is a part.”