If you ever go to Costa Rica don't say you are American, they will say "me too"  

I would like to see nationwide teach-ins of the history of the Mexican-American War of 1848, not only the infamous actions of President Polk but also the words of Ulysses S. Grant, a future president then who served in that war -- and regretted it ever afterward.  He said that our Civil War was our penance for the Mexican-American War -- owing to our national shame of slavery and the "doctrine of manifest destiny," as both factors led us into both wars.

Boycotts do work.  See the interview on CNN today with the mayor of Phoenix, getting lots of phone calls from organizations with conventions upcoming, as he desperately attempts to reassure them that the law will not be in effect quite yet . . . while he also is attempting to tell prospective conventioneering organizations that this will be fixed.  He said that Phoenix will sue the state because of even the threat of boycotts and what this will do to the city's economy.

The American Immigration Lawyers Association notified JW Marriott in Scottsdale  that it's canceling a meeting of about 300 scheduled for later this year. George Tzamaras, an association spokesman, says, "We didn't feel it was appropriate to have a meeting in (the) state."

And the head of the Asian American Hoteliers group is calling for action against Arizona, too.  Pssst: Asian Americans own 40% of that industry.

Yeah you are white but maybe you are an illegal Irish or German, etc.  Then when the whites complaint about this injustice then tell them it was your AZ congress and governor who told us to enforce this law.  

"The Fiscal Sustainability Teach-In Counter Conference will be the important event in Washington on April 28. Unlike the other meeting, this one will feature important work by honest scholars. It deserves at least equal attention, and very much more respect."

--- James K. Galbraith, The University of Texas at Austin. [April 19, 2010 via email]

Check out selise's post on this at Down Wtih Tyranny, and Corrente and FDL have info as well.

From letsgetitdone's post at Corrente:

What is badly needed is an immediate answer to the President's Commission and the Peterson Conference. Our answer is entitled "the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-In Counter-conference." We plan to hold it in Washington DC, on April 28, 2010, from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, at The George Washington University's Marvin Center, Room 310 (The Elliot Room) and to make it a free event open to the public.

The purpose of our conference and teach-in is to look at fiscal sustainability relative to public purpose, including full employment, and also to teach the new economic paradigm of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and its application to fiscal sustainability. We want to propagate an alternative message about what fiscal sustainability means in the mainstream mass media, and in the blogosphere, on the same day as the Peterson Foundation Conference.