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On January 25, 2008, the Pima County Republican Women's Club invited to speak at their luncheon the Sheriff of Maricopa County, Joe Arpaio. Sheriff Joe is the self-described "toughest sheriff in the nation" and is widely known for his controversial enforcement strategies that have cost Maricopa County over 41 million dollars in lawsuits for civil rights violations, as well as his hard line against undocumented migrants.

This video depicts that morning when Tucson activists came out to let Arpaio and the Women's Club know that he was not welcome in Tucson, and neither are his policies.

On the last couple days of the year I have started getting into retrospective mode and remembered another humorous Esteban Caliente piece that I started back in June and never finished editing. So I decided to finish it up.

This is still sort of rough and still riot porn, which I'm not really happy about, but I hacked it together for the December Indymedia Newsreal.

At the Federal Building in Tucson on Tuesday, August 28 I filmed a large group of activists voicing their dissatisfaction with the current border and immigration regime.

At the 2007 G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany, intrepid investigative journalist Esteban Caliente deftly made his way into the most high-security zone in the world to bring you the news....

On a road to Heiligendamm, Germany, where world leaders are meeting to decide the fate of humanity, celebrated TV personality Esteban Caliente gives a live report from the barricades.