protest outside the Chicago Cubs and Arizona Diamondbacks game at Wrigley Field Thursday drew an estimated 100 protesters and led to one fan tearing up his ticket to the game

A protest outside the Chicago Cubs and Arizona Diamondbacks game at Wrigley Field Thursday drew an estimated 100 protesters and led to one fan tearing up his ticket to the game.”Arizona has legalized racial profiling. I cannot in good conscience go into this game,” Paul D’Amato told a Chicago Sun-Times reporter outside the ballpark. He then ripped the ticket he’d bought to see the Cubs take on the Arizona Diamondbacks into pieces.

Demonstrators accused Diamondbacks management of supporting the Arizona Republican Party, which is behind the controversial bill”AMERICA, there is no doubt about it; the Arizona Diamondbacks are one of the top contributors to the Republican machine in Arizona that have unanimously voted for the draconian Arizona State Proposition SB1070,” La Nueva Raza reports. “This bill will encourage the open racial profiling of ‘brown people’ in a state that has already been racially profiling immigrants for years beginning in the early 2000s when Sheriff Dever and his wife allowed and oftentimes encouraged Arizonan ranchers to ‘hunt down’ border crossers in Cochise County.”

Cranberries will ASAP to release new album

The Cranberries are set to release a new album – their first for eight years.The Irish band recently reunited for their first tour in six years and singer Dolores O’Riordan admits they are desperate to record some fresh material.She said: ‘It would be nice to come up with a new record. I don’t see why not. The ideas are always there, so hopefully something will come out of it.”

If The Cranberries are going to commit to an LP – which would be their first studio release since 2001’s ‘Wake Up and Smell the Coffee’ – Dolores wants it to be as good as it can be.The ‘Linger’ singer – who has been working on new material with guitarist Noel Hogan – added in an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper: ‘Noel has been sending me lots of music, and I’ve been continually writing. It’s one of those things where we have to see what happens. There’s no point in bringing out a crappy record. You want it to be good, so hopefully the creative juices are flowing.”and see  The Cranberries video music

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