It's Time to Boycott Arizona

[AtLast]

Originally Posted by EzeeTiger

Awesome! When are you all going to get here???? I'll be waiting by the tikki bar............

it's an open bar here!

Way kewl! Hope you have as much patience with one more French Bulldog with attitude that you do with Chester!

Oh geez..... T just know Super & Snow will have me blushing the whole way!! But I can count on T to explain things to me.... right?

[Soon]

[The_Lady_Snow]

Mayor of Columbus, Ohio, bans travel to Arizona in response to state's new immigration law


http://www.fox8.com/news/sns-ap-oh--...,6582569.story

[SuperFemme]

Who’s Boycotting Arizona?

By Casey Purcella

Rudolfo Anaya, New Mexico’s most celebrated writer, gave the Alibi this statement: "The recent anti-immigrants Arizona law is an assault on our basic civil rights. It is most hideous because it targets people of color. It should be protested by everyone. If there ever was a time for civil disobedience, it is now."

Here is an incomplete list—incomplete due to the rate at which it’s growing—of groups that are taking a stand against Arizona’s new laws through a boycott or other displays of condemnation.

Municipal Organizations
• Oakland, Calif.’s city council decided early this month that it would have nothing to do with Arizona; it voted unanimously to ban the city government from sending employees to the Grand Canyon State on official business, prevent the city from signing new contracts with Arizona-based businesses and require city employees to review current contracts between itself and Arizona.

• San Francisco's mayor is set to approve a resolution boycotting businesses headquartered in Arizona. The resolution also requests that sports leagues refrain from holding tournaments and championship games in the city. In addition, city employees are discouraged from conducting official business in Arizona.

• The City Council in San Jose, Calif. scheduled a vote on June 8 to decide whether it will join several of its Californian peers in boycotting their neighbor. The boycott would restrict travel by government employees to Arizona as well as contracts with businesses headquartered in the state.

• Los Angeles joined many nearby cities in approving a boycott of Arizona this month, banning city government from doing business with companies in Arizona and preventing the government from entering into new agreements with companies from the state.

• By a 5-0 vote early this month, West Hollywood became the most glamorous city to approve an Arizona boycott. The resolution forbids government employees from traveling to the state on official business and lets the government impose other sanctions until the law is repealed.

• San Diego's City Council voted to condemn Arizona's new immigration law.

• Boulder, Colo.'s city manager announced that city employees would not be traveling to Arizona for any official business. The city is planning a vote on a more extensive boycott.

• The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Metro Denver announced that it is supporting a boycott of any entity in support of Arizona's immigration bill.

• The Austin, Texas City Council unanimously approved a resolution ending government travel to Arizona. It also requires the city manager to review current and future contracts with businesses based in Arizona, or businesses with significant investments in the state, and then present the council with plans to replace them.

• St. Paul, Minn. city employees will no longer travel to Arizona on official business, a result of a declaration by the ciy's mayor that bans city-funded travel to the state.

• The city council of Boston adopted a resolution calling for the city to end relations with Arizona-based businesses, making it one of the first east coast cities to legalize a boycott of the state. The resolution condemns the bill for giving city and state law enforcement officers the power to enforce laws that are supposed to be enforced by federal law enforcement, adding that the law allows Arizona's police officers to engage in profiling. The resolution states that Boston government must review all associations with Arizona and, “to the extent reasonable,” eliminate contracts with the state.

• The El Paso county commissioners passed a boycott resolution by a 3-2 vote limiting county relations with Arizona businesses. The resolution also asks residents of the county to do the same.

• Las Cruces Mayor Ken Miyagishima was preparing to introduce a resolution condemning Arizona's immigration bill but changed his mind after reading the replacement bill, which is supposed to alleviate concerns that the bill will enable racial profiling.

• Pressure to reverse the law is coming from inside the state of Arizona as well. The Tucson City Council voted to sue the state early this month, alleging that the new immigration law will harm the city's economy, which Tucson's mayor said is largely driven by Mexican tourism. The mayor also said that he hopes the resolution will exempt the city from boycotts affecting the state.

• Flagstaff also decided not to take Arizona's new immigration bill lying down; its City Council unanimously voted to take action against the state to prevent the new law from going into effect. The resolution calls the bill “an unfunded mandate ... to carry out federal immigration enforcement responsibilities,” and predicts that illegal immigrants or those with a family member in the United States illegally will not report crimes, therefore preventing the city's police from enforcing the law.

National Organizations

• The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, an organization which aims to promote rights for those in the United States, announced a boycott of Arizona, pledging to hold no conferences in the state as well as promising to pressure its 200 member organizations to do the same.

• The League of United Latin American Citizens said that a broad list of Latino organizations have banded together to coordinate a boycott of Arizona and support legal challenges to the state's new immigration law. A press release announcing the campaign, which the league has named “Unite Arizona,” states that the boycott will focus on companies who support politicians who voted for the immigration bill. In addition, none of the groups in the campaign will hold conventions in the state.

• The National Council of La Raza declared a boycott of Arizona, stating that it will not hold any events in Arizona and asking its members and affiliates to do the same. It also said it will “widely disseminate the adverse consequences of this legislation” and asked other American institutions to consider not doing business with Arizona or Arizona-based companies. An extensive list of organizations signed the statement as well; a full list can be found at nclr.org/section/boycott_intolerance_petition.

• The Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) announced that Phoenix was no longer being considered as a site for its 2012 conference. In a press release, it stated that the new law “virtually guarantees harassment of its conference attendees.” The convention would have brought 3,000 people to the state for four days.

• The Seattle-based Glass Art Society decided not to hold its 2011 convention in Tucson, Ariz., depriving the city of 2,500 potential visitors that would have stayed for three days.

• The International Communications Association, National Association of Black Accountants and National Urban League all canceled their planned 2012 conventions in Phoenix, according to the Arizona Republic.

• The American Educational Research Association voted at its annual meeting in Denver to stop holding meetings in Arizona while the new immigration law is still in effect.

• The historically black Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity moved its 104th annual convention, which was scheduled to take place in Phoenix from July 21 to 25, to Las Vegas, Nev., citing safety concerns for some of its members. The fraternity estimated that moving the convention would deprive the state of up to 10,000 visitors.

• The Republican National Committee passed over Phoenix and instead chose Tampa, Fla. as the location for its 2012 national convention. While officially this decision had nothing to do with Arizona's new immigration law, one can't help but speculate that Arizona missed out as Republicans try to avoid any setbacks and negative press as they prepare for this year's elections.

Schools

• Two Mexican universities, the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí, canceled their exchange programs with the University of Arizona, according to the Arizona Republic. However, Arizona's other universities remain unaffected, and so far none of the other 29 Mexican universities with exchange agreements with UA have canceled their agreements.

• Denver's public school employees are forbidden from taking district-sponsored trips to Arizona.

• In a unanimous vote, the San Diego Unified School District Board condemned Arizona's controversial immigration law.

• The Huffington Post reported that Arizona's universities have been hit by the backlash to Arizona's new immigration law. University of Arizona President Robert Shelton said that some students have told the university that they will be leaving to attend school elsewhere. In addition, Arizona State University revealed that several of its applicants have called to decline admission.

Sports Teams

•The girls basketball team at Highland Park High School in Illinois was set to travel to Arizona for a basketball tournament in December 2010 until the school's district decided to cancel the trip, saying that it could not sent its students to a place where their liberties might be compromised. While officially the school says that this decision was based purely on safety concerns, some are suspicious the decision is actually a political statement, pointing out that the district superintendent told a Chicago newspaper that the district could not justify sending students to a place not “aligned with our beliefs and values.”

• Arizona's National Basketball Association team, the Phoenix Suns, wore their alternate “Los Suns” jerseys on Cinco de Mayo to “honor our Latino community and the diversity of our league, the state of Arizona, and our nation,” according to the team's owner.

http://alibi.com/index.php?scn=feature&di=&story=32264

[Diva]

I was curious about what businesses had their corporate HQ in AZ.......here is a partial listing:

~Best Western
~Coldstone Creamery
~Discount Tire
~Dial Corp. (which includes~Coast, Purex, Renuzit, Right Guard, Boraxo, Twenty Mule Team)
~Fender Musical Instruments
~Fredericks of Hollywood
~Go Daddy
~Kona Grill
~Mesa Airlines
~PetSmart
~Ping Golf
~U-Haul
~US Air

Other businesses that have significant operations in AZ (but not HQ'd there):

Alaka Air
Albertson's
AmEx
Bank of America
Boeing
General Dynamics
Home Depot
Honeywell
J. P. MOrgan Chase
Intel
Kroger
Marriott International
Motorola
Pulte Homes
Safeway
Southwest Air
Target
Wal~Mart
Walgreen's
Wells Fargo


Interesting...............

[Diva]

They might as well have taken out their pistol and shot themselves in the foot.....
[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es3hq0XM-cw"]YouTube- Racist Anti-Immigration Arizona Law Backfires[/nomedia]

[SuperFemme]

OMFG. Seriously? Seriously?

Crops need to be harvested? But he doesn't want a Mexican washing his car, mowing his lawn and he doesn't need to eat at fast food restaurants? Come here, work the job, pay taxes, don't have babies here or be a "burden" on the taxpayers and then get the fuck out and go home when the state of AZ is done with you?

Seriously?

[Soon]

via JoeMyGod: Dr. Sandra Soto is the Assistant Professor for Women's Studies at the University of Arizona, where she used this week's graduation ceremony to denounce her state's racist immigration law. It's a bit surprising/depressing that so many students would boo her. (Although she did get some decent applause at the end.) The Freepers are thrilled by the students' reaction.

[sweetcali]

Originally Posted by SuperFemme

OMFG. Seriously? Seriously?

Crops need to be harvested? But he doesn't want a Mexican washing his car, mowing his lawn and he doesn't need to eat at fast food restaurants? Come here, work the job, pay taxes, don't have babies here or be a "burden" on the taxpayers and then get the fuck out and go home when the state of AZ is done with you?

Seriously?

It has taken me awhile to respond in this thread due to life not giving me enough stamina. LOL I lived in Monterey County for over 20yrs. The Salinas Valley salad capital of the world. I would see these workers out in those fields before sunrise and after sunset. I did outreach work for a while and I have seen the conditions these field workers live in. I have seen the terror in their eyes when some white person they didn't know approached them.

I have seen the delight in many a person's eyes as they eat their fresh salad on the table in front of them. I have heard jokes about "those" people that picked that very salad they were eating. I have listened to many a white boy complain about not being able to get a job; yet you never saw a white boy go apply to work in those fields. I never saw a white boy standing on the corner at the 7-11 or home depot looking for work; yet they would complain about not getting a job and make fun of the very people willing to work in deplorable conditions just to make a few pennies to feed their families.

I think it is time that some of these people get off their high horses, take off their rose colored glasses and take a serious look at how asinine their laws really are; whilst eating their fresh salad at their $1000 a plate fund raiser to create a racist law.

There ego's need to be put in check. They need to get off that all might white cloud they are sitting on.

Oh and I wonder if they enjoyed that nice little mint placed upon their $500 dollar a night hotel room.

The whole law makes me ill and it also makes me wonder how terrified some of these people are. I wonder if those great law makers realize the danger and fear of their own lives they just put these people in.

I wonder how many of them chased an illegal farm worker through the fields just to give them the information on where to go to get medical care, etc.

The whole thought process behind this law makes me ill.

sweetcali

[The_Lady_Snow]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100531/...rl_immigration

[AtLast]

Originally Posted by The_Lady_Snow

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100531/...rl_immigration

Whoa! Quite an interesting tid-bit, here!

Also reminds me of how many stories from the mouths of kids from various Latino families I keep hearing while listening to NPR (mostly). Makes out of the mouths of babes even more pertinent. The fear, the process of a little kid internalizing and speaking their truth in recognizing that they are the target of such hatred is heartbreaking beyond belief.

[AtLast]

Originally Posted by HowSoonIsNow

via JoeMyGod: Dr. Sandra Soto is the Assistant Professor for Women's Studies at the University of Arizona, where she used this week's graduation ceremony to denounce her state's racist immigration law. It's a bit surprising/depressing that so many students would boo her. (Although she did get some decent applause at the end.) The Freepers are thrilled by the students' reaction.

Hey, many in AZ (including the Gov) do not want cultural and ethnic studies taught in the schools! This law isn't just about immigration, it's about right-wing nut cake bigots fearing the demise of white people!!! It was drafted in part by an organization (F.A.I.R) that has one of the world's leading proponents of racial inferiority studies of non-white populations (as in things like POC just not being as smart as white people based upon biology). As in the types of people that agree with racial and ethnic cleansing!!

We need to wake up. This stuff is not harmless talk. And it isn't just taking hold in AZ. Look at Texas and people there wanting to re-write history to align with WASP culture! It isn't just Limbaugh and mega-wacko Beck on the airwaves spreading right wing BS. More and more of these jerks are running for elected office and winning! What is going on in AZ and TX presently is a serious threat to every disenfranchised population in the US and to democracy. Movements like this always take hold more deeply during difficult financial times when the majority of the population is more worried about a job, keeping a home (owning or renting), putting food on the table.

I hate to be an alamist, but alamed is exactly what I feel 2010 is a critical mid-term election year. If you have even a small amount of time to get involved with political organizations that fight this kind of crap- please do so!

[Diva]

Originally Posted by The_Lady_Snow

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100531/...rl_immigration

Yes...I saw this earlier today.....and wondered what might happen to this girl's parents, based on the fact that she had "outed" them to MRS. Obama......I mean how easy could/would it be for her to 'report back'......or for them to find those parents.

It was certainly brought home to Mrs. Obama......AND the rest of us!

I hope all works out well for the Peruvian family.....and I hope the other daughter is brought to the US...........soon.

[Linus]

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-me...tep-nation-ar/

Although he only quotes one poll, what is sad is that the rest are 50% or higher in favour of this law. That's pretty sad, IMO.

[UofMfan]

Arizona Elementary School Will Whiten The Faces Of Its Own Students On A Mural Because Some Racists Yelled At It

Jason Linkins
jason@huffingtonpost.com | HuffPost Reporting

Via Ken Layne at Wonkette, this is just the worst story in the world:

An Arizona elementary school mural featuring the faces of kids who attend the school has been the subject of constant daytime drive-by racist screaming, from adults, as well as a radio talk-show campaign (by an actual city councilman, who has an AM talk-radio show) to remove the black student's face, and now the school principal has ordered the faces of the Latino and Black students to be changed to Caucasian skin.

F'ing hell. Read the rest of the details here. And here's Richard Lawson's reaction, at Gawker.

What can I say about this? We are talking about a bunch of mentally deranged adults, who have terrorized an elementary school, for daring to paint a mural featuring the faces of black and Latino children -- actual black and Latino children who live in Arizona. And we're also talking about a group of adults who have decided to send a stirring message to their students and the world: when a bunch of mentally deranged adults -- and we are not talking about people who are particularly threatening, this is a bunch of utterly gutless mopes, yelling racial slurs from their cars, egged on by some pinhead city councilman cowering behind a radio microphone -- threaten a bunch of children, the best thing to do is to accede to their psychotic, racist "demands."

Seriously, educators of Prescott, Arizona, when some creep demands you whiten the faces of your own students on a mural, the correct response is to say, "No, we will not be doing anything of the sort."

This story really should be blasted, far and wide. You cable news producers need to get this story in the mix with a quickness. And let me be clear to you all: there are no "two sides to this story." This is not something you need to have a panel discussion about. CNN, I don't want to see you plumbing the depths of your counterintuition on your website, or lending credence to the notion that the gutless mopes in their cars, shrieking racial slurs at the images of children have an interesting point of view that we should "hear out" because of the need to be "balanced." This is your moment to decry, condemn, and brutalize these evil people.

Blast them to hell, or go jump in the Gulf of Mexico.

[Soon]

I read about that yesterday, U.

It's almost too horrific to believe.

I don't understand these people and the fact that the school (!) conceded to ugly racism makes me ill.

[DapperButch]

Originally Posted by HowSoonIsNow

I read about that yesterday, U.

It's almost too horrific to believe.

I don't understand these people and the fact that the school (!) conceded to ugly racism makes me ill.

Yes, adorable posted a link in the racism, race relations thread, if anyone wants to read it. page 14, post #272

Disgusting and unbelievable.

[UofMfan]

Originally Posted by HowSoonIsNow

I read about that yesterday, U.

It's almost too horrific to believe.

I don't understand these people and the fact that the school (!) conceded to ugly racism makes me ill.

Right?! I mean, the crazies I am used to, but the fact that the school conceded is mind blowing.

This is not the country that I learned to love. I am so sad seeing what is going on, and not just in AZ, but nationwide.

[DapperButch]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_601436.html

[UofMfan]

Originally Posted by DapperButch

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_601436.html

Or you could have seen that this is what I posted.