May 14 2010
City Council and Activists Fight Arizona Bill In Their Own Ways
The Los Angeles City Council approved a motion on Wednesday that furthers the growing nationwide boycott of the state of Arizona. Prevailing by a 13-1 vote, the resolution proposed by council members Ed Reyes and Janice Hahn calls for the ban of most official city travel to the Grand Canyon state as well as a review of government contracts with businesses headquartered there. In response to Arizona’s passage and signing into law of anti-immigrant legislation last month, Los Angeles has effectively become the largest city in the nation to take a stance against it. The resolution, now heading to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, could result in the termination of a portion of existing contracts the city of LA has with Arizona-based businesses totaling fifty-eight million dollars. In further severing ties with the state, it also directs city departments to refrain from entering or amending new contracts with such companies.
Activists in Los Angeles engaged in an act of civil disobedience last week to call for a repeal of Arizona’s SB 1070 law as well immigrant detentions and deportations. Fourteen people in all were arrested after chaining themselves in a circle in the middle of Alameda Street. The action stopped busy traffic for several hours outside the Federal Immigration Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles. Police took the activists into custody and booked them on charges of resisting, obstructing and delaying investigations of a peace officer. All of the arrested were eventually released last Friday after spending more than twenty-four hours in jail and are due in court on June 4th.
GUESTS: Ed Reyes, Los Angeles City Councilman, Garrick Ruiz, We Are All Arizona
Find out more about We Are All Arizona at weareallarizona@gmail.com and www.facebook.com/weareallarizona.
4 Responses to “City Council and Activists Fight Arizona Bill In Their Own Ways”
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http://culturati.blog.com/2010/05/14/seeing-through-hispanic-panic/
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As a result of the recent Arizona law regarding immigration, Los Angeles City Council wants to boycott Arizona by not buying products from Arizona which amounts to around $57 million. California relies on Arizona to furnish that state a large portion of it’s electrical power needs. If this is the way Los Angels and other California cities want to behave, then what Arizona should do is either raise the rates of energy Arizona sells to California or just discontinue selling energy to California all together. California would not only have energy brown outs, but they would have energy black outs. Let’s see how Los Angeles and other California cities would like that.
I fully support Arizona’s right to enforce their borders. Since when do states boycott each other because of issues that don’t effect their state. Well you have set a fine example and I have decided that instead of making our annual pilgrimage to visit family in LA this year, we are going to also boycott, only we will be boycotting LA. I just won an item on E-bay and when I found out the seller lives in LA I canceled the sale and I explained to the dealer why.
PS I hope you boycott us in Oregon as well, we don’t need the anti American sentiment here.
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