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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\u2019s 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. <\/p>\nActivists in Los Angeles engaged in an act of civil disobedience last week to call for a repeal of Arizona\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
GUESTS: Ed Reyes, Los Angeles City Councilman, Garrick Ruiz, We Are All Arizona<\/em><\/p>\n
Find out more about We Are All Arizona at weareallarizona@gmail.com<\/a> and www.facebook.com\/weareallarizona<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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