Thread: CO: Economic boycott in works

Publish Date: 3/24/2007

Economic boycott in works
Goal is to show the power of immigrants

By Ben Ready
The Daily Times-Call

LONGMONT — Immigration-reform advocates who support the humane treatment and legalization of undocumented immigrants are launching a statewide, weeklong economic boycott Sunday.


The Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition — a group of 80 organizations, including El Comité of Longmont and Boulder’s El Centro Amistad — is asking Coloradans to do the following between Sunday and April 1:


Avoid spending money or going out.


Withdraw all but minimum balances from bank accounts.


Do not wire money to other countries or make consular transactions.


Turn off televisions and use minimal electric energy.


The goal is to demonstrate the economic power of the immigrant community and send a message to Congress that Colorado wants comprehensive immigration reform now, CIRC leaders said.


CIRC’s Denver office has made dozens of media presentations and circulated 50,000 boycott fliers. Centro Amistad has circulated another 2,000. El Comité director Marta Moreno declined to comment when asked if her organization will participate in the boycott, but El Comité’s office had the flier posted on its front door Friday.


The boycott is not to hurt the economy but to remind the state how much Latinos contribute, Centro Amistad community advocate Claudio Mallo said.


“We’re not against the economy. We live here,” said Mallo, a native of Argentina. “I am very grateful to this country. But we need just reforms because people can’t continue to live in the shadows.”


Boycott leaders say they won’t judge its success or failure on the number of people who participate or — if it’s even possible to calculate — how many dollars were pulled from the state’s economy.



Opponents think the economic boycott is a misguided effort that will only further distance CIRC supporters from mainstream Coloradans.


“It’s going to backfire, just like last Spring’s massive demonstrations,” said Yeh Ling-Ling, director of the California-based Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America.


Yeh, who spoke in Colorado last year and has travelled the country to promote the enforcement of immigration laws, said last year’s boycotts served only to remind Americans that the illegal immigrant population has ballooned out of control.




Juan Morales, the owner of the Variedades Morales store at 1630 Main St., has distributed about 70 boycott fliers to his customers. Morales said he supports legalizing the undocumented, but he won’t participate in the boycott and fears his store might suffer because of it.


“Last year’s boycotts and marches didn’t help people get documentation,” the Mexican-born Morales said in Spanish. “Look at all the raids they’ve had since then.”


Nino Gallo, chairman of the Latino Chamber of Commerce of Boulder County, said Friday he hadn’t heard of the boycott.


CIRC will launch the boycott during a Cesar Chavez march today at 12:30 p.m. in Denver.

http://www.longmontfyi.com/Local-Story.asp?id=15377

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We’re not against the economy. We live here,” said Mallo, a native of Argentina. “I am very grateful to this country. But we need just reforms because people can’t continue to live in the shadows.”

Their arrogance and self importance knows no bounds. We don't need reforms we need to enforce our laws and they need to go home and fix their craptacular countries. What did they think that we were going to throw a parade and roll out the red carpet in honor of their illegal invasion and arrogant demands for equal treatment?

Boycott leaders say they won’t judge its success or failure on the number of people who participate or — if it’s even possible to calculate — how many dollars were pulled from the state’s economy.

And so their point is what? That even they know that they are not relevant to our economy, which by the way was doing fine before they invaded us? Is it possible for these people to get any dumber?

So are they also urging illegals

Not to send their kids to schools?

Not to use the emergency rooms as walk-in clinics?

Not to murder Americans driving drunk?

Not to ask for translators in court?

No, I didn't think so.

i so agree the arrogance these criminals are flaunting is incredible! if the sofa spuds don't get off their butts and help protect this`country from these invaders, then when their sofas are stollen, i don't want to hear about it.

Turn off televisions and use minimal electric energy.

This will just prove how much energy they're sucking up in Colorado. I want to see the report about how much the power consumption dropped during this boycott.

Most states have ongoing power issues, and millions of illegal immigrants definitely add to the problem (especially here in Texas, where I was paying over $300 per month for electricity in my small 1,200 sq ft house last summer --outrageous!!).

The organizers of this boycott picked the WRONG thing to boycott!! They're just proving again how many resources they are eating up. Way to go!! Keeping proving how you're hurting America!!

“Last year’s boycotts and marches didn’t help people get documentation,” the Mexican-born Morales said in Spanish. “Look at all the raids they’ve had since then.”

Yay!! They're getting the picture!!

“It’s going to backfire, just like last Spring’s massive demonstrations,” said Yeh Ling-Ling, director of the California-based Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America.

Yeh, who spoke in Colorado last year and has travelled the country to promote the enforcement of immigration laws, said last year’s boycotts served only to remind Americans that the illegal immigrant population has ballooned out of control.

Right on!!!

It will go completely unnoticed as it did last year,except our kids will get one day at school where they might get the teachers we pay fors attention and learn something!!
I love seeing the class room attendance drop, tells us what it would be like all year around for our children.
Keep yours home please!!

Colorado: Weeklong Boycott for Immigrant rights
Saturday, March 24 2007 @ 07:52 PM PDT
Contributed by: Anonymous

Rain did not damper enthusiasm Saturday for those marching to honor the memory of Cesar Chavez and in support of comprehensive immigration reform that includes a pathway to legality for illegal immigrants.

Note: Boycott includes no remittances to countries of origin, withdrawl of money from banks

Rainy march honors Cesar Chavez
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_5514741

Rain did not damper enthusiasm Saturday for those marching to honor the memory of Cesar Chavez and in support of comprehensive immigration reform that includes a pathway to legality for illegal immigrants.

Nearly 1,500 people took to the street after a multi-denominational mass at St. Cajetan's Event Center on the Auraria Campus with several spiritual leaders and Aztec dancers in full dress.

"Cesar Chavez was the one who helped speak up for our ancestors and those who were not able to experience justice, healthcare and all the things we deserve," said Lucia Guzman, a minister and a mayoral appointee who heads the human rights and community relations office.

The walk ended at West High School where marchers pledged to support a week-long economic boycott for immigrant rights that begins today.

The Cesar Chavez Peace and Justice Committee partnered with the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition and Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán, a Latino association on college campuses. M.E.Ch.A. students from all over the country were in Denver for the organization's annual conference.

"We need new laws, we have to speak out, we have to come out of the shadows," Ignacio Ramirez told the crowd in the West High auditorium. "Don't spend any money, no dollar menu, don't send money to your country, don't turn on the TV."

The boycott and the march are both part of a national movement to push reform, immigrant advocates say.

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The organizers of this boycott picked the WRONG thing to boycott!! They're just proving again how many resources they are eating up. Way to go!! Keeping proving how you're hurting America!!

Actually, they are proving how stupid they are when attempting to intellectually strategize.

Looking forward to their next brilliant idea

"But we need just reforms because people can’t continue to live in the shadows.”

Sorry, Babe, but if you are breaking the law, why are you complaining
about having to live in the shadows? No one is asking you to.