Thread: A Boycott on May 1st!

I just heard of Lou Dobbs that La Raza is against the May 1 boycott. Seems too many people didn't like seeing hundreds of thousands marching in the streets making all their demands.

I'm looking forward to May 1

W

Sounds too good to be true. A day without leaf blowers.

I hope they DON'T talk them out of May 1. I bet LaRaza thinks it is only going to prove how much we DON'T need them and so they are scared.

La RAza also knows that they have really stepped on their weenies with their marches. Even t hough the mainstream media won't show what was really going on, we certainly can.

And I have a feeling that even though there is so much talk trying to appease them that HR4437 was resurrected BECAUSE of them.

I think we should really encourage them to protest.

I just heard of Lou Dobbs that La Raza is against the May 1 boycott.

Of course they are! Our Amigos will be boycotting some of La Raza's BIGGEST FUNDERS! And how will La Raza look in the corporate BOARD ROOMS? DUMB, DUMB AND DUMBER! I'd love to be a fly on the wall to hear La Raza's hotshot lawyers explaining THIS!! Oh, this is RICH!

Then consider that Univision is not happy with the plans for May 1st and that nutjob, Navarro, wants to lead a March on UNIVISION'S headquarters.

As of April 11, 2006

(Lists in formulation)

Action Center For Justice (Charlotte, NC)
Action LA Coalition (Los Angeles, CA)
African American Holiday Assoc (Washington, DC)
Aliados Hispanos (Phoenix, AZ)
All Peoples Congress (Baltimore, MD)
Almighty Latin Kings & Queens Nation - Sun Chapter
Anti-Racist Action-LA/People Against Racist Terror (Culver City, CA)
Asociacion Internacional De Descendencia De JoaQuin Murrieta (Los Angeles, CA)
Axis of Justice (Los Angeles, CA)
BAMN (San Francisco, CA)
Berkeley May 1st Mobilization Committee (Berkeley, CA)
BlueLatinos.org
Bob McCloskey - Democratic Candidate 29th Congressional District (Monterey Park, CA)*
Brazilian Immigrant Center (Allston, MA)
Call To Action (Chicago, IL)
Capital Terminus Collective (Atlanta, GA)
Carlos Magana - LULAC (Allen, TX)
Catherine Minhoto Justice Coordinator Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary (Rome, Italy)
Church of Stop Shopping (Brooklyn, NY)
Clearinghouse: Denver Biodiese (Denver, CO)
Coalition of United Students (Los Angeles, CA)
Communist League
Communist Party USA Wisconsin section (Green Bay, WI)
Communist Party, USA Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)
Susan Morucci, Doctors of the World - Greek Delegation (Athens, Greece)*
DRUM- Desis Rising Up & Moving (Kackson Heights, NY)
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant (Berkeley, CA)
ENLACE Comunitario
ERSEY CITY PEACE MOVEMENT (Jersey City, NJ)
Fedration des femmes du Quebec (Quebec Women's Federation) (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)*
Familias Unidas: Centro Latino de Recursos (Evertt, WA)
Family Rescue (Chicago, IL)
Federacion Baja California (Downey, CA)
Federacion de Clubes de Aguascalientes (South Gate, CA)
Federacion Yucateca de California Inc (Eagle Rock, CA)
Fellowship of Reconciliation (Los Angeles, CA)
Feminism Without Borders (College Park, MD)
Fight Imperialism Stand Together (San Diego, CA)
FMLN - Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
Forrest Hill - Green Party (Oakland, CA)
Four Women, Inc. (Attleboro, MA)
Freedom Socialist Party (Seattle, WA)
Frente Indigena de Organizaciones Binacionales (Los Angeles, CA)
GROW - Grass Roots Organizing Works (Amherst, MA)
Harlem Tenants Council, Inc. (New York, NY)
Hermandad Mexicana (Oxnard, CA)
Hispano America Immigration (Fullerton, CA)
Hitec Aztec Communications (Santa Maria, CA)
Idaho Progressive Student Alliance (Boise, ID)
Immigrant Students in Action (Providence , RI)
Industrial Workers of the World (Cincinnati, OH)
Iniciativa Mexicana Contra la Guerra (Mexico City, Mexico)
International Action Center (New York, NY)
International Socialist Organization (Los Angeles, CA)
Justicia for Migrant Farm Workers (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Kanadian Posi Kidz (Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada)
La Causa Amherst College (Amherst. , MA)
La Collectiva del Troqueros del Puerto (Port of Los Angeles, CA)
La Voz Hispana of Virginia (Richmond, VA)
Labor/Community Strategy Center (Los Angeles, CA)
Larry Cafiero - CA Insurance Commissioner Candidate Green Party (Ben Lomond, CA)*
Latin American Defense Organization (Chicago, IL)
Latin American Student Organization (Montclair, NJ)
Latinoamericanos Unidos de California (Van Nuys, CA)
LatinoTop10.com (Woodside, NY)
Liars of America (Middletown, CA)
Malcolm Marts - Past President UAW Local 1976 (Brighton, MI)
March 25 Coalition (Los Angeles, CA)
May Day Boston (Boston, MA)
MEChA de USC (Los Angeles, CA)
Mexican National Liberation Movementÿ (Evans , CO)
Mexican Political Association (Moreno Valley, CA)
Michael Hargis-Secretary, Chicago IWW (Chicago, IL)
Migrant Head Start (La Junta, CO)
National Immigrant Solidarity Network
New York City May 1 Coalition (New York, NY)
New York Solidarity Coalition With Katrina/Rita Supporters; NCBL (Brooklyn, NY)
North Star Fund (New York, NY)
Peace & Freedom Party of Orange County (Anaheim, CA)
Laura Robeson, Peace Kitchen (Columbus, OH)*
Peace No War Education Network
Pittsburgh Friends of Immigrants for Immigrants' Rights (Pittsburgh, PA)
Prisoners Defense Committee (Antonio, TX)
Progressive Alliance
Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains (Woodland Hills, CA)
Project Islamic HOPE (Los Angeles, CA)
Puerto Rican Alliance Of Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
Queers For Peace And Justice (New York, NY)
Responsable de la mobilisation Fedration des femmes du Quebec (Montreal, QC Canada)
Revolutionary Workers Party of Argentina (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Rio Grande Valley Students United (Edinburg, TX)
Santa Barbara Food Not Bombs (Santa Barbara, CA)
Sexual Minorities Archives (Florence, MA)
Speak Out - Institute for Democratic Education and Culture (Emeryville, CA)
The Real America Press (Charlottesville, VA)
The Rebel Voice News (Montgomery, NY)
The United People of Color Caucus of the National Lawyers Guild (San Francisco, CA)
Third Way Peace and Justice Fellowship (San Francisco, CA)
US Cuba-Labor Exchange (Jersey City, NJ)
US-Mexico Border Actions Project (Los Angeles, CA)
We Are America
Welfare Rights Union of Washtenaw County, Michigan
Western NY Peace Center (Buffalo, NY)
WNY Sweatshop Awareness Project (Buffalo, NY)
Workers Solidarity Alliance
Working People's Voice - Voz Obrera (New York, NY)

OH, MY - What an impressive list!!

If you all could see the webring I am trying to work on for OUR movement - It's one of the most DAUNTING tasks I have ever undertaken. If we can get 1/10 of our people alerted on any given event, we'll have their numbers beat.

Welfare Rights Union of Washtenaw County, Michigan

THE WELFARE RIGHTS UNION??!!?? I'm ROLLING on the floor here!

I'm gonna go join that welfare rights movement and see if they can do anything for me...........

Only name missing was Barbara Striesand.

Originally Posted by andyt

Sounds too good to be true. A day without leaf blowers.

We had some big storms this way the weekend before April 7.
Some trees and large branches blown down, quite a bit of debri in the streets.
Didn't see the usual latino laborers cleaning up on Monday, but Tuesday by noon, the streets were clean as a whistle.

Other than that, the local WalMarts, supermarkets, nail salons, and fast food joints were all open for business as usual with no decline. The only place that didn't get much business was the local Goodwill.

Originally Posted by DcSA

This is insane cause mexicans in mexico are going stop to buy american stuff in mexico to support the latin people even many are going to stop to eat american food like Mc. Donalds and the other ones franchises foods in here, that´s what i heard in here.

Beto, What an excellent idea!! Please encourage your friends to Boycott Mcdonalds on May 1st. Mickey D is a big supporter of La Raza, so by boycotting McD, your friends will be showing how eager they are to bite the hand that feeds them here in the US. Yes, I LOVE the idea!

Our next month's boycott target may very well be McDonald's. So THANK YOU, THANK YOU for helping us to kick off the month's boycott with the support of Mexico!

So it seems i made a good point is not it?????