Boycott to close 40 businesses

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http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060428/NEWS08/604280372/1010


Centro among those to honor National Day Without Immigrants

DANA BOONE
REGISTER STAFF WRITER


April 28, 2006



Iowans could find their favorite restaurants closed and some of their co-workers and students absent on Monday, which is being called National Day Without Immigrants.

More than 40 businesses in greater Des Moines, Marshalltown and Perry are expected to be closed, including a popular downtown dining spot, Centro, and one Tasty Tacos restaurant.

The Tasty Tacos on East Grand in Des Moines is expected to be closed. Five other Tasty Tacos locations will remain open.

United for the Dignity and Safety of Immigrants, a coalition of Iowa groups, has asked immigrants and those who support them to stay away from work, school and stores to highlight the contributions that immigrants make to society and the economy.

Sandra Sanchez, a project director for the Immigrants Voice Project at the American Friends Service Committee, which is helping to coordinate the boycott, said most businesses that close will be Latino-owned. Other businesses will be without immigrant workers, she said.

[bluedog]

1. they should stay closed then.......

[Grateful for Hope]

2. I agree n/t

[Flabbergasted]

3. And why......?

[bluedog]

4. pandering to the rights? of Illegals......

illegals have no right to demand a damn thing.....sorry....but illegal is illegal..........not half illegal....not 2/3 illegal....totally illegal..........business that closes should be checked out to check papers and SS numbers to see if they are hiring these Illegals......

[Flabbergasted]

5. I think it is great to have activism in this country....

Maybe we should change the laws?

[bluedog]

7. just enforce the laws on the books...or break them all n/t

[Flabbergasted]

8. You sound like Bush.....

[bluedog]

9. don't care....the law is the law.........n/t

[Flabbergasted]

14. Jesus said you can live without the law by simply following two

simple rules 1.) Love God 2.) Love your neighbor as yourself.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

15. We live in this crazy thing called a "democracy"

And if we don't like the law, or how it's applied, or if we want to change the law, or make new ones...

well then by gum we can go ahead and say so. We can even go marching down the street while saying it.

And the argument that we can't because "that's against the law!" isn't only silly and unamerican, frankly it's rather juvenile.

[QC]

22. You sound like Joe McCarthy. n/t

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

25. You know, I was thinking that exact same thing.

:eyes:

[Vincardog]

10. And Why? Because if they Can not operate without their illegal

workers they should not be in business. The way to get rid of illegal immigrants is to get rid of the JOBS that they are doing. There is no job that US citizens will not do for the right price. The reason the right is pushing this whole issue is to help the CorproFascists push their Low Wage agenda.

[Flabbergasted]

12. At what point did you arrive at the assumption that these were illegal

immigrants protesting.....?

[bluedog]

13. get real.they get on TV and state they are ILLEGAL

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16. You're listening to a soundbite from corporate media.

[Vincardog]

20. And you are talking about what the Corporate controlled Media wants you to

talk about. Do you think these are legal immigrants protesting for their legal rights?

[Flabbergasted]

21. Yes! I'd swear myself to hell stating that a huge a large number of these

people ARE legal immigrants marching for their brothers and sisters.....

[Vincardog]

27. legal immigrants marching for their illegal brothers and sisters

[Flabbergasted]

28. Did it answer your question?

[Vincardog]

29. I believe the AND WHY? question was yours. You can choose to believe

anything you want. The people marching said they are in support of Illegal Workers. They have called on all Latinos to walk out monday is solidarity with the Illegal workers, If you want to assert that some of the protesters are legal fine. WTF does it matter as long as the action is in support of ILLEGAL WORKERS? The real issue is that the low wage environment created as a result of the supply of Illegal Labor suppresses wages for every working person.

Make note that the UFW union is opposed to Illegal Immigrants because they aid the fascists in exploiting workers.

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30. I have to call you on that....Pretty Rediculous reply.

[Vincardog]

31. Call me on WHAT? What of my post was incorrect or Ridiculous?

[Flabbergasted]

32. I don't think you are speaking about progressive values?

[Vincardog]

33. Progressive values like a living wage? Like supporting Unions?

Do you think it is Progressive to support Slave wage illegals?
If so I am not your kind of Progressive. Low wage Conservatives support illegal immigration because it drives down the workers leverage and undercuts their wages. NeoCons support illegal immigrants because they undermine the Middle Class and help support their oligarchy. So the question is which kind of "Progressive Illegal immigrant supporter" are you?

Put down the Kool Aid and step away from the propaganda.

[mshasta]

19. and have the white americans ...

washing dishes? and cooking? for $6.75hr ok....

[OzarkDem]

6. Hire US citizens

I'm sure there are plenty of people in Iowa looking for work.

[Flabbergasted]

11. It is capitalism that causes people to risk their life to come look for...

work. You will never stop immigration through laws until the corporate system is changed...

[Vincardog]

17. The free trade that forced the farmers off their land created the slave

wage workers, NAFTA hurt Mexico too. They had to allow the Government subsidized Corporate farmed grain at a price that the locals can not compete with it is killing the AG culture in Mexico too.

[stillcool]

18. it's like a broken record.....

...but, hey whatever works, right?

"In the year 1877, the signals were given for the rest of the century: . . . the industrial and political elites of North and South would take hold of the country and organize the greatest march of economic growth in human history. They would do it with the aid of, and at the expense of, black labor, white labor, Chinese labor, European immigrant labor, female labor, rewarding them differently by race, sex, national origin, and social class, in such a way as to create separate levels of oppression -- a skillful terracing to stabilize the pyramid of wealth." (In A People's History of the United States) Howard Zinn, Historian, 1995

delivered 4 April 1967
During the past ten years, we have seen emerge a pattern of suppression which has now justified the presence of U.S. military advisors in Venezuela. This need to maintain social stability for our investments accounts for the counterrevolutionary action of American forces in Guatemala. It tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Cambodia and why American napalm and Green Beret forces have already been active against rebels in Peru.
It is with such activity in mind that the words of the late John F. Kennedy come back to haunt us. Five years ago he said, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." Increasingly, by choice or by accident, this is the role our nation has taken, the role of those who make peaceful revolution impossible by refusing to give up the privileges and the pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investments. I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin...we must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm

[QC]

23. The Lincoln quote is phony.

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/lincoln.htm

[stillcool]

24. wow...thank you.... n/t

[QC]

26. Believe me, I wish it were real. It's so cool. n/t