List of cities boycotting or condemning Arizona
May 13, 2010 | Posted in Blog, arizona | 
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Below is a list of cities who have passed (or are considering passing) boycotts on business in Arizona or have condemned SB 1070. Please comment and leave a source on this story if there are more cities not listed that have (or are considering) resolutions.
San Francisco
- San Francisco supervisors, on a 10-1 vote, approved a nonbinding resolution that calls for a boycott of Arizona-based businesses. It asks for, but does not demand, that city departments refrain from entering into new contracts or extending existing ones with companies headquartered in Arizona, unless severing those ties would result in significant costs to the city or violate other laws. (via SF Gate)
Los Angeles
- The Los Angeles City Council voted 13-1 to stop doing business in Arizona unless the state’s tough new immigration law is repealed. The city does about $52 million worth of business with Arizona companies, but it’s likely that only about $8 million worth of contracts can be terminated. (via NPR News)
Milwaukee, WI
- The Milwaukee Common Council Tuesday (5/4) failed to act on a resolution calling for the city to boycott companies based in Arizona. The council sent the measure back to committee. Alderman Robert Puente said his colleagues need to further study the Arizona law. (via WUWM)
Austin, TX
- The resolution, proposed by Council Member Mike Martinez, calls for ending all business-related travel to Arizona by city employees, unless it is related to police investigations, providing humanitarian aid or protecting Austinites’ health and safety. (via Austin American Statesman)
West Hollywood, CA
- The council voted 5-0 Monday night to approve the boycott. The action immediately suspends official travel to Arizona and calls for developing official sanctions. (via CBS2)
Boston, MA
- As the City Council passed a resolution urging that Boston cut business ties with Arizona, Menino said it was important to send “a message’’ that the city disagrees with that state’s response to illegal immigration. (via Boston.com)
Oakland, CA
- The council voted 7-0 Tuesday in favor of the boycott. It calls on city officials to review existing contracts with Arizona-based businesses and not enter into any new ones. It also says staff should not travel to the state on official city business. (via Fresno Bee)
St. Paul, MN
- Mayor Chris Coleman is ordering city departments to no longer travel to conferences in the state of Arizona. (via My Fox 9)
Washington D.C.
- Responding to Arizona’s new immigration law, the resolution requests that the city government and the employee pension fund “divest’ from all Arizona state and municipal bonds and ban city workers from traveling to that state on official business. The resolution, which will be voted on at a later date, does not appear to prevent the city from doing business with Arizona-based companies, as some Hispanic activists had proposed. (via Washington Post)
New York City
- New York’s City Council will consider a resolution calling for a boycott of all things Arizona. Ydanis Rodrigues, a Manhattan Democrat, filed the non-binding resolution Wednesday, a council aide confirmed. (via WSJ)
Boulder, CO
- Employees of the City of Boulder will no longer be traveling to Arizona for business, City Manager Jane Brautigam announced, as a show of the city’s opposition to the recent immigration legislation passed in that state. (via Examiner)
Seattle, WA
- Seattle’s City Council unanimously passed the Boycott Arizona Resolution, directing departments not to send employees to the Grand Canyon State and to refrain from doing new business with firms in Arizona in protest of the tragic new law. (via Examiner)
Brownsville, TX
- During their Tuesday evening meeting, the city commission voted unanimously to pass a resolution against Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070. (via Valley Central)
Hartford, CT
- That until the repeal of SB 1070, the City of Hartford shall not engage in any discretionary travel to Arizona and when applicable and without conflicting with any laws, the City of Hartford shall not engage in any contract for goods or services with any Arizona-based company. the Court of Common Council urges all public and private universities with campuses in Hartford to decline invitations to any sports tournaments in Arizona (via L. E. Cotto and City of Hartford Resolution)
Coachella, CA
- The Coachella City Council formally opposed Arizona’s new immigration law Wednesday night. (via Desert Sun)
El Paso, TX
- The city’s resolution only condemned Arizona, but counselors added a boycott at last minute and approved the measure. (via News Channel 9)
Columbus, OH
- Mayor Michael B. Coleman has banned city workers from traveling to Arizona on government business, a decision that plunged Columbus yesterday deep into the nation’s emotional debate over illegal immigration. (via The Columbus Dispatch)
Sacramento, CA
- The city council voted 6-1 Tuesday to forbid city employees from attending conferences in Arizona, or doing business with companies based there. (via Mercury News)
San Jose, CA
- Arizona companies pick up commercial waste in San Jose and arm the city’s cops with stun guns. But such dealings could be upended if the City Council joins other local governments in boycotting Arizona over the state’s new immigration law. (via Mercury News)
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Ty says:
Who do you think is going to be mostly affected by a business boycott in Arizona. The rich guys who passed the law or the workers who live paycheck to paycheck and lose their job due to slow business. I think everyone needs to calm down and think about this kind of stuff before going all buckwild.
LA Votes in Favor of Arizona Boycott - Illegal Immigration - Page 8 - City-Data Forum says:
[...] Minneapolis-St Paul New York Milwaukee WashingtonDC Boulder school board of Denver, etc. List of cities boycotting Arizona | Voto Latino – Be Counted…Represent! Looks like dissatisfaction with Arizona is more than a California concern. How many more cities [...]
Jerry Garcia says:
Replying to Ty,
All of the people of Arizona, rich and worker should be “hurt” and taught a lesson about the cost of legalizing discrimination. That’s the kind of tactic the Nazi’s used on the Jews. You start small and work your way up. Not know your ethnic background ( I’m a Latino ) the term” Reasonable Suspicion” of being an illegal immigrant means police in Arizona will stop me and ask for I.D and other paperwork because of the color of my skin. Unless you know of another way to tell and have suspicion.
What angers me even more is the fact that if Arizona citizens don’t “think” that police are stopping enough brown people they are able to sue the police dept. What B.S.! What are the criminals in that state going to do? Take a break from criminal activities because the police are too busy stopping suspicious immigrants? The peiople of Arizona just gave free reign to all American criminals in their state.
Now I understand that Anglo-Americans don’t have a problem with the law. Nobodys going to stop them. The ACLU should sue the govenor ( whom only signed that bilkl into law under duress of being voted out of office ) for her blatent misuse of her office to stay in office.
Jerry Garcia
Rocky Neptun says:
Both the San Diego City Council and the San Diego School Board have passed resolutions calling for a boycott of travel to Arizona.
joe says:
This law is a display of the AZ law makers ignorance ! AZ is walking backward instead of forward. Someone needs to remind the AZ law makers that this is United States of America not Nazi Germany !
Morgan says:
http://www.examiner.com/x-4383-Portland-Progressive-Examiner~y2010m5d18-Seattle-will-boycott-Arizona
Seatle Washington just joined
Brian Chidester says:
Providence, RI city council voted unanimously to call for the repeal of SB 1070 and to boycott Arizona last night! (5/20/10)
M. Miriam Herrera says:
YES! Let’s keep the initiative going!
Connie Snyder says:
My city, Las Vegas, is not one of those boycotting Arizona, but this Nevadan will be. I am in solidarity with those who oppose these heinous acts of racism and fascism in Arizona. Shame on your legislators.
Oliver Goodman says:
Hello:
The Boycott Arizona movement is working. Here where I live the conversation has turned away from SB 1070 and is now focused by supporters on stopping the boycott. They fear the boycott and it can and will bring about a repeal of this racist law.
I understand that 15 Major League Baseball teams conduct spring training in Arizona, including participation in the Cactus league. Hopefully, you will identify these teams, list their e mail addressed here for us so we can contact them to urge support of the boycott and contact them directly to urge a boycott by these teams of Arizona.
I know from experience that the only thing more important to the racists who drafted and support this bill is their pocketbooks. Stop spending money in Arizona and SB 1070 will be repealed.
For those of you who do face direct discrimination from SB 1070 make sure to fully document the harassment your experience and report it to your local or state ACLU.
Pedagogy of the Oppressor: Arizona’s Racism to the Top « roger hollander says:
[...] one of the over 15 major Metropolitan areas boycotting Arizona, pressure your city council to join the movement. If you are a parent, go to your next PTA meeting and introduce a resolution against HB 2281 and SB [...]
Leonard Ramirez says:
Although the boycott will affect many sectors in Arizona, the action is just, necessary and in the end beneficial to those who support social justice and democratic rights.