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  • Hispanic groups plan national boycott of Arizona businesses

    05/19/2005 9:07:47 AM PDT · by Boston Blackie · 60 replies · 1,289+ views
    AP ^ | May 19, 2005,
    Illegal immigrant rights activists say the recent groundswell of anti-immigration measures in Arizona is making the lives of immigrants, and anyone who looks like one, miserable and must be countered in kind: by making the lives of Arizonans more difficult through lost business and tourism.
  • Test of Hispanic boycott fails in Arizona

    05/11/2005 1:22:56 AM PDT · by JohnHuang2 · 56 replies · 1,670+ views
    Washington Times ^ | Wednesday, May 11, 2005 | By Jerry Seper
    THE WASHINGTON TIMES An immigrant advocacy group asked Hispanics to boycott businesses and to stay home from work yesterday to protest legislation by Arizona lawmakers targeting illegal aliens, and said it was a trial run for a full-scale, three-day economic protest planned for July. "This is a test so people can see and feel the power we have and the actual stranglehold we have on the economy of this state," Elias Bermudez, executive director of Centro de Ayuda, an immigrant advocacy group in Phoenix, told reporters this week. "We contribute to the greatness of this state and we should not...