La Raza organizes boycott of Arizona to protest immigration law: The nation's largest Hispanic civil rights group announced Thursday that it has organized a boycott of Arizona in the wake of the state's new law targeting illegal immigrants.
The National Council of La Raza, along with 19 other labor and civil rights groups, will pull money and meetings out of the state and is asking all companies and organizations to move major events and conferences planned there to other venues. Specifically, La Raza wants Major League Baseball to renege on its promise to hold the 2011 All-Star Game in Phoenix.
'No conferences. No travel,' said Janet Murguia, president of La Raza. 'We are looking at major events with big visibility, and we're asking all people to consider whether any purchase of goods from the state would further this unjust law.'
