The Sound Strike

What is the Arizona Boycott

The most detailed information about the Arizona boycott can be found at http://www.boycottarizona1070.com/about.php. Below is a list of cities and organizations that have joined the Arizona Boycott campaign. The Sound Strike is in solidarity with these groups.

Cities/counties that have approved boycotts of Arizona: • Amherst (Mass.) • Austin. • Berkeley, CA. • Bloomington, Ind. • Boston. • Boulder, Colo.• Burlington, Vt. • Columbus, Ohio. • Cook County, Ill. • El Paso (city and county). • Gallup, N.M. • Hartford, Conn. • Los Angeles (city and county). • Oakland. • Richmond, Calif. • Sacramento • San Pablo, Calif. • St. Paul, Minn. • Santa Monica, CA. • San Francisco (non-binding resolution). • Seattle. • West Hollywood, CA.

Other public bodies that announced Arizona boycotts: • The San Francisco Unified School District board on June 22 decided to ban all district travel to Arizona. • The Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education on June 1 voted 6-0 to approve a resolution condemning the law and to explore ways to curtail economic support of the state and companies based here. • Denver Public Schools banned work-related travel to the state. • Milwaukee Area Technical College Board directed staff May 25 to refrain from buying goods from any Arizona-based company and from sending employees to meetings or conferences in Arizona. • Both the Santa Monica College District Board of Trustees and the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Board of Education have approved economic boycotts of Arizona.

Groups that announced travel boycotts of Arizona: • American Educational Research Assn. • Asian American Justice Center. • Center for Community Change. • L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center. • Law and Society Association. • Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights • League of United Latin American Citizens. • NAFSA: Association of International Educators (formerly National Assn. of Foreign Student Advisers) • National Alliance of Black Educators • National Association of Legal Professionals • National Council of La Raza. • National Puerto Rican Coalition. • Society for Applied Anthropology • Sociologists Without Borders. • World Boxing Council.

Known cancellations of meetings or events planned in Arizona: • National Minority Suppliers Development Council Inc. is moving its fall Phoenix convention to Florida. Seven thousand were expected to attend. • Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., the oldest African American Greek-lettered fraternity, canceled a July meeting at the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown Hotel. Five thousand were expected to attend. Convention moved to Las Vegas. • American Immigration Lawyers Association canceled its fall conference at the Camelback Inn in Paradise Valley. • National Urban League. The group issued a rebuke of the city and suspended consideration of Phoenix’s bid to host its 2012 annual conference. • National Autonomous University of Mexico has canceled its exchange program with the University of Arizona. • Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí has canceled its exchange program with the University of Arizona. • Club América, one of Mexico’s biggest soccer teams, canceled its exhibition match against Club de Fútbol Pachuca scheduled for July 7 at University of Phoenix Stadium. • Representatives of the Mexican state of Sonora announced they would not attend the annual meeting of the Sonora-Arizona Commission, June 3-4 in Phoenix. • Mexico’s six border governors announced they would boycott the 28th annual U.S.-Mexico Border Governors Conference if it is held as scheduled in Phoenix in September. • In the Chicago area, the Highland Park High School girls varsity basketball team canceled a trip to play in a basketball tournament, citing “safety concerns” related to the new law. • Glass Art Society, of Seattle, canceled its 2011 conference in Tucson. • National Urban League canceled its 2012 conference in Phoenix. • The Los Lobos musical group canceled a June 10 performance at Talking Stock Resort in Scottsdale. • Musicians Daryl Hall and John Oates canceled post game concert scheduled July 3 at Chase Field.

Other actions for and against: American Anthropological Association condemned SB 1070 and refuses to have meetings in Arizona until law is repealed or struck down. • Sound Strike is a movement launched online to organize artists to boycott Arizona.  • Consortium of Professional and Academic Associations condemns Arizona’s immigration law and HB 2281 that prohibits ethnic studies. The consortium consists of 13 group, including Association of Asian American Studies, Chicano/Latino Faculty and Staff Association, and Native American and Indigenous Studies Association. • Council of the City of New York and other city immigration and civil-rights advocates denounced the law on April 29. • American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee condemned the law on April 24. • Major League Baseball Players Association called for repeal of the law, saying it could have a negative effect on hundreds of baseball players who are citizens of other countries. • Roger Dow, president and CEO of the U.S. Travel Association, on April 30 called for an end to Arizona travel boycotts and urged Washington lawmakers to address immigration. • La Opinion, the country’s largest Spanish-language newspaper, on April 26 urged a boycott of all goods and services from Arizona and avoidance of tourism-related travel to the state. • National Association of Single People, an association of almost 10,000 members based in Newport Beach, Calif., announced a convention boycott of Los Angeles and reported it was exploring sites in Chandler and Sedona at which to hold its 2011 regional conference and 2012 annual conference. • U.S. Conference of Mayors , meeting in Oklahoma City, on June 14 approved a resolution condemning Arizona’s new law and asking Congress for an overhaul of federal immigration policies. • My Chemical Romance Cancels 2011 Show mistakenly scheduled. Reaffirms commitment to The Sound Strike.

Against the Law but not in Boycott: • Brownsville, Texas, City Commission on May 18 unanimously voted to condemn the law. • A Chicago City Council 46-3 vote on June 9 endorses a resolution urging City Hall not to do business in the future with Arizona firms, but does not prohibit it. • Coachella, Calif., City Council on May 18 voted 5-0 to condemn the law. • The Durham (N.C.) City Council on June 21 passed a resolution 6-1 urging the federal government to reform immigration laws and subjecting any official Arizona trips to a case-by-case review by the city council. Mayor Bill Bell likened Arizona’s new law to “a step into the past to the era of segregation.” • Fulton County, Ga., Board of Commissioners voted May 19 to oppose Arizona’s law. • Menifee (Calif.) City Council on June 15 unanimously agreed to draft a resolution that will denounce California cities that boycott Arizona. • Mexico’s Foreign Ministry in late April warned Mexicans traveling to Arizona to be aware that they could be “bothered and questioned for no other reason at any moment.” • Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak on April 30 urged city employees not to travel to Arizona. • City of Pasadena on May 18 approved resolution condemning Arizona’s immigration law. • Portland (Ore.) City Council votes June 16 to denounce Arizona law. Council stopped short of a boycott after city attorneys advised the mayor that would violate city purchasing rules. • The San Jose (CA.) City Council on June 8 approved, by a 9-2 vote, a symbolic measure that condemns its neighboring state, rather than a harsher economic boycott. The measure includes a denunciation of the Arizona law, a prohibition on business trips by city employees to the state and support for legal challenges filed by other individuals or groups. • San Diego City Council on May 3 urged Arizona to repeal the law. • Santa Ana, CA City Council has condemned the law. • Tacoma City Council on May 25 approved resolution condemning Arizona’s law as encouraging racial profiling and dropped earlier language that called for a city boycott on business and travel to Arizona.