Arizona boycott list posted on FB:

In the wake of the recent adoption into law of SB1070 by the State of Arizona today (04.23.2010), one of the most draconian anti-immigration laws ever in the United States, many people have called for a boycott of the State of Arizona.

2011 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Location: Chase Field, Phoenix, AZ

Apollo Group (University of Phoenix). Headquarters: Phoenix, Arizona

Arizona Diamondbacks, Location: Phoenix, Arizona

Best Western International, Inc., Headquarters: Phoenix, Arizona

Cold Stone Creamery. Headquarters: Scottsdale, Arizona

CSK Auto (Checker Auto Parts, Schucks Auto Supply, Kragen Auto Parts, Murray's Discount Auto Stores), Headquarters: Phoenix, Arizona

Dial Corporation, Headquarters: Scottsdale, Arizona

Discount Tire Company (America's Tire Company). Headquarters: Scottsdale, Arizona

Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, Headquarters: Scottsdale, Arizona

Go Daddy. Headquarters: Scottsdale, Arizona

Grand Canyon

Mesa Air Group (Mesa Airlines, Go!, Freedom Airlines). Headquarters: Phoenix, Arizona

P. F. Chang's China Bistro. Headquarters: Phoenix, Arizona

PetSmart. Headquarters: Phoenix, Arizona

Sky Mall, Headquarters: Phoenix, Arizona

Taser International, Headquarters: Scottsdale, Arizona

U-Haul. Headquarters: Phoenix, Arizona

US Airways. Headquarters: Tempe, Arizona

It would be helpful to also target the political contributors to Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce and Governor Jan Brewer.

Encourage your local municipalities to take action. Ask your elected officials to follow the lead of the City of San Francisco in halting their business partnerships with the State of Arizona. According to SF Supervisor David Campos, "We encourage other cities to join San Francisco. Together we can work to restore justice in our nation."




For more information on companies that do business in Arizona and actions to take against this racist, anti-immigrant legislation, please click on the following links:

Arizona’s Largest Employers (JobBank USA)

FORTUNE 500 by State (CNN)

List of Arizona companies (Wikipedia)

List of corporations in Phoenix (Wikipedia)

BOYCOTT ARIZONA ! – Contact These Companies and Hit ‘Em Where It Hurts (The Seminal)

"Boycott the Police State known as Arizona" Facebook Group

Immigrant Rights

VivirLatino

ACLU Arizona

Coalición de Derechos Humanos

National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

http://padresunidos.org/node/515

in varying stages of getting to an AZ boycott.

Keep putting the external pressure on the Jim Crow state.

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But I'm happy just to continue with the English.

Are they trying to encourage people at those companies to raise hell with the legislators? That seems a good idea. I don't see what boycotting a company that doesn't support it would do though, simply because they live in a state.

the problem with this is that a boycott is a blunt instrument, but it does tend to work.

But as a blunt instrument it hurts a lot of people.

Me... well joining this... mostly I know that if this is not shown to hurt the power elite... well soon I will have to decide whether to stay in this version of spring time for Hitler and fight or just plain out get the fuck out.

or don't travel to the desert much, this is one way of boycotting.

Make sense?

I can see writing them, emailing calling them asking them to please protest to their representatives, but don't see why boycotting them would help anything. Unless they are, as some are, supportive of this law. In which case, get them.

Might have a little prob with that one.

:)

Arizona Ice Tea
University of Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix
Raising Arizona
Tombstone
The Chimichanga
Cactus Juice
Tumbleweeds
3:10 to Yuma
The Grand Canyon

NYC, they took out an ad today
Remember you can't spell Nazi without AZ

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Arizonans elected Janet Napolitano for governor, not this pos.

Agreed.

Well it did take a boycott... and I am sorry.

By the way if my county or state does that, feel free.

It appears to be up to the rest of the country to put pressure on Arizona from outside.

I'm very sorry the AZ electorate is so shitty. You may wish to take that up with the vast majority of white Arizonans who support the law.

The state legislator picked up many Dem seats over the last 2 elections. Obama was within 10 points of McCain in McCain's HOME STATE.
IF Janet Napolitano was still our governor, this shitty bill would have been vetoed.

I wonder how we can boycott those and at the same time not feel screwed if our team gets selected by them.

I'm already planning on not going to the Iowa/Arizona game in Tucson this year earlier. But I'd be pretty PO'd if this were the one year they went to the BCS championship or the Fiesta Bowl and having to make that choice!

Here's a poll asking whether they should move the title game! DU it up! It needs help!

http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2010/04/26/dont-play-ball-with-state-of-arizona/

I'm glad I already have one...

I am an Arizona resident. I am also a liberal democrat. We must get this law repealed, but boycotting companies that had nothing to do with this will only cost a lot of innocent people their jobs.

I tried to bring calm last Friday when this all broke open, and tried to tell people not to boycott.
Everyone is out for blood and someone must be punished, according to the masses. It doesn't matter that the only people that they are going to hurt with this boycott are the people they are supposedly trying to help. You know, the working class people. Not the law makers or politicians.

CROWD:
A witch! A witch! A witch! A witch! We've found a witch! A witch! A witch! A witch! A witch! We've got a witch! A witch! A witch! Burn her! Burn her!
Burn her! We've found a witch! We've found a witch! A witch! A witch! A witch!
VILLAGER #1:
We have found a witch. May we burn her?
CROWD:
Burn her! Burn! Burn her! Burn her!
BEDEVERE:
How do you know she is a witch?
VILLAGER #2:
She looks like one.
CROWD:
Right! Yeah! Yeah!
BEDEVERE:
Bring her forward.
WITCH:
I'm not a witch. I'm not a witch.
BEDEVERE:
Uh, but you are dressed as one.
WITCH:
They dressed me up like this.
CROWD:
Augh, we didn't! We didn't...
WITCH:
And this isn't my nose. It's a false one.
BEDEVERE:
Well?
VILLAGER #1:
Well, we did do the nose.
BEDEVERE:
The nose?
VILLAGER #1:
And the hat, but she is a witch!
VILLAGER #2:
Yeah!
CROWD:
We burn her! Right! Yeaaah! Yeaah!
BEDEVERE:
Did you dress her up like this?
VILLAGER #1:
No!
VILLAGER #2 and 3:
No. No.
VILLAGER #2:
No.
VILLAGER #1:
No.
VILLAGERS #2 and #3:
No.
VILLAGER #1:
Yes.
VILLAGER #2:
Yes.
VILLAGER #1:
Yes. Yeah, a bit.
VILLAGER #3:
A bit.
VILLAGERS #1 and #2:
A bit.
VILLAGER #3:
A bit.

all Arizona". I was beginning to wonder if anyone out there got it that this law hurts us all, not just Az.

One thing that keeps me going is that I have a feeling the Democrats in Az are motivated to get out the vote this fall. We must get Goddard elected.

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http://gawker.com/5526107/your-guide-to-the-arizona-boy...

Your Guide to the Arizona Boycott: Porn, Sky Mall, and P.F. Chang's

So you want to protest Arizona's stupid new immigration law by boycotting the state, like San Francisco did. Okay. Can you live without Sky Mall, P.F. Chang's, domain-name registration and internet pornography?

Arizona, the refried-bean swastika state, has made it legal for the police to detain anyone on suspicion of being Mexican. This is a remarkably stupid and harmful law, even for the state that gave us Barry Goldwater, and in response, some people are recommending a boycott of Arizona.

That doesn't sound too bad! We have effectively been boycotting Arizona for years by not thinking about it, or going to it, ever, so this should be pretty easy. And you're aided by the fact that most Arizona businesses suck. Even so, you should cross-check our list to ensure you are fully compliant (all info courtesy the never-wrong internet scholarly location "Wikipedia"):


Business: P.F. Chang's China Bistro
Category: Crappy Chinese food
Based out of: Scottsdale
Suggested replacement: A real Chinese restaurant, for Christ's sake.

Business: Sky Mall
Category: Sales, category: Shit you didn't realize you needed till you had that second vodka and cranberry 30,000 feet above sea level.
Based out of: Phoenix
Suggested replacement: Going to the Brookstone store in the mall to sit in the massage chairs till you get kicked out.

Business: Go Daddy
Category: Bizarrely sleazy domain-name registration
Based out of: Scottsdale
Suggested replacement: Ask yourself, "Do I need a domain name?" The answer is "no."

Business: John McCain
Category: Old people/Senators
Based out of: Phoenix/Washington, D.C.
Suggested replacement: Vermont Socialist Bernie Sanders.

Business: Alcor Life Extension Foundation
Category: Cryonics, the science of freezing gullible dead people
Based out of: Scottsdale
Suggested replacement: Freezer in your garage.

Business: The Arizona Diamondbacks
Category: Baseball teams
Based out of: Phoenix
Suggested replacement: The New York Yankees.

Business: ClubJenna, Inc.
Category: Branded internet pornography
Based out of: Glendale
Suggested replacement: Perfume ads in Vanity Fair.

Business: The Grand Canyon
Category: Canyons
Based out of: The Grand Canyon
Suggested replacement: LEGOLAND® California.

(Images via House of Sims' Flickr; whoever, whomever's Flickr; Getty; hmmlargeart's Flickr; lee.mccain.photorama's Flickr)

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