Today is the "Great American Boycott" Day

[Deadfire]

Now I wondered what it was at first too then I read about. the more I knew the funnier it got.

The Great American Boycott, known in Spanish as El Gran Paro Americano, is a nationwide boycott and strike of United States schools and businesses planned for May 1, 2006. The date was chosen to coincide with international May Day observances. The organizers are calling for supporters to abstain from buying, selling, working, and attending school to demonstrate the impact of immigrant labor, especially that of illegal immigrants, on the U.S. economy and to demand general amnesty. For this reason, the day is also referred to as A Day Without an Immigrant.

Events, including protests, demonstrations, and teach-ins, are scheduled in major cities across the U.S. Internationally, a one-day boycott of American products called the "Nothing Gringo Boycott" is scheduled, particularly in Mexico and Central American countries.Likewise, demonstrations are planned in cities on the Mexican side of the United States–Mexico border and in major cities across Canada

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I'm wondering if anyone here is doing this

[RyougaZell]

I wasn't really planning on leave home today on this free day (May 1st is known as Work Day (or Dia del Trabajo) here in Mexico, and its a holiday). So I guess I won't be consuming products from the states.

I have nothing against americans, but I found the movement interesting. This has been tried to be done before, unsuccesfully. But it seems this time it was serious.

I believe the detonant was Hillary Clinton's proposal of a Berlin-like wall between USA and Mexico.

Oh well.

[Kraco]

I had heard about the immigrant strike but not about the boycott. I doubt the boycott is prensent elsewhere than in those places you specifically mentioned.

There are so few immigrants over here that if they decided to have a one day strike like that, I doubt there would be that big an impact at all. Aside from a mass closure of pizzerias, ethnic restaurants, and few other small businesses that have entities run solely by immigrants. Illegal immigrants abstaining from work would probably go totally unnoticed by the larger audience. Well, it's a situation completely different compared to the USA.

[Lefty]

It would be ironic if INS hits every protest.

[RyougaZell]

According to the news, there are over 40million latinamericans living at the States.

But other that data like that, there aren't big news about the supposed boycott.

[darkmetal505]

My state has quite a bit of Latino people residing in it so there might be some trouble. Plenty of my friends are attending the boycott also.