One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today.
This is an archival story that predates current editorial management.
This archival content was written, edited, and published prior to LAist's acquisition by its current owner, Southern California Public Radio ("SCPR"). Content, such as language choice and subject matter, in archival articles therefore may not align with SCPR's current editorial standards. To learn more about those standards and why we make this distinction, please click here.
Santa Monica City Council to Consider Arizona Boycott
Inside Council Chambers, Santa Monica City Hall (Photo by Omar Omar via Flickr)
Tonight the Santa Monica City Council will consider passing a measure in protest of Arizona's SB 1070, joining other California cities in implementing business restrictions with the neighboring state, according to the Daily Press.
The measure, put on the agenda by Councilman Terry O'Day, would put in place a ban on travel to Arizona as well as on future contracts awarded to businesses in the state. Despite a $2-million contract on the horizon likely to be awarded to a Phoenix-based company to provide digital message boards for the Big Blue Bus, O'Day does not believe a boycott of Arizona would be disruptive to Santa Monica's operations or damage the city financially, but items like the pending contract "would be in doubt."
Up for discussion, says O'Day: Does a boycott properly target the individuals who brought about the change you're trying to affect?" In Pasadena, as in other California cities, officials did not see a boycott as being efficient, and instead passed a resolution that goes on record in favor of holding implementation of SB 1070 until a federal review is conducted.
One year ago, Congress voted to defund public media, eliminating a critical $1.7 million from our budget every year going forward. But they couldn’t silence us, and we’re not going anywhere. LAist is now 100% community funded and that means we’re taking our future into our own hands and turning to you to keep local reporting strong.
You come to LAist because you want independent reporting and trustworthy local information. Our nonprofit newsroom doesn’t answer to shareholders looking to turn a profit. Instead, we answer to you and our communities. We are free to follow facts wherever they lead and to hold power to account without fear or favor. Our only loyalty is to our readers and listeners and our mission: to inform, engage, and strengthen Southern California’s communities.
If this story helped you, please become a monthly member today to help sustain this mission. It just takes 1 minute to donate below.
You come to LAist because you want independent reporting and trustworthy local information. Our nonprofit newsroom doesn’t answer to shareholders looking to turn a profit. Instead, we answer to you and our communities. We are free to follow facts wherever they lead and to hold power to account without fear or favor. Our only loyalty is to our readers and listeners and our mission: to inform, engage, and strengthen Southern California’s communities.
If this story helped you, please become a monthly member today to help sustain this mission. It just takes 1 minute to donate below.
Senior Vice President News, Editor in Chief
