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...Nativo Lopez, MAPA president was standing in the middle of a jam-packed Spring Street with marchers shouting in the background when he spoke to TIME.com. He said his group had to leave the main protest route along Broadway because, he said enthusiastically, "there were so many people, we couldn't move!" He dismissed worries that the boycotts would provoke a backlash against immigration reform. "We've been living with the backlash for years," he said. "But now people are losing their fear of organizing and exercising their constitutional rights so that the voice of the immigrants are being heard...
...group that is staunchly supporting the boycott is the Mexican American Political Association (MAPA). "No work, no school, no buying, no selling; we will march in the streets to protest H.R. 4437," says Nativo Vigil Lopez, MAPA's president, referring to the immigration reform bill that is currently under House consideration. Lopez says he respects others' alternative tactics, but he feels that in order to "keep Democrats' feet to the fire," a day-long economic boycott and general strike is the only solution...
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