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Demonstrators gathered outside the South side M&I Bank to protest executives campaign contributions for Governor Walker and his anti-immigrant budget and policies.
By H. Nelson Goodson
April 9, 2011
Milwaukee - On Saturday, Wisconsin Jobs Now and Christine Neumann-Ortiz, executive director of Voces de la Frontera held a joined press conference before closing the organization's M&I Bank account at 2701 W. National Ave. About one hundred people chanted "El Pueblo Vive, La Lucha Vive, Si Se Puede...Escucha Furlong estamos en la lucha" in front of the bank. Neumann-Ortiz called it a day of action against M&I Bank by closing accounts due to the fact that M&I CEO Mark Furlong and other executives from the bank were the largest corporate contributors to Governor Scott Walker (R) and other Wisconsin republicans during the 2010 campaign season.
In a letter to Furlong signed by those closing their accounts on Saturday said, "I am closing my account with M&I in protest against Governor Scott Walker's anti-immigrant budget and polices. While posing behind a facade of "fiscal responsibility," this administration has created a policy disaster for immigrants and working families in this state."
Neumann-Ortiz said, Governor Walker was promoting and institutionalizing discrimination against immigrants by denying life-saving medical care for low-income non-U.S. citizens who have legal status and eliminating prenatal care for pregnant women who are undocumented, endangering the life of the woman and child.
M&I executives have said, they don't control the right for employees to contribute and support political campaigns of their choice. Voces wants M&I to publicly oppose Governor Walker's campaign promise to sign into law a similar Arizona immigration enforcement bill, if the controlled Republican legislature approves the measure.
More than a hundred Hispanic M&I Bank account holders have recently closed accounts. Voces and the Latino community are angered by the recent controversial budget repair bill passed in Wisconsin and how it will hurt low income and working class immigrant communities. Voces de la Frontera also wants to send a clear message to lawmakers that may be considering other legislation that hurts the immigrant community.
Walker's two year budget is proposing to cut in-state tuition for undocumented students attending universities and colleges. The budget cuts FoodShare for legal immigrant residents.
Voces is anticipating that State Representative Donald Pridemore (R-Hartford) will most likely introduce a similar Arizona immigration enforcement bill for Wisconsin. Voces has been gearing up for a major boycott, protests and an awareness for the Wisconsin Hispanic community to spend less at businesses that don't support the community in wake of a proposed anti-immigrant bill.
Voces confirmed that it gained support by more than 200 businesses, including Latino owned businesses that are opposing a Pridemore immigration bill for the state.
Pridemore has been trying to get legislators to sponsor his immigration bill. But most state residents agreed that the state is not fiscally ready to handle a long legal challenge, a combined major national and state economic boycotts for Wisconsin as Arizona has experienced costing them hundreds of millions in state business revenues, tourism and legal fees.
Arizona is facing more than $32 billion state deficit compared to Wisconsin's $3.6 billion state deficit.
Copy of Pridemore's Wisconsin illegal immigration bill (PDF) at link: http://bit.ly/eyjCGo
Statistics:
More than 3,000 Hispanic owned businesses in the state generate more than $1 billion in annual sales. In Milwaukee, over 850 Hispanic owned businesses generate more than $225 million in annual sales. It is abundantly clear that the immigration of Hispanics and undocumented immigrants to Southeastern Wisconsin is tied to a large degree to the available resources that Hispanics have in the area.
A city economic study reported that the South side households in the predominately Latino community located inside Postal Zip Code 53204 in Milwaukee spend more than $91 million annually in retail goods, according to the 2006 Department of City Development statistics. In one day, they spent approximately $249,315.06. The biggest tax-generating base for the city comes solely from the South side.
The U.S. Census Bureau reported in March 2010, that the Wisconsin Hispanic population in the state grew by 74%, 336,056, an increase of 143,135 from 2000. Hispanics now account for 5.9 percent of Wisconsin's total population.
The Hispanic population in Milwaukee County rose by 126,039 and the Dane County Hispanic population grew by 28,925.
The City of Milwaukee saw a increase of 40%, 103,107 in Hispanic population, and saw a loss of 6%, from 605,013 to 594,833 of population now residing in the city, according to the 2010 census. Compared to a census report in 2009, that the Hispanic population rose about 48%, 285,827 or 5.1% of the population in the state.
Milwaukee County saw an increase of 39%, 114,238 or 12% of the population, Racine County saw a 35% increase, 20,262 in population. Waukesha saw a 42% increase of 13,458 in population. Ozaukee County saw a 58% increase of 1,669 in population and in Washington County a 76% increase with 2,693 in population.
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Demonstrators gathered outside the South side M&I Bank to protest executives campaign contributions for Governor Walker and his anti-immigrant budget and policies.
By H. Nelson Goodson
April 9, 2011
Milwaukee - On Saturday, Wisconsin Jobs Now and Christine Neumann-Ortiz, executive director of Voces de la Frontera held a joined press conference before closing the organization's M&I Bank account at 2701 W. National Ave. About one hundred people chanted "El Pueblo Vive, La Lucha Vive, Si Se Puede...Escucha Furlong estamos en la lucha" in front of the bank. Neumann-Ortiz called it a day of action against M&I Bank by closing accounts due to the fact that M&I CEO Mark Furlong and other executives from the bank were the largest corporate contributors to Governor Scott Walker (R) and other Wisconsin republicans during the 2010 campaign season.
In a letter to Furlong signed by those closing their accounts on Saturday said, "I am closing my account with M&I in protest against Governor Scott Walker's anti-immigrant budget and polices. While posing behind a facade of "fiscal responsibility," this administration has created a policy disaster for immigrants and working families in this state."
Neumann-Ortiz said, Governor Walker was promoting and institutionalizing discrimination against immigrants by denying life-saving medical care for low-income non-U.S. citizens who have legal status and eliminating prenatal care for pregnant women who are undocumented, endangering the life of the woman and child.
M&I executives have said, they don't control the right for employees to contribute and support political campaigns of their choice. Voces wants M&I to publicly oppose Governor Walker's campaign promise to sign into law a similar Arizona immigration enforcement bill, if the controlled Republican legislature approves the measure.
More than a hundred Hispanic M&I Bank account holders have recently closed accounts. Voces and the Latino community are angered by the recent controversial budget repair bill passed in Wisconsin and how it will hurt low income and working class immigrant communities. Voces de la Frontera also wants to send a clear message to lawmakers that may be considering other legislation that hurts the immigrant community.
Walker's two year budget is proposing to cut in-state tuition for undocumented students attending universities and colleges. The budget cuts FoodShare for legal immigrant residents.
Voces is anticipating that State Representative Donald Pridemore (R-Hartford) will most likely introduce a similar Arizona immigration enforcement bill for Wisconsin. Voces has been gearing up for a major boycott, protests and an awareness for the Wisconsin Hispanic community to spend less at businesses that don't support the community in wake of a proposed anti-immigrant bill.
Voces confirmed that it gained support by more than 200 businesses, including Latino owned businesses that are opposing a Pridemore immigration bill for the state.
Pridemore has been trying to get legislators to sponsor his immigration bill. But most state residents agreed that the state is not fiscally ready to handle a long legal challenge, a combined major national and state economic boycotts for Wisconsin as Arizona has experienced costing them hundreds of millions in state business revenues, tourism and legal fees.
Arizona is facing more than $32 billion state deficit compared to Wisconsin's $3.6 billion state deficit.
Copy of Pridemore's Wisconsin illegal immigration bill (PDF) at link: http://bit.ly/eyjCGo
Statistics:
More than 3,000 Hispanic owned businesses in the state generate more than $1 billion in annual sales. In Milwaukee, over 850 Hispanic owned businesses generate more than $225 million in annual sales. It is abundantly clear that the immigration of Hispanics and undocumented immigrants to Southeastern Wisconsin is tied to a large degree to the available resources that Hispanics have in the area.
A city economic study reported that the South side households in the predominately Latino community located inside Postal Zip Code 53204 in Milwaukee spend more than $91 million annually in retail goods, according to the 2006 Department of City Development statistics. In one day, they spent approximately $249,315.06. The biggest tax-generating base for the city comes solely from the South side.
The U.S. Census Bureau reported in March 2010, that the Wisconsin Hispanic population in the state grew by 74%, 336,056, an increase of 143,135 from 2000. Hispanics now account for 5.9 percent of Wisconsin's total population.
The Hispanic population in Milwaukee County rose by 126,039 and the Dane County Hispanic population grew by 28,925.
The City of Milwaukee saw a increase of 40%, 103,107 in Hispanic population, and saw a loss of 6%, from 605,013 to 594,833 of population now residing in the city, according to the 2010 census. Compared to a census report in 2009, that the Hispanic population rose about 48%, 285,827 or 5.1% of the population in the state.
Milwaukee County saw an increase of 39%, 114,238 or 12% of the population, Racine County saw a 35% increase, 20,262 in population. Waukesha saw a 42% increase of 13,458 in population. Ozaukee County saw a 58% increase of 1,669 in population and in Washington County a 76% increase with 2,693 in population.
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