From: Michael Doherty <doherty@tigger.cs.colorado.edu>
Subject: RMP: Southern Calif ACLU joins boycott
Followup-To: amend2-discuss@cs.colorado.edu
Originator: doherty@ucsu.Colorado.EDU
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:42:42 GMT

Rocky Mountain News                    reprinted without permission
12/15/92

Southern California ACLU joins boycott

Group targets filmmakers and skiers in LA area planning vacation in
Colorado

Thaddeus Herrick - Rocky Mountain News Political Writer

The boycott over Amendment 2 grew broader Monday, as the ACLU of
Southern California called for an end to economic ties with Colorado.
     The American Civil Liberties Union asked Los Angeles-area
businesses not to schedule conventions in Colorado and Hollywood
firms not to film in the state because of the measure, which bans
anti-discrimination laws for homosexuals.
     Coming on the eve of the holiday ski season, the announcement
was aimed at tourists from southern California.
     "We hope this boycott will send a message to other states that
official discrimination cannot and will not be tolerated," Ramona
Ripston, the organization's executive director said in a statement.
     The action taken by the southern California ACLU is one of a
series of moves aimed at punishing Colorado for Amendment 2.
Officials of the Greater Denver Chamber of Commerce expressed concern
over Monday's development, saying southern California represents its
largest market for corporate relocation.
     "Certainly, the cumulative effect (of the boycott) is going to
be negative," said Ken Parks of the chamber, which opposes both
Amendment 2 and the boycott.
     Neither the Colorado ACLU nor any other chapter has decided
whether to back the boycott.
     In other Amendment 2 developments, a union of federal employees
said it would hold a training seminar in Denver next May in part
because the site of the meeting, the Executive Tower Inn, publicly
denounced the measure.
     But the American Federation of Government Employees, an AFL-CIO
affiliate, said it would hold its 1994 training seminar for 500
members in Denver only if Amendment 2 was overturned or in the
process of being overturned.
     Also, a Denver-based order of Catholic nuns has reversed itself,
deciding against moving their 1993 convention out of Colorado. A
spokeswoman for the Sisters of Loretto said the nuns will meet in
Keystone.
     And Seattle made official its decision to continue doing
business in Colorado only with Denver, Aspen and Boulder, which had
local gay-rights ordinances.


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