Lou Dobbs picketed in Boston

Lou Dobbs came to Boston on Nov. 19 to attempt to foment and spread his immigrant-bashing, racist views. But he was met by a militant picket line and told there is no place in Boston for his white supremacist, hate mongering lies. International Action Center picket signs and chants said “Jobs not Dobbs!”

“No human is illegal!” “There are no borders in the workers struggle!” and “Globalize solidarity!”

The IAC issued a statement that was distributed to passing workers. It said in part:

“Lou Dobbs uses his television program week after week to spread hatred and lies about immigrants. At a time of growing economic uncertainty, he tries to exploit workers’ economic anxiety by scapegoating undocumented workers. His lies have gone so far that the New York Times has editorialized against them.

“Lou Dobbs does not speak for working people or anyone else affected by lousy jobs and pay. His paycheck (in the six figures) comes from Time-Warner and CNN. He uses his privileged status to bash working people who are only trying to earn a living for themselves and their families. These workers have been forced to come to the U.S. to find work because of Bush-Cheney policies that have subjugated the economies of their homelands like Mexico, Guatemala and Haiti. They come because of U.S. funded wars against the people of Central America in the 1980s and the kidnapping of President Aristide in Haiti in the 1990s. The economies of their countries have been destroyed by the likes of NAFTA and the IMF and the World Bank, destroying centuries of self-sufficient economy like corn growing in Mexico by drowning them in cheap imports, forcing immigrants to come to the U.S. to work the jobs with the lowest pay and the worst conditions, simply to survive.

“All workers are sisters and brothers toiling for the profit of greedy multinational corporations who exploit our labor, and then try to scapegoat us and turn us against each other. We condemn the ICE raids in New Bedford, Mass., earlier this year and elsewhere; the tearing apart of families; and the jailing, chaining and deportation of poor workers in the middle of the night by terror squads of the U.S. Immigration Service.

“There are no borders in the workers struggle! Full rights for all immigrants now! Stop ICE raids!”