In the past two weeks I've received at least 10 mails about the support boycott to the Hispanic community in the U.S.A. Muchsupport has received this proposal in the media, and surely I will too.
Seems to me a bit complicated when I see a single day of my life and the consumption within. More complicated seems to me for those who work over there, in the States. One thing is Salma Hayek openly saying that she wont work, and another one are those million workers who depend on the 60 or 100 dollars earned every day. For them it's gonna be a difficult decision. The employers will be surely preparing themselves for the movement. The dismissals have already happened and some workers may be kind of frightened by that.
I believe that this kind of movements must say loud that there is a price to pay, that some may be unemployed after, in name of the promise that the amnesty means. But does it means something for the worker who has been a year there? Surely no. The last memory of amnesty is Clinton's, which involved verification of residence of at least 5 years. A really insignificant filter. The reality is another one there.
And the cultural links are strong. I remember that story about the Mexican crabs in a boat without cover, when one tried to leave, the one behind hauls him. One of the worse Mexican defects and even I'd say of the Latinos. If this movement works in big scale, it will be a succes already, not because of the nonapproval of a law or the amnesty, it will be a succes because between those many things that an illegal one has to deal with, they will learn to overcome the cultural bow that ties him, and that will be a true succes by itself and will have been worth the trouble.
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