Today, June 8th at noon (EST), advocacy organizations and members of la comunidad, like yours truly, will gather outside of Major League Baseball’s headquarters, 245 Park Ave (46th and Park), to protest against Arizona’s SB1070 and to demand that MLB respect the boycott of the state and move their 2011 All-Star Game.

Late last month, VivirLatino released a statement regarding our support of the Arizona boycott and demand that the All-Star Game happen somewhere else.

I will say what the Federal lawsuit will not say, that SB1070, in it’s entirety, threatens all Latinos and has taken it’s cue from Federal programs like 287(g), Secure Communities, and the unspoken triple D Federal immigration reform program. The struggle against SB1070 cannot be separated from the wider struggle to an end to the detentions, deportation, and disappearances under the guise of “homeland security”.

The 2011 MLB All Star Game is scheduled to take place in Phoenix at Chase Field.