Immigrants and Allies to Urge the L.A. Dodgers: Please Don’t Go to the White House

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 4 – A broad alliance of community organizations and leaders from Los Angeles, including the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), CLEAN Carwash Worker Center, Inclusive Action, SEIU 721, and others, will hold a news conference on Wednesday morning to urge our world champion L.A. Dodgers to stand with Angeleno immigrants and workers and uphold Jackie Robinson’s legacy of justice and advocacy.

“We congratulate the Dodgers on their incredible World Series victory,” said Pablo Alvarado, NDLON’s Co-Executive Director. “But even in this time of baseball triumph, we hope our home team remembers that L.A. is a place of overwhelming pain and mourning. We celebrate with you even as we weep for our loved ones lost and families and communities devastated by this administration’s mass-deportation raids.

And so we must ask you – please don’t go to the White House. Don’t betray the joy that we all felt together on the night you won Game 7. Don’t betray the city that stood with you all season long and has done for decades.”

• What: Don’t Go to the White House! A Community Call to Moral Leadership for the L.A. Dodgers

• When: 11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5

• Where: Corner of Sunset Blvd and Vin Scully

• Who: Immigrant rights organizations, day laborers, community advocates, faith leaders, union leaders, allies and other Angelenos and Dodger fans.

A petition letter for this ask is being circulated at http://iceoutofla.org.

Media outlets are encouraged to attend. Spanish-language and English-language spokespeople will be available for interviews.

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