Cosecha boycott campaign disrupts business co-owned by Mayor LaGrand in order to inform patrons about how ICE is separating immigrant families

Last night a group of people organized by Movimiento Cosecha continued their campaign to boycott Long Road Distillers in order to pressure the Mayor of Grand Rapids to adopt the 6 sanctuary policies they have been demanding over the past 18 months.

Last October, Movimiento Cosecha kicked off a boycott campaign against Mayor David LaGrand, since he is co-owner of Long Road Distillers and Less Traveled. Saturday’s protest was the second one in front of the Less Traveled location.

In April the campaign escalated when people participated in a salsa shutdown inside of the Long Road Distillers building on Leonard St. NW, an action that resulted in the owner being called along with the GRPD.

Now the campaign is using stickers and posters (shown above) to draw more attention to the boycott. Last night organizers went to other businesses in the East Hills neighborhood to share the stickers and encourage business owners to put the posters up in their windows, all with the intention of applying more economic pressure to Mayor LaGrand to adopt the 6 sanctuary policies that would prevent the city from collaborating with ICE in any capacity.

There were a number of patrons sitting on the deck in front of Less Traveled, but you an see from the video that as people were being informed about the boycott campaign and the harm that ICE is doing by taking immigrants throughout the greater Grand Rapids area on a daily basis, people decided to go inside the restaurant/bar.Movimiento Cosecha is also inviting organizations, grassroots groups, non-profits, churches, unions and any other associations to sign on to the boycott campaign. People can send a message to either Movimiento Cosecha movimientocosechagr@gmail.com or GR Rapid Response to ICE info@grrapidresponsetoice.org if they want receive posters, stickers and to add their name to the boycott campaign.