Immigration Activists Call For 24hr Boycott (08/12)
The John Kobylt Show
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4.3 • 800 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (08/12) - Michael Monks comes on the show to talk about immigration activists calling for a boycott of companies they believe have been silent when it comes to speaking out against ICE operations in LA. How much money is LA paying out in lawsuit settlements? More on DC's Metro Police being placed under federal control by Pres. Trump.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.8 | KFI AM-640. |
| 0:06.5 | You're listening to the John Cobalt podcast on the IHeart Radio app. |
| 0:10.8 | It is the John Cobalt show, KFI, AM 640. |
| 0:14.7 | And Michael is here because there, you probably didn't know this. |
| 0:19.4 | There is a boycott going on. |
| 0:21.2 | There's a community stoppage started at midnight, and it's by the immigrants' rights organizations |
| 0:27.8 | here in Los Angeles. |
| 0:29.6 | And they have events planned throughout the day into the evening. |
| 0:33.4 | And you know what? |
| 0:34.4 | I heard about it vaguely last week and forgot about it and didn't notice it today. |
| 0:39.3 | Yeah, they announced it last week in the wake of those immigration enforcement actions at the Home Depot stores in Westlake, Van Nuys, San Bernardino. |
| 0:48.7 | Just yesterday, there was a Home Depot that was hit in North Hollywood. |
| 0:52.6 | So they decided that they needed to get back to the |
| 0:56.0 | streets. We haven't seen a lot of immigration enforcement. We haven't seen a lot of protest since the |
| 1:00.8 | court order narrowed the focus of what the federal immigration agents could do. And now it seems to be |
| 1:07.0 | picking up again on both sides of that. And what was the point of this? |
| 1:13.1 | I mean, this was about as feeble a protest or work stoppage as I've seen. |
| 1:18.0 | What work stopped exactly? |
| 1:19.9 | Well, they've asked immigrant workers, maybe of varying legal status, to not go to work today. |
| 1:28.3 | Yeah. And also, they've called for a a 24 hour boycott of some of the larger businesses that serve folks here, like Home Depot, Target, Walmart and fast food restaurants. |
| 1:38.3 | Because their position is that these are organizations that benefit from immigrant labor, immigrant dollars, but they're not speaking |
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