Boycott Blotter: French, Bay 2 Breakers, Wharf
Please welcome SFist's newest feature: Boycott Blotter. This feature is designed to let you know about what you shouldn't be buying, doing, attending, watching, or thinking about in the name of justice -- or, in most cases, in the name of public intoxication while jogging with your dick hanging out.
BAY TO BREAKERS: Citizens for the Preservation of Bay 2 Breakers want you to boycott the annual jiggling boob fest. Why? Because B2B's new rules go against "San Francisco values." (An aside: You know what else goes against San Francisco values? Using the term "San Francisco values.") As of yesterday, "more than 15,000 citizens had signed a Web petition vowing to boycott race registration." (Oh no, not a petition!) Angry citizen Stuart Schuffman tells Associated Press, "It's kind of the flavor of San Francisco ... If you can't be naked running around the streets here, where can you?"
Touche, Schuffman. Touche.
FRENCH TOURISM: A small but growing touristic boycott of San Francisco is underway by the French. Allegedly. It has to do with the Hugues de la Plaza murder/suicide. (If you recall, SFPD closed the case, claiming the one-time Hayes Valley resident and French native repeatedly stabbed himself to death.)
SFist received a crazy rant yesterday from someone (who failed to give us their name), asking for "a critical mass appeal for a touristic boycott on SF." He or she goes on to say:
On the international mailbox of ADFE , (Association of French Citizens in Foreign Countries) of which I am a former member, and alerted my good friend Claude Girault, French Government representative for North America from Hawaii to Anchorage ... and alerted all my personal French Consulates contacts across the world, 87 of which had responded and signed a petition in 2002 about the SFPD assassination of my only child Idriss Stelley, who had dual citizenship. ($ talks, BS walks...marches rallies and protests are nice to energize people at street and grassroots level, but do not the least affect city officials. Threats of Boycott do !)
Yeah, we have no idea what they're talking about either. But any country that is overly reliant on prescription drugs is tops in our book. So, we're siding with the French on this one.
TWO SAN FRANCISCO HOTELS: Indybay.org is demanding you to boycott the HEI Le Meridien and the Hyatt at Fisherman’s Wharf. Why? Because "Local 2’s Hotel Workers Rising campaign, workers at these hotels are seeking respect, job security and better livelihoods for themselves and their families." Hrumph.