This video captures some of what went on outside of the Hilton LAX on Monday when Amma “The Hugging Saint of India” decided to go ahead and hold her event at the boycotted hotel.
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Community members rallied outside of the Hilton LAX on Monday to ask Amma to not hold her event at the boycotted Hilton LAX. Members of the Coalition For A New Century held a press conference outside of the hotel where they told the press that they wanted Amma to sign a pledge in support of the workers at that hotel.
Reporters from La Opinion, ABC, Univision, and Azteca America attended the press conference and interviewed community members and workers who were at the event. The community is holding a 30-hour action in solidarity of hotel workers at the Hilton LAX. They will be outside of the hotel until tomorrow at 4 p.m.
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“I received a hug from Amma a few years ago. This year I asked her to please support the workers of the Hilton LAX. Her decision to stay at the hotel disappoints me deeply. I still have hope that she will reconsider and choose to stay at a hotel where there isn’t such injustice.”
- Isabel Brentner, Hilton LAX housekeeper, reaching out to Amma in hope that she would honor her and her co workers’ boycott in 2007. Unfortunately, Amma chose to violate the workers’ boycott.
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