Section 8-701. Legislative declaration  


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  • Boycotts or blacklists that are based
      on  a  person's  race,  color,  creed, age, national origin, alienage or
      citizenship status, marital status, partnership status,  gender,  sexual
      orientation,  or  disability  pose a menace to the city's foundation and
      institutions. In contrast  to  protests  that  are  in  reaction  to  an
      unlawful  discriminatory  practice,  connected  with  a labor dispute or
      associated with other speech or activities that  are  protected  by  the
      first   amendment   discriminatory  boycotts  cause  havoc,  divide  the
      citizenry and do not serve a legitimate purpose.  The  council  declares
      that  discriminatory  boycotts  are  a  dangerously  insidious  form  of
      prejudice  and  hereby  establishes  a   procedure   for   expeditiously
      investigating  allegations  of this type of prejudice, assuring that the
      council and mayor are duly alerted to the existence of such activity and
      combating discriminatory boycotts or blacklists.