A Latino-led online organizing initiative called presente.org has launched movethegame.org to petition MLB commissioner Bud Selig to relocate the event. “With Latinos representing nearly a third of all Major League Baseball players, it is incredibly disappointing that Commissioner Selig would seek to hold a celebration of the game’s stars in a state that treats many of them as second-class citizens,” presente.org co-founder Roberto Lovato said in a statement May 13. “The commissioner is clearly out of touch with the ‘minority communities’ he says MLB is so in tune with.” With the backing of moveon.org, the petition registered more than 100,000 signatories in less than a week.
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