Published: July 2, 2010

Civil rights organizations and labor unions will spend the Fourth of July weekend pressuring Major League Baseball to move next year's All-Star Game from Arizona.

The Boycott Intolerance campaign asks supporters to write letters to commissioner Bud Selig and major league general managers urging them to pull the 2011 All-Star Game from Phoenix.

"There's a good reason that we call baseball America's favorite pastime - all across the country, communities gather to watch and play games, and root for their favorite players and team," the Boycott Intolerance Web site says. "It's a game that transcends all barriers and brings America together, reminding us of what makes us unique: our diversity.

"Yet, baseball is in danger of losing that reputation. The 2011 Major League Baseball (MLB) All-Star Game is currently scheduled to take place in Arizona, a state where many of the players themselves would be profiled by Arizona's new anti-immigrant law that essentially sanctions racial profiling and makes Latinos and others suspect based on their skin color or their accents."

The organizations behind the Boycott Intolerance campaign include the National Council of La Raza, the Asian American Justice Center, National Puerto Rican Coalition, Inc., Service Employees International Union and the United Food and Commercial Workers.