Organizers of the national movement are urging supporters to boycott school, work and shopping and asking Latino business owners to shut down. It started as a boycott to demonstrate the economic and labor force of Latino immigrants in the United States, and a growing number of Latinos and non-Latinos nationwide are planning to participate.

Latino businesses, such as Anaya's Market, Panaderia Flores and parking-lot taco stands, will not open on Monday in support of the Latino boycott and their Latino employees. Many Latino professionals have approval to take the day off from the office. Latino students, with their parents' permission, plan to skip class. Latino professors are staying home, too.

Jorge Fierro, who owns Rico Mexican Market in Salt Lake City, said he will not operate his market, manufacturing plant or catering division on Monday. About two-thirds of his 30 employees are Latino. Fierro also plans to keep his 5-year-old daughter home from preschool.

"As a Latino, I feel like I have to support them," he said.

Renetta Coppard, executive director of the Latin-American Chamber of Commerce, agreed. She said the chamber office as well as those of many of the chamber's 300 members will not open Monday in support of the "movement."

"I think a lot of people are not going to open," Coppard said Thursday.

Stephany Murguia, a University of Utah junior, said M.E.Ch.A. - Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (Chicano Student Movement of Aztlán) - is urging students to stay home and refrain from buying anything.

The Latino student group is organizing a candlelight vigil Monday night at the Capitol in support of human rights for undocumented immigrant families.

"This is to show the senators and representatives that this is a continuous effort - it just wasn't one march," Murguia said in reference to the April 9 march that drew more than 40,000 people.

Yadira Cisneros, a Grantsville High School senior, is one of some 15 Latinos on the campus that is an hourlong drive west of Salt Lake City. She said she won't be in class Monday.

"I'm Mexican, and I want to be a part of it," said Cisneros, who moved to Utah 10 years ago. "We're trying to help our people."

But the Utah Hispanic/Latino Legislative Task Force - a bipartisan group made up of 30 Latinos - decided after a two-hour meeting earlier this week to support only the shopping boycott or "no-buy day." The group is encouraging students to go to class and parents to take their kids to school, said Michael Clára, the task force's spokesman. He said the group didn't support the working boycott and is leaving it up to each person.

"We don't think we need to do it to make the point here in Utah," Clára said of supporting the full boycott.

"We feel the point has been made" and Utah's congressmen will in the future vote on "comprehensive immigration reform" that would shut down the U.S. borders and provide undocumented immigrants already living here with a worker's permit and an avenue to U.S. citizenship, he said.

There are some 250,000 Latinos living in Utah.

As of Thursday, most Utah government leaders will be working.

Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr., who is scheduled to work Monday, said he understands that "people speaking out on issues that are important to them is an important American tradition," but "there's a time and a place for it."

"I would say that during school hours, for school kids, is probably not the right time to be demonstrating politically," he said Thursday. "There's plenty of time in the off hours."

Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson, who also is scheduled to work Monday, sent an e-mail to city employees Wednesday about the Monday boycott.

"Some individuals and organizations have designated May 1, 2006, as a National Day of Action for Immigrant Rights. As a municipal government, Salt Lake City Corporation is neutral with respect to this event," the e-mail said. "Employees who plan to participate in the May 1st Day of Action should ask for supervisory approval. . . . In short, such leave will be treated in the same manner as any other leave. We will deal with this matter in a non-discriminatory fashion."

jsanchez@sltrib.com

Latino boycott-related events

Also known as "A Day Without an Immigrant," "Brown Out" and "A Day Without Latinos." Organizers of the nationwide event Monday are urging supporters to boycott school, work and shopping and asking Latino businesses owners not to operate.

Events on Monday

In Ogden

Rally for Justice

5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Federal Building-U.S. Courthouse, 324 25th St.

Organized by: Latin American Cultural and Educational Association

What to expect: A demonstration.

In Salt Lake City

Liberty Walk

5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Liberty Park, meeting at park's Northwest corner at 500 East and 900 South

Organized by: Proyecto Latino de Utah

What to expect: A rally and walk around the park.

Movie showing of "Walkout"

7 p.m.

Salt Lake Main Library Downtown, 210 E. 400 South

Organized by: Salt Lake City Film Center

What to expect: A free showing of Walkout, "a HBO Films drama that tells the true but little-known story of a group of Chicano students who staged a compelling 1968 walkout to protest the injustices of the public high-school system in East Los Angeles." After the movie, there will be a student panel and discussion on youth community activism.

Candlelight Vigil

State Capitol

9 p.m.

Organized by: Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (Chicano Student Movement of Aztlán) at the University of Utah

What to expect: A vigil "to bring attention to human rights" through immigration reform, an organizer said.

Wake-Up America Rally

3 p.m. to 8 p.m.

The Salt Lake City-County Building

Organized by: Utah Minuteman Project

What to expect: Organizers say bring a lawn chair and refreshments.