Word: boycott
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wylie said that state law requires cities to accept the lowest bid in purchases of more than $5000. "If the low bidder is J.P. Stevens we have to take them anyway," he said, adding that in purchases under $5000 the city council advocates a boycott if the bidder is J.P. Stevens...
John E. McDonough, the member of the national staff of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union who suggested the resolution, said that the city's action reaffirms its commitment to the national boycott of the corporation...
...There are a number of city councils across the country that have endorsed the Stevens boycott as Cambridge did a couple of years ago. But Cambridge is the first in Massachusetts to touch purchases," he said...
...boycott for divestiture is more than a cathartic exercise on a spring day. Divestiture would help black South Africans. Even a symbolic gesture by Harvard University would have impact on other groups and on government policy. It is naive, if not paternalistic, to expect corporations to help blacks, as, apparently, President Bok and some of the teaching fellows do. It is as naive to expect that anyone in the U.S. will provide arms to the blacks (this would, of course, be more effective than divestiture), as other signatories of this letter do. Divestiture is the only sort of pressure that...
...that diversity and intellectual challenge should be the hallmarks of a university, that all opinions should flourish on their merits, and that all ethnic, racial, and other groups should be tolerated. But these ideals do not justify blindness to South African racism. Furthermore, intellectual diversity does not preclude a boycott. A boycott effectively presents a viewpoint, opens up discussion, and permits the examination of divestiture on its own merits...