Word: boycott
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Union leaders lashed out at Lorenzo as a "robber baron." Machinists called for a public boycott of Eastern's sister airline, Continental, and said they would oppose Eastern's reorganization plan and any sale of assets...
...Illinois state penitentiary. His mother left home when he was eight. At San Jose State young Edwards starred in basketball. But the trappings of racism he found in fraternities, student housing, the faculty and staff radicalized him. By 1967 he was a Black Panther urging fellow black athletes to boycott white-sponsored events, including the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. At Cornell, where he earned a doctorate, Edwards was a mediator in an armed ) revolt by blacks on campus. Now a sports sociology professor at University of California, Berkeley, and a consultant to the San Francisco 49ers, Golden State Warriors...
...anything really changed in the 20 years since your call for an Olympic boycott...
Admitedly, these tactics should be held in reserve as a last resort. But contrast them with the "last resort" Council Chair Kenneth E. Lee '89 offered you--a boycott of this spring's housing lottery. This wouldn't accomplish a damn thing, except leave a lot of freshmen looking for affiliated housing in the fall. You should not run from the housing lottery--if you consider yourself a true activist imbued with a revolutionary "student consciousness," you should seize control...
With six months to go before the curtain rises on Bastille Day, Berge is blithely ignoring all the threats of boycott as he considers how to replace the gifted and popular Barenboim. "I'm sure I will find people of excellent quality," he says. Others are less sure of that...