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...week, we're sure you can get an extension. Next it's off to participate in some extracurricular fun! You'll spend the next hour in 15 minute shifts, first in front of the Science Center acquiring frostbite as you hand out fliers urging stressed-out pre-meds to boycott animal testing, second in the cramped, smelly office of the Undergraduate Council in the basement of Holworthy drafting yourself a letter on a computer held together with safety pins, asking for permission to sell potato chip bags to raise money for student groups. Your third station is a meeting with...
Barak's failure, even after months of continued concessions and daily offers of sweeter deals, finally discredited the activists in Israel's peace camp. Palestinians insist that Israel cannot dictate peace terms to them until they're good and ready, and the boycott of the recent elections by Israeli Arabs reinforced the message that, from the Palestinian perspective, nothing Israel does will affect their position. By denying any significant difference between Sharon and Barak, as Arafat seemed to do in his rancorous election-eve speech in Davos, Switzerland, the Palestinians are guaranteeing that the current situation of violence and gridlock...
...roughnecks from a Decatur, Ill., high school; the supposed lynching of a Mississippi youth, which turned out to be a suicide--to the glorious civil rights battleground of Selma, Ala. Since last fall, he has been tussling with his former protege, Al Sharpton, who annoyed Jackson by launching a boycott of Burger King, which has long been one of Jackson's corporate allies. Not until last year's presidential campaign, when Jackson worked his heart out to help produce the huge black turnout that nearly put Al Gore in the White House, did he regain some of his old magic...
...being a middle-aged black woman in Alabama in 1955 telling a white man she's not giving him her seat despite the fact that the law requires her to do so. And, oh, by the way, in the process, she gets arrested, and then sparks the Montgomery bus boycott, which is the seed of the civil rights movement as we know it. The bus boycotters not only introduced a 26-year-old pastor by the name of Martin Luther King, Jr., into national public life, they, after many months of carpools, walking, and court fights against bus segregation...
Their voices crescendoed as they yelled in unison, "CEO's don't give a crap! Boycott Nike, boycott...