Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Students -- even those who refused to go along with the boycott of classes -- are demanding greater participation in the affairs of the university and want to share in at least some of the actual decision-making. The national press may have given more attention to the mass sit-ins, the abortive Filthy Speech Movement, and the famed nude parties in Berkeley, but the real issue on the campus is student (not non-student) power...
This view is shared to some extent by the leaders of the Associated Students of the University of California -- the student government -- who supported last month's strike and withdrew their endorsement only when the faculty demanded an end to the boycott. Because the ASUC held firm despite repeated overtures from the Chancellor to speak with their representatives alone, the ASUC is more widely respected than...
Christianity and Crisis' decision was part of a wider boycott of banks that is sponsored by a self-styled Committee of Conscience Against Apartheid...
...Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and supported by such churchmen as Reinhold Niebuhr and Bishop James A. Pike, the committee claims to have pledges of deposit withdrawals totaling $22 million. Defenders of the committee argue that there is ample precedent for such a boycott: most Protestant churches refuse to invest in companies that manufacture alcohol or tobacco products. Boston's Episcopal Bishop Anson Phelps Stokes Jr. believes that the churches should no more support apartheid, even implicitly, than they should buy "real estate that was being used as a brothel...
...apparent toughness, the resolution calling for sanctions lacks the teeth necessary to enforce them. Voted down was an amendment to penalize nations that ignore the boycott. The Security Council, in fact, left it up to each member nation to police its own trade with Rhodesia. Shortly after last week's vote, South Africa, which supplies most of Rhodesia's oil and is its principal trading partner, announced that it had no intention of obeying the resolution. Without South African cooperation, the sanctions seemed doomed to fail...