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There were a handful of counter-protestors outside the MIT teach-in, handing out flyers with the slogan “Support Israel: Boycott Chomsky...
Last Tuesday, the Cambridge City Council explicitly pledged to continue to avoid doing something it has never done: buy World Bank bonds. Realizing that a deeper principle is at stake, the council unanimously approved a resolution to boycott the bonds “until the World Bank respects labor rights, stops promoting privatization, cancels 100% of debts owed to it by impoverished nations and stops the imposition of destructive economic policies.” In doing so, Cambridge joins a growing list of cities and institutions demanding change from the behemoth of globalization, including the usual suspects from California?...
...recorded or released. But the World Bank is nonetheless vulnerable in that it reportedly depends on bond sales for 80 percent of its bankroll. Opponents of the World Bank are wise to lobby the Cambridge City Council to strike there, where it hurts most. The council’s boycott serves as a model for responsive government in that the council heeded the testimony and petitions of community members in setting its new policy...
...weeks ago, the liberal magazine Perspective posted signs saying: “Pi Eta advertised to its members the ‘Amazing pounding of private parts some poor suspecting fat load is going to take this Saturday by your huge and erect penis.’ Boycott final clubs!” The poster neglected to mention that this quote was from a 1984 newsletter of a group that was disbanded in 1991—and was not a final club...
Three weeks ago, the trial of Rwandan Colonel Theoneste Bagosora for the murder of 800,000 people in 100 days was supposed to begin in Tanzania. However, his current boycott of the proceedings has led to an adjournment of his trial until September. Bagosora will be facing the International War Crimes Tribunal for Rwanda, a special U.N. tribunal set up to punish those responsible for the ethnically-motivated massacres in Rwanda in 1994. In another U.N. war crimes trial, former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has taken a similar strategy of obstructionism. He delays his trial with each of his attempts...