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Currently, PCUN is organizing a boycott of Sodhexo-Marriott which purchases goods from NORPAC...
...talk that drew about 30 students yesterday, Ramon Ramirez, President of Pineros Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN), an Oregon farmworkers’ union with around 5,000 members encouraged audience members to boycott Sodhexo-Marriott, the food service provider to both the Law School and the Kennedy School of Government...
Ramirez also discussed what students can do for the cause of farmworkers’ rights. He urged students to vote against corporations that abused farm labor, specifically NORPAC, an Oregon cooperative that sells fruits and vegetables harvested by underpaid farm workers—PCUN’s boycott of NORPAC originated in 1992 and has had several success in recent years...
...such as Harvard are overwhelmingly civil libertarian-minded and supportive of equal treatment of gays in the military. Rather than encouraging these people to join the military and progress through its ranks, Harvard stifles them. The best way to change the military’s policy is not a boycott that only increases the proportion of military policy-makers who advocate the status quo, but rather the encouragement of progressive thinkers to join and rise to the pinnacle of the military elite. After all, one of the foremost advocates of the softening of restrictions on gays was current Secretary...
...Would we tolerate this kind of boycott, the starving of Czechs, for example?" asks A. Kevin Reinhart, professor of religion at Dartmouth. "No. We've done some specific things that are perceived as reflecting either an indifference to or a hostility to Muslims." Islamic radicals keep a list of what they consider our casual cruelty, although their definition of who is inflicting the pain sometimes includes all of Christendom. They list the U.S. sanctions against Syria, Libya, Iran and Sudan--all Muslim countries (and all, not coincidentally, considered by the State Department to be sponsors of terrorism). They list...