Word: boycotters
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...practical matter, an agreement to reconcile with former Ba'athists is next to meaningless without Sadr's acquiescence. And the Sadrists weren't absent simply from Sunday's deal. At the moment they are not even part of the government; like their Sunni adversaries they are engaged in a boycott...
...Democratic Senator, Bill Nelson, is threatening legal action to test whether poltiical parties actually have the kind of authority the DNC is trying to assert. And Geller says he even plans to urge Democratic donors in Florida, one of the country's most lucrative sources of political cash, to boycott the national party and keep their funds in the state if the DNC sticks to its ruling. Perhaps the national party will wise up, he says, if it faces the prospect of losing all that Flori-dough...
...Already, every member of the National Assembly is a Chavez ally - which is largely thanks, however, to the opposition's boneheaded boycott of the last parliamentary elections - as is just about every Supreme Court justice. As a result, keeping Chavez in power until 2021 (his stated goal, the 200th anniversary of Venezuelan independence) if not longer could eventually make him, by default, a kind of "democratator," a democratically elected dictator. At the very least, says Jones, "it's bound to set off some alarms about the constructs of democratic government...
...Nine years before Rosa Parks' defiance set off the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott, Irene Morgan Kirkaldy, a black woman returning to Baltimore from Virginia, refused to cede her seat on a crowded Greyhound bus to a white person. Having kicked the policeman who removed her from the bus, she pleaded guilty to resisting arrest but refused to pay a $10 fine for violating Virginia's Jim Crow laws. Her case, argued by NAACP lawyers Thurgood Marshall and William Hastie, worked its way to the Supreme Court, which in 1946 ruled segregation on interstate buses unconstitutional...
...shifted from commodities to cash, but the fate of any change to the U.S. food aid program lies with Congress, which is currently debating a new farm bill. And it is unlikely that other charities in the cash-strapped world of NGOs will follow CARE's lead and boycott a flawed but important form of government funding. Save the Children USA, which along with CARE is a major recipient of monetized food aid, called food aid a "vital resource," but added that it "shares CARE's frustration...