Word: boycotts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ALREADY, supermarkets and food distributors across the country have joined the boycott. So have other universities, such as Mount Holyoke and the University of Massachusetts...
WHEN Cesar Chavez, the leader of the United Farm Workers, spoke at Lowell and Adams House last week, he asked students to join a nationwide ban of California grapes and called on the dining halls to boycott them as well...
...boycott is intended to convince grape growers that their workers are as important as their produce--convince them, in other words, to negotiate with the union about pesticides...
...since the only lasting solutions--constitutional amendments or a more progressive Court--are not likely to happen in the near future, liberals will have to neutralize the Court's power. The next best alternative is to boycott the courts...
Chavez said the purpose behind the boycott is not to eliminate the grape growers' market entirely but to cut back on grape sales by about 11 percent. Such a fall in sales would persuade grape growers to deal with the union but would not hurt the grape worker, Chavez said...