Word: boycotts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard students should participate in a national boycott of California grapes and urge the dining halls to stop serving them, farm worker activisit Cesar Chavez said at a speech at Lowell House last night...
Chavez said a consumer boycott was the only effective way for the UFW to force grape growers to stop using what it considers carcinogenic pesticides. "The boycott works," Chavez said repeatedly...
...troops from Cambodia would be enough to rescue Viet Nam from its international isolation. But with that formulation, Washington destroyed Hanoi's hopes for prompt normalization of relations with the outside world and an end to the trade embargo that has wrecked Viet Nam's economy. The crippling boycott has deprived Hanoi of all Western aid, credit, technology and trade, turning the country of 65 million people into a basket case...
...radical group called the Marxist Party; she has poured much of her income into its causes and four times stood as a candidate for Parliament representing the Workers' Revolutionary Party. That commitment helps explain why she has endured for more than a decade an unannounced but unmistakable boycott by much of the American entertainment business...
...staff points to the clubs' history of racism and anti-Semitism as proof of the ills begat by elitist institutions. There is no denying the inglorious past of the clubs, but again, I do not hear anyone suggesting a boycott of Harvard, which itself took part in propagating the same parochial atitudes...