Word: boycotts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jackson likes to take the high road. But on March 11, when Jackson was arrested in front of the South African embassy in Washington, he delivered a short speech which he had planned before his arrest there. Jackson called for a boycott on Westinghouse Co. for its part in constructing the segregated African railway system. It so happens that during the same period, according to a report published by syndicated columnists Evans and Novak, his half-brother, multimillionaire businessman Noah Robinson, had written several rather threatening letter to Westinghouse in an attempt to capture a local transportation contract...
...railways in South Africa is a British conglomerate, no relation to the American company at all. Out of the hundreds of American companies doing business in South Africa, some of which supply computers to aid the government in enforcing influx control, the backbone of apartheid, Jackson mistakenly chose to boycott Westinghouse, which has only 105 employees in the nation. One would think that the reverend would research a specific company thoroughly before he decided a boycott was necessary, especially since he is on the record as condemning all businesses which operate in South Africa and has called them all evil...
Moreover, consider that a similar "coincidence" occured during the '84 campaign, when Jackson called for a boycott on Coca Cola for their moral ineptitude in employee related issues. His half brother soon became the first Black distributor in Coke's history and earned the millions necessary to start his cement company...
Last week's cycle of events began in the vicinity of Port Elizabeth, where blacks protested crippling local unemployment by staging a weekend boycott of shops, buses and factories. The boycott resulted in five blacks being killed in clashes with the police. Anger at those deaths sparked the march at Langa. That conflict, in turn, set off further rioting...
...ruled by martial law. Zia insists that the elections will lead to a restoration of civilian rule, possibly "within a few months." Toward this end he had gone to enormous effort to ensure a good turnout. His government declared it a crime for anyone to call for an election boycott, and the President said that "to cast a vote is a religious duty." To make sure the opposition did not have a chance to sell its arguments to voters, Zia ordered the arrest of some 3,000 politicians, although the government announced that all of them would be released within...