Word: boycotts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...between President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, who seized power in 1977, and the alliance of eleven opposition parties known as the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy. Zia exhorted his countrymen to vote, thereby demonstrating their support of his government; the opposition parties called for an election boycott, in the hope that this would lead Zia and the other generals back to their barracks. The result was a standoff. Rejecting the opposition's call for a boycott, almost 53% of the country's 35 million eligible voters went to the polls, compared with 59% in 1970 and about...
Participants in the project include Rosa Parks, whose refusal to obey the Jim Crow laws sparked the 1955 Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Ala. Muriel S. Snowden, co-founder and director of Freedom House, a human rights advocacy institution in Roxbury, also took part in the program...
...opposition alliance, which calls itself the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy, rejected Zia's invitation to participate in the elections, the President was furious. Said he: "Their decision has closed the doors on any dialogue. I will not talk to them while they continue to call for a boycott of the elections. They are out of the game by their own choice." By last week, estimates of the number of people arrested throughout the country ranged between...
...first time, the government held elections for parliamentary candidates to represent the nation's 2.8 million people of mixed race and its 850,000 Indians. Yet under the new constitution, South Africa's 23 million blacks still have no national voice whatever. In protest, the U.D.F. led a boycott of the elections that resulted in less than a third of the eligible nonwhites casting votes. Afterward, the government detained a number of the organization's top representatives without charge. Last week's sweep effectively silenced many of those remaining...
...union wins the right to represent more workers, the resulting standardized grievance procedures would obviate the need for court involvement. Chavez doesn't say it, but the point of the boycott is not to press for more money to feed the state bureaucracy, it is to involve the public in the workers' struggle for advancement. With determination and good luck, a revival in public awareness and concern could lead to many things, among them an unwillingness on the part of growers to incur the general wrath by stalling in court for up to ten years, and increased defense...