Word: boycotts
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...University President Drew G. Faust did not have to wait long to address a potentially fiery public relations issue. On her second day in Massachusetts Hall, Faust wrote to the president of the University and College Union (UCU), which represents British academics, to denounce the organization’s boycott of Israeli academics and universities...
...first major public statement, Faust hit a home run with her vigorous support of academic freedom and discourse. We agree that the boycott would adversely affect the world of academia and the freedoms of speech and study academics need to produce their best work. As Faust wrote, “academics should be promoting, not undermining, the fullest possible collaboration with Israeli universities as well as other universities in the Middle East and elsewhere...
After Cornucopia issued its report card, the Organic Consumers Association e-mailed some 380,000 organic food devotees calling for a boycott of Horizon milk. Dozens of food co-ops pulled the milk from their shelves. Horizon responded with ads in publications popular with organic-food advocates, like the Utne Reader, showing cows grazing in lush fields. Scalzo says, however, the boycott barely affected his company's sales, and that activists like Kastel cast doubt on the entire organic-food movement. "This is eroding consumer confidence in the business, this industry and the family farms he's a self-proclaimed...
...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...