Word: boycotts
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...triumphs of the Montgomery bus boycott and the March on Washington with its stirring "I Have a Dream" speech, the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts and the winning of the Nobel Peace Prize were all behind Martin Luther King Jr. when he began the last and perhaps loneliest year of his life in January 1968. Now black-power militants and even some of his closest advisers were rejecting King's philosophy of nonviolence. Many white supporters of the civil rights movement had redirected their enthusiasm--and their dollars--to opposing the war in Vietnam. Other whites...
This was hardly the first time King flirted with martyrdom in a speech. One of the first profiles written about him during the bus boycott noted a "conspicuous thread of thanatopsis" in his private conversation as well. What emerged this Sunday was a brooding reverie on external and internal burdens from the drum major instinct. "And every now and then I think about my own death," he told his congregation. He gave fitful instructions for his own funeral service--"tell them not to talk too long"--hoping someone would mention "that Martin Luther King Jr. tried to give his life...
...members setting up checkpoints west of Baghdad to keep al-Qaeda from bombing voting sites. In addition to this day of relative peace in Iraq--reported attacks were well below average-- the Dec. 15 vote bore another marked contrast to January's violent election day: Sunni Arabs didn't boycott this time and instead turned out en masse, with the hope of tipping the scales of Iraqi political power. With a significant voting bloc in parliament--final results are due to be released by the end of December--Sunnis would be able to curb the influence...
...address the economic, environmental and social performance of the company.” The committees agreed to oppose the issuance of sustainability reports for five companies, including General Electric and Yum! Brands, which owns KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut. The vote came despite a two-year boycott of Taco Bell because of allegedly poor working conditions for its tomato pickers. The report called it “unreasonable” to ask for sustainability reports “in the absence of a clear definition of sustainability and a better understanding of the types of information that would...
...country. According to local news channels, rocket attacks continued against U.S. installations and some Iraqi army and police patrols were ambushed during the day. The Association of Muslims Scholars, an influential Sunni group that maintained its opposition to Thursday's elections, called on its supporters to, despite their boycott, not stand in the way of other Iraqis going to vote. This all seemed to have resonated. Areas inside the so-called Sunni Triangle reported a high voter turnout, and few incidents...