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...show, The 700 Club, "because we are polluting the world with our television programs, with our movies and so forth." Fox Network, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., has long been high on the list of offenders. As early as 1989, Robertson's watchdogs were calling for a boycott of companies that advertised on the raunchy Fox sitcom Married...with Children...
...economic consequences. Harvard students should decide on an individual basis whether or not to support the goals of the strawberry pickers. More importantly, HDS does not deserve the right to dictate whether or not students can actually consume strawberries at meals. The staff's endorsements of a potential HDS boycott is a careless presumption that all students share the same opinion concerning this complicated matter...
...strawberry workers want to join the United Farm Workers (UFW), the branch of the AFL-CIO founded by Cesar Chavez, which has fought for and won better living conditions and benefits for employees in the wine-grape, rose and mushroom industries and which has led an important boycott against the table-grape industry for continuing to spray their fields and the nearby neighborhoods with oil-based toxic pesticides. Harvard has participated in the table-grape boycott since the 1980s, and we hope their active participation in that fight will inspire their thinking about the strawberry pickers...
While the current drive does not call for a boycott, we encourage the council and HDS to become vocal supporters of this resolution to improve the lives of strawberry workers and to be amiable towards a boycott if the labor coalition feels that a boycott becomes necessary. For now, a simple endorsement by HDS is all that this being called for; HDS should move quickly to help improve these workers' lives...
...comedy what Velveeta did for cheese, is ending its long and profound run. Having hung its dirty laundry in public for 11 seasons, the Bundy family will bicker no more after May 5. Married, which got an early publicity break when housewife Terry Rakolta launched a national boycott against it for being "antifamily," drew more than 18 million viewers in its heyday but garners less than half that now. And for those who crave dysfunction, there's always The Honeymooners reruns...