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Members of AALARM picketed, saying their civil liberties had been abridged. The same publicity hounds who garnered national headlines for their advocacy of "family values" (what AALARM takes to mean the suppression of those different from them) piously held signs marked "Boycott Oppressors" and "Thought Control...
...metallurgical engineering from the University of Utah, Cardoen first worked in the U.S. and Chile as a mining engineer. He founded the company that bears his name in 1977, after Chile's former President, General Augusto Pinochet, whose repressive government was the object of an international arms-sales boycott, asked local companies to fill the gap. Though arms manufacture has been Cardoen's main business ever since, he also deals in industrial explosives, real estate, cattle, rental cars and aircraft. He owns a small publishing house and a large kiwifruit orchard. He is nothing if not flexible in his dealings...
Carrying posters with the slogans "Boycott Oppressors," "Thought Control, Inc.," and "Stop Censorship," the group of about 15 students from various campus conservative organizations protested for an hour before disbanding...
...long as Kinko's maintains a company policy that does not discriminate against any group, we do not see any reason for any sort of boycott or protest. We also encourage Kinko's to continue in its support of its employees' decisions of conscience. Few of us have the guts to put our job on the line for our beliefs; this kind of moral conviction should be applauded, not condemned...
...inner cities, the situation can quickly turn ugly, polarizing along racial lines, as when black customers organized an angry boycott of Korean greengrocers in New York City this year. The city's commission on human rights reported a 7% increase in the incidence of so-called bias crimes this year. That trend is reflected in the rise in racial assaults recorded by Klanwatch, which monitors such crimes across the U.S. for the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery. "The national recession has created general unrest," says director Danny Welch, "especially among white males vying for jobs they didn...