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...complained that ballot boxes were stuffed and said she would meet party leaders this week to decide whether to call street demonstrations or boycott Parliament...
...Chicago, for example, Operation PUSH--Jackson's old civil rights organization--is busy organizing a boycott of Nike shoes because of that company's failure to appoint a Black to its board of directors. Seriously folks, the closest relationship between Nike and the problems of the underclass is the alarming frequency with which young teens are shot and stabbed for a $125 pair of Air Jordans...
...There are really good things going on [with the boycott]," said Sue M. Johnson '91-'92, the group's other co-chair. "If consumers could cut into sales 9 percent, the growers will have to listen," said Johnson, who spent the summer in California working...
...group's leaders said they formed the organization in response to a speech by labor leader Cesar Chavez last year at the Kennedy School of Government. Chavez, a leader of the UFW campaign, urged students in that speech to spread the grape boycott to Harvard...
According to UFW, a third of the 8 million pounds of pesticides used in grape production have been found to cause cancer. The UFW began its boycott on California table grapes in 1984 to protest of the use of these pesticides...