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Cesar Chavez, President of the United Farmworkers of America (UFW), asked state union officials to support a boycott of non-union lettuce grown in California...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chavez Asks Support of Area For Non-Union Lettuce Boycott | 10/12/1979 | See Source »

...boycott is focused on the non-union brand lettuce, Red Coach, produced by the Bruce Church Company...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chavez Asks Support of Area For Non-Union Lettuce Boycott | 10/12/1979 | See Source »

...P.R.I.'s middle-class supporters, who saw their savings and life-styles threatened. Mexico's support for a 1976 U.N. resolution equating Zionism with racism provoked a short-lived boycott of Mexican resorts by American Jewish tourists, thereby staggering an industry that is the nation's largest employer (460,000 jobs). Echeverria's unpopularity had its impact on the election of his successor. In an expression of discontent with the P.R.I., voters ignored the party's customary flamboyant campaign; only 50% of them bothered to cast their ballots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico's Macho Mood | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

CPAC cancelled a school boycott scheduled for yesterday "in the interests of educating the students," Corcoran said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 600 Protest at City Hall Against Racial Violence | 10/4/1979 | See Source »

Despite the boycott cancellation, approximately 200 students from Boston English High School, Boston Trade and Technical School, and Madison Park High School, joined the demonstration, a school safety officer said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 600 Protest at City Hall Against Racial Violence | 10/4/1979 | See Source »

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