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...detention of those whom the people regard as their leaders. The police and the South African Defense Force have been put into an incredibly awkward position in that they are not seen as agents for maintaining law-and-order but as protectors of an unjust system. In the consumer boycott in the eastern Cape, for instance, there are very strong indications that the police are harassing black traders, trying to break this boycott. We really are on the edge of a precipice. It would take nothing, nothing really, to push us over...
...stringent because a record number of borrowers with mortgages bought by the agency are defaulting on their loans. Explains Chairman David Maxwell: "It does no favor to home buyers in the market we serve--low, moderate and middle income--to saddle them with obligations they cannot carry." UNIONS Grape Boycott, Round...
Like an echo from the past, Cesar Chavez, leader of the United Farm Workers of America, is back in the news. Between 1965 and 1973, he organized two grape boycotts and won passage in 1975 of the first state law guaranteeing farmworkers the right to unionize. Now Chavez is again launching a boycott of California grapes, contending that the 1975 law is rarely enforced. Says he: "Farmworkers continue to be fired, coerced and abused by corporate growers...
...Save the Seals by Skipping Scallops?" [April 4], about the protest against Canada's government-sanctioned seal hunts in which baby seals are clubbed to death: I agree with the Humane Society of the U.S.'s boycott of all Canadian seafood. In many former whale-hunting areas, the locals earn their income from whale-watching tours. Let's turn the tide from baby-seal slaughter to seal watching...
Finally, the movement was single-minded in its goal and committed to achieving it. Petition for divestment. Boycott for divestment. Protest for divestment. Divestment from PetroChina was the goal, no matter what the tactic or the group. I even saw an e-mail from one of the primary organizers for the silent protest that firmly requested that all those involved ensure that only divestment signs were held at the protest, a far cry from progressive rallies that often result in cries for a potpourri of leftist causes...