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...cancel its Madonna ad is censure the ad by calling for a boycott. Advocating boycotts is a form of speech protected by the First Amendment. As Nat Hentoff, journalistic custodian of the First Amendment, says, "I would hate to see boycotts outlawed. Think what that would do to Cesar Chavez." Or, for that matter, to Ralph Nader. If one disapproves of a social practice, whether it is racist speech or unjust hiring in lettuce fields, one is free to denounce that and to call on others to express their disapproval. Otherwise there would be no form of persuasive speech except...
...unsubsidized art. Other results of pressure do not turn out as well. Unfortunately, people in certain regions were deprived of the chance to see The Last Temptation of Christ in the theater. Some, no doubt, considered it a loss that they could not buy lettuce or grapes during a Chavez boycott. Perhaps there was even a buyer perverse enough to miss driving the unsafe cars Nader helped pressure off the market. On the other hand, we do not get sports analysis made by racists. These mobilizations of social opprobrium are not examples of repression but of freedom of expression...
...rebels and charges of official corruption have dissipated the popularity of Duarte's Christian Democratic Party. ARENA has strongly rebounded and seems likely to corner the votes this time. But many observers foresee a runoff for the presidency between ARENA's Alfredo Cristiani and the Christian Democratic candidate Fidel Chavez Mena...
Completely lost on Chavez is that decisions such as Brown, and now Yonkers, do not bring victory with negative prohibitions but with recognition of the massive reconfiguration necessary for society to ensure equality. The courts need to go beyond simply affirming the rights of one person to attend one school...
...Chavez charged that the trial judge created new rights--that of the poor to live among the well-off, as if to say that the rich have a right to live apart from those with less money and people have a right to live apart from people who look differently...