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This boycott legitimized MAYO activism in South Texas. After the school expelled 62 students, the newly founded Mexican American Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF) filed a lawsuit for the school's action. In December the court demanded the school reinstate the students as political protest is protected by the Constitution.
Association of University Teachers#Boycott of Israeli universities 2005: 2005-2006 Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd: Nissui Company, Sealord Tuna, Gorton’s Seafood Involvement of parent company in whaling [11] 2005–2013: International Labor Rights Fund and others: Firestone Tire and Rubber Company: Forced labour and child labour on rubber ...
The word boycott entered the English language during the Irish "Land War" and derives from Captain Charles Boycott, the land agent of an absentee landlord, Lord Erne, who lived in County Mayo, Ireland. Captain Boycott was the target of social ostracism organized by the Irish Land League in 1880. As harvests had been poor that year, Lord Erne ...
There's power in numbers. 'We can't pay': A growing wave of student loan borrowers are on the brink of a boycott, survey reveals — why many may refuse to resume repayments as Oct. 1 looms
A quarter of Americans are boycotting a product or company they had spent money on in the past, according to a recent survey from online loan marketplace LendingTree. Whether because of political ...
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The Great American Boycott (Spanish: El Gran Paro Estadounidense, or Spanish: El Gran Paro Americano, lit. "the Great American Strike"), also called the Day Without an Immigrant (Spanish: Día sin inmigrante), was a one-day boycott of United States schools and businesses by immigrants in the United States (mostly Latin American) which took place on May 1, 2006.
A number of prominent companies have scaled back or set aside the diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that much of corporate America endorsed following the protests that accompanied the ...