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The remaining examples of student protest concerned funding (including tuition concerns), governance, world affairs, and environmental causes". [27] While less common, protests similar to campus protests can also happen at secondary-level education facilities, like high schools. [25]
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 ...
Academic boycott has been justified as an appropriate political strategy in the struggle against the oppression of apartheid. Moral outrage against racist policies has led to the claim that academic boycott is a morally imperative component of a broader sanctions policy. This claim has neither been substantiated by a reasoned ethical argument ...
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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
The boycott did not achieve its objective of forcing immediate reform in the New York City schools, [7] and another school boycott planned for the following month failed due to lack of popular support. [8] Nevertheless, the event could be considered an important step in a much larger movement toward reform. [1]
Obama’s former Education Secretary Arne Duncan pushed a radical idea on Twitter; parents should pull their children out of school until elected officials pass stricter gun control laws.
A legal fight over water spurred a boycott of carrots in California's Cuyama Valley. Here's what residents say about the boycott. 'We're not going to quit': Why a California community is ...