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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]
Academic boycott of South Africa: Various: South African produce: Apartheid [citation needed] 1966–1987: Various: Coors Brewing Company: Anti-LGBT hiring practices Discrimination towards minorities and women Anti-unionism Coors strike and boycott [5] 1981–1988: Christmas countries and Halloween countries: Iran: Iran–Iraq War: Iran–Iraq ...
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 ...
Pages in category "Boycotts of countries" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. ... Great American Boycott; J. Jyllands-Posten Muhammad ...
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
From all my teaching experiences, I believe these three life skills are the most important. Critical thinking Our children live in a world of extremely influential social media , frantic news ...
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 ...