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During the time when the Marxist Leninist Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas (PKP) was the dominant communist formation in the Philippines, its mostly dismissed students as "unneeded." There were small underground cells in some schools that played support roles to the more important and bigger Party cells in the factories and among the peasantry. [16]
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 ...
These groups have indicated that they believe the term boycott is more accurate. [35] [36] Student protests can often spread off-campus and grow in scale, mobilizing off campus activists and organizations, for example the 2014 Hong Kong class boycott campaign led to the city-wide 2014 Hong Kong protests. [37]
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 ...
The revolution had an effect on democratization movements in such countries as Taiwan and South Korea and indirectly contributed to the downfall of communism in Soviet bloc and the end of the Cold War [citation needed]; other effects include the restoration of the freedom of the press, abolition of repressive laws enforced by the previous ...
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 ...
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Conservative influencers and politicians are calling for a boycott of Tyson Foods after false claims spread online saying the multinational meat producer is planning to hire 52,000 people who came ...