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But for it to be just to attain this same result by means of the force of a boycott throughout the nation would require the verification of facts contrary to those assumed in the foregoing case.
Perhaps this would be sufficient to justify an economic boycott of an entire national chain in order, by threatening potential injury to its entire economy, to effect an alteration of the policy of its local stores in the matter of segregation.
In any case, anyone who fails to make significant distinction between primary and secondary applications of economic pressure would in principle already have justified that use of economic boycott as a means which broke out a few years ago or was skillfully organized by White Citizens' Councils in the entire state of Mississippi against every local Philco dealer in that state, in protest against a Philco-sponsored program over a national TV network on which was presented a drama showing, it seemed, a `` high yellow gal '' smooching with a white man.
Our leadership in a wide economic boycott of South Africa would be not only in accord, it seems, with the moral conscience of America, not to be denied because we also as a people have widespread injustice in the relations of the races in our own country, but also in accord with our law, U.S. Code Title 19, Section 1307, which forbids the importation of goods made by forced or convict labor.
In Cuba peninsular Spaniards began to boycott Cuban products made by slaves, and the issue turned nationalistic.
If their weakness cannot be achieved except by boycott, we must boycott them.
In May 1769, Washington introduced a proposal, drafted by his friend George Mason, calling for Virginia to boycott English goods until the Acts were repealed.
He missed the 1976 Olympics and a show down with American rival Edwin Moses due to a boycott by African nations including Uganda.
President Akayev was widely accused of having manipulated a boycott by a majority of the parliamentarians.
President Akayev was widely accused of having manipulated a boycott by a majority of the parliamentarians.
In 2007, Loach was one of more than 100 artists and writers who signed an open letter initiated by Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism and the South West Asian, North African Bay Area Queers ( SWANABAQ ) and calling on the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival " to honour calls for an international boycott of Israeli political and cultural institutions, by discontinuing Israeli consulate sponsorship of the LGBT film festival and not co-sponsoring events with the Israeli consulate.
The director was supporting a boycott of the festival called for by the PACBI campaign.
The boycott was joined by 14 Eastern Bloc countries and allies, including Cuba ( but not Romania ).
Subsequent investigations proved the allegations false, leading to a boycott of the newspaper by Liverpool fans across the city and elsewhere ; many still refuse to buy The Sun more than 20 years later.
A boycott is a refusal to buy, sell, or otherwise trade with an individual or business who is generally believed by the participants in the boycott to be doing something morally wrong.
The result was a boycott of the commission by Indian political parties.
exchange to boycott calls requested by Bolsheviks ( automatic switching systems
On February 27, 2008, Sudan decided to boycott Danish goods after the controversial Muhammad cartoons have been reprinted by a series of newspapers in Denmark and other European countries.
However, the NFL pulled the game away from Arizona after the league joined a massive, nationwide tourist boycott by various groups to protest the state ’ s refusal to recognize Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
In May 2003, the Zanzibar Electoral Commission conducted by-elections to fill vacant seats in the parliament, including those seats vacated by the CUF boycott.
* The 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow were disrupted by a boycott led by the United States and 64 other countries in protest of the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

boycott and Virginia
One such example of shunpiking as a form of boycott occurred at the James River Bridge in eastern Virginia.
One such example of shunpiking as a form of boycott occurred at the James River Bridge in eastern Virginia, United States.

boycott and delegates
Convened in response to the Intolerable Acts passed by the British Parliament in 1774, the delegates organized an economic boycott of Great Britain in protest and petitioned the King for a redress of grievances.
The same day, SEIU, the Teamsters, UFCW and UNITE HERE announced that their delegates would boycott the AFL-CIO convention.
But the Massachusetts delegates threatened to boycott the convention hall if the choice was White, who as a Edmund Muskie supporter had fought sharply with the McGovern slate during the primary.

boycott and March
* March 24 – Marks the seventh successive year of the world wide boycott of all German exports initiated by front page declarations in Britain and the U. S. ' Judea declares war on Germany '
* March 24 – Jews call for a boycott of German goods.
In March 2005, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers ( CIW ) won a landmark victory in its national boycott of Taco Bell for human rights.
In March 2011, over 130 artists announced a plan to boycott the Abu Dhabi museum, citing reports of abuses of foreign workers, including the arbitrary withholding of wages, unsafe working conditions and failure of companies to pay recruitment fees to laborers.
At the first UPRONA Congress ( March 1960 ), Rwagasore demanded complete independence for Burundi and called on the local population to boycott Belgian stores and refuse to pay taxes.
Buddhist master Wei Chueh endorsed Lien on March 11 and also urged his followers to boycott the referendum.
The University of Johannesburg cut its ties with Ben-Gurion University in March 2011, but denied that it was an academic boycott of Israel.
On March 9, 1961, Anthony Anastasio, chief of the Brooklyn waterfront and its International Longshoremen's Association, marched in line with a picket group who identified themselves as “ The Federation of Italian-American Democratic Organizations .” In protest formation outside the American Broadcasting Company, ( ABC ) New York headquarters, they had come together to urge the public boycott of L & M, ( Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company ) products, and its Chesterfield King cigarettes, which sponsored " The Untouchables ".
In March 2010, Glover supported 375 Union workers in Ohio by calling upon all actors at the 2010 Academy Awards to boycott Hugo Boss suits following announcement of Hugo Boss's decision to close a manufacturing plant in Ohio after a proposed pay decrease from $ 13 to $ 8. 30 an hour was rejected by the Workers United Union.
Following the election, in which the UMP won all seats amidst an opposition boycott, he resigned as Prime Minister on March 25, 2008.
The party refused to sign the Tripartite Declaration of November 1991, and it chose to boycott the March 1992 parliamentary election, along with the Democratic Union of Cameroon, due to the government's failure to meet opposition demands, which included the establishment of an independent electoral commission to oversee the election.
On 2 March 2005, the Native Youth Movement Vancouver announced a boycott of John Trudell's music and poetry in retaliation for his testimony, and alleged that the FBI had killed Aquash.
The Bosnian Serbian assembly members invited the Serb population to boycott the referendums held on 29 February and 1 March 1992.
In March 2010, Kit Kat was targeted for a boycott by Greenpeace for using palm oil, which the environmental organization claimed resulted in destruction of forest habitats for orangutans in Indonesia.
Although a March 1991 referendum showed a large majority of Soviet citizens voting to retain the Union, its legitimacy was marred by a boycott from the Baltic republics.
He also refused to partake in a friendly against Egypt on 7 February 2007, but ended his self-imposed boycott a month later, and returned for Sweden's loss to Northern Ireland on 28 March.
In 1980, UPI Washington syndicated news reported that the United States Postal Service was "... investigating whether Rep. James H. Quillen, R-Tenn. illegally purcahsed hundreds of commemorative Olympic postage stamps after they were recalled " after the " stamps were ordered recalled last March 11 because of the U. S. boycott of the summer games in Moscow, and those stamps had been previously sold became collectors ' items.
Charles Cunningham Boycott ( 12 March 1832 – 19 June 1897 ) was a British land agent whose ostracism by his local community in Ireland gave the English language the verb to boycott.
* 12 March – Sweden announces a total boycott on trade with South Africa effective from October
The École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Montréal and McGill University undergraduates Students ' Society of McGill University joined the strike on March 18 for 24 symbolic hours, though the McGill boycott went largely unobserved and further action was rejected by the student body through an online poll.
It was scheduled to host the Anime Contents Expo, hosted by the Comic-10 Shakai in March 2011 to counter the Tokyo International Anime Fair as part of their boycott of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government under Governor Shintarō Ishihara, but both events were cancelled after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
Since March 2011, the strike and the call to boycott The Huffington Post was joined and endorsed by the Huffington Post Union of Bloggers and Writers ( HPUB ), the National Writers Union ( NWU ) and the Newspaper Guild ( TNG )
* March 21: The United States and its allies boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics ( July 19-August 3 ) in Moscow.
In March 2006 players and officials started to rebel against this controversial rule and a One Day International series between South Africa and Australia saw the players agree to boycott the rule.

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