Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Time honored tradition

Boycotts is known as "voting with your dollar".  Both Caesar Chavez and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr started boycotts.  Caesar Chavez started a boycott of table grapes to protest the working conditions and low wages of migrant farm workers and Dr. King started a boycott of the Montgomery Alabama bus boycott to protest segregation of "colored" people and whites in the 1960's south.  The Jews in Nazi Germany started a boycott of German businesses to protest antisemitism in the 1930's.  This nonviolent action started "krystalnaught", where Jewish businesses were ransacked and the windows were smashed.

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