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Jul 30, 2012	Christian groups allege threats to religious freedom in anti-Chick-fil-A campaigns QUOTE: He has no First Amendment right to our approval, or to our money for his sandwiches. But can cities use zoning to combat unpopular speech? Unfortunately, when we chip away at the First Amendment, unpleasant unintended consequences are not far behind.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Dec 23, 2010	U.S. Approved Business With Blacklisted Nations QUOTE: Despite sanctions and trade embargoes, over the past decade the United States government has allowed American companies to do billions of dollars in business with Iran and other countries blacklisted as state sponsors of terrorism...At the behest of a host of companies — from Kraft Food and Pepsi to some of the nation’s largest banks — a little-known office of the Treasury Department has granted nearly 10,000 licenses for deals...	New York Times
Apr 29, 2010	The Jewish Question: British Anti-Semitism QUOTE: [Anthony Julius] is a truth-teller, and authentic enough to stand against the English literary and academic establishment, which essentially opposes the right of the state of Israel to exist, while indulging in the humbuggery that its anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism.	New York Times
Oct 24, 2009	Why Russians Ignore Ballot Fraud QUOTE: The apparent brazenness of the fraud and the absence of a spirited reaction says a lot about the deep apathy in Russia, where people grew disillusioned with politics under Communism and have seen little reason to alter their view.	New York Times
Jul 17, 2008	Donation to Same-Sex Marriage Foes Brings Boycott Calls QUOTE: A hotel owner’s $125,000 donation to support a ballot initiative banning same-sex marriage in the state has become a flashpoint, with opponents calling for a boycott of two of his hotels and supporters highlighting the donation in a fund-raising letter. The hotelier, Doug Manchester, donated the money to support the collection of signatures to qualify the initiative, which would amend the state’s Constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage, for the November ballot.	New York Times
Feb 05, 2008	A Corporate View of Mafia Tactics: Protesting, Lobbying and Citing Upton Sinclair QUOTE: [Smithfield Foods] has filed a racketeering lawsuit against the union, on the theory that speaking out about labor, environmental and safety issues in order to pressure the company to unionize amounts to extortion like that used by organized crime...But what [Smithfield's lawyer] calls extortion sounds quite a bit like free speech.	New York Times
Nov 01, 2007	Radio host rallies blacks for boycott QUOTE: Black Americans are being urged to keep their money in their wallets Friday to protest injustice and racism. Radio host and organizer Warren Ballentine hopes a "national blackout" of businesses will send Washington a message and he rejects criticism that his campaign is un-American.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Oct 17, 2007	Public Radio Station Halts Planned Parenthood Spots QUOTE: The decision has also started a heated public debate, which Planned Parenthood has encouraged, over whether the station’s news content is independent and, ultimately, whether the station should separate itself from Duquesne, which founded it 58 years ago.	New York Times
May 30, 2007	Bush tightens squeeze on Sudan: His new sanctions Tuesday seek to press the regime but not deepen the Darfur crisis. QUOTE: Economic sanctions announced May 29 are an expansion of existing US financial restrictions and reflect US impatience with continued obstinacy on the part of Sudan's president, Lt. Gen. Omar Hassan al-Bashir, on allowing international peacekeepers into his country .... In Sudan, analysts said that the new US sanctions would be ineffective at best, and could harm further progress on solving the violence in Darfur.	Christian Science Monitor
Aug 18, 2006	After 30 Years, Libya Can't Get Its Planes, Might Get Repair Bill QUOTE: After Libya paid $42 million for eight of the hulking cargo jets, the country's relationship with the United States crumbled and the transfer of the planes was blocked....A recent thaw in the countries' relations might set the planes free.	Washington Post
May 30, 2006	Academic Anti-Semitism: Boycotting Israeli scholars in Britain’s universities. QUOTE: This weekend, as expected, and despite an international petition drive launched by Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, Britain’s National Association of Teachers in Higher and Further Education (NATHFE) voted to boycott Israeli academics.	National Review
May 12, 2006	Out of Money but Not Resources: With Aid Cut Off, Palestinians Turn to Each Other to Get By QUOTE: Like the rest of the 150,000 Palestinian civil servants, the teachers, bureaucrats and policemen here had not received a paycheck for nearly two months, the result of a freeze in international aid following Hamas's victory in January legislative elections.	Washington Post
Apr 10, 2006	Wal-Mart Resists Pressure in 'Brokeback' DVD Sales QUOTE: Randy Sharp, the director of special projects for the American Family Association, is leading the charge against "Brokeback Mountain" with an e-mail petition urging Wal-Mart customers to shun the store in protest.	New York Times
Jan 07, 2006	Asia Keeps Burmese Industry Humming: Trade, Both Legal and Illegal, Blunts Effect of U.S. Economic Sanctions QUOTE: Burmese industry and exports were on the decline in the 1990s as a result of progressive attempts by the United States to tighten economic sanctions on Burma, protesting its suppression of democracy. But the effort to pressure its rulers has been vastly undercut by the enthusiasm of other countries, especially Burma's Asian neighbors, to tap its cheap workforce and abundant natural resources...	Washington Post
Dec 15, 2005	Ford to Advertise In Gay Press: Reversal Follows Condemnation QUOTE: Ford Motor Co. yesterday said it will resume advertising Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles in gay-themed publications, following an outpouring of fury from gay groups that said Ford's recent decision to pull the ads fed anti-gay sentiment and emboldened enemies of gay rights.	Washington Post
Nov 06, 2005	How We Help: Choosing Causes With Caution QUOTE: Corporate giving experts say that more than ever before, companies are being forced to weigh the political correctness of each social issue or charitable effort they take on.	Washington Post
Oct 26, 2005	The Thread That Unraveled Segregation: The Thread That Unraveled Segregation QUOTE: 'It was no secret that a transportation boycott would happen in Montgomery, Hackney says. And yet, no one knew it would be Rosa Parks. No one knew what day -- Monday? Thursday? -- she'd refuse to get up so a white man could have her seat. "The day she sat down and didn't get up was a decision she herself had made,"'	Washington Post
Aug 12, 2005	Worker right or workplace danger?: NRA and employers square off over Oklahoma law that allows the practice QUOTE: The boycott is the latest skirmish in an expanding battle over gun control. Now that many states allow citizens to carry concealed weapons, the NRA is pushing to eliminate remaining restrictions on where those guns can be taken. Gun-control groups - and some employers - are fighting back...	Christian Science Monitor
Aug 06, 2005	Threat to Divest Is Church Tool in Israeli Fight	New York Times
Dec 06, 2004	From churches, a challenge to Israeli policies: Some may wield an old financial tool - divestment - to register concern about peace prospects. QUOTE: "A vote by the Presbyterian Church (USA) to use economic sanctions against certain companies doing business with Israel - namely those that profit from the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza - has set off a quiet firestorm within the American religious community."	Christian Science Monitor
Mar 23, 2004	Oil for Food: Annan Seeks to Blunt Allegations QUOTE: Secretary General Kofi Annan is pressing reluctant members of the Security Council to help investigate charges of corruption in the oil-for-food program that it ran in Iraq...	New York Times
Mar 16, 2004	IEEE members furious: Members protest engineering society's actions to comply with US trade embargoes QUOTE: Members from nonembargoed countries are mad about several actions IEEE has taken—and hidden from them, they say—over the past 2 years: abruptly dropping embargoed members' services, not approaching other scientific organizations for help in fighting one particularly objectionable embargo regulation...	BioMed Central
Jul 15, 2003	Grease shows why actors' union matters QUOTE: So if the producers of Grease are demanding the same price that they would for a union cast, you might assume they're paying said cast at the union level....you're paying the same...	Toronto
Apr 16, 2003	U.S. Boycott Being Felt, French Say QUOTE: "It is necessary to say to those who are unhappy with the positions of French diplomacy that they are free to criticize, but they must keep products and services of our enterprises outside their quarrel."	Washington Post
Apr 11, 2003	Burk Fights the Battle She's Given QUOTE: ...the fight is not about golf, it's about power, specifically, the exclusion of women from a club that includes scores of the nation's most powerful men.	New York Times
Apr 06, 2003	Product Protesters Face Tough Going: Confusion Over Corporate Identities QUOTE: With passions inflamed, and customers holding widely disparate opinions, multinationals are downplaying disagreeable associations in the markets they serve while emphasizing the depth of their local roots.	Washington Post
Mar 25, 2003	U.S. EBay Seller Refuses Canucks QUOTE: On eBay, the highest bid wins -- unless the item on sale is a laser printer from CompAtlanta and the bidder happens to be Canadian.	Wired
Mar 13, 2003	Money talks loudest in Augusta debate QUOTE: With The Masters a month away, talk is not of Tiger Woods taking yet another walk up to the final green in pursuit of his fourth green jacket. Instead husbands and wives are debating whether a private club such as Augusta National should be forced to accept a female member.	USA TODAY
Feb 07, 2003	Confederate Flag Boycott Tests Presidential Candidates' Resolve QUOTE: The Democratic candidates for president are struggling these days to work their way through a bit of a headache: How to campaign in South Carolina...without running afoul of an economic boycott intended to force the removal of a Confederate flag from the State House grounds.	New York Times
Jan 06, 2003	Animal Fans' Secret Recipe Is to Boycott Restaurant QUOTE: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the animal welfare group, begins a global boycott on Monday of KFC to seek an improvement in the lives and deaths of 700 million chickens...	New York Times
Nov 19, 2002	Plea for boycott unfair to Woods QUOTE: Relying on athletes to become activists and agents for social change is not only remarkably naive, I'm not even sure it is something we need, much less desire.	USA TODAY
Sep 25, 2001	National Writers Union Reveals New York Times Blacklist QUOTE: The New York Times has created an internal blacklist that directs editors throughout the paper not to hire writers who won a historic decision in the U.S. Supreme Court...	National Writers Union Website
Aug 12, 2001	N.A.A.C.P. Pickets Hotel QUOTE: Discrimination complaints [against Adam's Mark Hotel] arose in 1999 during the Black College Reunion weekend in Daytona Beach.	New York Times
Aug 10, 2001	Toyota Earmarks {$8} Billion for Diversification Efforts QUOTE: ...Toyota (news/quote) said today that it would commit nearly $8 billion over the next decade to diversify its work force and reach out to more minority suppliers and customers.	New York Times
Jul 08, 2001	Accountability in Argentina QUOTE: The indictment last week of Carlos Menem, the former president of Argentina...encouraging advance for legal accountability in a country where the powerful have too often enjoyed impunity from prosecution for their misdeeds.	New York Times
Sep 01, 1999	How newspapers are selling their credibility to advertisers QUOTE: ...a subtle, and sometimes not so subtle, erosion of the limits that editors used to place on advertiser influence? The overwhelming consensus at editors' and publisher's meetings across the country is that the "wall" between advertising and editorial has been replaced by a line.	Stay Free!

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