Raffel called the boycott movement misguided, rather than wrong.

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Mr Capriles said his movement would boycott the audit because the electoral authorities had not accepted his demand for voter signatures and fingerprints to be examined.

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Although Rosa Parks is remembered as the NAACP organizer who sparked the 1955 bus boycott and helped give birth to the Civil Rights Movement, she was an anti-rape activist long before the boycott.

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Shortly afterward ministers from his movement announced that they would boycott cabinet meetings.

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Fund managers and analysts cite the example of the movement in the 1980s to boycott corporations involved in South Africa during apartheid.

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We overlook it because the MIA and its bus boycott served as strategic tools in a broader social movement.

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Paige, who is now a business development director for the sports arm of an engineering firm, is also not convinced by the effectiveness of the boycott, which came close to destroying the Olympic movement and led to a tit-for-tat snub of the 1984 Los Angeles Games by the Soviet Union and its allies.

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We've just marked the 50th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, the beginning of the non-violent protest movement in the civil rights struggle.

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Some analysts said that Arizona was compelled to adopt the amendments in reaction to a growing movement among civil rights activists and others to launch an economic boycott of the state.

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