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- GRAPEVINE, Page 13Who's Boycotting Whom?
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- By PAUL GRAY/Reported by David E. Thigpen
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- The shop-till-you-drop tendencies of America's consumer
- society have lately been checked by an activist counterimpulse:
- a decision not to buy, patronize or otherwise reward. The
- reasons for nonspending vary, as do the targets. A checklist
- of some of them:
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- NIKE
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- Chicago's Operation PUSH wants people not to buy this brand
- of sports shoes. PUSH demands that Nike put an African American
- on its board, subject to PUSH approval. Nike spokesman
- superstar Michael Jordan is disavowing the boycott.
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- MILLER BEER
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- Homosexual-rights groups have launched a no-suds campaign
- to protest a contribution by Miller's parent company, Philip
- Morris, to the re-election campaign of Jesse Helms. The Senator
- favors tobacco subsidies but not gays.
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- MIAMI
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- That's right, Miami, an entire city, is facing a movement
- by black organizations to hold conventions elsewhere. Reason?
- In June the city commission refused to honor visiting Nelson
- Mandela because of his comments supporting Fidel Castro.
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- FOLGERS
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- Several national peace groups have urged a ban on the
- top-selling brand of coffee in the U.S. for importing beans
- from El Salvador and thereby, so the argument goes, fortifying
- the right-wing regime and prolonging a 10-year civil war.
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- ESQUIRE
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- Feminist groups, including the National Organization for
- Women, were outraged by the June cover story called "Your Wife:
- An Owner's Manual." They have organized campaigns urging
- subscribers to cancel and advertisers to withdraw support.
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