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From Bud Light to Target: Boycotts take off. The strategy has worked for the political right. In campaigns using hashtags and slogans like “go woke go broke,” boycotts waged by conservative ...
Sinéad O'Connor Was Once Accused of Child-Trafficking Because of Kids' Different Last Names, Joked 'I Was a Bit of a Slut' Marina Watts. January 31, 2025 at 3:55 PM. Michel Linssen/Redferns.
Ex-Judge Michael Conahan, the jurist at the center of the so-called “Kids-for-Cash” scandal, was among 1,499 commutations Biden granted in the largest presidential act of clemency on a single day.
The word boycott entered the English language during the Irish "Land War" and derives from Captain Charles Boycott, the land agent of an absentee landlord, Lord Erne, who lived in County Mayo, Ireland. Captain Boycott was the target of social ostracism organized by the Irish Land League in 1880. As harvests had been poor that year, Lord Erne ...
The Children's Crusade, or Children's March, was a march by over 1,000 school students in Birmingham, Alabama on May 2–10, 1963. Initiated and organized by Rev. James Bevel, the purpose of the march was to walk downtown to talk to the mayor about segregation in their city. Many children left their schools and were arrested, set free, and then ...
A naming law restricts the names that parents can legally give to their children, usually to protect the child from being given an offensive or embarrassing name. Many countries around the world have such laws, with most governing the meaning of the name, while some only govern the scripts in which it is written.
A Kentucky mother, convicted of allowing two of her children to be subjected to repeated physical and sexual abuse at the hands of her former boyfriend, was sentenced earlier this week to 30 years ...
Don't! Buy! Thai! was a campaign initiated in the early 1990s by child welfare advocate and author Andrew Vachss to boycott goods and services produced in Thailand until its government introduced formal and practical reforms to significantly curtail the prostitution of children. The organization of Don't! Buy!