061 boycott of social affairs
"A spirit of resistance may also be expressed by a corporate refusal to attend certain social affairs, such as receptions, banquets, parties, concerts and the like. During the Nazi occupation, for example, the Danes refused to attend concerts of German military music.46"...
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British citizens protest apartheid South African sports tours (Stop the Seventy Tour), 1969-1970
The world voiced its opposition to the National Party’s apartheid government ruling in South Africa in a new way in 1964. International sports tours and matches had become a focal point of cultural identity for whites in South Africa. Victories, to t...
Guatemalans overthrow a dictator, 1944
Beginning in 1931 Jorge Ubico ruled Guatemala with an iron fist with the help of the vicious secret police. He admired Hitler’s tactics. By the summer of 1944, a similarly brutal dictator, Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, was overthrown in the face of...
Workers at Harvard University-owned DoubleTree Hotel win fight for unionization, 2013-2015
On 11 March 2013, SLAM and 70 percent of the approximately 112 nonmanagerial workers at the DoubleTree (housekeepers, banquet servers, front desk agents, van drivers, and Scullers Jazz Club employees) filed a petition stating their desire to be able ...
Israeli youth refuse compulsory military service, 2008-2009
Since its creation in 1948, the State of Israel has had to combat many hostile forces that have sought to bring about its destruction. Six wars, two intifadas\n\n,\n\nrocket attacks, and suicide bombings reflect the deep-seated tension between many I...
Spelman College students win divestment from apartheid South Africa, 1978-1986
Beginning in the 1970s anti-apartheid campaigns in the United States began to gain momentum as the governmental situation in South Africa grew increasingly worse. Across many fields there was a push to divest from South Africa in order to make the po...
Thai people successfully defend democracy against military coup, 1992
On February 23, 1991, a military group by the name of the NPKC, or National Peace Keeping Council, which was composed of Military academy graduates, sought to overthrow the current government in Thailand, which they believed to be a “parliamentary di...
Israeli Palestinians Protest to Remove Increased Surveillance Mechanisms in East Jerusalem, 2017
On 14 July 2017, three Israeli Palestinians from Umm al-Fahm killed two Israeli police officers in the sacred Temple Mount complex in East Jerusalem. Other surrounding officers immediately responded by fatally shooting the three Israeli Palestinian g...
Danish citizens resist the Nazis, 1940-1945
In 1940, at the brink of World War II, Denmark found itself declaring neutrality and cutting its troops in half. Despite this, the German war machine was not to be stopped. The German army invaded Denmark offering an ultimatum demanding submission. T...
High Point students protest for theater integration, 1960-1964
On 18 February 1960, the High Point Biracial Committee was formed to ease racial tensions in High Point. As the group gained more legitimacy, more facilities desegregated thanks in part to negotiations between the committee and city officials. By 196...
New Zealanders protest against Springbok rugby tour, 1981
Halt All Racist Tours (HART) was organized in New Zealand in 1969 to protest rugby tours to and from South Africa. Their first protest, in 1970, was intended to prevent the All Blacks, New Zealand’s flagship rugby squad, from playing in South Africa,...
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