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Old 11-11-2007, 22:15   #53
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Re: An article that I couldn't help smiling at...

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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris View Post
They might well have done but I would say that they were started by a few dedicated individuals and that those individuals had to take their protests out into the wider world to make their presence felt, because they'd get sod all support from the vast majority of students. Most of the student protesters who I knew at college had traditional sexist attitudes towards "chicks". And, as you have said, gay rights have been achieved in the UK thanks to this government.
Yes but from small acorns....

I remember being at an Oxford college in the late seventies, and being lectured about the evils of Del Monte, and their business dealings, and therefore indirect support, for the apartheid regime in South Africa.

Did the student boycotting of companies like Barclays and Del Monte, as well as the lack of sales for the artists who played in Sun City, make a difference?

I guess we'll never know for sure, though international sanctions did help to hasten the end of an evil time in history.
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