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Boycotting?Solvency AdvocateLP 97 – United States Libertarian Party, http://abcdunlimited.com/liberty/forge/race.html, 6/26/15 BRoche The Libertarian Party has launched a national campaign to abolish the government's system of racial classifications, and is urging Americans to refuse to disclose their race on census forms in the year 2000. "For 20 long years, the U.S. government has demeaned every American by pigeonholing us according to the color of our skin," said the party's national chairman, Steve Dasbach. "In three years, when the census takers ask about our race, we hope Americans will stand up and say: No more. Tell these fill-in-the-blank bureaucrats that your race is none of the government's business." The party launched the campaign this week when the federal government, after a three-year study, decided not to abolish its five official racial classifications. Instead, government bureaucrats said multiracial Americans should check several boxes, such as black and white, on the 2000 census form. The goals of the Libertarian Party's "Say No to Racial Classifications" campaign are to build public awareness of how politicians exploit racial classifications to further divide the nation along racial grounds, and to eliminate them from all government forms, said Dasbach. "We're telling Americans: Stop and think before you check that box," Dasbach said. "If millions of Americans withheld their racial data from the government, the politicians' framework for American Apartheid would crash to the ground." To spread the word, the party is enlisting the support of a network of activists and registered voters across the country and is mounting a nationwide media blitz. The government's current five "official" racial categories, created by the Office of Management and Budget in 1977, are white, black, American Indian/Eskimo, Asian/Pacific Islander, and Hispanic. Federal agencies use the classifications to bestow benefits such as jobs, low-interest loans, and college scholarships. "Sadly, the government of a nation dedicated to liberty and equality under the law is using arbitrary racial characteristics as a wedge to pry Americans further apart," Dasbach said. Even the courts are getting into the act, and have become America's latest racial battleground, Dasbach noted. In March, for example, an Egyptian immigrant implored a federal court to change his government-mandated racial classification from white to black. The man, Mostafa Hefny of Detroit, insists that he is black because his ancestors come from the ancient black kingdom of Nubia, which is now part of Egypt and Sudan. But the government insists that he is white. In an attempt to get himself reclassified as black, Hefny explained to the court that his skin is darker than General Colin Powell's, who is officially classified as black. "Why is the government so obsessed with the color of Hefny's skin?" Dasbach asked. "Because politicians are desperately fighting to preserve racial categories so they can preserve their power to hand out favors." Dasbach encouraged American politicians to learn from other nations with more progressive racial policies -- such as South Africa. "A decade ago, the U.S. government imposed trade sanctions to pressure the South African government to repeal its system of racial classification called Apartheid," he said. "Wouldn't it be ironic if South Africa, which has since repudiated government-sponsored racial discrimination, now imposed sanctions against the United States for the same reason?" Fortunately, if the Libertarian Party's campaign is successful, American politicians won't have to rely on a foreign government to teach them racial tolerance, Dasbach said. "Every single American can strike a blow for a colorblind society by saying 'no' to the census takers and 'no' to racial classifications," Dasbach said. "We're all Americans -- what else does the government need to know?" Empirical solvency/political change – GermanyVan Efferink 5/1 – Geopolitical Analyst, http://www.exploringgeopolitics.org/interview_hannah_matthew_germany_census_boycott_police_tactics_oppression_biopolitics_of_populations_nazi_aggression_rote_armee_fraktion_raf/, 6/26/15 BRoche The specific trigger was a paragraph in the law passed for the 1983 census that set out extremely loose guidelines for the sharing of personal data from census returns between different state agencies. Activist groups involved in peace, nuclear and environmental issues at the time picked up on this in part because they were already facing quite intrusive and intimidating state surveillance in the public and organisational spaces through which they conducted their campaigns. However, concern about the indiscriminate sharing of census data facilitated by the new electronic technologies spread well beyond the activist core quite quickly in the Spring of 1983. Many mainstream citizens and organisations began to declare their intent to support the proposed boycott, and national media began to explore the issue of the census’s impact on data protection in some depth. Before the groundswell of boycott support could be put to the test, however, the Constitutional Court surprised everyone by temporarily halting the census in response to a lawsuit by two Hamburg attorneys, acknowledging that the larger constitutional implications of electronic information technology had not yet been adequately studied. Eight months later, in December of 1983, the Court ruled that parts of the census law were in fact unconstitutional, and that the government had to return to the drawing board. This ruling not only became a watershed for data protection law throughout Europe but also set the stage for a more protracted and bitter boycott movement in 1987, when the government was again ready to count the people. This time the count did go through, but the struggle became a stage for working through a wide range of unresolved tensions in West German politics, and for clarifying some key political dynamics peculiar to the then-nascent ‘information age’ (see below). Ways to boycottVan Efferink 5/1 – Geopolitical Analyst, http://www.exploringgeopolitics.org/interview_hannah_matthew_germany_census_boycott_police_tactics_oppression_biopolitics_of_populations_nazi_aggression_rote_armee_fraktion_raf/, 6/26/15 BRoche In 1983 there was no real consensus about how to carry out the boycott. Different boycott initiatives recommended everything from ‘accidental’ coffee spills on the census forms to political agitation in apartment buildings, to the so-called ‘hard boycott’. The hard boycott involved clipping all identifying information off the forms and turning them in blank to ‘alternative collections points’, that is, local pubs, bookshops and cafes of the alternative ‘scene’. These collection points would then count the blank forms and return them to statistical offices in ‘recycling actions’. A much better organised version of the hard boycott was adopted by most boycott initiatives in 1987, leading to the publication of running national totals of blank forms in a ‘boycott barometer’ during the enumeration. In both 1983 and 1987, another important strategy was to focus on the recruitment of enumerators. The hundreds of thousands of enumerators the state needed to carry out the census were often seconded from state agencies, with volunteers making up the balance. But boycott initiatives urged those pressed to become enumerators to find grounds for refusal, to act as ‘Trojan enumerators’, knocking at doors not to collect information but to inform residents about the boycott, or indeed to sign up, go through the trainings and then quit just before the count, thereby crippling the census. In 1987, enough enumerators were eventually found to carry out the count, but the rules had to be bent in some boycott hot-spots such as Hamburg and West Berlin. More broadly, demonstrations, public meetings, media editorials, petitions, in short, the whole panoply of protest methods, were brought into play. The left-wing national daily ‘Die Tageszeitung’ was particularly active in coordinating both the 1983 and the 1987 movements. There were even some isolated incidents of violence, including the bombing of a survey office. A few enumerators were beaten and robbed of their census materials, leading to predictable but unsuccessful attempts by state officials to paint all boycotters as potentially violent. In general, the Green Party, which had just attained seats in the Bundestag during the 1983 boycott movement, was a much more prominent player in 1987, when it could bring significant experience and resources to bear in helping the boycott initiatives coordinate their activities. Accordingly, the Greens were bitterly villified by state officials and census supporters. Race boycotts goodRamsey 14 – Reporter for a Black News service, http://newsone.com/2964648/some-boycotts-are-effective-but-not-for-the-reason-you-think/, 6/26/15 BRoche In 1955, Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat on a bus to a white person led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a massive boycott by black citizens of the Montgomery public bus system. The effort was organized by Martin Luther King, Jr. and was wildly successful. For months, people walked, cycled and carpooled in the city. Black taxi drivers even lowered their fares in support of the boycott. In all, the Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted a little over a year and, ultimately, led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared segregated buses to be unconstitutional. Boycotting was also employed in the 198os and early 90s to combat apartheid in South Africa. For years, many nations and organizations refused to have any financial dealings with South Africa while the country’s apartheid policies were in place. More recently, in 2001, Toyota was forced to cancel an ad campaign that featured a black person with a tooth inlaid with the Toyota insignia. Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition charged the company with reinforcing negative stereotypes and threatened a boycott. Toyota not only cancelled the ads but responded further by extending its relationships with minority-owned businesses. Directory: file -> view view -> Western Europe after wwii view -> Author study: paul fleischman view -> Qpa1 7ela study Guide view -> Arctic Oil/Gas Neg view -> November 1970 Approximately 150,000-500,000 deaths Bhola Cyclone Bangladesh view -> Grade Level: 6 Unit of Study: Caribbean glce view -> Citation: Duffield, Katy view -> Table of Contents Lesson # view -> Chinese Wind Energy Disad Download 0.87 Mb. Share with your friends:
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