Now you Know: Hybrid: Hunger strike, meet Consumerism.

Some may call it boycott: You don't buy goods from a certain store to show your disapproval of their style of business.

I have been "boycotting" Wal-Mart for about three years now.

My friends find it as a running joke "HEY ANGELA! YOU CAN FIND THAT CHEAPER AT WAL-MART!! LET'S GO!."

it's ALMOST as funny as the poorly-constructed vegetarian jokes that have been coming at me for about 7 years now.

JUST ALMOST!!

(Wondering why I boycott Wal-Mart? Read previous post entitled "Blame game, Blame game, who is to blame?" OR watch this amazing documentary to get the fuller version. and PLEASE enjoy all the other videos in the side columns.)

i disgress... Here we go.... Back to my point.... what were we talking about??? Snookie on the cover of Rolling Stone??

OH RIGHT!! I forgot.. I don't give a FUCK! (but apparently it's more important than the rolling waves of revolution that might end up changing history as we know it.)

Right. so.....

1. HUNGER STRIKES

This dame: Alice Paul
Who:
leader of the National Woman's Party (NWP)
What:
1. DEMANDED (not pleaded) for women's right to vote
2. Led first nonviolent civil disobedience campaign in front of white house that lasted 18months with 1,000 women.

October 20, 1917- ALICE PAUL ARRESTED AND SENTENCED TO 7 MONTHS IN PRISON
Her reaction? Hunger strike!! Lasted 22 days

THEY'RE REACTION?

Force fed Alice and other women 3 times a day for 3 weeks straight
details: tube through nose and mouth, pumping food into their stomachs.

AMERICA'S REACTION?
LIVID!! newspapers couldn't get enough of it.

END RESULT:

1.November 17- Suffragist released because of public pressure
2.President Wilson FINALLY announces his support for the suffrage movement
3.June 4, 1917- Senate Passes 19th Amendment, women's right to vote

Conclusion: SUCCESS

Information: Woman in History

2. BOYCOTT

These guys: Ezell A Blair, Jr, Franklin E. McCain, Joseph A. McNeil, David L. Richmond

Who:
Four BLACK college students at Greensboro, North Carolina AT&T college (not the phone service! Agricultural and Technical College)

what:

1.Performed a nonviolent sit-in at an all-white cafe named Woolworth on February 1, 1960
2. Inspired by this, people in other Southern states started to perform the same form of protest, overcrowding some places so much that NOBODY COULD PURCHASE GOODS FROM THE STORE.
a. not only sit-ins, but boycotts

THEY'RE REACTION:

whites reacted poorly, blacks maintained civility. Often, the students would sit quietly and read for their next day's schooling.

(stay with me here)
END RESULT:
-Woolworth breaks down and starts to serve the blacks. Many more city cafes followed suit.
-This sparked a civil rights movement that eventually led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, desegregating public facilities.

CONCLUSION: SUCCESS

Information and photos: Smithsonian National Museum of American History

ok uummm i think that's enough... digest this for now.

Coming soon: My very own hybrid of the two. It will probably look something like this...