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Jackson, a very close friend of Herman's, spent much of the 1980s boycotting and threatening boycotts against firms whose minority-hiring practices he deemed inadequate.
In general, boycotts against works of the imagination as the primary focus of a political organization are suspect, whether it's the Catholic League against Dogma or the Brooklyn Museum, NOW against Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho , or gay activists against Silence of the Lambs , which is not to say that I don't think these things should be as vigorously debated as anyone cares to debate them, and in some cases more vigorously than that.
I suspect this will be a huge political issue within a few years, and five to ten years from now, after the boycotts and hoopla, we'll all be eating very strange (as we currently perceive it) foods.
The industry wants to make concessions, but the NRA threatens the gun-makers with boycotts if they give an inch.
See, e.g., §504(a)(1) (reapportionment litigation); §504(a)(4) (local, state, and federal lobbying); §504(a)(7) (class action lawsuits); §504(a)(12) (training programs for, inter alia, boycotts, picketing, and demonstrations); §504(a)(14) (litigation with respect to abortion).