Boycott! Poster Exhibit - First Unitarian Church - Worcester

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First Unitarian Church, Worcester, MA, November 3-December 31, 2013Curator's note: Image shows the posters of Doug Minkler, Nidal El Khairy and Amer Shomali

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The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG) have created a traveling poster exhibition highlighting diverse historical boycott movements from the 1950st to the present. "Boycott! The Art of Economic Activism", features 61 posters from more than twenty boycotts, including the Montgomery Bus Boycott, United Farm Workers’ grape and lettuce boycott, divestment from South Africa to protest Apartheid, boycotts of corporations using sweatshops, the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divest and Sanctions, and many others.