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C. C. Boycott
I was sad last night and so looked for a classic movie I had never seen before. I found Captain Boycott starring Stewart Granger --I'll admit I watched it for Mr. Granger more than the title but was pleasantly surprised. Indeed it was about the origin of the word boycott. Watch it and get fired up! Resistance does work it just takes longer than we would hope. This is the link to, and a quote from, the NYT 1947 movie review.
Briskly, this "Captain Boycott" tells us how tenant farmers in Parnell's Irish Land League resisted an outrageously haughty landowner, Captain Boycott by name, with a technique of non-cooperation when he persisted in bleeding them for rents, and how this treatment, in the end, was more effective than an advocated plan of violence.
http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E04E2D71E3AE233A25755C0A9649D946693D6CF
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