“Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers
refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott
the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe. ”
|By The Bombay Chronicle, via Wikimedia Commons|
Midweek Motif ~ Boycott
"A boycott is an act of voluntarily abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country" as non-violent non-cooperation. Gandhi called for boycotts of foreign cloth and salt to break India's dependence on Empirical Britain in India's struggle for independence.
|Mahatma Gandhi spinning yarn for home-spun, in the late 1920s|
Your Challenge: Write a poem to describe a boycott, small or large.
- Here's some assistance from history: 10 Famous Boycotts by
- And as you may know, 2014 already has major boycotts around the Winter Olympics and Israeli products, among others.
Inspiration from Performance Poetry:
1. Post your boycott poem on your site, and then link it here.
2. Share only original and new work written for this challenge.
3. Leave a comment here.
4. Honor us by visiting and commenting on others' poems.
(Next week's Midweek Motif on 8/6/2014 will be Hiroshima.)