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| From 1879 to 1882, Ireland's first Land War pitted rural tenants, reeling from years of economic downturn, against the rental policies of wealthy and often-absentee English landlords. Caught in the crossfire was former English army officer "Captain" Charles Boycott, whose position as a land agent for one such landlord in County Mayo came with the responsibility of evicting delinquent tenants. Organized locals made life miserable for Boycott by behaving coldly toward him in public, refusing to provide him with goods and services, and harassing his employees into quitting, a process dubbed "boycotting" by parish priest John O'Malley. | |
| After Boycott's complaints about the situation were published in London's The Times in October 1880, around 50 volunteers from Ireland's northern border journeyed to County Mayo to help the short-staffed officer harvest his farm crops. However, these charitable souls required the protection of a Royal Irish Constabulary regiment, whose members proceeded to trample the grounds and poach the livestock during their two-week stay at Boycott's property. Although the volunteer mission was successful (albeit at an estimated cost of £10,000 to harvest £350 worth of crops), Boycott's abandonment of his farm in late November marked a victory for the tenants and the effective method of persuasion that rapidly earned recognition under its new name. | |
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Film audiences boycotted a killer Santa Claus in 1984. | |||||||||
| The box-office success of Halloween spawned a boom of slasher flicks in the late 1970s and early '80s, providing audiences with the now-familiar trope of a villain violently wreaking havoc on an unwitting community. While the antagonists took on a variety of forms across these largely indistinguishable and forgettable productions, a segment of the population drew the line at the concept of the killer Santa portrayed in 1984's Silent Night, Deadly Night. Calls for a boycott were especially loud in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where one mother formed an advocacy group called Citizens Against Movie Madness (CAMM) that organized protests of the film's screenings. Even famed critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert were swept up in the outrage, singling out the producers of the "sick, sleazy, and mean-spirited" movie by name on their TV show. The protests seemingly paid dividends, as the film's distributor, Tri-Star, yanked the feature from theaters after just a few weeks. Then again, Silent Night, Deadly Night became a popular home video release before spawning four sequels. | |||||||||
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