If boycotts could change the system they'd be illegal

Publisher:  Upstream Journal, Canada
Year Published:  1996
Pages:  2pp   Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX14199

A ruling by the Ontario Court of Appeal says that boycotting by a grassroots group Friends of the Lubicon Lake Cree Nation of Daishowa paper products was illegal because it resulted in economic harm to the corporation. This is an example of a growing number of "SLAPP suits" Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation brought by corporations against activists.

Subject Headings

• Boycotts
• Clearcut Logging
• Consumer Protest
• Corporate Crime
• Freedom of Expression
• Indigenous Rights
• Injunctions
• Judicial Bias
• Justice System
• Legal Systems as Instruments of Oppression
• Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP)