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Originally Posted by Sol-Skysailor
Are these true?
What are your views on these actions?
(Sorry if repeating old news. Behind the times. Only just read it.)
Among the boycotts of US goods and travels:
1)
Quote from http://www.theaustralian.com.au/high...afb4c1dc9b69a4
Thousands of academics from around the world have vowed to boycott conferences in the US over Donald Trump’s travel ban.
The development comes after some 27,000 academics — led by 51 Nobel laureates including Australian National University vice-chancellor Brian Schmidt — put their names to another petition against the executive order.
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Quote from http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/...tt-us-meetings
Scientists urge boycott of U.S. meetings
The Organizing Committee of the Commission G2 Massive Stars, part of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), announced today it would not hold any meetings in the United States as long as the ban on entry by persons from seven Muslim-majority countries is in place. The committee asked its parent organization to do likewise after IAU said it was “profoundly concerned by the impact the recent U.S. executive order, and possible reactions to it from other countries, could have on international collaboration in astronomy and the mobility of scientists.”
------- the Organizing Committee and an astronomer at Armagh Observatory in the United Kingdom. The committee’s seven members “agreed in a minute” to launch the boycott, |
More boycotts like this and in other fields, and it would be almost impossible for him to govern with any authority ; in fact it would be downright embarrassing for him!!
bigjoe.