List of boycotts

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This is a list of boycotts.

Contents 1 Historical Milestones 2 Sporting boycotts 3 Current boycotts 3.1 Political boycotts 3.2 Consumer boycotts 4 Past boycotts 5 See also 6 External links

Historical Milestones

• March 1769, in opposition of "taxation without representation," merchants in Philadelphia joined the boycott of British trade goods.
• the boycott of Captain Charles Cunningham Boycott, an English land agent in Ireland who was subject to a boycott organized by the Irish Land League, 1880
• the boycott of British good by Mahatma Ghandi know as the swadeshi policy – the boycott of foreign-made goods, especially British goods. Linked to this was his advocacy that khadi (homespun cloth) be worn by all Indians instead of British-made textiles. Gandhi exhorted Indian men and women, rich or poor, to spend time each day spinning khadi in support of the independence movement.[3] This was a strategy to inculcate discipline and dedication to weed out the unwilling and ambitious, and include women in the movement at a time when many thought that such activities were not 'respectable' for women. In addition to boycotting British products, Gandhi urged the people to boycott British educational institutions and law courts, to resign from government employment, and to forsake British titles and honours.

• by African Americans during the U.S. civil rights movement, late 1950s and 1960s (especially the Montgomery bus boycott)
• the United Farm Workers union's grape and lettuce boycotts
• the American boycott of British goods at the time of the American Revolution
• the Indian boycott of British goods organized by Mohandas Gandhi
• the Arab League boycott of Israel and companies trading with Israel
• the boycott of South Africa by a large part of the world's countries during its apartheid period

Sporting boycotts

• the People's Olympiad was planned for Barcelona as a venue for athletes boycotting the 1936 Summer Olympics being held in Nazi Germany.
• by African states at the 1976 Summer Olympics to protest the participation of apartheid South Africa
• the United States and Allies boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics to protest the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
• by Warsaw pact states of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, in retaliation for the 1980 boycott.
• led by North Korea and followed by Cuba, Ethiopia and Nicaragua of the 1988 Summer Olympics being held in Seoul, South Korea.
• Country Latinamerican (Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay) in Soccer Boycott. 1938 FIFA World Cup.

Current boycotts

Political boycotts

• Tax resistance - a boycott of governments by their subjects
• PABAAH
• The Home Depot

Consumer boycotts

• Boycott Aruba, a boycott of Aruba following the 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway.
• Arab economic boycott of Israel
• Boycott of Muslim goods
• Boycott of Chinese goods
• United States, An ongoing boycott of the United States by various groups for a number of reasons including trade, foreign policy, or globalisation.
• Claremont Resort.
• Stop Esso campaign.
• Boycott of McDonalds on December 3 in response to softwood lumber dispute[1].
• Nestlé boycott.
• Boycott of the Kellogg Company by Intactivists (opponents of circumcision).

Past boycotts

• The AUT Boycott of Israeli Academics.
• Gun owner's boycotts of Smith and Wesson and Colt for their acquienscence to Bill Clinton's gun control initiatives.

See also

• moral purchasing
• non-violent resistance
• election boycott

External links

• List of current UK-related boycotts at EthicalConsumer.org
• badcorp.org