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The word boycott entered the English language during the Irish "Land War" and derives from Captain Charles Boycott, the land agent of an absentee landlord, Lord Erne, who lived in County Mayo, Ireland. Captain Boycott was the target of social ostracism organized by the Irish Land League in 1880. As harvests had been poor that year, Lord Erne ...
Arab League boycott of Israel: 1977: Various: Nestlé: Nestlé's promotion of infant formula over breast milk in developing countries: Nestlé boycott [19] 1989: Liverpudlians: The Sun: The Sun's coverage of the Hillsborough disaster: Coverage of the Hillsborough disaster by The Sun § Merseyside boycott [20] [21] [failed verification] [22 ...
There have been campaigns advocating for a boycott of products made in China.Commonly cited reasons for boycotting China include the alleged low quality of products, human rights issues, territorial conflicts involving China, support for separatist movements within China, and objection to more specific matters relating to China, including the government's mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Xinjiang region produces one of the best cotton in the world and a US federal report published in 2022 estimated that cotton from Xinjiang accounted for roughly 87 per cent of China’s ...
From 17 July 1990 to 12 May 1993, a boycott supported by the NAACP and other civil rights groups urged visitors to steer clear, inflicting potentially tens of millions of dollars in lost tourism ...
I n the aftermath of the U.N. failing to pass a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, Palestinian activists and social media influencers are calling for a global strike on Monday, Dec. 11 ...
Cottage cheese boycott (2011) 2011 Israeli social justice protests; July 2019 Ethiopian Jews protest in Israel; Protests against Benjamin Netanyahu (2020–2021) 2023 Israeli judicial reform protests; 2024 Israeli protests; Italy. No Berlusconi Day (2009) 2012 Sicilian protests; 2013 Italian social protests; Sardines movement (2019–2020) Japan
The TikTok data center shows that #boycottstarbucks has been used in about five thousand posts generating over 42 million views in the past 30 days. Overall there are about 17,000 posts with this ...