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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 ...
The UN not recognising the People's Republic of China as 'China' Soviet Union boycott of the United Nations: 1955–1968: African Americans: Various: Racial segregation in the United States: Civil Rights Movement Montgomery bus boycott: 1961–1983: West Berlin: Berlin S-Bahn: East German operation of the S-Bahn: Berlin S-Bahn: United Farm Workers
A protest (also called a demonstration, remonstration, or remonstrance) is a public act of objection, disapproval or dissent against political advantage. [1] [2] Protests can be thought of as acts of cooperation in which numerous people cooperate by attending, and share the potential costs and risks of doing so. [3]
The list of stores is called the #GrabYourWallet boycott list, and includes retailers that carry both Donald and Ivanka's products, such as clothing and home furnishings.
The Baton Rouge bus boycott was a boycott of city buses launched on June 19, 1953, by African American residents of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who were seeking integration into the system. In the early 1950s, they made up about 80% of the ridership of the city buses and were estimated to account for slightly more than 10,000 passengers based on ...
Three of the largest civil rights groups in the country issued Florida travel advisories in an effort to draw attention to the presidential candidate’s far-right campaign, Alex Woodward reports
An election boycott is the boycotting of an election by a group of voters, each of whom abstains from voting. Boycotting may be used as a form of political protest where voters feel that electoral fraud is likely, or that the electoral system is biased against its candidates, that the polity organizing the election lacks legitimacy, or that the candidates running are very unpopular.
Here is a timeline of the drama that has been following the national coffee chain and an explanation as to why so many people are not buying from the store. Boycotts over tensions in the Middle East