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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 ...
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.
An anti-boycott, counter-boycott, or buycott is the excess buying of a particular brand or product in an attempt to counter a boycott of the same brand or product. Anti-boycott measures could also be in the form of laws and regulations adopted by a state to prohibit the act of boycott among its citizens.
Charles Cunningham Boycott (12 March 1832 – 19 June 1897) was an English land agent whose ostracism by his local community in Ireland gave the English language the term boycott. He had served in the British Army 39th Foot , which brought him to Ireland.
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.
A BDS demonstration, with anti-BDS protesters nearer the camera, outside the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, April 2017. Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) is a nonviolent [2] [6] Palestinian-led [7] movement promoting boycotts, divestments, and economic sanctions against Israel.
If you are having trouble keeping track of all the consumer boycotts swirling around, you are not alone. A quarter of Americans are boycotting a product or company they had spent money on in the ...
You may have noticed on your social media page a trend of more and more people are calling for a boycott to Starbucks, leaving many confused. The protests are stemming from a series of issues so ...