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MSR News Online
April 24, 2018
As President and CEO of ONUS, Inc.-a national organization committed to Resolving Longstanding Problems that Seem Too Big to Fix, I firmly believe in the power of boycotts. Following the killing of Michael Brown, ONUS conducted one of the most effective and long-standing boycotts in Ferguson, MO,Ãâà...
Haaretz
April 23, 2018
“Criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitism. Boycotting Israel has elements of anti-Semitism,” Steinitz asserted, adding that Portman would not have boycotted China or India. Boycotting the ceremony because of Prime Minister Netanyahu's participation practically constitutes a boycott of Israel, Steinitz asserted.
The Guardian
April 22, 2018
Parent groups such as Let Our Kids Be Kids plan to boycott Sats this year by taking their children out of primary school when the tests start on 14 May. Last year a headteacher of a Leeds primary school locked the Sats papers in a cupboard and took the children to the Captain Cook Museum in WhitbyÃâà...
Gwinnettdailypost.com
April 22, 2018
Boycotts can also be inconvenient, causing us to forego products or services that actually make our lives easier or that we simply enjoy. ... for the aforementioned pinheads — not in the organized, formal boycotts that typically attract few followers and die out quickly, but in the soft boycott of rising apathy.
Chron.com
April 1, 2018
For many citizens, the news that Cambridge Analytica obtained millions of Americans' Facebook data and used it to help elect Donald Trump comes as no surprise. They see it as proof of what they already believe: that Facebook is an evil mega-corporation determined to exploit our personal information forÃâà...
CNNMoney
April 1, 2018
Laura Ingraham's show is the subject of an ad boycott effort because she mocked Parkland student activist David Hogg. David Zurawik and Anthony Atamanuik analyze the boycott strategy with Brian Stelter.
CNNMoney
April 1, 2018
More businesses seem willing to yank their advertising dollars from platforms that are involved in controversies. In the latest example, Laura Ingraham lost the support of some advertisers this week after she mockingly tweeted at David Hogg over college rejections. Hogg is a survivor of the Parkland schoolÃâà...
New York Times
April 1, 2018
SAN FRANCISCO — Ryan Knight, a Democratic activist in Los Angeles, called for a boycott of Apple in February because it hadn't responded to calls to delete a channel from the National Rifle Association from its streaming-video service after the Parkland, Fla., school shooting. “Dear @Apple,” Mr. KnightÃâà...
KING5.com
April 1, 2018
“To pretend to do something sexual in front of a crowd of women and children, that was not your average day here in North Bend,” he said. He stopped short of calling for a boycott of The Pour House. Keely Cofrin Allen was protesting too. She walked into the intersection and had a standoff with Kuwolsky.
Markets Insider
March 31, 2018
The nature of boycotts in America is shifting. This week, David Hogg, a survivor of the shooting in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, launched a boycott campaign of Laura Ingraham's Fox News show. Ingraham had tweeted about Hogg being rejected fromÃâà...
Vox
March 31, 2018
Laura Ingraham is taking a week off amid a brewing advertiser boycott over her comments about Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg. “I'll be off next week for Easter break with my kids,” Ingraham said on-air Friday. “But fear not, we've got a great lineup of guest hosts to fill in for me.” The FoxÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 29, 2018
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, also known as BDS, could potentially cost Israel up to $11.5bn a year. That's according to a partially redacted Israeli government report from 2013, which factored in the most extreme scenario of a full-blown EU boycott of Israeli products and a halt toÃâà...
KGMI
March 14, 2018
A self- described anti-capitalist organization in Bellingham has revived claims that a Sumas berry farm caused a farm worker's death last summer while trying to organize a boycott of the farm's products. The Capital Press reports the group Community to Community Development emailed an “Action Alert”Ãâà...
Haaretz
March 14, 2018
For the first time, the Knesset Ethics Committee has decided to bar an MK from traveling abroad on a trip subsidized by an organization that supports a boycott of Israel. Knesset member Yousef Jabareen of the predominantly Arab Joint List party was informed on Tuesday by committee chairman YitzhakÃâà...
The Olympian
March 14, 2018
A Thurston County judge has ruled in favor of former Olympia Food Co-op board members in a case challenging the co-op's boycott of Israeli goods. The case was filed in 2011 against co-op board members by five co-op members who argued the board violated its policies in enacting the boycott because itÃâà...
Haaretz
March 14, 2018
WASHINGTON –The Trump administration was pleased by international attendance of the conference on Gaza it held Tuesday, a senior White House official said, despite the Palestinian Authority's decline to participate. Representatives from 20 countries including Israel gathered in the White House for aÃâà...
Capital Press
March 14, 2018
A man holds a sign for Community to Community during an event Feb. 5 in the Capitol Rotunda in Olympia. The Bellingham, Wash., organization has revived unsubstantiated claims that a farmworker was worked to death and to boycott the farm's berries. A state investigation cleared the farm in the worker'sÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 14, 2018
Schaaf proposed expanding the bill to cover companies that boycott any country, not just Israel. He then went through a laundry list of countries that could face boycotts, starting with Afghanistan and continuing alphabetical order. He made it to the Bahamas before the bill was set aside. Several states haveÃâà...
CNBC
December 31, 1999
Cramer added that the boycott option threatens more than just tech companies. In the past, bad publicity around KFC led to protests that hurt Yum China's business. "Here's the bottom line: just because we're not talking about tariffs every day, that doesn't mean our trade dispute with China is somehow overÃâà...
CNBC
December 31, 1999
Boycotts 'China's ultimate weapon' in trade war. 7:11 PM ET Thu, 19 April 2018. Jim Cramer worries that organized boycotts against U.S. products in China could escalate tensions in the burgeoning trade war. Watch CNBC Live TVÃâà...
JSTOR Daily
December 31, 1999
After two weeks, the crops were in, the volunteers and troops were gone, and so too were the Boycotts. They went on a long trip, including a visit to the U.S. where they travelled under the name Cunningham. The Boycott affair was big news in Ireland, England, and elsewhere in the English-speaking world.
