One of the most successful recent boycotts ended last April when three tuna canning companies announced that they would no longer buy tuna caught in nets that entangle dolphins.
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Collegian Staff Writer ... African-American and Latino University students will continue to "black-out" all McDonald's restaurants in the State College area indefinitely. ... "There is nothing they can do," said N. Eric Bigelow (graduate-African history), adviser for Groove Phi Groove Social Fellowship Inc.,
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In more recent years, boycotts have remained a regular part of Chinese society. In May 1999, when I happened to be in Beijing, I saw "Don't Buy KFC" and "Don't Drink Coke" posters go up on local campuses soon after American bombs hit the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade.
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In his most recent post, he compares Dave Eggers’ You Shall Know Our Velocity! with A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. In Heartbreaking Work, "the ideas and the innovations and the emotions all intertwined so neatly and impressively.
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All Things Considered reported Tuesday that Ford pulled ads for some of its cars from gay magazines at the same time a conservative Christian group called off its threatened boycott of Ford. ... The show takes a brief look at recent boycotts -- from political to commercial -- and what makes them successful or not.
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Recent boycotts of media outlets, launched mostly by grassroots groups concerned about anti-Israel bias, have prompted criticism from a few establishment Jewish organizations which have argued that because Jews and Israel have been the victims of boycotts, the tactic is illegitimate and immoral.
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The obvious place to start is really with the Left 4 Dead 2 boycotts and the fan reaction – were you guys anticipating that at all?; Chet Faliszek: Yeah, we weren’t anticipating that. We went with Left 4 Dead 2 to E3 and there was this thing where;
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Tech boycotts ... Boycotts are consumers doing judo on corporations: ... Boycotts are an overt way of linking lost sales to a particular issue.
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Not the outcome one would expect from two recent boycotts meant to protest Israel's handling of the Palestine situation, but that's what happened – thanks to the power of the Internet and a change in course by the Jewish community.
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News came in from the U.N. Barcelona climate talks last week that African countries had walked out on the negotiations. ... The boycott of the negotiations by African countries lasted one day and made a powerful statement about the status of the talks. ... Developed countries, comprising only 20% of the world’s population,
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