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List of boycotts
This is a list of boycotts.
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Historical milestones
- the boycott of Captain Charles Cunningham Boycott, an English land agent in Ireland who was subject to a boycott organized by the Irish Land League, 1880
- by African Americans during the US civil rights movement, 1960s
- the United Farm Workers union grape and lettuce boycotts
- the American boycott of British goods at the time of the American Revolution
- the Indian boycott of British goods organized by Mohandas Gandhi
- the Arab League boycott of Israel and companies trading with Israel
- the boycott of South Africa by a large part of the world's countries during its apartheid period
Sporting boycotts
- by African states at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- by the US and some allied states of the 1980 Moscow Olympics
- by Warsaw pact states of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics
Current boycotts
Consumer boycotts
- the boycott of buying products from large companies (like Coca Cola and McDonald's)
- the Nestle boycott
- the boycott of French products by American consumers
- the boycott of American products
- Stop Esso campaign
- Claremont Resort Boycott
- the boycott of Israeli products by pro-Palestinian groups
- a general boycott of buying products which contain animal products, see vegan
See also: moral purchasing, non-violent resistance, election boycott
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