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== Past == {| class="wikitable" |- ! Time frame !! Participants !! Target !! Cause !! Main article !! References |- | March 1769 || [[Philadelphia]] merchants<br />[[First Continental Congress]] || [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]] || Opposition to colonial [[No taxation without representation|taxation without representation]] || [[Continental Association]] || |- | 1848 || [[Milan]] || [[Austrian Empire|Austria]] || Austrian [[Government monopoly|state monopolies]] || [[Five Days of Milan]] || |- | 1880 || [[Irish Land League]] || [[Charles Boycott]]<br/>(origin of the term ''boycott'') || Desired [[land reform]] in Ireland || || {{citation needed|date=May 2013}} |- | 1891 || [[Iran]]ian [[Shia Islam|Shia]] || [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]] || The [[Naser al-Din Shah Qajar|Shah]]'s granting of a tobacco monopoly to Britain || [[Tobacco Protest]] || |- |1891-1950 |Australian unionists and local residents |Local publicans and hotels around Australia |Poor wages and conditions for staff in hotels and the high cost of alcohol, accommodation and food | |<ref>{{Cite web |last=McIntyre |first=Iain |date=2022-05-02 |title=Beer Strikes: A History of Hotel Boycotts in Australia, 1900-1920 |url=https://commonslibrary.org/beer-strikes-a-history-of-hotel-boycotts-in-australia-1900-1920/ |access-date=2022-11-15 |website=The Commons Social Change Library |language=en-AU}}</ref> |- | 1902 || Jews in [[New York City]] || Kosher meat products || Price increases causing unaffordability || [[1902 kosher meat boycott]] || |- | 1904β1906 || [[Qing Dynasty|China]] || [[United States]] || The [[Chinese Exclusion Act]] of 1902, an extension of the original Act of 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act || || <ref>{{cite book |title=Hong Kong in Chinese History: Community and Social Unrest in the British Colony, 1842β1913 |last=Tsai |first=Jung-Fang |year=1993 |publisher=[[Columbia University Press]] |location=New York |chapter=Chapter 7}}</ref><ref name=bradley>{{cite book|last=Bradley|first=James|title=The Imperial Cruise: a secret history of empire and war|date=2009|publisher=Little, Brown and Company|isbn=978-0-316-00895-2|pages=[https://archive.org/details/imperialcruisese0000brad/page/276 276β297]|url=https://archive.org/details/imperialcruisese0000brad/page/276}}</ref> |- | 1905-1907|| [[Indian National Congress]]<br />[[Indian independence movement]] || [[British Raj]] || Opposition to the [[Partition of Bengal (1905)|partition of Bengal]] and a desire for Indian economic independence || [[Swadeshi movement]] || <ref>{{Cite journal |last=Keith schoppa |first=R. |date=2016-06-01 |title=<i>Makers of Modern Asia.</i> Edited by Ramachandra Guha. (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. 385. $29.95.) |url=https://doi.org/10.1111/hisn.12204 |journal=The Historian |volume=78 |issue=2 |pages=365β366 |doi=10.1111/hisn.12204 |issn=0018-2370}}</ref> |- | 1912 || [[Tunisia]] || Compagnie des tramways de Tunis, all [[Kingdom of Italy|Italian]] businesses in Tunis || [[Young Tunisians]] || [[Tunis Tram Boycott]] || |- | 1919 || [[Republic of China (1912β1949)|China]] || [[Empire of Japan|Japan]] || [[May Fourth Movement]] || [[Chinese boycotts of Japanese products]] || |- |1919-1922 |[[Indian National Congress]] [[Mahatma Gandhi]] |British Raj |Opposition to the [[Rowlatt Act|Rowlett Act]] and demands for self-rule |[[Non-cooperation movement (1919β1922)|Non-cooperation movement]] | |- | -1927 || American Jews || [[Ford Motor Company]] || Antisemitism by [[Henry Ford]] in [[The Dearborn Independent]] || || |- |1930-1934 |Indian National Congress Mahatma Gandhi [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] |British Raj |Demands for Indian independence |[[Salt March|Civil disobedience movement]] | |- | March 1933 || [[American Jewish Congress]]<br />International critics of [[Nazism]] || [[Nazi Germany]] || [[Antisemitism]] in Nazi Germany || [[Anti-Nazi boycott of 1933]] || |- | April 1933 ||[[Nazi Germany]]||[[History of the Jews in Germany|German Jews]]|| Anti-Nazi boycotts || [[Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses]] || |- | 1941β1951 || [[Kingdom of Iraq|Iraq]] ||[[History of the Jews in Iraq|Iraqi Jews]]||[[Farhud]] || || <ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13610702|title=Farhud memories: Baghdad's 1941 slaughter of the Jews|work=BBC News|date=June 2011 |access-date=19 January 2015}}</ref> |- |1942-1945 |Indian National Congress Mahatma Gandhi Jawaharlal Nehru |British Raj |Demands for Indian independence |[[Quit India Movement|Quit India]] | |- |1948 |[[Nii Kwabena Bonnie III|Nii Kwabena Bonne III]] [[Kwame Nkrumah]] |[[Association of West African Merchants]] |Price inflation |[[1948 Accra riots]] | |- | 1950 || [[Soviet Union]] || [[United Nations]] || The UN not recognising the [[People's Republic of China]] as 'China' || [[Soviet Union boycott of the United Nations]] || |- | 1955β1968 || [[African American]]s || Various || [[Racial segregation in the United States]] || [[Civil Rights Movement]]<br />[[Montgomery bus boycott]] || |- | 1961β1983 || [[West Berlin]] || [[Berlin S-Bahn]] || [[East Germany|East German]] operation of the S-Bahn || [[Berlin S-Bahn]] || |- | || [[United Farm Workers]] || [[Grape]]s and [[lettuce]] in retail [[grocery store]]s || Labor disputes || [[Delano grape strike]] || |- | 1960sβ1990 || Various academics || [[South Africa]]n universities || [[Apartheid in South Africa|Apartheid]] || [[Academic boycott of South Africa]] || |- | || Various || [[South Africa]]n [[produce]] || [[Apartheid in South Africa|Apartheid]] || [[Disinvestment from South Africa]] || {{citation needed|date=September 2012}} |- | 1966β1987 || Various || [[Coors Brewing Company]] || Anti-LGBT hiring practices Discrimination towards minorities and women and anti-unionism | [[Coors strike and boycott]]|| <ref>{{cite web |title=Coors Brewing Company Boycott |url=http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/boycotts,2.html |publisher=glbtq.com |access-date=22 June 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224224429/http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/boycotts,2.html |archive-date=24 February 2012 }}</ref> |- | Early April 1973 || Americans || Meat products || Increasing prices || [[1973 meat boycott]] || |- | 1984β1993 || [[INFACT]] || [[General Electric]] || Production and promotion of [[nuclear weapons]] || [[Corporate Accountability International]] || |- |1988-1994 |Australian Rainforest Action Groups |Companies importing rainforest timber from Malaysia to Australia |Prevention of the destruction of Indigenous owned rainforests | |<ref>{{Cite web |last=Trinh |first=Jennifer |date=2021-09-30 |title=Australian Rainforest Action Groups boycott Malaysian rainforest timber, 1988-1994 |url=https://commonslibrary.org/australian-rainforest-action-groups-boycott-malaysian-rainforest-timber-1988-1994/ |access-date=2022-11-15 |website=The Commons Social Change Library |language=en-AU}}</ref> |- | 1989β1998 || [[Rainforest Action Network]] || [[Mitsubishi]] || [[Rainforest destruction]] through its forestry activities || [[Boycott Mitsubishi Campaign]] || <ref>{{cite book |title=Death of A Thousand Cuts: Corporate Campaigns and the Attack on the Corporation |last=Manheim |first=Jarol |year=2000 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |isbn=978-1-135-64857-2 |chapter=Chapter 5|pages=93β98}}</ref> |- | 1990-1991 || African Americans in New York || Korean-American businesses || Racial tensions || [[Family Red Apple boycott]] || |- | 1991β1998 || [[Friends of the Lubicon]] || [[Daishowa Paper Manufacturing|Daishowa]] || Proposed logging of [[Lubicon Cree]] territory || || <ref>[http://tao.ca/~fol/pa/forestp/daifolp/pr980612.htm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160403130050/http://www.tao.ca/~fol/pa/forestp/daifolp/pr980612.htm|date=2016-04-03}} "Daishowa gives in β Boycott called off", Friends of the Lubicon, June 12, 1998, Retrieved 17 January 2016.</ref> |- |1996 |[[CDU/CSU]] |''[[Mission: Impossible (film)|Mission: Impossible]]'', [[Phenomenon (film)|''Phenomenon'']] and [[Chick Corea]] |Association of Corea, [[Tom Cruise]], and [[John Travolta]] with [[Scientology]], which is [[Scientology in Germany|not legally recognized]] in [[Germany]] | {{section link|Mission Impossible (film)#Marketing}} |<ref>{{Cite book|last=Wright|first=Lawrence |title=Going clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the prison of belief|date=2013|isbn=978-0-307-70066-7|location=New York|oclc=818318033}}</ref> |- | 1990sβ2000 || [[Andrew Vachss]] || [[Thailand]] || [[Prostitution of children]] in Thailand || [[Don't! Buy! Thai!]] || |- | 1998β2003 || [[United States|American]] gun owners || [[Colt's Manufacturing Company|Colt]]<br />[[Smith & Wesson]] || Colt and Smith & Wesson's cooperation with [[Bill Clinton]]'s [[gun control]] efforts || || <ref>{{cite book |title=Outgunned: Up Against the NRA β The First Complete Insider Account of the Battle Over Gun Control |first1=Peter H. |last1=Brown |first2=Daniel G. |last2=Abel |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-7432-1561-9 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/outgunnedupagain00brow/page/63 63β65] |url=https://archive.org/details/outgunnedupagain00brow/page/63 }}</ref> |- | 2001β2002 || [[Greenpeace]]<br />[[Friends of the Earth]]<br />[[People & Planet]] || [[Esso]]/[[ExxonMobil]] || Esso's [[climate change denial]] and lack of investment in [[renewable energy]] || [[Stop Esso campaign]] || |- | 2003 || [[Conservatism in the United States|US conservatives]] || Various celebrities, such as the [[Dixie Chicks]] || Celebrity opposition to the [[2003 invasion of Iraq]] || [[Dixie Chicks comments on George W. Bush]] || |- | 2005 || [[Association of University Teachers]] || [[Bar-Ilan University]]<br />[[University of Haifa]] || Bar-Ilan's operations in the [[West Bank]]<br />Haifa's discipline of a lecturer || {{section link|Association of University Teachers#Boycott of Israeli universities 2005}} || |- |2005-2006 |[[Greenpeace]] and Sea [[Sea Shepherd Conservation Society|Shepherd]] |Nissui Company, Sealord Tuna, Gorton's Seafood |Involvement of parent company in whaling | |<ref>{{Cite web |last=Leitner |first=Ryan |date=2021-09-07 |title=Greenpeace and Sea Shepherds force Japanese seafood company Nissui to sell stakes in whale hunting ships 2005-2006 |url=https://commonslibrary.org/greenpeace-and-sea-shepherds-force-japanese-seafood-company-nissui-to-sell-stakes-in-whale-hunting-ships-2005-2006/ |access-date=2022-11-15 |website=The Commons Social Change Library |language=en-AU}}</ref> |- | 2005β2013 || [[International Labor Rights Fund]] and others || [[Firestone Tire and Rubber Company]] || [[Forced labour]] and [[child labour]] on rubber plantations in Liberia || [[Firestone Natural Rubber Company]] || <ref>{{cite web|title = A Company That, Literally, Has Blood On Its Hands|work = Pacific Standard|date = 14 June 2017|url = https://psmag.com/economics/a-company-that-literally-has-blood-on-its-hands |first1= T. Christian|last1= Miller|first2= Jonathan |last2=Jones}}</ref><ref>[http://fpif.org/stopping_firestone_getting_rubber_to_meet_the_road/ "Stopping Firestone: Getting Rubber to Meet the Road", Foreign Policy In Focus, December 7, 2006 Retrieved October 8, 2017]</ref> |- | 1 May 2006 || [[Illegal immigration to the United States|Illegal immigrants in the United States]] || US businesses and schools ||[[Immigration to the United States|US immigration policy]]||[[Great American Boycott]] || |- | 2008 || [[Germany|German]] [[Trade union|labor unions]] || [[Nokia]] || Nokia's closing of a German plant || || <ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-nokia-idUSL1780747720080117 |title=German unions urge Nokia boycott over plant closure |first=Sylvia |last=Westall |date=17 January 2008 |publisher=[[Reuters]] |access-date=20 September 2012}}</ref> |- | 2008 || [[Stonewall (charity)|Stonewall]] || [[H. J. Heinz Company|Heinz]] || Heinz's pulling of a commercial featuring two men kissing || || <ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2188557/Gay-rights-group-boycotts-Heinz-after-men-kissing-row.html |last=Clout |first=Laura |title=Gay rights group boycotts Heinz after 'men kissing' row |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=24 June 2008 |access-date=31 March 2011}}</ref> |- | 2009 || Various countries || [[Durban Review Conference]] || Scope of the conference || [[Durban Review Conference#Boycotts]] || |- | 2010 || Various || [[BP]] || [[Deepwater Horizon oil spill]] || [[Reactions to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill#Public reaction]] || |- | 2010 || Various || [[Arizona]] || [[Arizona SB 1070|Racial profiling law]] || || <ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/arizona-immigration-law-sparks-huge-rallies-1.967969 | title=Arizona immigration law sparks huge rallies | publisher=[[CBC News]] | date=May 1, 2010}}</ref> |- | 2011 || [[Israel]]is || [[Tnuva]] || Rising food prices and price gouging || [[Cottage cheese boycott]] |- |2013-2020 |350.org |Numerous Australian banks, universities and local governments |Divestment from fossil fuels | |<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gulliver |first=Robyn |date=2022-10-10 |title=Australian Campaign Case Study: Divestment Campaign 2013 - 2021 |url=https://commonslibrary.org/campaign-case-study-divestment-campaign-2013-2021/ |access-date=2022-11-15 |website=The Commons Social Change Library |language=en-AU}}</ref> |- | 2018 || [[Morocco|Moroccans]] || Bottled water and dairy products || Price gouging and corruption || [[2018 Moroccan boycott]] |- | 2019 || Residents of [[Louisiana]] || [[National Football League]]<br />[[CBS Sports]] || Negligence in rules enforcement that kept the [[New Orleans Saints]] out of [[Super Bowl LIII]] || [[2018 NFC Championship Game]] ||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nola.com/saints/2019/02/super-bowl-ratings-plummet-as-who-dats-strike-back.html|title=Super Bowl ratings plummet as Who Dats strike back|first=Mike|last=Scott|work=New Orleans Times-Picayune|date=February 4, 2019|access-date=February 4, 2019}}</ref> |- | 2024 || Social media users, primarily [[TikTok]]ers || Various celebrities and social media influencers || Support for [[Israel]] in, or lack of action over, the [[Gaza war]] || [[Blockout 2024]] || |- |2025 |[[David Portnoy]] (withdrew), [[Christian McCaffrey]], [[Nick Bosa|Cheryl Bosa]], [[Bills Mafia]] |[[National Football League]]<br/>[[Fox Sports (United States)|Fox Sports]] |Alleged [[match fixing]] and officiating misconduct in favor of the [[Kansas City Chiefs]], particularly in the [[2024 AFC Championship Game]] |[[Super Bowl LIX#Boycott|Super Bowl LIX boycott]] |<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nalepinski |first=Kate |date=2025-01-28 |title=Petition calls for boycott of NFL games because of Kansas City Chiefs bias |url=https://www.newsweek.com/nfl-super-bowl-lix-2025-boycott-chiefs-eagles-2021760 |access-date=2025-01-28 |website=Newsweek |language=en}}</ref> |}
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