List of boycotts - Definition

This is a list of boycotts.

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 US competitors of the 1980 Moscow Olympics
• by Soviet competitors of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics

Current boycotts

• PABAAH

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

See also: moral purchasing, non-violent resistance, election boycott