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Introduction
Introduction
Boycotts have long been a form of expression and activism.
Boycotts work by denying businesses, organizations, or even entire countries of revenue by refusing to engage with them. This can be temporary - until they change their practices, or life-long depending on the situation. When enough people engage in a boycott together, these institutions have a history of caving in, and making changes.
Historic Examples & Their Impacts (or Lack!)
Historic Examples & Their Impacts (or Lack!)
Famous examples include the Montgomery Bus Boycott, sparked by Rosa Parks, which lasted for 13 months, and helped the black community fight back against racist rules.
Tips for Boycotting
Tips for Boycotting
Keeping Track of Multi-Business Boycotts
Keeping Track of Multi-Business Boycotts
Don't try to remember all of them at once!
Focus first on the things you buy the most, one at a time.
The goal is for the boycott to be sustainable for you, so you can stand your ground for months or even years without budging.
When You Already Own Something
When You Already Own Something
Don't throw away stuff you already bought, that's just wasting money for no reason.
If something you own is showing signs of age, or has broken, you might be able to find local repair options, or even be able to fix or refurbish the item yourself.
Choosing Alternatives
Choosing Alternatives
Don't forget to prioritize your smaller local independent shops, you'll need them and they need you, especially in times of economic hardship. Let the values that drive your boycott also help drive your choice of alternatives.
Sustainable Food Alternatives
Sustainable Food Alternatives
If you want to boycott animal products and the people who provide them, there are a variety of apps and other resources to help you find plant-based businesses near you!
Seeking out and supporting plant-based businesses, can help reduce your ecological footprint significantly, and help reduce the amount of money currently feeding a cruel, and racist food production system.
If your primary concern with our food system is that of reducing food waste and supporting fair wages for farmers, then consider signing up for your local Consumer Supported Agriculture or CSA program.
Farmers' markets are another great way to get money into the hands of the people who grow food locally. Each farmers' market has slightly different rules, but products are usually local made or grown from a fairly close distance, meaning reduced emissions from reduced transit miles.
Even if you live in an urban area with no personal space for a kitchen garden, you may be able to join or otherwise support your local community garden.
Non-Food Items
Non-Food Items
If you don't already own something, question if you really need to own that thing. Is it something you could borrow from someone you know, from a library, or some other lending source? Some places let you rent things like upscale clothing for special events, cars or other vehicles for road trips or other things you might not be able to do with a bus or bike.
Apps
Apps
Buycott This app allows you to choose specific causes to support. When you scan products, the app will give you a list of pros and cons so that you can pic according to your values, and in situations with limited choices, you can more easily "pick the lesser evil" with a reasonable idea of what each company stands for or fights against. Be careful not to select every single campaign available - for example there is a pro-Coch and anti-Coch Industry campaigns.
Which Companies & Organizations to Boycott
Which Companies & Organizations to Boycott
International
International
Oligarch Free Living: Oligarchs 📋 also Oligarch Free Living: Companies & Products 📋 Click the company or product names for more info, including a list of suggested alternatives to oligarch-owned.
North America
North America
USA
USA
The Companies, Oligarchs, & Brands Destroying America (list) 📋
Oligarch Free Living: Oligarchs 📋 also Oligarch Free Living: Companies & Products 📋 Click the company or product names for more info, including a list of suggested alternatives to oligarch-owned.
Abbott 🍼 (Infant Formula) makes the majority of infant formula in the country, lobbies against parental leave and they recently have been involved in lawsuits that caused illness or death in infants, from contaminated formula.
Amazon mistreatment of workers and
Mead 🍼 (Infant Formula) lobbies against parental leave
Nestlé 🍼 💧 lobbies against parental leave and the CEO is trying to have water declared as no longer a human right.
Starbucks ☕ "The Lakota People's Law Project Action Center is calling for a boycott of Starbucks due to its relationship with Nestle (see entry for Nestle in this list)." Employees and their allies have also called for boycotts because of unjust work contracts and union busting practices.
Target eliminated their DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) programs
Tesla 🚗Ties to Trump, pollution
Wendy's 🥪
Trump (+ His Allies) Boycott Lists
Trump (+ His Allies) Boycott Lists
Boycott Trump 📋includes Ivanka Trump and companies profiting from their relationships with Trump
Buycott This app includes a campaign against Trump Businesses
Yale: Over 1,000 Companies Have Curtailed Operations Russia Some Remain 📋
4:24 minute video about backlash and boycotts of Tesla cars.
2:25 minute video about backlash against Target
Organizations
Organizations
North America
North America
USA
USA
Coalition of Immokalee Workers "Join farmworkers in celebrating the unprecedented rights guaranteed for thousands of workers under the Fair Food Program, and demanding that Kroger, Wendy’s and Publix do their part to end modern-day slavery in the fields."
Grab Your Wallet Anti-Trump information
The Office of Antiboycott Compliance (OAC) "within BIS is charged with administering and enforcing the Anti-Boycott Act of 2018, Part II of the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 (ECRA), and the antiboycott provisions set forth in Part 760 of the Export Administration Regulations, 15 CFR parts 730-774 (EAR). These authorities discourage, and in some circumstances, prohibit U.S. companies from taking certain actions in furtherance or support of a boycott maintained by a foreign country against a country friendly to the United States (unsanctioned foreign boycott). U.S. companies must report to OAC their receipt of certain boycott-related requests for information designed to verify compliance with an unsanctioned foreign boycott. Prohibited activities include, inter alia, agreements by U.S. companies to refuse to do business with a boycotted country or with blacklisted persons for boycott-related reasons, furnishing information about any person’s business relationships with a boycotted country or with blacklisted persons, and implementation (by U.S. banking entities) of letters of credit that include prohibited boycott-related terms or conditions."
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