Extremely Successful Boycotts through history....

[Flabbergasted]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott

Historical Milestones (Chronological)

1769, in opposition of "taxation without representation," Colonial boycott of British trade goods.

1830 - boycott of slave-produced goods.
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
t
he boycott of British goods in December 1921 by Mahatma Gandhi know as the swadeshi policy. Gandhi also urged people to boycott British educational institutions and law courts, to resign from government employment, and to forsake British titles and honours.

by African Americans during the U.S. civil rights movement, late 1950s and 1960s

the United Farm Workers union's grape and lettuce boycotts

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

[upi402]

1. Coors beer

My email had a suggestion to pick... say, EXXON to target with a boycott. They might feel the need to lower prices and add refining capacity to recoup market share with low prices.

[Flabbergasted]

2. Why don't you post that?

[upi402]

3. don't want to get banned

i just log off

[Joe for Clark]

7. You kind of missed a few.

I look to Shay's rebelliion - shortly after the passage, or during it - of the final constitutional convention.

Cause I think we are there.

They can't "add" to the refining base - it is NOT there. I know.

That Exxon et al had a hand in what is about to happen, of course they did - they really are the morons friend. And they are his worst enemy, too.

We are a tar and feather democracy - the more I understood it, the prouder I was to be an American.

It is a Karma thing - do you believe what goes around comes around??

It is coming around.

SO - Exxon cannot do a goddamn thing unless it can compete with, say, Standard - catch 22.

God Bless the US - and all those things we learned as kids -

Cause -"What goes around comes around"

Joe

[ashling]

11. Shays rebellion was before the Constiitutional Convention

It was not really successful as far as bringing about its goals, but did get convince many conservatives in New England that a stronger government would, in fact, be a GOOD thing.

[Joe for Clark]

17. This happened in 1789, as I recall -

During the last convention -

Of course it failed - It is on the History Channel.


The significance is not that it failed - it is because we are here now.

Daniel Shay had an interesting bitch - truly.

It cost about 600,000 lives a few decades later.

The concept was the same, it really was.

DO I think we are there - I do - for different reasons.

No, Shay was not sucessful - but why do you think we read about it in history books today, exactly??

Joe

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Montgomery, AL bus boycott in the 50s launched the civil rights movement.

[Mend]

5. the 1990 threatened Idaho potato boycott really worked...

they were going to outlaw abortion and we were going to stop buying their potatoes...we won.

[Jack Rabbit]

6. Suggestion

A boycott and divestment campaign against all companies profiting from the war in Iraq and those that continue to support the regime of war criminals in the US.

[Flabbergasted]

8. Exactly what I've been thinking....

[Jack Rabbit]

10. I hasten to add . . . a world wide boycott and divestment campaign

All humanity in this one together.

[Flabbergasted]

12. Hey I've been pondering this for a while. Care to chat about it. Or you

just another dreamer...

[Jack Rabbit]

13. Sure, I'm a dreamer

I dream of peace and justice. How about you?

[Flabbergasted]

14. I'm a dreamer as well....

[Jack Rabbit]

15. Let's see what we can dream up

First, we have to identify the tragets.

Then, we have to publicize.

I have no idea how the people who organize boycotts measure success. Do you?

[Flabbergasted]

16. Message on the way.....

[Lefty48197]

9. Add the Detroit newspaper strike/boycott

A few years back, both of the Detroit newspapers, who were operating under a joint-operating agreement, were struck by their printers. It was a long and bitter strike. "No scab newspapers" bumperstickers were very common in the area.
Prior to the strike, the Detroit Free Press had daily sales of 531,825 issues, saw their sales drop to 348,838 as of Sept '04, and I believe the sales have still not recovered.
The Detroit News had daily sales of 354,403 issues prior to the strike, but saw their sales drop to 224, 215 as of September 2004, and I believe their sales have not recovered either.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

18. Great post. These are lessons...

...we must revisit and apply!!!