America began with boycotts. Angry about Britain’s tax raises, the historian T. H. Breen writes, American colonists saw their refusal to purchase British goods as a “reflexive response to ...

On the evening of December 16, 1773, 250 years ago today, New England colonists disguised as Native Americans calmly boarded three ships in Boston Harbor and dumped 90,000 pounds of tea overboard.

Sales of Tesla electric cars fell sharply in the last three months as boycotts over Elon Musk's political views continue to keep buyers away, a significant development given expectations that anger wi ...

The colonists had a clear goal, but the teas boycott's failure to reach it demonstrated that something about their approach needed to change. Their movement needed to be bigger. Which brings us to ...

As the 5th ISA Forum of Sociology approaches, scheduled for July 6 to 11 at Mohammed V University in Rabat, the International ...

Since at least 1773, when colonists threw a Tea Party in Boston Harbor to protest taxation without representation, American consumers and activism have gone back like babies with pacifiers. In ...

From the colonists who planned to boycott tea in opposition to the Tea Act to the 35-year boycott against South Africa in opposition to Apartheid, boycotting is part of our DNA, ...

The boycott of Walmart, which runs from May 20 to May 26, is organized by The People's Union, the same grass-roots group that coordinated the one-day economic consumer blackout on Feb. 28.

Boycotts were only as good as the willingness of Americans to fulfill them. In this, the First Continental Congress delivered beyond anything that had been known in the Americas before.

Inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement, the US civil rights movement and the Indian anti-colonial struggle, BDS aims to make boycotts effective by focusing on selected companies and ...

France boycotts COP29 after Azerbaijan’s ‘colonies’ attack. By Nicolas Camut | 11/14/2024 06:09 AM EST . Azerbaijan’s president blamed Emmanuel Macron’s government for deadly violence in ...

PLYMOUTH, Mass. — Native Americans in Massachusetts are calling for a boycott of a popular living history museum featuring Colonial reenactors portraying life in Plymouth, the famous English ...