Boycott

Gays Boycott the Democrats - Finally

Jennifer Vanasco | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dnc, Boycott, Americablog, Gay Rights, Activism, Maine Gay Marriage, John Aravosis, Democrats, Gay Marriage, Barack Obama, Politics News

Gays and lesbians raise a large amount of funds for the DNC. Until our major issues are addressed, it is time we close the gayTM.

Read Post

What the Gay Boycott of the DNC Can Do

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dnc, Boycott, Americablog, Two Party System, Obama Gay Rights, Obama, Gay, Democrats, Democratic Party, Lgbt, LGBT Politics, Gay Rights, Ralph Nader Presidential Candidacy, LGBT Rights, Fundraising, Gay Issues, Gay Marriage, Ralph Nader, Politics News

There is a gay boycott of the Democratic Party afoot, and it has the potential to turn into something that leads to real change in American politics.

Read Post

The Strange Bedfellows of the Census Boycott

Daniel Cubias | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: 2010 Census, Latinos, Immigration Reform, Boycott, Michele Bachmann, Halloween Costumes, Illegal Immigration, Crazy Census Conspiracies, Immigration, Hispanics, Miguel Rivera, Politics News

I expected the neocons to get upset over the census. What surprised me is that some Latino groups have joined people like noted nutjob Congresswoman Michele Bachmann in calling for a boycott.

Read Post

Latinos Must Think Before Boycotting the Census

Hector E. Sanchez | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: 2010 Census, Undocumented Immigrants, U.S. Constitution, Boycott, Latino Voters, Hispanic, Politics News

Boycotting the census is not the right way to put pressure on the administration. Calling for a census boycott would only be a severe setback, hardly a way to advance the Latino agenda.

Read Post

Boycotts, Brides, and 50,000+ Reasons Leonard Cohen Played in Israel

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 10.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Boycott, Entertainment, Leonard Cohen, Vegan, Israel, Canada, Spain, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Entertainment News

It's a big commitment for artists to come to Israel. I can't think of one big act that has come to Israel without pro-Palestinian organizations boycotting against them. With all the bad press, who wants to be bothered?

Read Post

The Cowardice, the Vanity, the Sin of Boycotting Israel

Bradley Burston | Posted 09.28.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Yom Kippur, Israel, Leonard Cohen, Bradley Burston, Boycott, World News

There is something in Ajami's nuance that helps explain why the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel has proven a wholesale failure.

Read Post

Glenn Beck's "Deep-Seated Hatred" for Obama and Why Fox News Won't Budge

Karl Frisch | Posted 11.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Conspiracy Theories, Bill Shine, Van Jones, Boycott, Racist, Glenn Beck Fox News, Lou Dobbs, Race, Barack Obama, ColorOfChange.Org, Glenn Beck Van Jones, Cnn, Fox & Friends, Racism, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Brian Kilmeade, Media News

If Bill O'Reilly has the "no-spin zone," Glenn Beck seems to have the "sponsor-free zone" of late. In fact, at least 62 companies have ceased advertising on his Fox News program in recent weeks.

Read Post

Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' on at Whole Foods

Sybil Adelman Sage | Posted 09.23.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Theodore Olson, Health Care Reform, John Mackey, Whole Foods, Boycott, Comedy News

The people have spoken, well, vegans and the Prius set. Those who who buy pesticide-free and sustainable foods are boycotting what had been their hou...

Read Post

Dollywood Boycott Falls Flat

Dave Cooper | Posted 09.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Dolly Parton, Tennessee, Dollywood, Mountaintop Removal, Boycott, Miners, Coal, West Virginia, Green News

Raised in the Smoky Mountains of east Tennessee, Dolly Parton is the public face of Smoky Mountain tourism. So why on earth would anyone want to boycott Dollywood?

Read Post

Why Conservatives Might Boycott the Gap thanks to Perez Hilton

Stephanie Green | Posted 09.19.2009 | Style

Read More: Boycott, The Gap, Perez Hilton, Perez Hilton Assaulted, Miss California Perez Hilton, Carrie Prejean Perez Hilton, Perez Hilton will.i.am, Style News

Conservative Groups, who object to Mr. Hilton's lewd language and treatment of Carrie Prejean, are aghast and threatening to boycott in the midst of the back to school shopping season.

Read Post

Walmart, CVS, Best Buy, GMAC Among 8 Major Companies To Pull Ads From Glenn Beck Show

Huffington Post | Posted 09.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Fox News, Gmac, ColorOfChange.Org, Boycott, Media Maters, Racism, Glenn Beck, Business, Advertising, Barack Obama, Media News

Walmart, Best Buy, CVS, and GMAC are among eight major advertisers that have confirmed pulling their advertising from Fox News' "Glenn Beck" program i...

Read Whole Story

Defending Dolly from Big Coal Bullies

Rob Perks | Posted 08.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Dollyparton, Appalachia, Boycott, Tennessee, Dolly, Mountaintopremoval, Dollywood, Dirtycoal, Lamaralexander, Mtr, Mountaintopmining, Green News

This misguided boycott is akin to a neighbor refusing your dinner invitation unless you agree to let him burn down your house afterwards.

Read Post

First Anniversary of Boycott Against Doug Manchester

Fred Karger | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: California Gay Marriage, Boycott, Doug Manchester, California Gay Marriage Ban, Manchester Hyatt Boycott, Gay Marriage, Californians Agaist Hate, Same-Sex Marriage, Politics News

The gay and lesbian community is in the fight of our life, and we are not going to take it anymore. We want the world to know who supports us and who opposes us.

Read Post

Why the Yes Men Said "No"

The Yes Men | Posted 08.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jerusalem, Holocaust, Boycott, Gaza, West Bank, Judaism, Naomi Klein, Film, Israel, The Yes Men, Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno, The Yes Men Fix the World, Entertainment News

We know our decision won't get us too many friends in Israel, even among progressives. But we have to do what seems right to us, and hope the message gets through.

Read Post

Michael Jackson... The Man Who Rocked The Desert

Faisal J. Abbas | Posted 07.27.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Arab World, Michael Jackson, Pop Music, Boycott, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Madonna, Popular Culture, Moonwalk, World News, Michael Jackson Dies, Entertainment News

In the 80's and 90's, Saudi record stores didn't sell -- in public -- Michael Jackson material, claiming his albums were banned. Yet, in secret, his music was sold and exchanged extensively.

Read Post

DNC-LGBT Fundraiser Boycott Called For Over White House DOMA Defense

AMERICAblog | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Equality Caucus, Lgbt, Dnc, Boycott, LGBT Rights, Gay Rights, Defense of Marriage Act, Doma, Tammy Baldwin, Democratic National Committee, Gay Marriage, Jared Polis, Barney Frank, Politics News

Pam Spaulding has published an email detailing just who's coming to the DNC's $1,000 (and up) a head gay fundraiser next week. I suspect those folks a...

Read Whole Story

Forget Paper vs. Plastic -- For the American Right, Gay Marriage is the New Green

Tanya M. Acker | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Boycott, Bill O'Reilly, Gay Marriage, Proposition 8, Politics News

Notwithstanding its efforts to ignore, marginalize, or dismiss environmental science, the American right is creating an environmental movement of its own.

Read Post

Hispanic 2010 Census BOYCOTT Planned

azcentral.com | Daniel GonzáLez | Posted 05.18.2009 | Home

Read More: 2010 Census, Boycott, Hispanic, Hispanic, 2010 Census, Boycott, Home News

With the 2010 census less than a year away, officials have launched a campaign to build trust with undocumented immigrants amid growing concern that m...

Read Whole Story

Jamaica: A Killer Vacation For Gays

Wayne Besen | Posted 05.12.2009 | World

Read More: Jamaica, Glbt, Boycott, Murder Music, Homosexual, Gay, Red Stripe Beer, Myers Rum, World News

If we do not stop the hate in the one place we can -- Jamaica -- it will continue to be open season against gays across the world.

Read Post

Why Did Republicans Boycott the Senate Judiciary Hearing on Hamilton?

Nan Aron | Posted 05.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senate, Boycott, Judge Hamilton, Court of Appeals, Judiciary Committee, Obama Nominees, President Obama, Politics News

We can't let the Republicans block nominees who don't support their agenda. We can't continue to have a country where there is one set of rules for a few at the top and a different set for the rest of us.

Read Post

Oh, The Humanity! Godless Huffington Post Commenters Wickedly Destroying Conservatism

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Liars, George Bush, Andrew Breitbart, National Review, President Obama, Leftist, Communist, Free Speech, Moral Relativism, Obama, Liberal, Jed Babbin, Cold War, Lunatic Ravings, Republican, Bush, Reality-Based, Internet, Goons, Cold War Is Over, Irony, Dirty Tricks, Vandalism, Irony-Impaired, Rush, Socialist, Moveon, Huffington Post, Limbaugh, Totalitarianism, Ends Justify the Means, Marketplace of Ideas, Boycott, Ideologue, Rush Limbaugh, Blog Readers, Commie, Propaganda, Hugh Hewitt, Conservative, Right Wing, Blog Commenters, Ironically-Challenged, Election, Wicked, Barack Obama, Ironic, Fair Play, Media Matters, Blog, Chris Weigant, Instapundit, Dogma, Humanity, Nixon, Censorship, Breitbart, Crazytown, Crazytalk, Media News

Due to a genetic deformity among conservatives, they are seemingly born without being able to spot irony in all its delicious forms.

Read Post

Murdoch and Fox Portray Black Men as Terrorists on 24

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 04.13.2009 | Media

Read More: New York Post Monkey Cartoon, Karl Rove, Rush Limbaugh, Black President, Revenge Fantasy, Palin and Secession, Chimp, Liberal, Conservative, Sarah Palin, War Crimes, Sean Hannity, Ron Robinson, Jefferson Davis, Rupert Murdoch, Alaska Secessionist Party, Abc, Disney, 24, Fox, Fantasy, Phillip Goff, White Spiritual Supremacy, White Liberal, White Supremacy, Race, Plausible Deniability, Racism, Dittoeads, Gop, Implicit Bias, Stereotype, Fantasy Bond, Robert Firestone, Frantz Fanon, Racial Categorization, Ashley Todd, Ny Post Chimp Cartoon, Eric Holder, Boycott, Media News, World News, News of the Day, Race Consciousness, Top News, Angry Black Man, Socio-Spiritual Liberation and Justice, Cultural Consciousness, Fundamentalist, Candace Shivers-Morgan, Landmark Forum, Racist, Landmark, White Fantasy Bond, Twenty-Foured, White Privilege, White Entitlement, Guidance Church, Agape International Spiritual Center, Huffington Post, Agape, Self Empowerment, Black Tax, Self Help, Reparations, Latest Headlines, White Fantasy Bond With Obama, Whiteness, Rev. Michael Beckwith, Barack Obama, Rev. Nirvana Gayle, Evolution of Consciousness, Media Analysis, Media Matters, Lynching, Fox News, Lf, Implicit Social Cogntion, Implicit Race Bias, Implicit Association, Emotional Freedom, Happy Victimizer, Santa Barbara, Linkedin, Facebook, Scapegoat, Glendon Association, Media News

The first two Presidents on 24 were Black men. The first was assassinated and the second was responsible for allowing nuclear bombs into the country, causing mass destruction.

Read Post

Boycott McDonald's: Every Big Mac Eaten Attacks Workers

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 01.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Boycott, Efca, McDonald's, Human Rights, Unions, Working Life, Labor Rights, Business News

On the eve of the international recognition Human Rights Day, McDonald's announced it will launch a massive campaign to defeat the Employee Free Choice Act So, let's respond in kind: boycott McDonald's.

Read Post

"Milk"-ing the Gay Rights Setback to the Box Office?

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 12.27.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Fernando Espuelas, Cinemark Theatres, Boycott, Proposition 8, Milk, Mormons, Gay Marriage, Movies, Entertainment News

With the release of Gus Van Sant's new bio-pic, MILK, covering the life and times of gay activist Harvey Milk, Prop 8 and gay rights are the focus of ...

Read Post

First, You Get Mad

Terrance Heath | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: California Gay Marriage, Marriage, Gay Rights, Boycott, Proposition 8, Anti-Gay Constitutional Amendments, Protest, Act-Up, Direct Action, Gay Marriage, Stonewall, Civil Rights, Same-Sex Marriage, Politics News

Wow. It's kind of unbelievable, really. You take something away from people, and they get angry. Take away hard won rights, and equal protection for t...

Read Post

Boycott

HuffPost Social News connects you with friends and the news