On AlterNet: boycott

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Immigrant Grassroots Organizations Say Arizona Boycott is Not Over

Valeria Fernandez, New American Media. September 14, 2011.

A Hispanic advocacy group decided to call off the boycott initiated in response to brutal anti-immigrant legislation, but grassroots organizations were determined to stay put.

The Fall of Glenn Beck: How an Imaginative Boycott Stripped the Right-Wing Screamer of Sponsors and What We Can Learn from Its Success

Mark Engler, AlterNet. July 4, 2011.

Commentators have been downplaying the role of a Color of Change campaign against Beck. They are wrong. Beck is gone. Give the boycotters their due.

Israeli Beauty Products Company Ahava Complicit in the Sins of Occupation

Alex Kane, AlterNet. September 18, 2010.

Ahava is owned by entities deeply involved in Israel's settlement project in the occupied West Bank. Activists are fighting to show it can't hide its dirty side.

Naomi Klein Shows You Can Boycott Israel Without Cutting Off Dialogue Over Palestine

Cecilie Surasky, AlterNet. September 1, 2009.

An interview with Klein and Israeli publisher Yael Lerer on why boycotting Israel will pressure the country to live up to international law.

Whole Foods Looks and Acts More Like Wal-Mart Than a 'Sustainable' Natural Foods Store

Rob Smart, AlterNet. August 28, 2009.

Lost in the uproar over Whole Foods CEO John Mackey's controversial venture into the health care debate, is a bigger, though less subtle story.

Is Glenn Beck Finished?

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet. August 24, 2009.

A Color of Change campaign has cost Beck's show 36 advertisers so far. Will Fox decide he isn't worth it?

Want to Boycott Fox News Sponsors? Here's a List

Bill Mann, Huffington Post AlterNet: Media and Technology. August 21, 2009.

Print this out ... Put it on your fridge!

Putting an End to Glenn Beck's Racist Antics and Apocalyptic Rhetoric

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet. August 3, 2009.

The Fox host's attacks on Obama are beyond the pale. How much longer will his advertisers, like GEICO and Proctor & Gamble, accept this?

Boycott Movement Targets Israeli Occupation

George Bisharat, San Francisco Chronicle. August 22, 2007.

An expanding academic, cultural and economic boycott of Israel has elicited dramatic reactions from supporters of the Occupation.