Boycott Central
Boycotts can be a powerful tool to make companies stop doing bad things.
Boycotts are people power. Let us know if you’re part of that power!
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Take the next step so we can contact you about the results of this boycott and alert you to future ones:
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Boycott Count:
February 28th begins a 24-hour economic blackout against all major businesses to protest corporate greed and companies like Target, Walmart, and Amazon that have rolled back their diversity, equity and inclusion efforts following President Donald Trump’s efforts. You can see an organizer describe the boycott.
Active Boycotts
Because knowledge is power, learn about active boycotts right now.
Perhaps you’ve seen dozens a boycotts across your social media feed. Look up what boycotts are happening now and who is organizing them rated by our criteria of what makes a boycott effective.
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If you are a boycott organizer, let us know if we’re missing information or need to add your boycott to our list.
What makes a boycott effective?
Boycotts can work. The United Farm Workers’ grape boycott was an industry-wise boycott against California grapes that forced growers to negotiate in good-faith with farmworkers. It worked after months of carefully planned organizing: groups across the country, national tour by farmworkers, pickets outside grocery stores, and more.
Boycotts in the social media era have often struggled. People often skip the organizing and just launch it (hence this website — a way to get informed and tell organizers you’re participating). To work, they require structure and ways to measure pressure. For example, the infamous Bud Light boycott was highly successful (21% loss in sales). The recently launched TeslaTakeDown boycott has already resulted in a 1.1% worldwide sales slump.
Boycotts traditionally require a lot of coordination to make them work. They require:
- a target (who is supposed to change behavior)
- a demand (so the target knows what they have to do to get the boycott to stop)
- boycotters (a lot of people who used to be customers refusing to be customers anymore)
- leadership/negotiation committee (people who can show the target they’re hurting their bottomline and negotiate over demands)
- a way to communicate with the boycotters (a structure and massive social reach!).
Real talk: most boycotts launched since Trump took office do not have these. Don’t fret and don’t despair! Boycotts take some time to organize well.
By signing up with us — without any commitment — we’ll let you know when we see effective boycotts being run!
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We’re scanning for effective boycotts. When we find some, we’ll let you know!
We will not spam you with lots of emails — promise.
We are not an organization that will spam you with email. We’ll let you know about effectively organized boycotts as they happen.
Who are we?
The initial schemers on this project are volunteers Kat (Build the Resistance) and Daniel (Choose Democracy), and many others collaborated to make this happen.
We saw tons of people asking us to boycott on various dates. We wanted to make a place where people could look up the boycott — who called it? Is it real? Is it well-organized?
We hope this can inspire better designed boycotts, channel more people towards well-organized boycotts, and help measure their impacts. And by signing up, we can alert you to boycotts that we see as effectively organized and thoughtfully executed.
Got questions? Email us at boycottcentral.us@gmail.com
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