Trump was also suspended from Facebook, YouTube and Instagram.įEBRUARY: Following a decade-long PETA campaign, Fortnum & Mason decided to stop selling foie gras. The campaign stated in January that it would call for an advertising boycott of any social media platforms that failed to ban Trump before the presidential inauguration on January 20th. The decision followed online pressure led by Stop Hate for Profit, which took to social media in the week following the uprising demanding that the platform #BanTrumpForDemocracy. JANUARY: Twitter permanently suspended Donald Trump’s Twitter account in January 2021 to prevent ‘Further incitement of violence’, following the storming of the US Capitol government buildings. Over 150,000 people urged the company to drop fur as part of the campaign. One memorable Christmas protest includes activists singing “12 Days of Cruelty” outside a store front. In October 2023 the campaign group announced that the company had decided to ban the sale of fur across all of its brands including House of Fraser, Flannels and Sports Direct. Peta asked people to write to the company and declare that they would boycott it, and protests took place co-organised by organisations such as Peta UK, Four Paws UK, and Humane Society International in London. OCTOBER: Peta had called for a boycott of House of Fraser since 2020 over its sale of fur from animals such as rabbits and racoons. General Mills did not cite these criticisms in its announcement that it had sold its stake, but the BDS National Committee says the move is a victory for BDS. The UN had named the company in its list of companies in violation of Palestinian rights in February 2020. The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) called for a boycott of Pillsbury in 2020, as did activists, human rights groups, and even members of the Pillsbury family itself. JUNE: General Mills, parent company of Pillsbury, sold its stake in its joint venture in Israel following years of BDS pressure over its manufacturing of products in an illegal Israeli settlement called Atarot. ![]() Celebrities from Dr Jane Goodall to Peter Gabriel got behind the campaign. The campaign involved demonstrations around the globe, on-flight protests, discussions with the company’s leadership, shareholder activism, disruption of executives’ speeches, and bold advertisements like billboards at airports. ![]() Peta began the boycott call in 2012, and it continued up until 2022 when Air France was the only known major European airline still shipping monkeys to laboratories for experimentation, on journeys that could last over 30 hours. JUNE: Peta announced that Air France would ban the transport of monkeys as soon as its existing contract ended, following a campaign that spanned 10 years. The government excluded transgender conversion therapy from a ban that was implemented under the Boris Johnson government, despite demands by LGBT+ organisations for this ban to include not only sexual orientations but also gender identity. LGBT+ charities and other groups pulled out of the conference "Safe To Be Me" to express opposition to the government's stance on conversion therapy. In February it tweeted to say that AXA UK&I does “not provide insurance to The Hunting Office.” HuntSabs responded by saying “Could it be that have ditched the hunts?” Unless an international branch of AXA is providing services to the UK Hunting Office (which seems unlikely), it looks like we can tentatively celebrate this as a success for HuntSabs – not to mention the foxes and other free animals!ĪPRIL: The UK's first-ever international government-organised LGBT+ conference was cancelled in April after more than 100 organisations committed to boycotting the event. In January 2022 AXA UK&I tweeted to say it did not provide insurance to the hunting industry. JANUARY: In 2021 Hunt Saboteurs UK called for a boycott of AXA for providing legal fee insurance to The Hunting Office (the body responsible for the administration of hunting across the UK). Recent examples of successful boycott campaigns: 2022 ![]() In an early example of fair trade, shops began selling sugar guaranteed to be have been produced by 'free men'. Sales of sugar dropped by between a third and a half.īy contrast sales of Indian sugar, untainted by slavery, rose tenfold in two years. In 1791, after Parliament refused to abolish slavery, thousands of pamphlets were printed encouraging the boycott. One of the earliest examples was the boycott in England of sugar produced by slaves. Boycotts have a long and important history of contributing to progressive social change, as well as succeeding in their more immediate goals.
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