Sentences with phrase «of the boycott on»

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Star Trek actor and gay rights advocate George Takei wrote on Facebook there could be a boycott of Indianapolis» annual gaming convention, GenCon, over the law.

An increasing number of Twitter users are tweeting their support for the boycott, which will start on March 1 and last all day.

Shannon Coulter, who launched the boycott opposing Trump last fall, has been tracking the brand's inventory levels on Nordstrom's website for the past couple of months.

At least five Democratic Representatives will boycott President Trump's State of the Union address on Jan. 30.

It was right after Dara Khosrowshahi had been appointed CEO, and we had a pretty frank conversation about a company trying to undo months of damage from PR missteps including a video of its former chief, Travis Kalanick, berating a driver (he later apologized) and a passenger boycott promoted on social media.

The program drew attention from social activists on topics, including abortion, who orchestrated boycotts of Berkshire subsidiaries or their products.

But Uber quickly found itself mired in series of other PR problems including a video of its pugnacious CEO, Travis Kalanick, berating a driver (he later apologized), an exodus of seven top executives in the past month, and a passenger boycott promoted on social media.

Since the election, groups on the right have called for boycotts of Kellogg's (for pulling ads from alt - right site Breitbart News), Starbucks (for vowing to hire refugees rather than jobless Americans), and Nordstrom (for dropping Ivanka Trump's clothing line), among others.

Trump has done the same to Apple, dinging it on the making of its popular products outside of the U.S. And he also called for a boycott of Apple after it refused to unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters.

Trump also called for a boycott of Apple following the company's refusal to aid the FBI in breaking encryption on the iPhone used by the San Bernadino shooter.

FedEx Corp. is maintaining discounts for members of the National Rifle Association, even as calls for a boycott mount on social media after a deadly school shooting in Florida.

She took a more active role this year following a series of scandals, including sexual harassment allegations, a video of Kalanick berating a driver, and a passenger boycott promoted on social media.

In January, a #DeleteUber boycott erupted on Twitter after some users accused the tech company of trying to profit from a taxi driver protest against President Donald Trump's immigration ban.

In the days following election, numerous boycotts are floating around on both sides of the aisles as comments made by a number of executives win praise or condemnation taking some sort of stance as it relates to the election.

They're boycotting companies that do business with the NRA, and in most cases this means companies that provide benefits to NRA members in the form of things like discounts on purchases or cash - back NRA - branded credit cards.

Many of the departures have been blamed on the company's current PR mess, which began in January with the #DeleteUber boycott over accusations that the company tried to profit from a taxi driver strike against President Trump's immigration ban.

His confirmation for the role awaits a vote of the full Senate after an unusual and ultimately unsuccessful boycott by Democratic Senators on the Environment and Public Works Committee.

Opponents of the National Rifle Association are organizing a boycott of Apple and Amazon on Thursday to protest the inclusion of the NRA TV streaming - video channel on the companies» services.

So, Trump is threatening the licenses of various organisations or criticising them publicly on Twitter, and trying to get his supporters to boycott certain organisations is going after the revenue streams.

Those flights could potentially be in jeopardy, depending on the extent of the Salesforce boycott.

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However, some Chinese netizens still urged a boycott of the hotel chain for the Tibet incident on Friday.

And after former Newsweek senior writer and MSNBC contributor Kurt Eichenwald went after Kashuv on Twitter, Kashuv seemed to call for a boycott of MSNBC's advertisers.

According to AdWeek, 11 companies, including the television - shopping network QVC and Carnival Company (which operates the eponymous cruise line), are providing on - air sponsorships for the newest season of The Apprentice; a twelfth, the Japanese motorcycle company Kawasaki, withdrew from a previously reported deal after customers threatened a boycott because of its sponsorship of the show.

BC Chamber of Commerce massively promotes and supports these fossil fuel and energy projects, since they believe it enhances «business growth» in BC, and since it appears only money talks in this province, boycotting their membership is a first step in demanding those corporations take an ethical stand for the protection of BC on this matter.

Stoneman Douglas student David Hogg called for that boycott after host Laura Ingraham mocked him on Twitter for not getting into a few of the colleges of his choice.

Midday Thursday, we asked readers to weigh in on the proposed advertising boycott of Fox News» «The Ingraham Angle.»

Businesses have been dropping the organisation like a hot potato in the wake of the Florida shootings amid calls for a boycott of those that are still on board

First, I'm generally skeptical about boycotting an entire jurisdiction (as the original boycott of Alberta tourism seemed to intend) on the grounds that you don't like one particular business there.

Trump supporters on social media platforms such as YouTube, Twitter and Facebook pounced on parts of her remarks, calling for a boycott of PepsiCo's products.

A call to boycott the National Rifle Association became the top trend on Twitter as users of the global social platform demanded that a variety of companies sever their ties with the gun enthusiast group.

Meanwhile, many are calling on a boycott of FedEx, which recently reported second - quarter revenue of $ 16.3 billion, a 9 percent rise over the year - earlier period.

Wikileaks has stated that they will be leading a campaign against Coinbase next week which will focus on boycotting Coinbase, calling it an unfit member of the cryptocurrency community.

Dwayne, Kenney's grandstanding reached the height of silliness when he was talking about the boycott on BC wine.

If you have been paying any attention to Canadian politics on Twitter or have tuned into any of the Sun Media outlets over the past few days, you will have undoubtably noticed that the greenwashing website «Ethical Oil» has launched the Great Canadian Banana Boycott.

It will boycott advertisements on ICO tokens, trades, or wallets from March 28 — and this news saw the costs of all the primary digital forms of money slide by and by.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the Rockies, the Horgan NDP appeared mightily befuddled when Notley erupted with fury and wine boycotts in response to what the B.C.ers professed was a reasonable concern for their coastlines.

One of the Parkland school shooting survivors is calling on tourists to boycott the State of Florida for spring break as a way to get legislators» attention focused on gun control.

Chinese Internet users are calling on consumers to boycott Carrefour, which they accuse of supporting pro-Tibetan independence groups seeking to disrupt this year's Beijing Olympics.

The people at that church should boycott it for having a preacher that is so prejudice and by passing judgment on her he committed the greatest sin of all.

Some shoppers, egged on by conservatives such as Fox News host Tucker Carlson, recently called for a boycott of Macy's, arguing the chain's hijabs are a symbol of poor treatment of women in the Middle East.

The issue in the article was not the adds themselves, rather it was that Christians made a massive stink about it and threatened boycotts etc, instead of accepting that the group had as much right to have those adds on those buses as they have a right to have their adds on those buses.

We need the Wal - Mart worker who depends on her job despite its poor benefits as well as the leader of the local movement to boycott the megachain for its labor abuses.

Part three of Jerry's thoughts, on whether or not Christians should buy tickets or boycott the movie, can be found here.

She visits detainees and leads the apostleship of prayer group in taking radical options on certain political issues like boycotting sham elections.

Another example of the unpredictable outcome of citizen economic action is the boycott Dr. Bob Jones III of Bob Jones University waged against General Motors Corporation for its sponsorship of «Jesus of Nazareth,» the Zeffirelli biblical epic on the NBC network.

Tens of thousands responded they would, but going to sleep on January 24 Ghonim must have been just as nervous as King was on the eve of the bus boycott.

John Kennedy repeatedly appointed segregationist judges to the federal bench in the South, and the civil rights case that Robert Kennedy most vigorously prosecuted involved charges brought against Albany, Georgia, activists for violating the rights of a white storeowner by boycotting his business because he had served on a jury that cleared the sheriff who had shot a black man three times in the neck at point - blank range.

«For players to be in a position where you're in a slam and boycotting playing on the court, I think would potentially cause a lot of issues.

Haven't you heard all the hubub about the «war on Christmas» and the boycotts of businesses that dare to be inclusive with «Happy Holidays» or «Seasons Greetings» rather than Merry Christmas?