Sentences with phrase «organized boycotts»

Soon after, European Union countries began organizing boycotts, because one of SodaStream's 22 manufacturing facilities is located in the West Bank.

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.

Grabowski adds that the rise of social has accelerated this phenomenon because consumers can now publicly register complaints, organize boycotts and directly reach out to the media for coverage.

If individuals choose to do so, fine, (and I'll keep buying generic meds) but I'm not trying to organize a boycott at this time.

She asked what might happen if parents organized a boycott of objectionable meals and, for example, sent all their kids to school with a sack lunch on the day «Brunch for Lunch» was served.

«There were a lot of issues,» said junior Liz Purcell, 17, who along with her friend Jordyn Kohlmeyer organized the boycott with the help of a Facebook page.

Gay bloggers organizing boycott of DNC.

Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez wants to team up with NYC Comptroller John Liu to organize a boycott of Arizona products.

In 1990, Sonny Carson organized a boycott of Korean owned businesses in Flatbush Brooklyn.

But for more concrete results, Rodriguez is reaching out to leaders throughout the city to organize a boycott of Arizona, according to aides, and is trying to get Comptroller John Liu onboard with an effort to make the boycott enforceable for city - connected businesses.

The only action that somewhat resembled a development before Cuomo's 11:45 p.m. announcement came when Senate Democrats attempted to organize a boycott of the entire budget vote until there was an agreement on a raise the age announcement they supported.

Toby Walsh, a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, who organized the boycott, fears that the research will be applied to autonomous weapons, which can include unmanned flying drones or submarines, cruise missiles, autonomously operated sentry guns, or battlefield robots.

As a result, thousands of Sony's best customers organized a boycott of Sony products and besieged the company with petitions.

He stands ready to help organize a boycott, if necessary, a tactic he and other researchers used successfully in 2003 when another big commercial publisher, Elsevier, bought Cell Press and tried to raise its journal prices.

In the first half of the movie, King organizes a boycott of a major tennis tournament over the disparity in prize money between men and women, and helps found the Virginia Slims Circuit, a series of tennis tournaments that eventually became the Women's Tennis Association, a principal organizing body of the sport.

Our mission is to organize a boycott of the annual state tests in order to pressure state officials to respond to parent concerns and replace high - stakes standardized tests with authentic assessments.

And it's not just publishers, as booksellers hit hard over the past decade by Amazon's price - cutting ways have gone so far as to organize a boycott of authors who go with Amazon's imprints.

In 1997, a group of older African - American artists criticized Walker for using what they considered to be black stereotypes in her art, and even tried to organize a boycott of her work.

There's no need to lament, or to start a petition, or to rally the troops, or organize a boycott.

It was spurred by the empathy of a small group of people who understood what was behind the sugar in their tea, followed by actively raising awareness, organizing boycotts, raising funds and writing letters.

The authors are now threatening suit against the journal, and anti-GMO activists are organizing a boycott, but the editors are standing their ground.

Sniffing out a loophole in Fröhlich's system, the students collectively organized a boycott of the final exam when they realized that if the highest grade in the class was zero, then every student would receive an A.

Hogg and other survivors of the shooting at the Parkland, Florida high school organized a boycott campaign in February against companies that offer discounts to National Rifle Association members.

The same newspaper that had reported a story about a group of residents who were organizing a boycott of the newly built store.

Not exact matches

Mozilla quickly faced an internal storm of protest from employees along with a boycott of the Firefox browser organized by the dating site OkCupid.

Organize a walk out in the next home game or even better just boycott the game until the board is ready to have a word with the fans.

If you are going to be a whiny defeatist little bitch and try to organize «protests» and «boycotts» and whatever other stunts that will undermine team morale, please change your allegiance to another team.

It would be nice to see fans organizing and boycotting a couple of home games.

If a boycott of sponsors can be organized as well, it should do the trick.

I wonder if it has ever occurred to the middle class kids who are organizing these protests that while they have the luxury of saying no to school food, there are other kids who rely on it for a substantial part of their daily nutrition, and who are being put in the unpleasant position of having to choose between being cool [by joining everyone else in the boycott] and being hungry?

An email - writing campaign began, a boycott was organized, and the ad agency that had created the -LSB-...]

Participants in the boycotts complain Facebook's actions have created an uneven playing field in which ad hoc citizens» groups face hurdles to online organizing — obstacles that corporations using social media have little trouble surmounting.

In the summer of 2012, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, NYSUT, the New York State Trial Lawyers» Association and other influential groups and elected officials joined in a boycott organized by the union of the Desmond Hotel in Colonie due to its contract standoff with management.

A group organized by the Freedom to Boycott NYS Coalition, marched today from the Mt. Kisco, Westchester train station toward the home that Cuomo shares with Food Network Sandra Lee to protest the governor's BDS executive order.

Morton said he's boycotting the entire NFL because of the protests, and is organizing his own counter protest of sorts, distributing bumper stickers on Saturday.

The parliamentary candidates of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Hamza Yahaya Alikali and the Peoples National Convention's (PNC), Andani Abdul Latif boycotted the ongoing parliamentary debate organized by the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) in the Yendi constituency.

New York State United Teachers has begun organizing a plan to encourage parents to boycott the standardized tests that would be half of the basis for the new teacher evaluations.

Therefore, we will organize the distribution of leaflets, mass rallies, forums, civil disobedience, petitions, referendums, web - based actions, economic boycotts, and other grassroots tactics.

The action plan that the task force has put together calls for identifying and boycotting local businesses that sell synthetic marijuana, organizing a town hall meeting about the drug, and reaching out to and providing services for Bronxites in The Hub who are using drugs.

This policy has already led to organized movements to boycott American scientific conferences, and thousands of scientists have already pledged to participate in this boycott («Inside Higher Ed» January 31, 2017).

Hoping for the solution soon... Reply The following day, women online participated in a daylong boycott of Twitter, organized around the hashtag #WomenBoycottTwitter.

It's a wonder that they aren't organizing, boycotting, and marching.

Back in 1996, Callaghan organized 70 Spanish - speaking immigrant parents, who boycotted the Ninth Street Elementary School — calling for an end to failed bilingual - education methods and instead demanding that the school system teach the children of immigrant garment workers academic English as soon as possible.

Tens of thousands of students across the country began last week by staying out of school to join a nationwide boycott, organized mostly by Latinos, to oppose federal proposals that would crack down on illegal immigration.

In New York, well - publicized boycotts of state tests have been organized in wealthy, high - performing suburbs of New York City like Scarsdale.

Practically overnight, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students have become the new face of gun control and school safety — challenging lawmakers, tweeting out their views, and organizing marches, boycotts, and walkouts for stricter gun laws.

The organized activities include a boycott of after - school faculty meetings every Tuesday for the month of May.

The Los Angeles teachers union president said Sunday he was organizing a «massive boycott» of The Times after the newspaper began publishing a series of articles that uses student test scores to estimate the effectiveness of district teachers.

More than 60 parents boycotted that process at the urging of Parent Revolution, the Los Angeles reform group and charter - school ally that organized McKinley's effort.

A teacher threatened with having her teaching license revoked for organizing a testing boycott explains how her school defeated the standardized test.