Indian athletes will meet on December 5 to decide whether or not to boycott the 2012 London Olympics. The issue is an Olympic sponsorship deal with Dow Chemical, “under fire in India for its ownership of Union Carbide, whose Indian subsidiary was responsible for the Bhopal industrial disaster, … estimated to have killed up to 25,000 people and injured over half a million.”

What’s happening in Alabama after the implementation of their Arizona-style immigration law has been described to me by people on the ground as heartbreaking. Children have been held out of school, families are picking up and leaving, produce is rotting in the fields, because of fear for deportation by productive workers and, in some cases, legal immigrants who happen to be Hispanic. Yesterday, immigrants participated in a one-day boycott to protest the new law.

NBC has cancelled The Playboy Club, the sexy melodrama–set in mid-1960s Chicago and centering around the flagship key club–which was one of the most subversive series on network television.

Mike Huckabee thinks groups that urge boycotts of companies that fund anti-LGBT organizations are engaged in un-American economic terrorism. By that definition there are lots of economic terrorists out there . . . on the right.

American Family Association, Perry’s partner in the recent Jesuspalooza fundamentalist rally in Houston, The Response, crusaded for years against Movie Gallery, urging boycotts beginning in 2000 and rejoicing in the chain’s closure.

(Please join Brent Wilkes in the comments) In the weeks following passage of the Arizona’s draconian immigration law, SB 1070, numerous civil liberties, immigrants rights, Latino, clergy and progressive organizations have called for economic sanctions in the form of boycotts against the state. These boycotts have initiated from extremely diverse sources, and have been quite [...]