This morning was business as usual at the Park Slope Food Co-Op following last night's contentious meeting. Supporters of a boycott on Israeli products were handily defeated, with 1,005 members voting against and 653 voting for a full referendum on the issue. Today, most members were just happy to put the issue behind them, and on Union Street, the ubiquitous Park Slope stroller pushers have replaced anti-Israel picketers. more ›

A St. Patrick's Day fight was apparently the final straw. After a video of St. Patty's melee outside of a West Village McDonald's first appeared on Gothamist, City Council Speaker and mayoral hopeful Christine Quinn has gone and called for a boycott of the place. Cause that'll solve the problem of people fighting outside! more ›

Remember a few months ago, when seven-year-old Bobby Montoya gained national attention because he "liked girl stuff" and wanted to join his local Girl Scouts chapter? After a giant PR headache, the organization decided to let Montoya in, saying "if a child identifies as a girl and the child's family presents her as a girl, Girl Scouts of Colorado welcomes her as a Girl Scout." Despite the fact that Montoya didn't actually join his local troupe, the decision to allow him to do so instantly infuriated some conservative troupes, who called the move "extremely confusing" and an "almost dangerous situation." more ›

Dear lord: it's come to this? One Million moms, an offshoot of the batsh*t crazy right wing "Christian morals" advocacy group American Family Association, is boycotting Ben & Jerry's limited-edition Schweddy Balls ice cream. more ›

This week the city's public school students will come back for just one day of school, and parents say the awkward schedule is throwing a wrench in their vacation plans. Students are expected to show up for school on Wednesday, September 8th after celebrating Labor Day, but have Thursday and Friday off for Rosh Hashanah. To protest, they've turned to Facebook. more ›

A growing outcry over Target's donation of $150,000 to a hard-right Republican running for governor in Minnesota could cost the company revenue, especially in left-leaning NYC. For over a week, MoveOn and a growing number of progressives have used Facebook and Twitter to blast the company, and they're now calling for a nationwide boycott of the chain, which has given lavishly to support TV ads for Tom Emmer, who opposes same-sex marriage and abortion, and supports Arizona's controversial S.B. 1070 immigration bill. more ›

In an e-mail sent to supporters yesterday, the Working Families Party asked, "Will Yankees pitcher Mariano Rivera have to show ID to take the mound next year?" Saying that's a legitimate concern, the WFP is asking members and supporters to sign an open letter to the Yankees and the Mets, asking that they boycott the 2011 All-Star game in Phoenix unless the law is repealed. more ›

New Yorkers are continuing to band together against Arizona's immigration bill. One Queens church held a vigil, with attendees hoping for everything from violence to salvation to befall Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, who signed the bill into law on April 23rd. “I would like to pray with her, to change her heart,” one undocumented worker told the Times. Others weren't as sympathetic, with a few dressing up like devils and one man suggesting he'd like to punch Brewer. However, not everybody has been jumping on the Arizona-bashing bandwagon. more ›

The makers of AriZona Iced Tea want you to know that capital Z is completely intentional, lest you actually think they're from the boycott-inducing state of Arizona. The Long Island based company took to their website to make sure anybody thinking of boycotting an Arizona product knows to keep buying their 99 cent cans of Ginseng Green Tea: more ›

Dozens of New Yorkers gathered at Federal Plaza to denounce the new Arizona immigration law, which makes it a state crime to be in the country illegally, and requires anyone whom police reasonably suspect to be an illegal alien (i.e. Mexicans) to produce documents of proof that they are citizens or legal residents. If they cannot, they will be "transferred immediately to the custody of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement." Local immigrants are outraged at the possibility for racial profiling and Big Brother tactics. Queens resident Soledad Villacis told the Daily News, "Just because you eat guacamole and listen to Latin music doesn't mean you are undocumented." more ›

Sen. Charles Schumer called on airlines to stop servicing foreign airports with security practices that don't meet American standards, according to NY1. In a move he hopes will close the "gaping holes" in overseas air travel security, the senior Democratic senator wants carriers to report any security issues at foreign airports and threaten boycotts if measures aren't changed. more ›

Is Ellen Degeneres starting a boycott of growing burger chain Five Guys? This poorly-written flier says so! Eater found some of these stuck to the windshields of cars left on Waverly Place last night, but this is the first anyone's heard of night manager Carlos "Leo" Rivera's "discriminating views" of the neighborhood gays. more ›

Might as well check your trenchcoat with the Skycap, fellas; American Airlines has reversed course and decided to filter pornographic content on its in-flight Internet service. You'll recall that flight attendants had been pressuring the airline to block porn because they didn't want to police pervs who can't go a couple hours without pleasuring themselves to Edward Penishands or Sex Trek: The Next Penetration. Wired reports that Girls Against Porn has also been lobbying American to install filters, citing a lawsuit against American over a particularly nauseating masturbatory incident that, incidentally, occurred without pornographic inspiration. Of course privacy rights advocates are alarmed that once airlines take away the pornos, they'll start blocking other sites like maybe all the ones trashing American Airlines. more ›

After 21 years in business, beloved David's Bagels on 1st Avenue and 14th Street closed at the end of August. According to Vanishing New York, the landlord opened a Hot & Crusty franchise next door and refused to renew David's lease. In retaliation, a group of devastated neighbors have banded together to hit the Crusty where it hurts, with a weblog BLAZING WITH CAPS: "It is TERRIBLE and a downright SHAME...It hurts that they are gone because of your corny EYESORE of a “Hot and Crusty” that doesn’t even serve a decent bagel nor an “OK” pizza. In addition, it is NAUSEATING to walk by your pizzeria to see your Spanish guys leave half-made UNCOOKED pizzas to linger in the sun for long periods of time. Leaving the uncooked pizza dough in the sun while the chintzy layer of sauce dries up, is plainly NOT HEALTHY, UNSAFE and UNBELIEVABLY UNAPPETIZING." But what really burns is that David's lovers must now traverse five blocks to the owner's other location. more ›

Northside Car Service, the dominant livery cab company in Williamsburg, has become the target of a boycott after an accident with a cyclist last week. In a widely circulated email, a friend of the unidentified cyclist—who himself called for a boycott in a Gothamist comment Friday—says that on September 10th the driver made an “irrationally fast turn” from Kent onto North Seventh, forcing the cyclist to "slam on the brakes, flip completely over the handlebars, and land under the hood of the car." (Under the hood?) The driver sped off, but the cyclist, who broke his elbow and collarbone, later met with Northside and received compensation for his medical expenses. His friend is not so easily placated, and tells Brooklyn Paper he wants to "make them accountable for the hit and run." Only time will tell if Northside will be able stay afloat without business from the cyclist demographic. more ›

City Council member and probable 2009 mayoral candidate, Tony Avella, is the latest politician to ask for America's withdrawl from the Beijing Olympics if China will not grant Tibet independence. Under China's rule for over 50 years, Tibet has made no headway, even with the support of human rights groups, activists...and Richard Gere. When we interviewed Robert Thurman, co-founder of the Tibet House, earlier this year he touched on the Olympics, saying:

The thinking is that if you give them a big P.R. thing to do like the Olympics, they won’t want people to see how they’re beating up the Falun Gong or whatever it is they’re doing lately. This is a fallacious concept but within that it’s true that the Chinese are trying to clean up their act so they won’t be embarrassed during the Olympics. Unfortunately, what the Chinese consider ‘cleaning up their act’ is to wipe out people who might do human rights protests; they don’t mean stopping the human rights violations.

The only way to save Harlem for the benefit of its longtime residents is to economically cripple the neighborhood. So says Dr. James Manning of the ATLAH World Ministry church. He's proposing an economic boycott of the area in Manhattan between 110th St. and 155th St., from the Harlem River to the Hudson River. The plan is that once interloper businesses have been driven out via bankruptcy, Harlem will become a less desirable place to live for people like whites, rising rents will decline, and Harlem will have been purged of the problems that have been driving people out of their homes. more ›