Signing petitions, boycotting products, gabbing about issues in social media, or buying from ethical companies instead?
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It long ago stopped boycotting Lebanese elections, and now controls 60% of the country's Shia municipalities.
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Syria has long led moves to ostracise the peace-makers, boycotting last year's Arab-Israeli get-together in Qatar.
In the past, many Japanese have taken a dim view of politicians boycotting proceedings.
The BNP has reacted to its rout in 2008 petulantly, boycotting parliament and taking to the streets.
In a separate statement, Golden Dawn said it was boycotting all media, whom it accuses of bias.
That is kind of ironic given the fact that the Shiite Muslims are now boycotting this meeting.
With little to show their constituents, Shia advocates of patience have lost ground to the boycotting faction.
Dr Kouchner could then appoint additional people, including Serbs, who are boycotting the polls, to local councils.
The BDP is boycotting parliament until the government agrees to legal changes that would set them free.
Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire says she is boycotting her terror trial, accusing the judge of bias.
Now, calls for consumers to start boycotting iPhones or iPads are unlikely to have much of an impact.
But several parties are boycotting the vote and Pakistan's chief international ally maintains that some irregularities are inevitable.
The secular National Democratic Action Society is Bahrain's main leftist political society, is running after boycotting the previous elections.
The MQM - which took most of the seats in Karachi - denies any irregularities and is boycotting the vote.
Mr Ahmadinejad told a press conference after his speech that the countries boycotting the forum were showing "arrogance and selfishness".
Plus, if you start boycotting Chick-fil-A because you disagree with the COO's views, how far will you take your principles?
The SNP are still boycotting the committee after a spat between one of their MPs and the committee chair last year.
Liaqat Baloch, secretary general of Pakistan's most popular Islamic party, Jamaat-e-Islami, said members of his party were strongly considering boycotting the elections.
Black Friday 2011 is pretty much over, and in spite of all the talk about and boycotting, people came out in hordes.
Defence solicitors in Edinburgh are boycotting the custody court at the city's sheriff court in protest at proposed changes to legal aid.
Relatives of some victims are boycotting the court, and donors look twitchy.
Schools Secretary Ed Balls told BBC News it was too early to say whether he would take action against heads boycotting the tests.
Rice refrained from attacking Khartoum for boycotting her visit, and apparently sufficed with pleasantries in her meeting with south Sudanese leader Pagan Amum.
Salah al-Shanfarah, Dr Nasser al-Khabaji, and Muhsin Basarah have been boycotting parliament in recent weeks in protest against government action in the south.
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On September 28th, his party said it was boycotting the elections for the Majlis, although some of its members will stand as independents.
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European leaders are well aware that boycotting Euro 2012 would also mean ignoring the interests of thousands of fans, the former minister believes.
He said he was optimistic about his US trip, which will begin with talks in Washington with representatives of companies that are boycotting Tanzanite.
On the other hand, when we talk about Massoud Barzani boycotting Condoleezza Rice today, part of this is just the nature of Iraqi politics.
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