China "Toycott" (toy + boycott)

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Nov 15, 2007 1:59 PM, Barry Popik <bapopik at gmail.com> wrote:
> The New York Post uses "toycott" today, but the term (toy + boycott)
> was used at least as far back as 1991.

>From Factiva...

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'TOYCOTT' ON TO PROTEST PRISON FACTORIES IN CHINA
18 December 1990, The Seattle Times, p. C3
If the Disney or Sesame Street doll or the McDonald's tree decoration
your child wants for Christmas was made in China, don't buy it, advise
the Washington State Federation of Labor and two human-rights groups.
The labor federation, the Tibetan Rights Campaign and the state
chapter of the Federation for a Democratic China called yesterday for
a consumer boycott of toys made in China as an expression of concern
over the Beijing government's human-rights abuses.
The groups said their "toycott" was part of a national effort by
human-rights groups and the AFL-CIO to send the Chinese government a
message by cutting into toy sales.
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--Ben Zimmer

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