I don't boycott much. In my whole life I've boycotted only three places. And AA is one of them. It's like Peta - sure, there might be good stuff about your organization or company, but you've sold out women, and I can't forgive you.
There are a lot of movements, actually, that take advantage of another form of oppression in order to fight their own. For example, Mary Shelley Wollstonecraft, one of the earliest feminists, fought for women's rights by arguing indignantly that white women are being treated as though they are black people.
It's sad that American Apparel is building their brand like this. I'm bringing this up because it gets at a particular activist issue - the struggle to "sell" a cause without resorting to tried-and-true sexist, racist and otherwise oppressive media techniques. There's a certain creativity required for this job...which makes for a powerful argument, methinks, of integrating art into activism.
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