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...referred to the period in the 1930s during which Britain declined to develop its military as "the years that the locusts hath eaten." Much the same could be said of the last Undergraduate Council year (and, indeed, of the last two or three years). In all the fuss over Nigeria, Burma, grapes and the transgendered, something essential has been lost: relevance...
...that Shell has grown up a bit, we hope that it will be less evil and abusive," said David S. Grewal '97-'98, one of the organizers, refering to Shell's presence in Nigeria and Myanmar (formerly Burma...
Grewal said the protest was a continuation of the activism of Hafsat O. Abiola '97, the daughter of Nigeria's imprisoned president-elect, Moshood K. Abiola...
Last year Hafsat Abiola helped focus the Harvard campus on issues in Nigeria. She also protested the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other activists in Nigeria in 1995, according to Grewal, who also charged that Shell was complicit in the hangings...
...people of Nigeria, the people of the Amazon, who could not be here today, to do our best to draw attention to Shell's 100 years of destruction," he added...