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About 40 to 50 people, chanting "No blood on our hands--No Kruggerands," have participated in an ongoing series of demonstrations outside of the Deak-Perera currency exchange in Boston, demanding that the store stop selling the South African gold coin...
Twelve people have been arrested on different days for trespassing at Deak Perera, among them local politicians, professors from MIT, Tufts and Brandeis, and Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus George Wald, a Nobel laureate, IOP fellow William Sutherland, and Dominic M. Bozzotto, head of the union that represents the University's roughly 500 food service workers...
...Christopher D'Elia, manager of the Boston Deak-Perera, said the store does not plan to stop selling the coins as a result of the protests. "I don't think [the protesters] are being very effective in reaching their goals," D'Elia added, noting that Deak-Perera sells few Krugerrands and that far more South African gold goes into jewelry...
...protesters were picketing Deak-Perera because "they import and sell the South African Kruggerand which is a significant symbol of South Africa's repressive policy and it also aids the financial stability of South Africa," Bolling said...
...some protestors marched outside the store, the four who were arrested went inside to ask the currency dealers to stop dealing in Kruggerands, South African gold coins. When the manager of the Deak-Perera store said he could not get authorization from the corporate headquarters to stop selling the coins, Wald and the three other protesters refused to leave the store...