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...January of this year, BP Amoco sold its $1.65 billion stake in PetroChina. The move came on the heels of a four-year campaign by black churches and human rights groups in the U.S. to boycott Amoco stations in protest of BP’s links to Sudan—although BP’s decision to drop the shares was likely made due to economic considerations and not humanitarian concerns...
...Crimson rowers, but not for lack of effort. A boat composed entirely of juniors and seniors beat the nearest boat by 18 seconds. The victory, however, was short-lived. Upon arriving at the medal ceremony, the rowers found that their gold medals had been substituted for a heated protest. Opposing coaches complained that the Harvard eight violated eligibility requirements...
...University officials rejected a petition signed by 94 faculty and staff in 2002 calling on Harvard to sell its stakes in Israeli companies to protest alleged human rights abuses against Palestinians...
...that Davey’s father has been unemployed for five months and the family’s belongings have been repossessed. It is up to the family, with the help of an uncle in the army, to reclaim their house and keep Davey from immolating himself in political protest...
Starting in Nov. 2002, the city of Columbus required demonstrators to pass through metal detectors on their way to the protest, callously and shamelessly citing post-Sept. 11 security concerns as justification. After a Bush-appointed judge initially rebuffed the protestors appeal for a legal injunction, the Court rightfully found that the city violated the protestors’ Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search-and-seizure by forcing them to submit to a “mass, warrantless, suspicionless search policy...