Word: shells
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...until this point, Cambridge protests against Shell and human rights abuses in Nigeria have been primarily student-initiated...
...company is the largest exporter of oil from Nigeria, having spent about $10 million annually for the past 30 years. But officials at Shell said that less than 5 percent of the oil they buy comes from Nigeria...
Demonstrators said they targeted Shell not only for the company's relations with a government notorious for its human rights violations, but also because oil drilling methods harm local Nigerian agriculture and rain forests...
Harvard's investments in Shell have triggered responses from student groups like Amnesty International, the Harvard Nigeria Coalition and the Harvard African Student Association...
...agree fully with what [the demonstrators] were doing. I certainly would've taken part if I had known of it," said Marco B. Simons '97, who participated in a demonstration last year when Shell visited campus to recruit students for jobs...