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Boston Phoenix | Fidelity Investments is no longer the prime target of a campaign to halt oil drilling in the Colombian rain forest, but two other New England-based companies may soon take the investment giant's place.

The New York Times | Investment bankers know they are not immune to protests by shareholder activists who sometimes see Wall Street as an accomplice to social wrongs. But last week, when Roberto Perez, chief of the Uwa Indian nation of Colombia, paid an unannounced visit to the the San Francisco headquarters of the Sanford C.

Reuters | New York - Colombia's U'Wa Indians, a 5,000-strong tribe fighting to keep Big Oil out of their corner of the rainforest, have stepped up their campaign to bury California energy company Occidental Corp. (NYSE:OXY - news).

Reuters | Bogota - Colombia's second-largest crude oil export pipeline was up and running again Thursday after the latest attack in a record-breaking campaign of bombings by Marxist rebels, the state oil company Ecopetrol said.

Business Week | Sitting atop a black-rock outcrop near a grassy mountaintop in Colombia, Roberto Perez, the political chief of the U'wa people, gazes over the world that he and his ancestors have inhabited for thousands of years.

AP Online | Bogota, Colombia - In a step a Colombia Indian tribe says spells death for its culture, an American oil company began test drilling on Friday just outside the tribe's reservation, the state-run oil company announced.Leaders of the U'wa Indian tribe have protested the Occidental Petroleum Corp.

Reuters | Bogota - Occidental Petroleum Corp (NYSE:OXY - news) began drilling a long-delayed test well Friday in a potentially oil-rich corner of Colombia, where U'wa Indians have threatened mass suicide to defend what they claim as ancestral lands.

Reuters | Bogota - U.S.-based Occidental Petroleum Corp (NYSE:OXY - news) will begin drilling a long-delayed test well this year in northeast Colombia's Samore block, a disputed area claimed as tribal lands by U'wa Indians, a company official said Thursday.The $40 million, 15,000-foot (4,570-meter) Gibraltar-1 test well had been

Mercury News | More than a dozen self-described Green Party activists were arrested Thursday after storming the Democratic Party's San Francisco headquarters and chaining themselves together with bicycle locks, police said.Authorities responded to an emergency call from the Democrats' offices on 10th Street, South of Market, from som

Washington Washington Times | Hundreds of environmentalists yesterday commandeered Al Gore's campaign headquarters in Olympia, Wash., to protest the vice president's ties to Occidental Petroleum, which plans to drill for oil on sacred Indian grounds.Ten protesters were arrested during the seven-and-a-half-hour standoff, police said.

TheStandard.com | Democrats win on some key issues, there may be little difference between Democrats and Republicans. But when it comes to the Internet, Democrats beat the GOP hands down. In Philadelphia, a handful of political Internet sites were shoehorned into Internet Alley, a desultory corner of an air-conditioned media tent.

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U.S. News | Street protests at the Democratic convention remained peaceful for a second straight day Monday, as an estimated 1,000 to 2,000 demonstrators marched a mile from Pershing Square to near the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles.

The Wall Street Journal | Los Angeles - For the past six months, Vice President Al Gore and his representatives have engaged in quiet talks with environmental activists over the activists' demands that Mr.

Reuters | Bogota - A group of 25 Colombian environmental researchers and an American professor were kidnapped by suspected leftist rebels as they studied wildlife in a war-torn corner of northwest Colombia, colleagues and the army said on Thursday. U.S.

Olympian | (July 4 article) Al Gore continues to deceive us about his relations with big oil."It takes somebody who is independent from big oil to take on big oil, and I'm independent from them," he stated.

Wall Street Journal | "The lakes and rivers sustain us; they flow through the veins of the earth and into our own.

The Associated Press | Bogota, Colombia - Riot police on Saturday broke upa road blockade by Colombian Indians protesting oilexploration by a U.S. company. A representative of the U'wa Indian tribe claims two of theprotesters were shot by police.

Newsweek International | On most subjects, Ebaristo Tegria can be calm, articulate, asbuttoned-down as the shirts he wears and as rational as thecomputer on his desk. But words just about fail the 30-year-oldColombian lawyer when he speaks of the people who runOccidental Petroleum.

The Nation | One of the world's hottest battles between indigenous groups and multinational oil companies is heating up in Colombia, where Occidental Petroleum is seeking to drill on land claimed by the 5,000-member U'wa tribe.

Los Angeles Times | Supporters of a semi-nomadic people from the cloud forests of northeast Colombia urged Occidental Petroleum Corp. shareholders Friday to sell their stock to protest an oil-drilling project the tribe contends is on its sacred ancestral lands.

Associated Press | Santa Monica, Calif. - Human rights activists heckled and booed Occidental Petroleum executives who defended a plan to drill near Indian lands in Colombia during the company's annual shareholders meeting Friday.

Reuters | Santa Monica, Calif. - Executives at independent oil company Occidental Petroleum Corp. (NYSE:OXY - news) on Friday touted the company's best earnings in 19 years, but were interrupted and booed by rowdy protesters decrying its plans to drill in Colombia on land disputed by native Indians.

Reuters | Bogota - A group of 25 Colombian environmental researchers and an American professor were kidnapped by suspected leftist rebels as they studied wildlife in a war-torn corner of northwest Colombia, colleagues and the army said on Thursday. U.S.