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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.

Yahoo | A Colombian court has ordered Occidental Petroleum Corp (NYSE:OXY - news) to halt all work on a promising oil site that the country's native U'wa tribe claims as part of their ancestral lands, authorities said Friday.Alberto Calderon, president of state oil company Ecopetrol, said the court injunction was handed down T

The Industry Standard | San Francisco - It's one of the richest ironies of the 2000 presidential race. Despite running a Teflon primary campaign, probable Democratic nominee Al Gore (news - web sites), a published environmental crusader, has found himself repeatedly attacked for his links to Occidental Petroleum.

THE TIMES [London] | Mr Gore has refused to answer environmentalists' calls to intercede or to talk to the press about the U'wa case.

the Oregonian | Tigard - To the beating of red plastic buckets and the chanting of "Stop the drilling; Stop, stop the killing," about 70 people crowded the entrances to the office of Fidelity Investments Friday morning, protesting the company's investment in a Los Angeles-based petroleum company.

ABC News Internet | Los Angeles — Al Gore says he’s the environmental candidate. He wrote a best-selling book on it, and it’s a central part of his presidential campaign. “I will not let you down,” stated Gore when he spoke at the League of Conservation Voters in New York on Feb. 24.

St. Petersburg Times | Cubara, Colombia - Roberto Perez feels defeated. And it's not just because he is winded and sweating after climbing a steep mountain slope near this ranching and farming town.

The Guardian | Ten days ago, the City of London police were present in force outside Fidelity Investments in case a demonstration against the British arm of the giant US-based global pension house got out of control.

U.S.News | Cubara, Colombia – The clatter of two military transport helicopters landing in a nearby mountain clearing signaled that time was up for the ragged band of Indian demonstrators.

The Guardian | The U'wa tribe of Colombia is remote, little studied, less visited and, until recently, barely registered on the barometer of western or even local Colombian awareness. But in the past two years its fight with Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) has become an international cause celebre.

Boston Globe | Environmental and human rights groups yesterday demonstrated outside Fidelity Investments offices in Boston and 19 other cities to protest the mutual fund company's stake in Occidental Petroleum Corp., which plans to drill for oil on land claimed by the U'wa Indians in Colombia.

Calgary Herald | About 40 placard-waving University of Calgary students chanted slogans and handed out literature Thursday to protest Occidental Petroleum's drilling program near sacred land in Colombia.

The Associated Press | About 80 protestors waved placards and banners outside Fidelity Investments to protest the mutual fund company's holdings in a company that plans to drill for oil in Colombia.

The Boston Herald | Housewife Kathy Kerridge opened her first individual retirement account with Fidelity Investments in 1987 and now owns shares in various mutual funds run by the industry's largest firm.But the mother of two said yesterday that she may consider pulling her money out if Fidelity doesn't act soon to pressure the Occidenta

The New York Times Company | Al Gore believes his role in streamlining the federal bureaucracy was one of his major achievements as vice president. The sale at auction of the huge, government-owned Elk Hills oil field in Bakersfield, Calif., to the Occidental Petroleum Company grew out of that effort. The winning bid was $3.65 billion.

USA TODAY | Protesters plan marches on Fidelity Investments' offices in 22 cities today to press the mutual fund giant to dump shares in an oil company drilling on land claimed by an indigenous tribe in Colombia.The protests mark the first time a mutual fund company has been targeted by human-rights groups and environmentalists campaigni

Bloomberg | 19:6 (New York) Fidelity, Gore Urged to Help Block Colombian Occidental Venture Washington - Environmental activists are urging Fidelity Investments and U.S. Vice President Al Gore either to divest their holdings in Occidental Petroleum Corp.

TomPaine.com | For decades, Vice President Gore has been receiving $20,000 annual payments from Occidental Petroleum, ostensibly for the mineral rights on land. But the company has never used the land, and the Gores currently rent it out to a competing firm. So what does the firm get for its money? The answer is not clear.

Oilwatch | A few years ago, one afternoon while it was raining in Chuscal (U'wa territory), a U'wa woman from a family of the Tegria told us about their first contact with the multinational oil company Oxy.

Oilwatch | A few years ago, one afternoon while it was raining in Chuscal (U'wa territory), a U'wa woman from a family of the Tegria told us about their first contact with the multinational oil company Oxy.

Time Magazine | TIME Notebook: The Veep faces pressure to stop Occidental Petroleum from drilling on Indian lands in Colombia When President Clinton proposed giving $1.6 billion in military aid to fight drug lords in Colombia last week, he probably never thought of the U'Wa Indians.

The Financial Times. | Environmentalists and human rights activists are accusing Al Gore, the US vice-president and candidate for the Democratic party presidential nomination, of hypocrisy over his shareholding in an oil company prospecting in Colombian rainforests.

The Center for Public Integrity | Washington - On Sept. 7, 1995, Vice President Albert Gore Jr., stood on the White House lawn and talked in sweeping terms about ending the era of big government.