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As War Crimes Trial Nears End, Many Liberians Hope for President's Return
By Emily Schmall - AOL NewsMONROVIA, Liberia -- With President Charles Taylor's war crimes trial in The Hague nearing an end after three years, many Liberians hope he will be brought home -- to a hero's welcome. Take Fasu Donzo, a lanky motorbike taxi driver. Now 31, he fought as a child soldier in Taylor's army and was known as General Mosquito "because I bite." "I'm just praying that Charles Taylor will go free so that he can come back to do his normal business," Donzo told AOL News. "He's a leader, a strong man. We miss him and we expect him back." Donzo was among many Liberians to express their support for the ...
Israeli Companies Will Help Build Palestinian City
By not in system - AOL NewsRAMALLAH, West Bank -- About 20 Israeli suppliers will help build the first modern Palestinian city in the West Bank but only after promising they will not use products or services from Israeli settlements, the project's developer said today. The announcement angered the Jewish settlers, who accused the suppliers of caving in to an international boycott of settlement goods and businesses. The West Bank city of Rawabi, going up 20 miles north of Jerusalem, is a key part of Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's plans to lay the groundwork for a future Palestinian state, regardless of ...
China Awards Own Peace Prize Before Nobel Boycott
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Dec. 9) -- China awarded its own peace prize today to a Taiwanese politician who couldn't attend the event, just a day before it boycotts the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo where winner Liu Xiaobo will be absent because he's stuck behind bars in China. The first-ever Confucius Peace Prize was bestowed on Lien Chan, Taiwan's former vice president, whom organizers said could not attend the awards event in Beijing for "reasons known to everyone." They did not elaborate. A 6-year-old local girl accepted the award on his behalf. Liu Jin, AFP / Getty Images Six-year-old Zeng Yuhan holds the ...
Target Apologizes for Donation to Conservative Candidate
By not in system - AOL NewsST. PAUL, Minn. (Aug. 6) -- The head of Target Corp. apologized Thursday over a political donation to a business group backing a conservative Republican for Minnesota governor, which angered some employees and sparked talk of a customer boycott. Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel wrote employees to say the discount retailer was "genuinely sorry" over the way a $150,000 contribution to MN Forward donation played out. Steinhafel said Target would set up a review process for future political donations. MN Forward is running TV ads supporting Republican Tom Emmer, an outspoken conservative opposed to ...
The Target Boycott Dilemma: Where to Shop Now?
By Sandra Fish - Politics DailyThe news that Target donated $150,000 to a group supporting an anti-gay Minnesota gubernatorial candidate presents a conundrum. Growing up in the Midwest, one of the highlights of the Sunday newspaper was the Target circular: What's on sale this week? When my stepdaughter moved to Grand Junction, Colo., for a time a few years ago, her first complaint was this: "There's only one Target." Even jaded Manhattanites are reveling in the opening of their first Target store in East Harlem. There's something about the tidy, bright aisles of clothing, cosmetics, kitchenware, household goods -- well, ...
LAPD Cancels Ariz. Trip Over Immigration Law Boycott
By Mara Gay - AOL News(June 18) -- The Los Angeles Police Department will not send its officers to a training session in Arizona this year out of respect, its chief says, for the city's boycott against a tough new immigration law in that state. Four officers were supposed to attend next month's annual Airborne Law Enforcement Association conference in Tucson, but Police Chief Charlie Beck said the LAPD has canceled the trip "to respect the [city council's] boycott of Arizona," the Los Angeles Times reports. In May, the Los Angeles City Council voted 13-1 to stop doing business with Arizona in protest of the new ...
Why Boycotting BP Gas Stations Doesn't Hurt BP
By Paul Wachter - Politics DailyBP has emerged as the country's most hated company thanks to the ongoing gulf oil spill, and Americans have launched a grassroots boycott of BP gas stations. But there's just one problem with the campaign -- BP doesn't own the gas stations that bear its name. "BP doesn't even own the 11,000 BP-branded stations in the United States," reports the Chicago Tribune. "The company started getting out of the retail gas-selling business a couple years ago. In fact, all big oil companies did because it wasn't profitable enough." Meanwhile, some of those independently owned BP stations are reporting up ...
Elvis Costello's Pompous (and Late-Breaking!) Boycott of Israel
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyFor a singer who croons about "peace, love and understanding," Elvis Costello has decided silence is more powerful than song. Wednesday, in a statement on his website, Costello announced he was boycotting Israel, pulling out of several already-ticketed shows scheduled for this summer in Caesarea, the Roman city on the sea, whose amphitheater hosts dozens of artists each summer. "[T]here are occasions when merely having your name added to a concert schedule may be interpreted as a political act that resonates more than anything that might be sung and it may be assumed that one has no mind ...
Christian Leader Calls for Glenn Beck Boycott Over 'Social Justice' Comments
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyAn evangelical leader in Washington called on Christians to boycott Glenn Beck, a week after the Fox News personality told his audience that "social justice," the term many churches use to describe their efforts to address poverty and human rights, is a "code word" for communism and Nazism. On his "God's Politics" blog, the Rev. Jim Wallis urged Christians to switch off Beck's popular radio and television programs for good because of his comments about social justice. Beck told Christians to discuss the term with their priests and pastors and to leave their churches if leaders would not ...
Glenn Beck Boycott: Censorship or Good Citizenship?
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailySo, the number of corporate sponsors that have pulled their advertising dollars from The Glenn Beck Program grew to 20 on Tuesday. Walmart, Best Buy and Travelocity joined the list of companies that, depending on your point of view, should be classified as either responsible corporate citizens or easily bullied cowards. The statements of the corporations themselves tend to confirm the second option. But first the background: ...
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