PETA Hails McCartney for Boycotting Animal-testing Charities

Animal rights group PETA has commended Sir Paul McCartney for his decision to boycott cancer charities that test on animals . The former Beatle, who has supported cancer charities since his first wife Linda died of the disease in 1998, recently revealed that he is planning to decline financ...

'Blood Covered' Abortion Protests at Notre Dame: Pro-Lifers to Deliver 'Blood Covered' Dolls in Baby Carriages to Fr. Jenkins' Office While Notre Dame Trustees Meet

...Bp. D'Arcy to host a reparations mass on May 17, and to hold an "alternate commencement" for any seniors who wish to follow Bishop D'Arcy's example of boycotting the commencement if the President speaks. In addition, Mr. Terry asked Bp. D'Arcy to threaten to revoke Notre Dame's standing as a "Catholic College...

Ostracized HIV-affected Widow Turns to Begging

...n coastal state. Sukanti realized then that she was HIV positive, and so was her younger son. Villagers and even her in-laws immediately began boycotting her. Dilip Kumar Parida, a social activist, said the locals believed that AIDS is transmitted even if one interacts with an infected person. A...

Health Services Returning To Normal

...uota in higher education sector. While in Delhi and Gujarat, the students have called off their strike while their friends in Karnataka continued boycotting classes today and took out rallies to create awareness on their demand among public, according to representatives of Youth for Equality. In the s...

Cardinal Calls For Legal Response Against 'Da Vinci Code'

... against the book in a documentary called 'The Da Vinci Code-A Masterful Deception.' His appeal is said to have been voiced 10 days after a demand for boycotting of film was voiced by yet another Vatican cardinal. Expressing that other religions would not remain passive when their beliefs are offended, bo...

Uproar against the Government’s Proposed Quot

...nt’s proposed move to increase the Other Backward Classes (OBC) quota in educational institutions. The medical students and their supporters have been boycotting their classes for the past one week. They have also asked the principals and students to support for their cause against the proposed hike in the OBC ...

All Set To Face the Avian Flu?

...l financial watchdog. It said that a pandemic would trigger sharp fall in the price of various commodities, tourism and trade would recede and lead to boycotting of work. The virus is already being detected in domestic fowl in various countries. The IMF said that the business continuity planning will play a...

The romantic legacy of an AIDS victim ended up in tragedy

...ed to have contracted the virus from a blood transfusion 12 years ago. The ordeal began with friends, neighbours and even family members socially boycotting them after she was diagnosed as HIV positive. It was alleged that Basanti was even prevented from boarding a cycle rickshaw by some neighbours because...

Boycotting in Biological Technology

Technology and the "American" dream

...ill stay home from work. Some plan to keep their wallets in their pockets to demonstrate the buying power of immigrants to the U.S. I thought about boycotting work today by not writing this column. After all, I'm only a few generations removed from my immigrant great-grandfather, who was an indentured coal m...