They assessed how much damage they had been dealt and whether to liquidate, or, as some economists and politicians have urged, hold tight in a show of patriotism.
In the eighties, students at Harvard and M.I.T. held rallies urging their schools to divest from South Africa.
Hundreds of marchers and spectators held signs urging the United States Navy to stop using Vieques, a Puerto Rican island, as a bombing range.
Students at universities like Harvard have held protests urging the board of directors to divest its fossil fuel interests, but to tone-deaf administrators.
As a result of these recommendations, health ministers from the region, at the 50th Regional Committee Meeting held in October 2003, have urged Member States to establish national bodies of biotechnology to formulate a strategic vision for developing biotechnology in the service of the region's health.
Almost all the political talk there was about Punjab, the home province of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, where he and his Pakistan Muslim League-N (P.M.L.-N) have been holding rallies, urging supporters to vote them into power.
At that moment, protesters were rallying outside the library, some in support of stricter voter identification laws and others holding signs urging Mr. Holder to resign over the disputed gun-trafficking investigation, known as Operation Fast and Furious.
Religious groups have been buying newspaper advertisements, setting up Web sites and holding rallies urging lawmakers to vote against the measure.
The photo, later posted on the Internet, shows them holding placards urging the release of detained protesters and the disclosure of officials' wealth.
Topping it off was last Saturday's election in Louisiana, in which the Republican Party hired black youths to hold signs urging their neighbors not to vote for Mary Landrieu.
