Word: africa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Montreal Protocol, governing the release of ozone-damaging gases, serve the important function of reassuring nations that protecting the environment will not put them at a competitive disadvantage. So far, though, the Bush Administration has squandered the momentum generated by the Montreal agreement. Administration negotiators outraged nations in Africa, a prime dumping ground for hazardous wastes, by opposing important safety provisions in an international agreement on the shipment of toxic refuse...
...clerical and technical workers won the right to a union after 17 years of organizing, defeating the Harvard administration's often-intense campaign against them. Harvard severed ties with the nine all-male final clubs when they refused to admit women in 1984. University investments in South Africa have shrunk dramatically, even if Harvard has never made the moral statement of total divestment for which so many student and alumni activists have lobbied...
...litany of student activism in the 1980s is a long one. Divestment from South Africa. CIA recruitment on campus, minority and women faculty hiring. ROTC on campus. Housing randomization...
Perhaps as they see the shantytown on their bi-weekly visits to the campus, the members of the Corporation will recognize their complicity in the injustice in South Africa. We are not confident that they will...The divestment activists have painted an accurate picture of the distance between the Corporation and the community of students, teachers, workers, and local residents who live here...
...night two and a half years ago, 3500 Harvard students lit candles and marched through the streets of Cambridge, protesting the shameful decision of the men who run this University not to sell their stock in companies operating in South Africa....Since that time, little has happened at Harvard. But in South Africa, conditions have changed--from horrible to even worse....The original demands of the 1978 protesters are the demands that count. Boycotting the ACSR should be the only step in a return to the confrontational public protest of years past...In the embarrassing glare, this university and others...