Word: anti-apartheid
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...what is the most effective strategy now for the anti-apartheid movement at Harvard? Divestment is important, but much of the symbolic victory at Harvard has already been...
...anti-apartheid movement here has begun a shift toward direct-aid activities: SASC is sponsoring a lecture tonight by a speaker from the African National Congress and will hold a benefit dance at the end of October. However, protest is still the top priority for Harvard activists. Until these priorities change, the potential for providing substantive aid to those fighting apartheid will hardly be realized...
...Fundraising, Not Frustration" (September 29) David Graham argues that the anti-apartheid movement should shift its focus from advocating divestment to raising money for South African causes. Graham's well-intentioned column contains a number of misconceptions about the Harvard anti-apartheid movement that should be cleared...
First misconception: the anti-apartheid movement has not devoted energy to raising money for South Africans. Raising money is one part of a many-pronged approach that the movement takes. When Archbishop Desmond Tutu spoke here in January, he was presented with a $10,000 honorarium which benefitted the anti-apartheid world of the South African Council of Churches...
Second misconception: the anti-apartheid movement has not tried to influence the use of President Derek C. Bok's $1 million fund to be used for educational opportunities for Black South Africans. Even though students were given no role in the committee that administers the fund, the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) was responsible for preventing the money from being spent on a misguided and harmful internship program...