Word: anti-apartheid
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Former classmates’ recollections of her involvement in the anti-apartheid controversy, however, may explain how Granholm has remained an appealing candidate for some...
According to Anderson, Granholm also had a leading role in the “nuts and bolts” aspects of similar HLS student initiatives. She encouraged professor participation, organized rallies, and managed an escrow fund to support the anti-apartheid cause...
...resistance is fertile, not futile. The whole world is watching Harvard, and when student activists win here, there can be ripples around the world. The anti-apartheid movement at Harvard in the 1980s was a galvanizing force for the international boycott movement. The Living Wage Campaign’s 2001 sit-in was followed by a wave of campus sit-ins and workers’ rights victories nationwide on a scale not seen in 30 years...
...anti-Semitic. In his 2002 Memorial Church speech, Summers held out the possibility that supporters of the Israel divestment petition might not be anti-Semitic “in intent.” Like his 2002 remarks, Summers’ statement this week has drawn fire here at Harvard. One of Summers’ fiercest critics, Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies J. Lorand Matory ’82, said that “the knee jerk accusation that targeted criticism of Israel singles out Israel is as absurd as stating that the anti-apartheid movement...
...statement this week has drawn fire here at Harvard. One of Summers' fiercest critics, Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies J. Lorand Matory '82, said that "the knee jerk accusation that targeted criticism of Israel singles out Israel is as absurd as stating that the anti-apartheid movement was singling out South Africa...