Word: anti-apartheid
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...Today's anti-apartheid rally, however, is a bold effort to move beyond the stalemate of protest-open letter, point-counterpoint. The organizers of the rally, which will feature such tested crowd-drawers as Jesse Jackson and Mel King, expect it to bring as many as 5000 to the Yard. And while the speakers will address the broader questions of apartheid and U.S. South Africa policy, the demonstration will undoubtedly take on the question of Harvard's South Africa-linked investments. The event, moreover, is certain to win extensive local and national coverage. That attention could potentially galvanize born students...
CAMPUS ACTIVISTS, then, are effectively upping the ante in the ongoing divestiture debate, and this move could bring results. National anti-apartheid organizers were pursuing much the same tactics when in November they launched a series of daily protests and arrests at the South African embassy Washington to draw attention to apartheid and to U.S. policy toward that country. Those protests have propelled South Africa to the forefront of current foreign policy debate and have helped to win bipartisan Congressional support for proposed economic sanctions against South Africa...
...needed to take the heat off after hundreds of Black students, objecting to Harvard's investments in Gulf Oil's South Africa holdings, took over University Hall in 1972. The ban on investments in banks that loan directly to the South African government closely followed the resurgence of anti-apartheid student activities in 1979. And when the University casually tried to retract that ban on loans to the pariah state, an overflow crowd of 400 students at an open meeting in 1982 denounced the move and stopped Harvard's retreat from an already minimalist and indefensible position...
Marking the anniversary of Martin Luther King's assassinated Jepson Jackson will speak to Harvard students today at a rally protesting apartheid. Our moral opposition to apartheid certainly to must be reaffirmed in the wage of the bloodshed in South Africa of recent weeks. Yet, this rally bills itself as anti-apartheid and pick drives are thereby intimating that opposition is apartheid requires one to advocate divestiture. The issue of divestiture cannot be reduced to such simple moral equation...
Kennedy's bill, called the Anti-Apartheid Act of 1985, would prohibit any new U.S. corporate investment in South Africa, stop bank loans to the South African government, half the importation of that country's leruggerand gold coins into the U.S. and prohibit American sales of computers to the South African government...