Word: anti-apartheid
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...like to take this opportunity to thank Professor Hoffmann and Professor Smith for their open support of Harvard's anti-apartheid movement. Although divestiture may not have a direct effect upon South Africa's racial policies, the symbolism of the effort to divest from firms with South African holdings will not fail to have an impact on the international scene. By questioning President Bok's statement and by earnestly supporting the efforts of the student community at Harvard (both inside and outside the classroom). Professors Hoffmann and Smith have encouraged us to become aware of our role in the world...
...last 30 years of his life "chasing about the globe in the service of causes." He was, as one acquaintance put it, a "one man civil liberties committee." He was in Spain helping the organized opposition to Francisco Franco, he was in Southwest Africa investigating conditions, smuggling out anti-apartheid tape recordings, and gathering evidence of oppression to present to the U.N. he was in Mississippi, long before the civil rights movement became modish, organizing the Freedom Summer and Freedom Vote in 1964 to protest racial discrimination...
Glover and Kashka Bonjoko gave one performance of "The Island," by the anti-apartheid South African playwright. Athol Fugard, at Paine Hall last night, and will give another tonight...
...number of anti-apartheid activists have pointed out, the principles themselves are only minimum guarantees. Exiled South African poet Dennis Brutus calls them "a figleaf to cover up the obscenity of the Corporations" working in South Africa. We agree with Brutus and others like him. So what if IBM treats its 200 Black employees nicely when its computers help the illegitimate South African government maintain its systematic repression of millions of others...
...find a tremendous surge of radicalism and activism beginning, just the start of a ground swell; and as the Reagan plan unfolds, people are going to get more and more angry. There are going to be a lot more people out in the street, marching." Brutus reflects on his anti-apartheid activities in America and South Africa with considerable satisfaction, but also with a sense of how great the task is for the future. As for his own plans, Brutus smiles wryly. "They depend, I suppose, on God and the Imagination Services...