Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...undergraduate anti-apartheid group has joined forces with student groups from other Boston universities to increase pressure on their schools to divest, said Debbie Gurner '91, a member of Harvard's Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC...
...have 300 people showing up at a rally, that sends one message," said Ron Francis, leader of Coalition Against Apartheid at MIT. "But if you have 600 or 1000, that's another statement altogether...
SUJA activities at Harvard will begin next weekwith a fund-raising and educational outreachcampaign, said Gurner. Students will circulate apetition in support of Archbishop Desmond M.Tutu's call for complete divestment unless theSouth African government follows through onpromised reforms and dismantles apartheid, shesaid...
...commitment to divestment, said Francis, is"more urgent now that Mandela has been released,"referring to last month's freeing ofanti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela...
...that black students return to the classroom and reminded militants that he and the A.N.C. are "as opposed to black domination as we are to white domination." He sought to heal oozing wounds in the black community by reaching out to those "who out of ignorance have collaborated with apartheid in the past." And he spoke unyieldingly on the issues that most anger blacks: substandard schools, poor housing, inadequate wages and their continued lack of a vote...