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Twenty-one years ago, before Jennifer M. Granholm became governor of Michigan, she and a group of fellow Harvard Law School (HLS) students joined an undergraduate protest against the Harvard Corporation’s financial connections to apartheid South Africa...
...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...
During the apartheid era, South African wine was controlled by a government monopoly that set rules on viticulture that were every bit as strict as those in France. But in the last decade and a half, the industry has been essentially reborn as it has rushed to embrace the global market. The old monopoly has gone, and producers have replaced over 40% of the nation's vines - ripping[an error occurred while processing this directive] out the white grapes long favored for domestic consumption and planting a wide range of reds for export. And they've learned the hard...
Lecturer on History and Literature and Quincy House tutor Timothy P. McCarthy ’93 says he knows about all sides of campus activism. As a student at the College at the time when issues of apartheid and divestment energized the campus, McCarthy "cut his teeth" while protesting as an undergraduate...
...TIME: Why do you think your efforts to equate the struggle for gay rights with the fight against apartheid has fallen on deaf ears among many African Anglican leaders? Tutu: I wish I knew. We seem almost to be programmed to have our identity defined by our againstness. Especially in a time of great change, people want something to hold on to. Diversity confuses you, so you are opposed...