Word: apartheid
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Like the ACSR, the Corporation decided to advocate a case-by-case analysis of “Harvard companies” operating under the apartheid system to decide which ones it believed should stay and which it felt it should ask to leave the nation...
...press, the ACSC said the University’s failure to acknowledge the ethical factors of the transaction “in the face of mounting student and faculty pressure is further evidence of the University’s unwillingness to take a clear, public and forthright stand against apartheid...
While both of these proposals garnered some attention, neither of them proved to be as divisive as the 1978 divestment movement, which incited an entire campus and called the nation’s attention to the issue of divestment in apartheid South Africa...
...thought that [the anti-apartheid story] would be bigger earlier [than most],” she explains. “This was really going to matter...
...confronted riot police and snarling dogs blocking the entrance to the headquarters of the Congress of South African Trade Unions. The University of California at Berkeley graduate student, already nervous about doing research on the South African labor movement under the noses of the oppressive apartheid regime, turned the corner and watched through a fog of tear gas as police arrested and beat the workers inside. She, too, was almost apprehended before the officers relented at the behest of a lawyer for the labor movement. As she puts it, her nearly disastrous encounter with the South African authorities...