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...past 20 years--and particularly since the Soweto riots of 1976--the actions of activists challenging U.S. corporate involvement in South Africa have frequently grabbed headlines in the nation's press. Candlelight processions, violent demonstrations, and even occasional institutional decisions to divest have kept the issue continuously, if sporadically, in the country's news. Yet determining the effects of this activity has been difficult at best. Has the movement simply sparked public awareness and soul-searching, or has it really affected American corporate involvement in South Africa...
Nevertheless, there is some coordination--at Williams and elsewhere--among supporters of anti-apartheid actions. While advocates of divestiture at Harvard fasted last month, several students at Williams also staged brief "sympathy fasts." Students at Columbia University also staged a candlelight vigil in support of the Harvard hunger strikers at the time. Columbia's Board of Trustees is currently considering the recommendation of the Columbia Faculty Senate that the university divest from all companies conducting business in South Africa...
Students from several campus groups at the University of Pennsylvania staged a candlelight march earlier this month to protest an April Fool's prank involving the hanging of a female mannequin from a central campus flagpole...
Group organizers said they planned the candlelight vigil this month because of the upcoming holidays. The demonstrators sang Christmas songs with lyrics that were altered to include verses urging divestiture...
...candlelight vigil, planned by the Harvard Educators for Social Responsibility (HESR), will take place in front of the Faculty Club, where some Harvard Corporation members will be staying before a Monday meeting, organizers said. The group will sing lyrics decrying nuclear weapons fitted to the tunes of Christmas carols...