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Yesterday afternoon the Harvard Corporation issued at statement refusing to meet the demands of the Pan-African Liberation Committee and Harvard-Radcliffe Afro and divest itself of gulf Oil company stock, a company supporting colonialist rule in Portuguese-dominated Angola and Mozambique. This morning members of PALC and Harvard-Radcliffe Afro sized and continue to occupy the offices of President Derek Bok in Massachusetts Gulf stock and make a public statement that it will not be involved in racist imperialist economic ventures in the future. Gulf Oil Company, with the blessing of the Portuguese and United States governments. NATO...
Rocha explores these essential contradictions, which come closer to treating the surfaces of material life than any of those explored by Marxist-intellectuals in the oppressor culture. He stands at the center, the crossroads of neo-colonialist contradictions, and in Terra em Transe (Land in Angitish) he approaches them dialectically, attempting a mediation between Brazil's political realities and the poetic violence, the spiritual energies of an oppressed people. There are both concrete and at the same time surreal situations, like all the other sounds and images of the film. The hero Paulo Martins embodies all of the central dialectical...
...Colonialist Portugal has ignored the desire the peoples of Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and for freedom from external control expressed by Angola as represented by their fights against Portuguese imperialism. Portugal has been launching attacks against the struggling brothers and sisters in Africa and their continuing ever-building fight for liberation. In the Congress of African People's news release, the fact was brought to national attention that Portugal had been reprimanded by the United Nations' Security Council for attacks into Guinea and Senegal prior to the November 22nd military advancement. As recently as October 1970, the Republic of Guinea charged...
...colonialist's work is to make even dreams of liberty impossible for the native. The native's work is to imagine all possible methods for destroying the colonialist. On a logical plane, the Manichaeism of the settler produces a Manichaeism of the native. To the theory of the "absolute evil of the native" the theory of the "absolue evil of the settler" replies. The appearance of the colonialist has meant in the terms of syncretism the death of the aboriginal society, cultural lethargy, and the petrifaction of individuals. For the native. life can only spring up again...
...option except to give up a base whose lease would have expired in 1971 anyway. "The sky over Arab Libya," charged Colonel Gaddafi, "is being polluted by foreign planes." Whipping up popular sentiment against the American and British military presence, Gaddafi asserted that Libyans were being "terrified" by colonialist soldiers. Unless Britain and the U.S. agreed to give up their bases, he threatened to take them by force...