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MEMBERS OF THE Southern Africa Solidarity Committee this week released a 35-page report striving to justify the protest which lead to the premature ending of a South African consul's speech last month. I wanted to question SASC on statements in the report, but I thought that requests for interviews would be refused by SASC, a non-hierarchical organization which would not let any member assume a leadership position in the public's eyes. Under pressure to produce copy, I used the report itself to make up an interview...
...CRIMSON: THE REPORT states that SASC's goal was to "symbolically blockade" the vice-consul in Science Center D. How does a symbolic blockade differ from a real blockade...
...deter movement across a barrier. Our blockade didn't prevent Kent-Brown from leaving. He could have left by the upper doors, or he could have navigated around the protesters at the lower doors. The protesters at the lower doors weren't there to prevent the vice-consul from leaving by those exits. They were there only to make a point...
...Crimson: So you were doing more than just trying to make a point. You actually hoped to force the consul to leave by the upper exits. Doesn't this make your blockade more than just symbolic and therefore a restriction of Kent-Brown's freedom of movement...
Barish specifically criticized the charge that the Vice Consul was in physical danger as "ridiculous...