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Cambridge District Judge Wendie Gershengorn ruled Wednesday that the divestment activists, who are charged with disorderly conduct and trespassing, could not argue the protest was necessary to prevent investments in companies which do business in South Africa. The seven had been seeking to persuade the judge and an eight-person jury that their blockade was warranted by the University's failure to completely divest from South Africa...
...November 21 of last year 19 Harvard alumni and other antiapartheid activists were arrested while staging a peaceful protest outside a Harvard University fundraising dinner. They were protesting Harvard's refusal to divest its $300 million invested in companies doing business in South Africa. Seven of these individuals will go on trial today in Middlesex District Court...
...support and commend the "Harvard 7" and their fellow activists for their efforts in pressuring Harvard to divest its apartheidconnected holdings. The movement for change in South Africa is mounting daily. The South African government talks of reform, but has viciously repressed the growing movement for full economic and political rights. An estimated 24,000 South Africans are in detention--40 percent of them children. As President Reagan's special advisory committee on South Africa concluded earlier this year, "Negotiations between Blacks and whites in South Africa appear unlikely until a further combination of internal and external pressures raises...
Harvard must take a morally responsible position and divest. The recent much-welcomed divestment by Brandeis clearly demonstrates institutional responsiveness to community pressure. Moral hypocrisy provideds a suprisingly vulnerable foundation for policy-making...
...This is the first major bill that uses a new definition of divestment," said Slate. "It will not exempt the whole trend of companies that only semi-divest," he said...