Word: kent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kent-Brown away...
...Kent-Brown from the room," SASC said...
...student activists that blockaded South African Vice Consul Duke Kent-Brown said yesterday they will file a complaint with the University requesting a full investigation of the Harvard police response to their action...
...representative of South African apartheid, we saw in it a moral imperative to respond by demonstrating the feeling of the Harvard community that support for apartheid is indefensible. As we discussed what action to take as a group, we deliberately committed ourselves to the principles of respecting Duke Kent-Brown's right of free speech. This principle was the guiding consideration and standared by which we formulated our plan. As we wrote in the letter of intent distributed at the time of the action, "we respect his right to speak here unimpeded. We collectively endorse the right of free speech...
...accordance with this principle SASC decided to invite Mr. Kent-Brown, through his host, the Conservative Club, to participate in a debate during his visit with a speaker from the African National Congress. Also in accordance with this principle, we formally rejected any organizational endorsement or sponsorship of any form of heckling which might have forced the speech to end. Instead we decided to engage in a symbolic blockade as a peaceful and non-violent act of civil disobedience, designed as a militant and powerful affirmation of our outrage which would, however, not interfere with Mr. Kent-Brown's right...