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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...audience why South African suppression was covered more than oppression in other places, such as Israel, Grossman said he attributed the diference to the fact that South Africans speak English, that they used to be part of the British Commonwealth and that their situation echos the Civil Rights movement...

Author: By Elaine Lum, | Title: Media Bored With Apartheid | 4/28/1989 | See Source »

...although the protesters agreed to launch a grassroots campus movement, the council's decision appears to have taken the activist community by surprise. At last night's meeting, the group was divided over how to advance its case against ROTC...

Author: By Adam K. Goodheart, | Title: Activist Response Planned | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...campus divestment movement has shrunk notably since 1986, when SASC erected shanties in the Yard and 70 students participated in the office visits...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: Activists Postpone Sit-In Because of Low Turnout | 4/19/1989 | See Source »

SASC members attributed the decline to the media blackout in South Africa. "Three years ago was the height of the divestment movement and South Africa was on TV every night," said Randal S. Jeffrey '91. "Now it's not in the news every...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: Activists Postpone Sit-In Because of Low Turnout | 4/19/1989 | See Source »

...much of the rhetoric of activists of the late '60s was blatantly anti American. And although I staunchly support the right to burn the American flag as a matter of freedom of expression, I don't feel that it is a particularly effective tactic for a movement which is trying to convince the majority of voters to support their cause...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: Promise of a Positive Left | 4/18/1989 | See Source »

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