Word: palc
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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...prototype for such an effort was waged last Spring by the Pan African Liberation Committee (PALC) and Harvard-Radcliffe Afro. The campaign, against Harvard's ownership of 700,000 shares of Gulf Oil stock, began inauspiciously in September when the ten PALC members wrote and began circulating a position paper explaining their position...
...MORE DRAMATIC conflict--and one which ran concurrent to and may have sapped some of the strength of the antiwar movement--was the controversy surrounding Harvard's ownership of 683,000 shares of Gulf Oil Corporation stock. A group of black students, calling themselves the Pan-African Liberation Committee (PALC), called upon the University to sell its shares in Gulf--valued at about $18.5 million--and thus sever its connection with the company the group said was causing the greatest harm to the people of southern Africa...
...PALC accused Gulf, which maintains oil drilling facilities in the Portuguese colony of Angola, of providing crucial revenues and support for the Portuguese government in their suppression of independence movements in their African colonies. After seven months of delays by the Administration while they weighed alternative approaches to the situation, PALC staged a two-hour mill-in at University Hall, the campus's main administrative building...
Guinier has also tried to develop student support in his efforts to retain the chairmanship. He donated $500 to the Pan-African Liberation Committee during the occupation of Mass Hall, and then he was the first witness in behalf of the PALC and Afro defendants at CRR hearings investigating the takeover. Guinier now expects that if he needs students to demonstrate in his behalf, should he be dismissed as chairman, they will come to his assistance...
...same time, Paterson wrote a feature for The Crimson supporting the PALC demands; he hopes that it will blunt Guinier's efforts to build student support...