Word: palces
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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...LINES drawn at Thursday night's mass meeting are now to be tested. The lines are good ones: resolutions of shared outrage with Angolans and Indochinese, pledges to suspend normal activities in favor of anti-war actions, statements of support for present PALC demands...
...series of escalatory acts of protest and civil disobedience against the federal government, and the support of anti-war candidates, are the only valid actions against the war. Continuing support of actions already initiated, like the takeover of Massachusetts Hall by PALC and Afro, which turned public opinion against the Corporation's callous irresponsibility, are similarly valid. At the same time, any attempts to direct the all-too-limited amount of political determination into purely local confrontations are sure to diminish the meeting of the long-term goals of Africans and Asians...
...CASE OF THE PALC and Afro takeover of Massachusetts Hall and their accompanying demands--that Harvard divest itself of Gulf, that it reinvest the money in the Cambridge community, and that the protestors be granted amnesty--is equally endangered by prevailing rhetoric. The Corporation's begrudging and long-overdo response to PALC's requests has been needlessly antagonistic and its statement that it is "not morally wrong" to invest in companies which deal in "repressive and in humane" actions is itself morally repulsive. Furthermore, Harvard's purported hope that it can initiate reform of Gulf policy by demanding further information...
...PALC-Afro demands--endorsed by the Thursday meeting in its enthusiasm--do not reflect the complexity of the present situation. Harvard can not promise to avoid "racist imperialist economic ventures in the future"--it can only hope to forego the worst of them. Similarly, while the occupiers are right to demand that Harvard reinvest in the community, until specific, income-producing instances are cited (after all, there are still those teaching fellows to feed) the sentiment remains Quixotic...
...then to end the stalemate? Through their seizure of Massachusetts Hall, Afro and PALC prevented a premature end to the investment question. They can now best continue the struggle by abandoning the building--or else risk diverting: campus debate to subsidiary issues like administration response and amnesty. No one can reasonably expect that a prolonged takeover will force Bok's crisis handlers to return to the Corporation for a recount. Despite its short-term attractiveness, a game of chicken between the protestors and the Administration is a deadend...