Word: palces
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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Another activist campaign that achieved remarkable success last Spring will be renewed this Fall. Kevin Mercadel '74, president of Harvard-Radcliffe Afro, said Tuesday that his group and the Pan African Liberation Committee (PALC) plan to continue their compaign to force Harvard to divest its 683,000 shares of Gulf Oil stock...
Appearing on a Third World Liberation panel with Socialist Workers Party vice presidential candidate Andrew Pulley. Mercadel said that PALC and Afro plan "a massive re-education process" during the coming months...
...does contain descriptions of existing radical organizations, the pamphlet makes no prescriptions for action. This is no major deficiency: the information in the pamphlet should provide enough ammunition for years of radical organizing. "Introducing Harvard" provides the basis for radical actions which could equal the success of the Palc-Afro's occupation of Massachusetts Hall last spring...
...around the embattled building. The differing degrees of support cannot be attributed to the nature of their objectives, for the relationship between Harvard's investments in Gulf Oil and the Angolan war of liberation is initially just as unclear as the link between the CFIA and the Third World. PALC and Afro scored important political points because they staged a careful campaign to gain support for several months prior to taking action. Utilizing teach-ins, intelligible leaflets and innovative tactics, they explained Portugal's position in Angola, Gulf's relationship to Portugal, and Harvard's connection with Gulf. They effectively...
...Introducing Harvard" is a call to action: it represents the first step in an activist campaign similar to the PALC-Afro effort. Radicals should seize upon some of the issues explored in the pamphlet, formulate and publicize demands and present a reasoned case for those demands to the University community. Only in this way can we begin to reclaim our University, piece by piece, from the lawyers and the bankers who have turned it into a greedy and irresponsible international corporation. Dan Swanson