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...spring of 1972, Harvard's Pan-African Liberation Conference occupied Mass Hall, demanding that Harvard sell its stock in Gulf. As it turned out, Harvard did not sell and the students left Mass Hall, but Bok did set up the ACSR that spring...
...members of the Pan-African Liberation Committee who began organizing in the late summer of 1971 faced seemingly insurmountable obstacles in their attempt to aid the freedom fighters in three African nations who had been waging decade long wars to push the Portuguese out of the continent. The struggles were an ocean away; they were not directly affected by the American government. Apart from enlisting in the liberation armies, how could PALC help the freedom fighters...
...black undergraduates, members of the Pan-African Liberation Committee (PALC), held Mass Hall for seven days. Harvard held out just as long, and in the end, refused to sell its Gulf investment, or to vote against Gulf in a proxy fight...
...Pan-African Liberation Coalition, which raised the Gulf issue last Spring, never saw divestiture of Gulf stock as anything more than a symbolic action. But the PALC organizers were astute enough to understand that symbolic doesn't mean unimportant, and they believed that nationally, the issue of University investment policy was in a momentary logjam. They hoped that Harvard University, by making a solid commitment against colonialism, might be able to break the impasse. Perhaps they thought at the outset of their campaign that Harvard Administrators--feeling some shame for the participation of their country and their University...
...Pan-African Liberation Committee (PALC) and Afro, the two groups which led last year's protests, said that they will release a "rebuttal" to Farber's report next week...