Word: pan-african
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MASSACHUSETTS HALL--"This kind of an action, if it is successful, is going to precipitate a lot of others." Randall Robinson of the Pan-African Liberation Committee said yesterday in the first press interview held in Massachusetts Hall since the occupation began Thursday morning...
...occupation of Massachusetts Hall by Afro and the Pan-African Liberation Committee went into its fourth day this morning as rain-soaked supporters continued an around-the-clock picket line in front of the building...
Ewart Guinier, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department, donated $500 to the students occupying Mass Hall. In a statement issued at the time of the donation. Guinier said he supports "the reasonable demands of the Pan-African Liberation Committee" and opposes the Corporation's decision to retain its Gulf Oil Corporation stock...
...read, in part: "Whereas we actively support the activities by the Pan-African Liberation Committee and Harvard-Radcliffe African and Afro-American Students in their efforts to influence the end of imperialism, exploitation and political repression against black people in Africa, and whereas we feel that our participation in this effort is more important to us than any exhibition of our athletic abilities, be it resolved that we shall continue to actively aid the struggle in which we are already engaged, thus making it impossible morally, ethically, and practically for us to participate in any athletic competition at this time...
Yesterday afternoon the Harvard Corporation issued at statement refusing to meet the demands of the Pan-African Liberation Committee and Harvard-Radcliffe Afro and divest itself of gulf Oil company stock, a company supporting colonialist rule in Portuguese-dominated Angola and Mozambique. This morning members of PALC and Harvard-Radcliffe Afro sized and continue to occupy the offices of President Derek Bok in Massachusetts Gulf stock and make a public statement that it will not be involved in racist imperialist economic ventures in the future. Gulf Oil Company, with the blessing of the Portuguese and United States governments. NATO...