Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ANTI-APARTHEID movement at Harvard should start to spend less time protesting the University's investment policy. While the value of past years of protest and education is evident--and has been confirmed by recent events--both the political situation in South Africa and institutional politics at Harvard have made material aid a more urgent priority than struggling over the morality of Harvard's investment policy...
Especially after Harvard Corporation member Roderick M. MacDougall '51--also University treasurer and chairman of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility--acknowledged the importance of pressure from students and alumni in changing Harvard's investment policy, there can be no doubt that the continued high level of protest over the last two years is largely responsible for the University's recent decision to sell almost one-third of its investments in companies that do business in South Africa...
LAST JULY, Charles Liteky, who won the Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery in combat, publicly renounced his medal as a protest against U.S. support of the Nicaraguan contras...
...protest did not end there. Believing that wider public involvement and protest is necessary to halt the U.S. policy, Liteky began a water-only fast on September 1, to dramatize the issue. He said he would not eat until "some significant signal of protest" is made by the public condemning the U.S. policy or if the government takes steps toward withdrawing support of the contras. He has been joined by three other vets and they have entitled their effort, "The Veterans Fast for Life...
...whole, the fast has not garnered much media coverage, and failing coverage, it is doubtful the American people will rise up in protest and sympathy. Governmental action is not forthcoming...