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...pressure and under threat of a boycott, Polaroid admitted publicly through national and international advertising that it had been in business in S.A. since 1938, just one year after incorporation. Polaroid stated that its International Sales `Department had sold 65 identity systems and comparable film to the police regime. PRWM's research further disclosed that Polaroid had begun sales for the apartheid program in 1950 with the passing of the Population Registration Act, which required Africans to carry the 90 page passbook at all times (as well as requiring whites, coloreds and Asians to possess race-identity cards...
...have been documented, corroborated and accepted nationally and internationally, and accepted by the United Nations in reports and official stances. Polaroid has used such evasiveness, denials and "spare-part" theory (vis-a-vis many S.A. suppliers) in order to diminish international response to the international boycott called by the PRWM...
...PRWM supports the demands of freedom from repression and for self-determination for the African majority. The winds of change cannot pass by South Africa. We urge your support of the Polaroid boycott, and urge CHUL to reconsider its recent decision in the name of humanity and freedom. Laurie M. Lotspeich '77 David W. Price '77 PRWM/PANIC [People Against National Identity Cards...
Kenneth Williams and Caroline Hunter, members of the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement (PRWM), told the protestors in a pre-demonstration planning session that Polaroid products were used by the South African military and in the South African government's passbook identification system...
...HRLA, PRWM, and NMAA-the sponsors of last month's demonstration against Polaroid-have announced boycotts of the M. I. T. and Harvard Coops and other Cambridge camera stores which continue to sell Polaroid products...