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...divestiture movement at Harvard has matured since its birth in the turmoil of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Inherited by Black activists from Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in 1972, and then passed on to a broader-based coalition in the late 1970s, the movement has undergone considerable change in its tactics and goals. The divestiture activists of 1983 who use both moral and financial persuasion bear little resemblance to those that 11 years ago seized University buildings and demanded divestiture by force...
...divestiture movement at Harvard has matured since its birth in the turmoil of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Inherited by Black activists from Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in 1972, and then passed on to a broader-based coalition in the late 1970s, the movement has undergone considerable change in its tactics and goals. The divestiture activists of 1983, who use both moral and financial persuasion, bear little resemblance to those that 11 years ago seized University buildings and demanded divestiture by force...
Harvard first came under fire for its holdings in firms doing business in South Africa when the SDS, in the late 1960s, charged that the University was involving itself in the seedier side of capitalism. But the SDS argued that the Harvard-South Africa connection was insignificant compared to other links Harvard had to institutionalized racism and oppression, including the U.S. military. After the SDS stormed University Hall in 1969, there was no mention of South Africa--or Harvard's investment policies--in the list of demands it released to the administration...
Harvard first came under fire for its holdings informs doing business in South Africa when the SDS, in the late 1960s, charged that the University was involving itself in the seedier side of capitalism. But the SDS argued that the Harvard-South Africa connection was insignificant compared to other links. Harvard had to institutionalized racism and oppression, including the U.S. military. After the SDS stormed University Hall in 1969, there was no mention of South Africa or Harvard's investment policies--in the list of demands it released to the administration...
...first major assault took place in September 1969, when 20 to 30 members of The Weathermen, a militant offshoot of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), rushed into the offices of the Center, chasing out staff members and physically assaulting those who resisted. They gave Benjamin H. Brown, director of the Fellows Program, a serious gash above the ear, and once inside the building, they painted the slogans 'Pig' and 'Fuck US Imperialism' on the interior walls...