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Reporter Peter Hawthorne, who has covered South Africa for TIME since 1965, was first exposed to the country's turbulence in 1960, when he walked the silent streets of Sharpeville hours after 69 blacks were killed by police gunfire. He covered the 1976 riots in Soweto, and in the past several weeks has again dodged township mobs, and a few rocks. But the danger does not deter Hawthorne. "The story is its own magnet," he says. "There are real people living here, black and white, and they have no choice but to coexist in peace or die together...
...most visible on college campuses, where, in raising their fists against apartheid, demonstrators have also raised memories of the '60s. At the University of California, Berkeley, about 200 protesters staged a sleep-in vigil in April that culminated in 159 arrests. Harvard has seen a dozen demonstrations, including a silent ten-day vigil in front of the college's spiritual center, the statue of Founder John Harvard. At Cornell, students built a settlement of mock South African shanties and lived inside them until a fire swept through the area and the local fire department declared the huts a hazard...
...United Front for Divestment. Founded and led by Black Students Association (BSA) President Lawrence E. Adjah ’06 and BSA leadership in collaboration with SGP and DAG, United Front reached out to student groups to endorse and join their effort and brought them together for a silent protest outside the meeting of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility. It was during this protest that the movement, represented by hundreds standing together in black in front of Loeb House last Monday, received the news of Harvard’s divestment from PetroChina...
...movement was single-minded in its goal and committed to achieving it. Petition for divestment. Boycott for divestment. Protest for divestment. Divestment from PetroChina was the goal, no matter what the tactic or the group. I even saw an e-mail from one of the primary organizers for the silent protest that firmly requested that all those involved ensure that only divestment signs were held at the protest, a far cry from progressive rallies that often result in cries for a potpourri of leftist causes...
...This currently occurs for kids who have acting-out problems, like violence or substance disorders or [Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder], but not nearly as much for kids with more silent mental health problems like depression or PTSD,” Kessler wrote...