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...march. At Columbia, which has $33 million invested in concerns doing business in South Africa, the blockade of Hamilton Hall has continued more than two weeks. At Berkeley, mass rallies were triggered early last week when police arrested 159 protesters who had been on a weeklong sleep-in vigil decrying the university's $1.7 billion portfolio with companies tainted by apartheid...
Outside the capital, the protest movement has been 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...
What is equally disturbing is what a silent or inactive community says to its perpetrators. If no one were to speak up, attend a vigil, go to an event about rape myths, or any other educative or informative event, would we know what the appropriate boundaries of our actions are? Would we know how to communicate, or how to intervene to potentially prevent sexual violence? Would we know how to support survivors? Would perpetrators understand that their behavior and actions are hurtful, and that their community will not tolerate them? Probably not. We can all participate in and benefit from...
...feel smaller when your father dies because he was strong and lifted you, carried you and taught you, and when he's gone the room feels too big without him. So it was in St. Peter's Square, where pilgrims kept vigil, their faces traced in low light by candles, murmuring "Don't leave us." Among the believers was almost disbelief that death still comes even to a man this strong--the Holy Father who had carried his people so far, lifted them so high, taught them so much and now finally was slipping away...
...believe the I.R.A. has become sidetracked by crime and more interested in protecting its own members than ordinary Catholics. "We want to tell the world and the I.R.A. that we are not going to take any more of this intimidation and bullying," Coyle said last week at a candlelit vigil for James McGinley. The McGinleys want the I.R.A. to apologize and expel James' killer from its ranks, and the McCartneys want the group to throw out any remaining members involved in Robert's murder and to encourage witnesses to come forward. Sinn Fein, which is supposed to be celebrating...