Testimony to the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid of student leaders. The testimony says the divestment of school stocks in companies linked to South Africa is not an end in itself; rather it is one means to discourage corporate investment in South Africa. The testimony says we are now at an unprecedented moment for the anti-apartheid movement in this country; the convening of this hearing bears witness to the protests on over 100 campuses this spring including some form of blockade or sit-in at: Columbia, UC/Berkeley, Rutgers, Cornell (where over 1000 have been arrested), Tufts, Harvard, Louisville, University of Wisconsin , Oberlin, University of Iowa, UMASS/Amherst, UCLA...
Testimony to the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid of student leaders. The testimony says the divestment of school stocks in companies linked to South Africa is not an end in itself; rather it is one means to discourage corporate investment in South Africa. The testimony says we are now at an unprecedented moment for the anti-apartheid movement in this country; the convening of this hearing bears witness to the protests on over 100 campuses this spring including some form of blockade or sit-in at: Columbia, UC/Berkeley, Rutgers, Cornell (where over 1000 have been arrested), Tufts, Harvard, Louisville, University of Wisconsin , Oberlin, University of Iowa, UMASS/Amherst, UCLA (University of California Los Angeles), State University of New York, Vassar, UC/Santa Cruz, University of Florida and University of Kansas. The testimony says this year's Weeks of Action and the April 4 National Protest Day involved over 50 campuses and numerous cities, including a NYC march on Mobil Oil. The testimony discusses Oliver Tambo, the African National Congress (ANC), David Ndaba, John Chettle of the South Africa Foundation, South African and U.S. companies, Columbia University, the United Democratic Front (UDF), the massacre in Uitenhage, the Sharpeville massacre, the 1976 Soweto Uprisings, the Free South Africa Movement, the struggle in South Africa, the Sullivan Code, university trustees, civil disobedience, UC (University of California), the Columbia Coalition for a Free South Africa, the legislative divestment movement, CUNY, Washington State University, Evergreen State College, well as Yale, Brown, Harvard , Dartmouth, Grinnell, the South African Army and Police, and National Protest Day.
