The mailing says on May 7 the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid held a hearing involving student activists from the most active campuses nationwide including: Columbia University (3-week blockade and 60 arrests), UC/Berkeley (400 arrested in divestment protests), University of Wisconsin/Madison (ongoing occupation of the state capitol), University of Iowa (137 arrests), Cornell University (over 1000 arrests), University of Louisville (sit-in of 100 students), Rutgers/New Brunswick (three week building blockade), UCLA (25 arrests), Atlanta (9 arrests), Harvard (blockade of the South African consul), Yale (sit-out), UC/Santa Cruz, Princeton (2-week encampment), and the University...
The mailing says on May 7 the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid held a hearing involving student activists from the most active campuses nationwide including: Columbia University (3-week blockade and 60 arrests), UC/Berkeley (400 arrested in divestment protests), University of Wisconsin/Madison (ongoing occupation of the state capitol), University of Iowa (137 arrests), Cornell University (over 1000 arrests), University of Louisville (sit-in of 100 students), Rutgers/New Brunswick (three week building blockade), UCLA (25 arrests), Atlanta (9 arrests), Harvard (blockade of the South African consul), Yale (sit-out), UC/Santa Cruz, Princeton (2-week encampment), and the University Of Texas. The mailing says following the hearing in a meeting coordinated by the American Committee on Africa campus organizers decided on a general time-line for action into next school year; protests for divestment are being planned by groups across the country and in some places opposition to U.S. intervention in Central America will also be a focus; on Southern Africa Political Prisoner day another national anti-apartheid protest day with a stress on divestment (as on April 4 and April 24) was decided upon. The mailing says the American Committee on Africa will host a Northeast regional meeting on Saturday June 15; for those who come for that meeting we encourage you to stay over for Soweto Sunday June 16 when the African National Congress will be organizing a major rally. The mailing says this summer the Free South Africa Movement will hire 25 students from June 1-Aug 31 to do targeted organizing on "swing" U.S. Representatives and Senators on the important legislation for South Africa sanctions. The mailing discusses Damu Smith, Kay Shaw, Amnesty International, Tandi Gcabashe, AFSC (American Friends Service Committee), and Winnie Mandela. • COMMENCEMENT PROTESTS TO BE HELD NATIONWIDE • OCTOBER 11, 1985 TO BE A NATIONAL ANTI-APARTHEID PROTEST DAY • NATIONAL ANTI-APARTHEID STUDENT CONFERENCE TO BE HELD IN NOVEMBER IN NEW YORK CITY • REGIONAL MEETINGS TO BE HELD OVER THE SUMMER • SUMMER STUDENT PROJECT TO SUPPORT NATIONAL DISINVESTMENT LEGISLATION
