African Activist Archive

Contents: HEARD AROUND THE PLAZA • FRIDAY'S SCHEDULE • NEWS • SAFETY • The newsletter reports that 150 people were arrested at Cornell during a Divestment sit-in, a Nationwide Strike for April 24 is gaining more support, UC Faculty for Full Divestment met with Heyman and urged him to drop the charges and to issue a statement in favor of divestment, and 500 Longshoremen joined us yesterday at Biko Plaza. The newsletter discusses Steve Biko Hall, non-violence training, the Spring Mobilization March on Saturday in San Francisco, cultural events, a Sleep-In, Chancellor Heyman, the National Conference of Universities, apartheid, Assembly Speaker and Regent Willie Brown, the film "You Have Struck a Rock," demonstrators, Cornell, live music, Big City, and a hunger strike. [Notes: BIKO PLAZA NEWS was written and published by recently-graduated students and community members, outside of any existing organization, who had joined the 43-day Biko Sit-in, which activists in the Campaign Against Apartheid started on April 10, 1985.]

African Activist Archive

BIKO PLAZA NEWS

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