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Contents: POLICE GRAB FOUR IN BIKO PLAZA • HEALTH AND SAFETY • GARDNER HOLDS PRESS CONFERENCE • TUTU TO TALK • EDITORIAL, WHICH WAY FORWARD? • NATIONAL NEWS • TUFTS UNIVERSITY • INDIANA UNIVERSITY • UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA • COLUMBIA • DEFEND THE SIT-IN AT BIKO HALL • The newsletter discusses UCB (University of California, Berkeley) and its administration, negotiations, a clean-up crew, students, the police, Santa Rita, the Berkeley jail, UCPD (University of California Police Department), false arrests, non-violence training, UC Faculty for Full Divestment, the UC Regents, businesses in South Africa, Bishop Desmond Tutu, UC Davis, the UC Student Lobby, anti-apartheid and divestment legislation, Samuel Higginbottom, Rolls Royce Inc., the Columbia Board of Trustees, Special Assistant to the Chancellor John Cummins, sit-ins, protestors, and amnesty for all arrested anti-apartheid protestors. [Notes: BIKO PLAZA NEWS was written and published by recently-graduated students and community members, outside 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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