Student Anti-Apartheid Newsletter

Contents: Anti-Apartheid Protests Sweep Campuses Across the Country --Further Municipal Divestment Victories Registered • SUMMARY OF CAMPUS PROTEST ACTIONS • Columbia University • Washington DC • California • Northeastern Region • Southern Region • Midwestern Region • Northwestern Region • Included in the mailing of the newsletter is ACTION TIME-LINE FOR ANTI-APARTHEID ORGANIZING SET BY STUDENT ACTIVISTS FOLLOWING HEARING AT THE UNITED NATIONS. The newsletter says this spring has been marked by an unprecedented growth in the breadth and militancy of student protests for South Africa-related divestment. Beginning with protests on March 21, Sharpeville Day, and sparked by the Columbia University blockade on April 4 National Divestment Protest Day, students at over 100 campuses have taken part in anti-apartheid actions. The newsletter discusses student protests, blockades, occupations, sit-ins, UC/Berkeley (University of California Berkeley), Rutgers, Cornell University, Tufts University, Harvard, Louisville, the University of Wisconsin, Oberlin, the University of Iowa, UMASS/Amherst (University of Massachusetts Amherst), UCLA (University of California Los Angeles), the State University of New York (SUNY), Vassar, UC/Santa Cruz, U.S. corporations and banks involved in South Africa, Dartmouth College, Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Republic Bank, the San Francisco Retirement Board, a non-binding voter referendum, Burlington, Vermont, city pension funds, John Chettle, the South Africa Foundation, the University of California system, Hamilton Hall, District 65 of the UAW, Teamsters Local 237, AFSCME Local 402, 1199, unions. Desmond Tutu, the United Democratic Front (UDF), the ANC (African National Congres), SWAPO, TransAfrica, Jesse Jackson, City Council member Ruth Messinger, Bella Abzug, Reverend Herbert Daughtry, Charles Rangel, Assemblyman Arthur Eve, Reverend Calvin Butts, Vernon Mason, Elombe Brath, Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, Mandela Hall, Canaan Baptist Church, Columbia slumlord practices, Columbia Trustee Board Chairman Samuel Higginbottom, George Mason University, American University, the University of Maryland, the University of the District of Columbia, Howard, Georgetown, new private investment, the Krugerrand, computer exports, riot-equipped police, class boycotts, Mayor Gus Newport, Stanford University, UC Santa Barbara, Hastings Law School, San Francisco State College, Los Angeles Community College, San Jose State University, Cal State Northridge (California State University Northridge), Rutgers/New Brunswick, Harvard Corporation, Princeton University, Yale University, UPENN (University of Pennsylvania), Wesleyan, Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore, the University of Florida, Georgia State University, the University of Louisville, Vanderbilt University, the Service Merchandisers Company. Students Against Apartheid, the University of Arizona, the University of New Mexico, St. Mary's College, Louisiana State University, Chapel Hill (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Duke University, the University of Wisconsin Madison, the University of Iowa, the University of Missouri, Kansas University, Oberlin College, Ford, General Motors (GM), Northwestern University, the University of Illinois, Grinnell College, Western Washington University, Evergreen State College, the University of Oregon, Reed College, Willamette College, South African Political Prisoners Day, banning orders, Winnie Mandela, Tandi Gcabashe, AFSC (American Friends Service Committee), Amnesty International, the Free South Africa Movement, sanctions, Soweto Sunday, Damu Smith, Kay Shaw, and the Washington Office on Africa (WOA). • 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 DIVESTMENT LEGISLATION [Notes: San Francisco State College is presumably San Francisco State University. Willamette College is presumably Willamette University.]