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Collmbia UNIVERSITY COALITION for a FREE SOUTH AFRICA COLlMBIA UNIVERSITY COALITION FOR A FREE SOUTH AFRI CA PRESS PACKET April 12, 1985 Malcolm X Lounge, Hartley Hall, Columbia University Instructions to members of the press: The Press Office is located in Room SA in Hartley Hall. Please stop there first for information and clearance for all interviews with former fasters and Steering Committee members. CONTENTS: Press Release: April 12, 1985 Telegram to President Michael Sovern and the Columbia Board of Trustees (Demands of Blockaders) Letter from the Coalition to the Trustees Statement fronl the Blockaders List of Endorsements of the Blockade Texts of Telegrams by Bishop Tutu and Jesse Jackson F'aculty Support Statements Fact Sheet of Recent Events (two pages) Summary of Disciplinary Proceedings Pending Against the Blockaders Apartheid and Columbia fact Sheet List of South African Related Investments Held by Columbia University Malcolm X Lounge, Hartley Hall, Columbia University Press office: 5A Hartley Hall, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027 Tel: 280-6536/7/8, 864-8461/8442 PRESS RELEASE April 12, 1985 The ninth day of the student blockade in front of Hamilton Hall was marked by increased support from major political figures across the country and renewed legal maneuverings by the University administration on campus and in the courtroom. Students cheered as messages of support from Rev. Jesse Jackson, Mayor Marion Barry, Jr., Senator Gary Hart and Bishop Desmond Tutu were read. Downtown, University attorney Floyd Abrams argued that the temporary restraining order granted the students on Wednesday should be voided. State Supreme Court Justice Bruce Wright decided in favor of the students, ruling that the injunction was valid. Undaunted by this new legal setback, the University administration, represented by Associate Dean of Columbia College Michael Rosenthal, tried a different tack. Flanked by an attorney and a delegation of security personnel, he approached the blockaders at 4: 20 Rvl. Rosenthal announced that, according to his interpretation of a quldote in bal New York Times .aLticle..n.,. the Hstudents' lawyers had oromLsed that anyone wou be a e to enter tlie DUllulng luroug tne -tront Qoor. -Wfien It Decame Clear that the Coalition's lawyer, C. Vernon Mason, had been misquoted, Rosenthal conferred with his lawyer, announced that the students had "been warned," turned, and left. Tonight, students celebrated this week's legal and moral victories ata 'Divestment Blockade Fundraiser' dance on campus. Columbia University in the Cit~, of Ne.w York I Neu' rork. N. Y. 10027 COAL.ITION FOR A FREE SOUTH AFRICA . alockade telephone access 280-6537/6538, 864-8461/8442 Coalition address: Malcolm· X Lounge, Hartley Hall, Columbia University . - .... - ..... 1EXT OF TELEGRAM SENT TO PRESIDENr rvnCHAEL SOVERN AND TIlE COLl1v1BIA UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSrEES srATING OOAANDS OF TIlE BLOCKADERS OF HNv1ILTON HALL AT COLll\4BIA UNIVERSITY ON 8U'H)AY APRIL 7, 1985 -~----~-----~--~~~----------~-~---~-~--~----~-------~~ ------------------------ Dear President Sovern/Board of Trustee Member: The 400-member Coalition for a Free South Africa, comprised of Columbia University students., faculty, alumni, and staff -- seventy of whom have been fasting in some fonn for nearly two weeks -- are currently bl9ckading Hamilton Hall. We are hereby -demanding that you immediately convene your ge"neral body to issue a written public policy statement of your intention to divest t~e $34 million that Columbia University invests in companies operating in South Africa, further stipulating that this policy be fully implemented within three years from the issuance of this statement. The blockade will not end until such a statement is "issued. Another non-negotiable condition for ending the blockade is that Columbia University issue in writing an unconditional grant -of amnesty to all participants in the bloackade with an explicit pledge that no dIsciplInary or legal action will be taken against any of them at any futur~ time. Sincerely Yours, Columbia Coalition for a Free South Africa Columbia University in the Cit:. of Ne.\\' '{ork Neu' i\,ror,k N.. Y 100_') ,-. COALITION FOR A FREE SOUTH AFRICA April 5, 1985 Dear Trustee: We, 400 student, faculty, staff, and alumni members of the Coalition for a Free South Africa, are blockading Hamilton Hall. This is a letter to explain why. We believe that Columbia's investments in South Africa support the apartheid system which has repeatedly shown an unwillingness to deal with peaceful black protest by any other means but brutal force. W~ are asking you, as a Trustee, to respond to the volatile situation in South Africa today, especially to the recent killings . numbering over forty in the last month. How long will Columbia's investment continue to legitimize this racist, state-sponsored violence? In 1978, as leaders of an ethical educational institution,· you promised to divest all holdings in corporations which, "through act or omission," continue to support. apartheid and "manifest indifference" to its victims. Yet you continue to manage a portfolio which contains corporations that not only "manifest indifference" to suffering under apartheid, but substantially contribute to it. 111\1 is still supplying computers which keep track of blacks under the pass law system, Mobil is still providing oil to the South African military, and all companies are still obliged under the Key Points Act to offer their factories to the military in case of black unrest. In 1984, the Columbia University Senate found that "all foreign corporations are obliged to do business under the laws of apartheid and are therefore ineluctably part of the fabric of apartheid." In light of your' 1978 public promise to divest such corporations, we are asking you as Trustees, how many deaths until you fulfill your promise? Columbia's tradition as a leading liberal and ethical institution brings us much pride and strength and we calion you to take the only possible path here to preserve the fine tradition we share: we are determined to stay until you divest. The Members of the Coalition For a Free South Africa Ene: (4) Financial Implications of Divestment South African Perpectives Apartheid and Columbia Columbia University in the Cit:. of Ne.w York I NeU'York, N.Y. 10027 COALITION FOR A FREE SOUTH AFRICA Blockade telephone access 280-6537/6538, 864-8461/8442 Coalition address: Malcolm X Lounge, Hartley Hall, Columbia University SfATEMENT FROM 1HE BLOCKADERS Under the leadership of the Coalition for a Free South Africa, hundreds of Columbia University students, faculty, alumni and staff - a number of whom have recently ended their 15 day fast - continue to blockade the main entrance to Hamilton Hall, the main bUilding of Columbia College. They demand that the Trustees immediately convene to issue a written public policy statement of their intention to divest all t their holdings in corporations that do business in South Africa , further stipulating that this policy be fully implemented within three years from the issuance of this statement. The blockade will not end until such a statement is issued•. Another non-negotiable condition for ending the blockade is that Columbia University issue in writing an unconditional grant of amne ty to all participants in the bloackade with an explicit pledge that no disciplinary or legal action will be taken against any of them at any future time. There is a crisis in South Africa, which the Trustees can no longer turn their backs on. The apartheid system has repeatedly shown an unwillingness to deal with peaceful black protest by any other means but brutal force. We are asking the Trustees to respond to the volatile situation in South Africa today: there have been more than 40 government sanctioned killings in the last month. In 1978, they promised to divest all holdings in corporations which, "through act or omission", support apartheid. Holdings in these corporations have yet to' be divested. In 1984, The Columbia University Senate found that "all foreign corporations are obliged to do business under the laws of apartheid and are therefore ineluctably part of the fabric of apartheid." In light of the 1978 Trustees' public promise to divest such corporations, we are asking the Trustees, "How many deaths until you fulfill your promise?" Columbia University in the Cit:. of Ne.w York I New York, N. Y. 10027 COALITION FOR A. FREE SOUTH AFRICA LISf OF ENDORSEN1ENfS -Blockade telephone access 280-6537/6538, 864-8461/8442 Coalition address: Malcolm X Lounge, Hartley Hall, Columbia University The following is a partial list of endorsements from individuals and groups supporting the Coalition for a Free South Africa Hamilton Hall blockade: African National Congress of South Africa American Committee on Africa . Art Against Apartheid Shirley Chisholm C.I.S.P.E.S. Herbert Daughtery David Dinkins District 65, V.A.W. Herman 'Denny' Farrell Carolyn Forche Victor Gotbaum Harvard Law Coalition for Divestment Nat Hentoff Abbie Hoffman International Socialists' Organization Judy Gorman Jacobs Florence Kennedy Local 420, A.F.S.C.M.E. AFL-CIO Local 1199, Health & Hospital Workers Nonnan Mailer Arthur Miller Kate Millet N.O.W. NYS Chapter Pres. (Noreen Connell) Paul Robeson, Jr. Randall Robinson (Free South Africa) Rutgers College Divestment Group Pete Seeger William Styron U-2 (personal appearance by Bono) Special Committee on Apartheid US Students' Association Univ. of Iowa Coalition Against Apartheid Kurt Vonnegut Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul and Mary) And students at S.U.N. Y. Purchase, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of California at Berkeley t Hunter College, Cornell Medical School and The New Scool for Social Research. PRESS RELEASE APRIL 12, 1985 TEXTS OF MESSAGES FROM BISHOP TUfU AND REV. JESSE JACKSON We salute your outstanding commitment to struggle for justice and peace in South Africa. We seek to change the vicious unjust system peacefully and welcome your effort to have economic decision be based on moral principle. Would be distressed if your campaign degenerated into violenc.e between yourselves and police or yourself and fellow students.
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