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From 1980 to 1994, several peaceful protests and blockades of logging roads occurred, with the largest in the mid-1993, when over 800 protesters were arrested and many put on trial. [4] Protesters included local residents of the Sound, the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation and Ahousaht First Nation, and environmentalist groups such as Greenpeace and ...
Through the 1970s and 1980s Schwarz was amongst the most forthright and effective campaigners against apartheid in Parliament who was feared by many National Party ministers. Helen Zille, a white anti-apartheid activist, exposed a police cover-up regarding the death of Black Consciousness founder Steve Biko as a reporter for the Rand Daily Mail.
It was created when the government of the then-Colony of British Columbia established an Indian reserve system in the 1860s. It is a member government of the Shuswap Nation Tribal Council . In the 1960s/1970s, the band had a population of 350, but 100 of their children were removed by child welfare authorities as part of the Sixties Scoop.
Columbia University students protest against apartheid in front of Hamilton Hall in New York City on April 4, 1984. ... It was the main classroom building when I was at Columbia in the mid-1980s ...
Pages in category "1980s in British Columbia" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
March through the streets of Cape Town by staff and students of UCT in protest against the Universities Bill – 7 June 1957. 1957–1959, June, the ruling National Party embarked on the destruction of academic freedom and the imposition of university apartheid. In June 1957, UCT students and staff marched through the streets of Cape Town in ...
The declaration was signed by 496 university professors and lecturers from 34 British universities to protest against apartheid and associated violations of academic freedom. They made a special reference to the issue of banning orders against two South African academics named Jack Simons and Eddie Roux, who were two well-known progressive ...
Even right here in Florida, similar gatherings took place across the state during the 1980s related to the anti-apartheid movement and calls for divestment for universities with ties to companies ...