Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Operation Solidarity (also known as the Solidarity Crisis) refers to a protest movement in British Columbia, Canada in 1983 that emerged in response to the Social Credit (Socred) government's economic policy of austerity and anti-union legislation.
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.
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 ...
In the 1980s, a group of Columbia students began to call on the school to cut financial ties with companies doing business in South Africa over its apartheid racial segregation policy.
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.
Bob Witanek, who graduated in 1982 and was active in left-wing political causes, recalled a different climate toward protests against South Africa. Apartheid was the system of oppression and ...
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 ...