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From: mazer@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: The students of the country care about the world (South Africa)
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Date: Wed, 1-May-85 15:56:32 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  1 15:56:32 1985
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> I realize that the net is not in general considered a polit-
> ical  forum,  But  the net has grown. I hope and I pray that
> those of you who read this will do so with an open mind  and
> heart.
> 
>      On campuses across the nation students have been trying
> to  do just the smallest amount to end the apartheid slavery
> in South Africa, of South Africans. How can we  continue  to
> ignore  such  a  situation  as  this?  If one is to consider
> slavery the restriction of free movement, then South  Africa
> is  true  a  slave nation in this century. Her native people
> may not leave there labor camps. Yes they are paid, but  not
> even  enough  to  eat.  Money is only as good as the food it
> buys.
> 
>      It is not the time or the place to go into the depth of
> the  problems  in South Africa in this article. All I ask is
> that you people read this, think about it and begin to  dis-
> cuss  it  in the appropriate groups*. Please at least listen
> to what has been going on down there for just all too  long.
> If  a  near by University is holding a sit in or a teach in,
> go to it, you may learn something.
> 
>      Please excuse the quality of my  writing,  between  100
> and 200 of us have been sleeping on the library steps at the
> University of California at San Diego for four  nights  now.
> We  have stage sit-ins and teach-ins with various professors
> speaking. We have had marches and rallies with  up  to  2000
> members  of our very small student body attending. I feel it
> is a worth while movement, and I hope that  we  may  receive
> the support of the net.
> 
>      Thank you for your time. If you have any  questions  or
> comments  for  our  group  we  also  have a pay phone by our
> sleeping bags, (619) 457-9179.  [This  number is  meaningful
> until May 15 - MRH.]
> 
>                       Richard Stewart.
> 
> (general disclaimer, all opinions here are my  own,  and  if
> you want to sue me I probably don't have enough money for it
> to be worth your while)
> 
> [* net.politics is suggested - followups to this message are
> automatically posted to net.politics.]

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