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From: jablow@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Eric Robert Jablow)
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Subject: Re: good news...
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Date: Tue, 6-May-86 20:39:00 EDT
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In article <2125@ism780c.UUCP> tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) writes:
>In article <262@gc49.UUCP> smithrd@gc49.UUCP (Randy D. Smith) writes:
>>In article I write:
>>>
>
>Since U.C.B. is a state school, I think that the problem needs to be
>dealt with at a state level.  Thus, I think that the way to fight
>U.C.B. investment in South Africa ( or other state investment in
>S.A. ) is to convince the legislature that the people do not want
>tax money used for such things.
>
>In particular, I think that people organizing blockades could do a lot
>more to end apartheid by collecting signatures on a petition to send
>to the legislature.  Or by working to elect legislators who agree with
>them on divestment.

And here in California, you don't even need to do that;
you can set up an electoral initiative.  Howard Jarvis 
succeeded with Proposition 13; you can do the same thing.
Or is that too democratic for you?
>-- 
>Tim Smith       sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim || ima!ism780!tim || ihnp4!cithep!tim

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	Speaking for the majority, Judge Whirter wrote, "Nobody has the
	right to act like a God-damned idiot, or to treat other people
	like dirt, or to tear down all the time without having
	something better to replace it with, and then come around and
	ask us for favors.

	"Congress in Crisis: The Proximity Bill"
	Garrison Keillor

			Respectfully,
			Eric Robert Jablow
			MSRI
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