ix673@sdcc6.uucp (Richard Stewart) (04/29/85)
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.]