Townspeople back sit-in by Santa Cruz
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Saclallst Action, 3435 Army 3L, Am. 308, San Franoisco, CA 94110 SANTA CRUZ, Calif.—Hundreds of students have been participating in round-the-clock activities here to protest University of California investments in South Africa and to demand that charges be dropped against the anti-apartheid protesters arrested in Berkeley.
The anti-apartheid movement came to life on the Santa Cruz campus as soon as word was received that 159 Berkeley students had been arrested on April 16. The next day, close to 600 people attended a rally in solidarity with the Berkeley protesters. When organizers of Name.
Address City Telepbone the rally called for a sit-in at the renamed "Nelson Mandela" library, people sat down.
The library is covered with banners. One reads, "Workers and students unite against racism."
The adjacent "Winnie Mandela" Plaza is littered with sleeping bags, blankets, and backpacks. Tables are filled with literature and with food donated by local businesses.
Messages of support for the sit-in have been received from the Service Employees International Union Local 735, the American Federation of State and Municipal Employees local, Santa Cruz Mayor Marti Wormhaut, and the African National Congress.
Subscribe now Enclosed is $ Send me more information about Socialist Action A student boycott of classes was 70 percent to 80 percent effective, and the noontime rally was attended by nearly 5000 students. Above all, it reflected snowballing support for the students' demands.
On Thursday, April 18, the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU) recessed its national convention in order to allow the delegates to go to the Berkeley campus and demonstrate their solidarity. Hundreds of ILWU delegates mingled with the large crowd of students to hear a list of labor speakers announce their support of the students' demands.
The labor leaders speaking at the Thursday rally included Jimmy Herman, president of the ILWU; Miles Myers, president-elect of the California Federation of Teachers; and Al Lannon, co-chair of the Bay Area April 20 coalition and president of ILWU Local 6.
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