Nelson Mandela's legacy is economic, too
Nelson Mandela's legacy is economic, too
- December 5, 2013
- David Meyer, sociology professor, is featured on the Marketplace December 5, 2013
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From the Marketplace:
University of California, Irvine, sociologist David Meyer said the divestment movement
succeeded in localizing a struggle against racial and economic oppression happening
8,000 miles away. “I think we see the legacies of the anti-apartheid campaign everywhere,”
said Meyer. “As the campaigns developed, students took on more aggressive actions,
most notably the shantytown protests. It started at Columbia University: they built
ramshackle housing on college greens to bring the struggle of South Africa home. And
in some ways that’s what we saw with the Occupy movement."
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