brilliant and inspiring!
CAROLINE HUNTER: All I knew then was that South Africa was a bad place for black people. We had to educate ourselves. We studied Verwoerd and Malan, the creators and the architects of apartheid, the legislation and the history, traced it back to Nazi Germany, and the fact that population registration and control was a tool. And Polaroid had the technology that made that tool effective and brutal. […] So we presented Polaroid with three demands: that Polaroid get out of South Africa, that they announce in the U.S. and South Africa simultaneously their abhorrence for apartheid, and that they turn over their profits to the liberation movements. That then went on to engaging students and workers in the Cambridge and Boston area to support our demands and to boycott Polaroid and begin to say to other organizations, churches and universities, “Don’t have anything to do with them. Disinvest. Don’t buy stock. Don’t use the cameras. Don’t buy the film.” More here.