"Polaroid's ad campaign- designed to dispel notions of apartheid- is only an attempt to calm public outrage," said David Otsen of the African Research Group, a Cambridge-based study organization, at an M.I.T. teach-in last night in the student union.
Organized to discuss Polaroid's involvement in South Africa, the teach-in resulted from protest over the use of the ID-2 identification system.
The South African government requires blacks over 16 to carry this 20-page passbook at all times. Polaroid, through their distributors Frank and Hirsen, supplies the necessary photographs.
Over 100 people rallied at Polaroid's main office in Tech Square last Monday, protesting the ID-2 system as a means for promoting a partied.
Kenneth Williams, fired last year by Polaroid after organizing a boycott of Polaroid's products, spoke out against the "dehumanization of all black workers, here and in South Africa,"
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