Description “In 1986, a poster advertised an Anti-Apartheid Concert with performances by Dartmouth Music Department faculty. Proceeds were to be donated to the Dartmouth Community for Divestment – the group that successfully advocated for Dartmouth to divest from South African apartheid. Notwithstanding explicit references from today’s divestment movement to that of the 80s (i.e. common goals of divestment, parallel tactics of encampments/shanites, etc.), the “spiritual” implications are quite moving – namely, this idea: The resistance which existed then persists today. I recently had a conversation with a longtime Upper Valley activist and community organizer who shared her story of being arrested in 1964 for protesting in support of free speech. On the one hand, our persistent need to fight for the right to speak is haunting. On the other hand, her story encourages me: Good people have fought and continue to fight for better realities. Only now, we stand on that many more years of experience. Coalitions have existed before. And yet, Dartmouth has never seen an organized coalition of faculty, staff, students, alums, and community members who have mobilized to the extent that we have today.We organize, not only out of care for each other but also out of care for ourselves. We recognize we are not free until all of us are free. I hope for this concert to be a site of reflection upon our current moment, the lineages from which we sprout, and how we spring forward into a better future. My reflections are framed by these questions: What is apartheid? What is lineage? What is liberation? - Daniel Lin”