Clergy and Laity Concerned
Clergy and Laity Concerned
Alternate Names: Clergy and Laity Concerned About Vietnam
Location: New York, New York, United States
Duration: 1965-? (The organization no longer exists)
Clergy and Laity Concerned (CALC) (originally called Clergy and Laity Concerned About Vietnam) was founded to oppose the U.S. war in Vietnam. After the end of the Vietnam war, CALC focused on other issues including supporting popular struggles in Latin America and struggles against colonialism and apartheid in Africa. Based in New York, CALC had...
Clergy and Laity Concerned (CALC) (originally called Clergy and Laity Concerned About Vietnam) was founded to oppose the U.S. war in Vietnam. After the end of the Vietnam war, CALC focused on other issues including supporting popular struggles in Latin America and struggles against colonialism and apartheid in Africa. Based in New York, CALC had chapters across the country. CALC and its chapters were involved in divestment campaigns against companies doing business in South Africa. In 1977 CALC joined with the American Committee on Africa (ACOA), the American Friends Service Committee and trade unions to form the Committee to Oppose Bank Loans to South Africa (COBLSA). CALC staff member Gene Jones and ACOA staff member Prexy Nesbitt were the first coordinators of COBLSA. COBLSA had local affiliates across the country and Minnesota and Chicago CALC were very involved. In 1980 John Collins, the co-director of CALC, announce that CALC has helped ship "Omkeer" (About Face in Afrikaans), a banned publication for draft age youth and soldiers that advocated draft resistance and desertion from the apartheid army, into South Africa.
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