National Coalition for the Liberation of Southern Africa
National Coalition for the Liberation of Southern Africa
Alternate Names: Coalition for the Liberation of Southern Africa
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Duration: 1975-1977?
The National Coalition for the Liberation of Southern Africa (CLSA) was a network of local community, campus, church-based, national organizations and other groups in North America organizing to oppose white minority rule in Southern Africa. (Generally the name was simply Coalition for the Liberation of Southern Africa.) The CLSA sought to end U.S....
The National Coalition for the Liberation of Southern Africa (CLSA) was a network of local community, campus, church-based, national organizations and other groups in North America organizing to oppose white minority rule in Southern Africa. (Generally the name was simply Coalition for the Liberation of Southern Africa.) The CLSA sought to end U.S. and Canadian government and corporate complicity with that rule, and to support the liberation movements that it saw as in the forefront of the struggle for economic justice and political self-determination by the African majority. This coalition was formed as an outgrowth of the Working Conference on Southern Africa in Madison, Wisconsin in October 1975. The initial 17 groups involved in the coalition were: African Liberation Support Committee-Atlanta; American Committee on Africa; Anti-Apartheid Movement of the USA; Bay Area Namibia Action Group; Chicago Committee for the Liberation of Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau; Episcopal Churchmen for South Africa; Freedom Information Service; Lutheran Committee on Namibia; Madison Area Committee on Southern Africa; Philadelphia Coalition to Stop Rhodesian and South African Imports; Southern Africa Committee; Southern Africa Liberation Committee; Syracuse Committee on Southern Africa Liberation; Task Forces on Southern Africa, United Church of Christ, Massachusetts and Washington, DC; Washington Office on Africa; Women’s Division, Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist Church. In late 1977, the coalition established an office on Chicago, Illinois. Member groups were located in California; Illinois; Massachusetts; Minnesota; Mississippi; New York; Pennsylvania; Washington, DC; Wisconsin; and Vancouver, Canada. (Source: Coalition for the Liberation of Southern Africa Newsletter, October 1977)
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