Cutting Ties to Apartheid: What the Churches Say on Divestment

ICCR Brief

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Edition

Vo. 14 No. 8

Creator

Diane Bratcher; Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility

Place Created

New York, New York, United States

Date

1985

Type of Item

Pamphlet

Length/duration

4 pages

Description

The Brief summarizes the intensifying of anti-apartheid organizing in the U.S. in late 1984 and early 1985. It discusses the history of church stockholder actions filed with U.S. companies on South Africa, beginning with the Episcopal Church resolution filed with General Motors in 1971. In May 1985, 55 church agencies announced a campaign to focus public pressure on 12 "key investors in apartheid," demanding that they cease all sales and service with the government and government-owned corporations and demand major changes in apartheid as a precondition for their remaining in South Africa. Four approaches to divestment taken by various church agencies are documented: total divestment,...

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Publisher

Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility

Organization

Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility

Coverage Africa

South Africa

Language

English

Digital Format

text/pdf

Rights Management

Used by permission of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility.

Collection

Private collection of David Wiley and Christine Root