The mailing says we are writing to you to request your help in organizing an urgent mobilization against apartheid. The mailing says we have raised our voices in a campaign to pass the Dellums-Cranston comprehensive sanctions bill (HR 1580/S556); the bill would impose a total trade embargo against South Africa, closing the loopholes in the present law-loopholes which allow the Reagan administration and other opponents of sanctions to circumvent its proscriptions; a total ban on trade and investments would be easier to enforce, and would deprive the regime of vital resources and technology that enable it to maintain its brutal, repressive system. The mailing says to galvanize such grassroots...
The mailing says we are writing to you to request your help in organizing an urgent mobilization against apartheid. The mailing says we have raised our voices in a campaign to pass the Dellums-Cranston comprehensive sanctions bill (HR 1580/S556); the bill would impose a total trade embargo against South Africa, closing the loopholes in the present law-loopholes which allow the Reagan administration and other opponents of sanctions to circumvent its proscriptions; a total ban on trade and investments would be easier to enforce, and would deprive the regime of vital resources and technology that enable it to maintain its brutal, repressive system. The mailing says to galvanize such grassroots support, a National Anti-Apartheid Lobby Day is being planned for June 16; you will recall that twelve years ago on this date, South African police opened fire upon a group of students peacefully demonstrating against inferior "bantu" education in Soweto. The mailing says for your information we are enclosing a packet of resource materials on the situation in South Africa and the pending legislation; included in the packet are an Action Alert on the Dellums bill, a brochure on the current situation in South Africa, a calendar and guide to South Africa-related activities sponsored by the UCC and others, a leaflet on the Shell boycott, and a flier describing the June 16 activities. The mailing includes quotes by Dr. Beyers Naude, former General Secretary, South African Council of Churches (SACC) and Dr. Avery D. Post. The mailing includes SANCTIONS BILL GAINS MOMENTUM, THE NEXT STEP AGAINST APARTHEID: BOYCOTT SHELL, NATIONAL ANTI-APARTHEID ACTION and LOBBY DAY, 1988 SOUTHERN AFRICA ACTION GUIDE, and STATE OF EMERGENCY EMERGENCY EMERGENCY. The mailing discusses House Foreign Affairs Committee, the Subcommittee on Africa, the Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade, South Africa's illegal occupation of Namibia, involvement in the South African energy sector, oil, Congressman Dan Burton, Royal/Dutch Shell, Jeanne Woods, Marie Rietmann, the Office for Church in Society, Audrey Smock, Di Scott, the United Church Board for World Ministries, divestment, ImMOBILize Apartheid, the Mobil Oil Company, the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), Church World Service's Mozambique Emergency Appeal, comprehensive sanctions, Bishop Desmond Tutu, H.CON.RES. 189/S.CON.RES. 91, Renamo (MNR), the Conyers Resolution condemning Renamo, the Bradley-Mchugh bill for open debate on UNITA, HR 3633/S 1474, the CIA, the African National Congress (ANC), the Southwest Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), state and municipal divestment efforts, the Internal Security Act, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), KwaZulu Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, Security Forces, the United Democratic Front (UDF), vigilante groups, the democratic movement, the KTC squatter camp (Crossroads), Black children, detained without charge, United Congregational Church of Southern Africa, refugees, the Frontline States, the Free South Africa Movement, the World Council of Churches, Nelson Mandela, AFL-CIO, United Mine Workers of America, NAACP, National Organization for Women, United Black Christians, and the National Union of Mineworkers.
