ACTION GUIDE ON SOUTHERN AFRICA

Contents: Why act on southern African issues? • Section 1. Action Campaigns: What Has Been, and Could Be Done • Stopping South African and Rhodesian Imports • Boycotting Consumer Goods • Discouraging Bank Loans to South Africa • Stockholder Action and Public Hearings • Action on Technical Cooperation • Gold and Diamonds • Minority Regime Presents in the United States • Action on Military and Intelligence Cooperation • Mercenaries • Sports • Legislative Action • A. National • B. State • C. City • Encouragement to Others • A. Political movements • B. Political prisoners • C. Labor groups, families • D. Women's organizations • Operation Namibia • Section 2: Some Techniques in Organizing a Campaign • 1. Get in touch with others: Develop an Action/Study Group • 2. Investigate • 3. Set Goals/Develop Strategy • Goal-Setting • Resources • Tactics/Timeline • Evaluation • Principle Tasks • A.) Coordination • B.) Recruitment • C.) Fundraising • D.) Press and Publicity • E.) Hospitality • Tasks in a demonstration or direct action • F.) Legal • G.) Training • H.) Demonstration information • I.) Demonstration facilitation • J.) Signs and leaflets • K.) Police • L.) Other tasks • Some Suggestions for a Nonviolent Campaign Against Tourism to Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) • Assumptions • Objectives • Strategies • Section 3 • ORGANIZATIONS • A. National • B. Information/News • C. National: Mainly Academic • D. Local • Organizations in Britain and Elsewhere • Section 4 • RESOURCES: Background Reading • RESOURCES: The Ties that Bind the West to Southern Africa • RESOURCES: Periodicals • RESOURCES: Films • TEAR OFF THIS LAST PAGE AND TELL US WHAT YOU THIS ON THE ACTION GUIDE AND WHAT YOU ARE DOING ON THE ISSUES • The pamphlet says the United Mine Workers launched nonviolent direct actions against the importation of South African coal by the Southern Company. The pamphlet discusses U.S. corporations with investments in South Africa including GM (General Motors), Ford, Chrysler, Firestone, Goodyear, Mobil Oil, Texaco, Standard Oil of California, General Electric, ITT, and Motorola. The pamphlet discusses the International Longshoremen's Association, AFSC's Nonviolent Action Training Program, and the Coalition to Stop Rhodesian and South African Imports. The pamphlet discusses banks including Citicorp, Chase Manhattan, and Morgan Guarantee Trust. The pamphlet says in Zimbabwe a major firm is Union Carbide. The pamphlet discusses Getty Oil and American Metal Climax (AMEX). The pamphlet discusses the Krugerrand, the South African Chamber of Mines, and the De Beers Company. The pamphlet discusses South African Airways; the South African Tourist Corporation; Collier, Shannon Rill and Edwards; and Doyle, Dane and Berbach. The pamphlet discusses the Lockheed Hercules C-130, Cessna and C141 Starlifters. Groups the pamphlet discusses include: South Africa Boycott Committee, American Committee on Africa (ACOA), Southern Africa Coordinating Committee, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, Operation Namibia, the Namibia Support Group, and Bay Area Namibia Action Group. The pamphlet discusses the South African Student Organization (SASO), the Christian Institute, the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), the African National Congress (ANC), the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), ZANU, ZAPU, MPLA, and FRELIMO.