African Activist Archive

The mailing says Portlanders Organized for Southern African Freedom, American Friends Service Committee Southern African staff, Rainbow Organizing Coalition, and Portland Chapter of the National Black United Front have been organizing demonstrations in front of the business location of the South African honorary consul. The demonstrations have been conducted to draw public attention to the existence of the South African honorary consulate in Portland and to exert pressure on him to resign. The demonstrations also add Portland's support to the nationwide Free South Africa Movement, which has been mobilized to show support and solidarity with all political detainees and oppressed South Africans, to oppose the Reagan administration's policy of "constructive engagement," and to call for economic sanctions against South Africa. The mailing lists people who have been arrested thus far for criminal trespass at Portland's South African honorary consulate: Reverend John Jackson, Minister of Mt. Olivet Baptist Church and Co-chair of the Portland Chapter of the National Black United Front; Ron Herndon, Co-chair of the Portland Chapter of the National Black United Front; Trevor Purcell, professor, Reed College; Lynn Parkinson, local attorney; Ed Ferguson, professor, Oregon State University; Bob Baugh, Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO; Jim Draper, retired businessman, Corvallis; Margaret Carter, State Representative , District 18; Mike Burton, State Representative, District 17; Dick Celsi, Chair of the State Democratic Party; Darrell Millner, Chair, Black Studies Department, Portland State University; Jim Stuart, Chaplain, Lewis and Clark College; Steve Kosokoff, professor, Portland State University; and Margot Buetler, self-employed business person. The mailing says the picketing and civil disobedience take place every Wednesday and Friday. It quotes Nobel Peace Prize winner Bishop Desmond Tutu. The mailing includes a calendar for church bulletins and Sunday announcements. [Note on date: The handwritten correction of 1984 to 1985 is correct.]

African Activist Archive

[Dear Friends: During the past month…demonstrations downtown in front of the business location of the South African honorary consul]

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