Mailing including cover letter by Marguerite A. Fletcher, D. C. SCAR (co-convenor), and leaflet advertising the Chicago Student Summit on Southern Africa. The letter says the struggle against apartheid in South Africa comes at a crucial moment in the history of the U.S. student movement. The conference is sponsored by the United States Student Association in conjunction with its 38th Annual National Student Congress and hosted by the University of Illinois at Chicago. The conference will address divestment, anti-apartheid legislation, civil disobedience, U.S. policy, liberation movements, and organizing tips. Topics to be discusses include: outlining the current state of anti-apartheid...
Mailing including cover letter by Marguerite A. Fletcher, D. C. SCAR (co-convenor), and leaflet advertising the Chicago Student Summit on Southern Africa. The letter says the struggle against apartheid in South Africa comes at a crucial moment in the history of the U.S. student movement. The conference is sponsored by the United States Student Association in conjunction with its 38th Annual National Student Congress and hosted by the University of Illinois at Chicago. The conference will address divestment, anti-apartheid legislation, civil disobedience, U.S. policy, liberation movements, and organizing tips. Topics to be discusses include: outlining the current state of anti-apartheid legislation in Congress, planning effective campus divestment campaigns, linking opposition to apartheid and the struggle against domestic racism, assessing spring campus divestment activities, building closer ties to community and Free South Africa Movement, examining U.S. policy toward South Africa, and developing a youth and student declaration on this issue.