As an act of solidarity with the liberation struggles in South Africa and Namibia, the Teachers Retirement System (TRS) Board of Trustees in New York City voted on September 21, 1989 to divest $200 million from corporations doing business in South Africa and Namibia. The newsletter says Manufacturers Hanover (MHT) invests in apartheid South Africa and in union-busting in the U.S., but it will not invest in our communities. The newsletter includes a poem by Flaxma Qoopane, a member of the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College (SOMAFCO) Poetry Group. The newsletter says the assassination of SWAPO official Anton Lubowski on September 12 has been condemned internationally, and people are asked to write...
As an act of solidarity with the liberation struggles in South Africa and Namibia, the Teachers Retirement System (TRS) Board of Trustees in New York City voted on September 21, 1989 to divest $200 million from corporations doing business in South Africa and Namibia. The newsletter says Manufacturers Hanover (MHT) invests in apartheid South Africa and in union-busting in the U.S., but it will not invest in our communities. The newsletter includes a poem by Flaxma Qoopane, a member of the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College (SOMAFCO) Poetry Group. The newsletter says the assassination of SWAPO official Anton Lubowski on September 12 has been condemned internationally, and people are asked to write Javier Perez de Cuellar, James Baker and F.W. de Klerk. The newsletter mentions the book And Still They Dance: Women, War, and the Struggle for Change in Mozambique, by Stephanie Urdang. The newsletter discusses the United Federation of Teachers; MDM (Mass Democratic Movement); National Co-ordinating Committee of Teachers; Congress of South African Students (COSA); Emjidini Youth Organization; Separate Amenities Act; Conservative Party; Bushbuckridge Youth Congress (Byco); End Conscription Campaign (ECC), Roman Catholic Church, Dutch Reformed Church, Border Council of Churches; Dominee Hannes Pretorius; Reverend Bongani Geina; Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu); Chris Dlamini; NUM (National Union of Mineworkers); the Labour Relations Amendment Act; and the National Education, Health and Alliance Workers' Union (Nehawu). Contents: VICTORY! PENSION FUND TO DIVEST $200 MILLION • Anti-Apartheid Videos • Protest Manufactures Hanover's Support for Apartheid and Union-busting • DEFIANCE CAMPAIGN - 1989 MASS DEFIANCE • Defiance Campaign protesters sprayed with purple die • CARLETONVILLE BOYCOTT • Water Campaign • "Give conscripts a choice" Campaign • ECC's 'Yellow Ribbons' • Church Apartheid Defied • "Organize, mobilize, and fight for a democratic future" Campaign • Miners' Defiance Campaign • Hospital and Factory Workers Protest • The Roads to South African Freedom • FREE NAMIBIA • BOYCOTT KELLOGG'S! DIVEST NOW
