The newsletter reports that each year American Cyanamid exports around 10 tons of mercury wastes generated at its Bound Brook, New Jersey chemical plant to a mercury reprocessing plant near Cato Ridge, South Africa, operated by the British firm Thor Chemicals. The newsletter includes a quote from Max Sisulu, Head of the African National Congress's Department of Economics And Planning. It discusses H.R. 21/S. 507, the Dellums/Simon Comprehensive Economic Sanctions Bill; H.R. 3458, the SA Financial Sanctions Bill of 1989; Senate Concurrent Resolution 94, relating to the release of Nelson Mandela and other positive developments in South Africa; House Joint Resolution 480, to name the week that...
The newsletter reports that each year American Cyanamid exports around 10 tons of mercury wastes generated at its Bound Brook, New Jersey chemical plant to a mercury reprocessing plant near Cato Ridge, South Africa, operated by the British firm Thor Chemicals. The newsletter includes a quote from Max Sisulu, Head of the African National Congress's Department of Economics And Planning. It discusses H.R. 21/S. 507, the Dellums/Simon Comprehensive Economic Sanctions Bill; H.R. 3458, the SA Financial Sanctions Bill of 1989; Senate Concurrent Resolution 94, relating to the release of Nelson Mandela and other positive developments in South Africa; House Joint Resolution 480, to name the week that Nelson Mandela comes to the U.S. as "Nelson Mandela Week"; and House Concurrent Resolution 203 that calls for improved relations between the U.S. and the Government of Angola. The newsletter asks people to call on Manufacturers Hanover Trust to halt all correspondent banking with South African institutions, deny Pretoria 10 extra years to replay loans originally due in 1985, and put the apartheid regime on notice that the bank will demand full repayment of outstanding South African loans as they come due. The newsletter includes a quote from W.E.B. Du Bois and the poem "A Worker Reads History" by Bertolt Brecht. The newsletter reports that 50 church activists from South Africa and Zimbabwe will be in the New York City in mid-June. It advertises demonstrations against the shipment of mercury and other toxic wastes to South Africa and the treatment of workers at the American Cyanamid Pharmaceutical factory in South Africa sponsored by Greenpeace, the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, AFL-CIO, South African Trade Unions, Educators Against Racism and Apartheid and other organization on April 14 in Bound Brook, New Jersey and on April 16 in Portland, Maine. The newsletter discusses the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Bill Lambrecht, Mngeweni River, Valley of a Thousand Hills, Umgeni Water Board, Ann Leonard, Greenpeace, F.W. de Klerk, Mr. J.F. McGillicuddy, Solomon Lebese, and Jim Valet. Contents: U.S. COMPANY POISONS SOUTH AFRICANS! • EXPAND SANCTIONS NOW! • BOYCOTT MANUFACTURERS HANOVER TRUST • Southern Africa on the Map • APARTHEID IS WRONG: A Curriculum For Young People • A Rationale • Combatting Racism and Apartheid • RESOURCES • Free Video Rental • SPEAKERS • Meet ANC and SWAPO • EARA MEETING- April 19 • Apartheid Awareness Contest • Multi-Cultural Curriculum • Northeast Southern Africa Solidarity Network (NESASN) • Demonstrate to STOP mercury poisoning of South Africans!
