African Activist Archive

The newsletter says the Reagan Administration's recent nestling up to the South African apartheid regime of Prime Minister Botha was denounced be representatives of a half-dozen church and human rights leaders at a press conference March 26th. The newsletter says Reagan is now considering more use of the CIA to destabilize Angola. The newsletter says 1980 was a year of major transition and upheaval in South Africa; a wave of student boycotts and workers' strikes swept South Africa; Zimbabwe was born; and the armed struggle for independence in Namibia, led by SWAPO, reached new proportions. The newsletter reports that the AFSC Portland office has concentrated on attempting to get the state government to divest financial interests in South Africa. The newsletter says petitions calling for the release of Nelson Mandela are available in the AFSC office. The newsletter includes quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.; Bishop Desmond Tutu; Steve Biko, leader of South Africa's Black Consciousness Movement; and John Vorster. The newsletter discusses O.J. McGown, Church of the Immaculate, Richard Brown, Central Area Motivation Program, Ernest Brown, Seattle Committee Against Racism, Reverend John Nelson, Campus Christian Ministries, Taimi Halonen, People's Coalition for Peace and Justice, Sadikifu James, African Learning Institute, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Mugabe, Bill Sutherland, Dumisani Kumalo, Committee to Oppose Bank Loans to South Africa, Peter Davis, Generations of Resistance, Reverent Mzneli, Dr. Nakayana, Southern Africa Solidarity Committee, SeaFirst (Seattle First National Bank), Dennis Brutus, Ann Stever, Washington State University, and Sayyida Ahmed-Bey. Contents: AFSC'S STATEMENT TO THE PRESS • ON THE ROLE OF FOREIGN INVESTMENT • 1980 • LOCALLY • Recent Events • In Portland • In Seattle • In New York • Nationally • FREE NELSON MANDELA

African Activist Archive

Campaign Against Apartheid

AFSC SEATTLE SOUTHERN AFRICA NEWSLETTER

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