UPDATE: AM. FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE SOUTHERN AFRICA PROGRAM /SEATTLE

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Creator

Karen Quigley; American Friends Service Committee

Place Created

Seattle, Washington, United States

Date

Undated, late 1982 or early 1983?

Type of Item

Newsletter

Length/duration

2 pages

Description

The newsletter reports that this past summer Philadelphia became the first major urban area to successfully move to divest city funds from corporations doing business in South Africa; Seattle AFSC plans to lobby for a city divestment resolution; a divestment task force is being organized by Maryamu Eltayeb. The newsletter advertises SOUTH AFRICA: THE CHALLENGE AND HOPE and AUTOMATING APARTHEID. The newsletter says the Reagan administration policy of "constructive engagement" essentially negates U.S. support of the U.N.'s embargo of South Africa; in recent months electric shock batons, large-capacity computers, turbojets and other items that can be easily made to serve the interests of the...

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Publisher

American Friends Service Committee

Organization

American Friends Service Committee

Coverage Africa

South Africa

Language

English

Digital Format

text/pdf

Rights Management

Used by permission of American Friends Service Committee.

Collection

Selma Waldman collection on the Seattle Coalition Against Apartheid (SCCA), Michigan State University Libraries Special Collections