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Brochure issued as part of a campaign to get the MSU (Michigan State University) Foundation to divest from companies doing business in South Africa. The brochure includes the Shanty Coalition statement of purpose by the ASMSU (Associated Students of MSU), the Coalition Against Racism and Apartheid on Campus, the Committee for Education on Latin America, Democratic Socialists of America, the East Lansing Peace Education Center, the General Union of the Palestinians, the Middle East Awareness Committee, MSU Great Issues, MSU NAACP, Office of Black Affairs, Phi Beta Sigma, RHA, and the Southern Africa Liberation Committee. The brochure asks as many people as possible to attend the Trustees meeting on December 12 to support speakers to the Trustees. The brochure says the MSU Board of Trustees divested its funds from South Africa in 1978, on the principle that an institution of higher learning should not invest in apartheid; however, the MSU Foundation, a fund raising agent of the University, which comes under the jurisdiction of the MSU investments and adopted the Sullivan Principles (constructive engagement). • SHANTY COALITION STATEMENT OF PURPOSE • • WHAT IS APARTHEID? • MSU PAST DIVESTITURE ACTIONS • IS THE MSU FOUNDATION A UNIT OF UNIVERSITY? • PREVIOUS REQUESTS TO THE TRUSTEES • TRUSTEES FAILED TO ACT • WHY A SHANTY? • NEXT FOUNDATION AND TRUSTEES MEETINGS • PREPARED BY THE 1986 MSU SHANTY COALITION

African Activist Archive

MSU'S LINKS TO APARTHEID: SHANTY COALITION STATEMENT

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