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Mailing inviting people to participate in the National Anti-Apartheid Action Campaign (NAAAC) petition campaign calling for an oil boycott of South Africa. Focusing on South Africa is an attempt to isolate it as the last bastion of legalized racism, fascism, and foreign domination in Southern Africa. Its apartheid system is based on total racial segregation and oppression and denial of most legal rights to the black majority; it is maintained through police terror. South Africa's illegal occupation of Namibia and its extension of the apartheid system to that country violate the mandate of the United Nations. The recent wave of strikes in South Africa, the demonstrations by "coloreds" against apartheid and in solidarity with the black majority, and the bombing of three SASOL coal-to-oil gassification plants are indications that the struggle is sharpening. The mailing says the U.S. government has the authority to break all U.S. ties with South Africa, but it will require a broad popular movement to pressure it to exercise this authority. There has been much active opposition to U.S. involvement in South Africa by the black community, trade unions, church groups, students, and other progressives. The mailing says the NAAAC grew out of the Zimbabwe Action Campaign (ZAC), an educational campaign coordinated through several cities nationally. The initial groups coordinating the NAAAC are the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (Seattle) and the Southern Africa Organizing Committee (S.F. Bay Area); People for Southern African Freedom (Eugene) and the Boston Coalition for the Liberation of Southern Africa are considering the level at which they will participate. The mailing discusses strategic minerals, U.S. corporations, ZANU, the African National Congress (ANC), and the South West African Peoples Organization (SWAPO). The mailing includes NATIONAL ANTI-APARTHEID ACTION CAMPAIGN Principles of Unity, DRAFT National Anti-Apartheid Action Campaign Brochure and DRAFT NATIONAL ANTI-APARTHEID ACTION CAMPAIGN PETITION to the President and Members of Congress.

African Activist Archive

[Dear Friends, We are writing to you to invite you to participate in the National Anti-Apartheid Action Campaign.]

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