DEMONSTRATION AND INFORMATIONAL PICKET LINE

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Creator

Seattle Coalition Against Apartheid; American Friends Service Committee

Place Created

Seattle, Washington, United States

Date

May 1985

Type of Item

Leaflet

Length/duration

2 pages

Description

Leaflet advertising a demonstration and informal picket line on May 23 to protest shipment of cargo to and from South Africa by the Ned-Lloyd and Zimm Steamship lines at Pacific Maritime Association (PMA), 301 W. Republican (Queen Anne District). The leaflet says the PMA, an association of foreign and U.S. steamship companies, stevedoring companies and terminal operators, represents its members in collective bargaining, primarily with the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU). In late 1984, the Bay Area Free South Africa Movement called upon PMA to expel any steamship company carrying cargo from South Africa. Also, in November 1984, San Francisco longshoremen refused to...

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Publisher

American Friends Service Committee; Seattle Coalition Against Apartheid

Organization

American Friends Service Committee
Seattle Coalition Against Apartheid

Coverage Africa

South Africa

Language

English

Digital Format

text/pdf

Rights Management

Used by permission of the American Friends Service Committee and former members of the Seattle Coalition Against Apartheid.

Collection

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