This leaflet describes the Coalition Against South African Trade (CAST) as a group of labor, environmental, church, student and community activists working to end all trade with apartheid South Africa. It was formed in August 1987 to stop the unloading of a shipment of zinc chromite in the port of Seattle. CAST also has been exposing and organizing against imports of South African steel used in the Metro tunnel and the proposed use of South African marble for the façade at the Convention Center. It also has opposed shipments of uranium hexafluoride (UF6) from Namibia which are unloaded in Seattle's port and shipped by truck to Advanced Nuclear Fuels in Richland, WA. The leaflet includes...
This leaflet describes the Coalition Against South African Trade (CAST) as a group of labor, environmental, church, student and community activists working to end all trade with apartheid South Africa. It was formed in August 1987 to stop the unloading of a shipment of zinc chromite in the port of Seattle. CAST also has been exposing and organizing against imports of South African steel used in the Metro tunnel and the proposed use of South African marble for the façade at the Convention Center. It also has opposed shipments of uranium hexafluoride (UF6) from Namibia which are unloaded in Seattle's port and shipped by truck to Advanced Nuclear Fuels in Richland, WA. The leaflet includes a quote by Rev. Simon Farisani.
