Memorandum to Seattle Mayor Charles Royer and the Seattle City Council calling on them to break links to apartheid and specifically to halt any business with South Africa and to end the privileges of the honorary South African Consul Joseph Swing. On February 24, 1988, the apartheid regime banned almost all anti-apartheid activities and organizations, thereby banning hundreds of thousands of people (comprising the mass memberships of these organizations) from gathering, meeting, demonstrating, and even from mourning their dead, murdered by the system. Since then, more than 18 labor, church, political, parents' support and community groups, including the United Democratic Front (UDF) and...
Memorandum to Seattle Mayor Charles Royer and the Seattle City Council calling on them to break links to apartheid and specifically to halt any business with South Africa and to end the privileges of the honorary South African Consul Joseph Swing. On February 24, 1988, the apartheid regime banned almost all anti-apartheid activities and organizations, thereby banning hundreds of thousands of people (comprising the mass memberships of these organizations) from gathering, meeting, demonstrating, and even from mourning their dead, murdered by the system. Since then, more than 18 labor, church, political, parents' support and community groups, including the United Democratic Front (UDF) and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) - have been outlawed and their leaders have been harassed, jailed, and placed under house arrest. The memorandum mentions slavery, the American Civil War, "constructive engagement," Albertina Sisulu, Rev. Allan Boesak, Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, and South African Airways.
