Mailing about the launch of Action Summer for South Africa - A 60 Day Campaign to Save Sanctions. Resources in the mailing include: LOCAL SANCTIONS MUST STAY! ACT NOW TO DEFEND THEM. • ISOLATING APARTHEID Continuing U.S. Sanctions Against South Africa • The Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act • State And Municipal Sanctions • ACTION SUMMER FOR SOUTH AFRICA A 60 Day Campaign To Save Sanctions • TALKING POINTS • THE COMPREHENSIVE ANTI-APARTHEID ACT OF 1986: An Overview • PRESIDENT BUSH SAYS... The mailing says the Bush Administration's lifting of most federal sanctions against South Africa on July 10 cynically undermined Nelson Mandela and the movement for democracy in South Africa....
Mailing about the launch of Action Summer for South Africa - A 60 Day Campaign to Save Sanctions. Resources in the mailing include: LOCAL SANCTIONS MUST STAY! ACT NOW TO DEFEND THEM. • ISOLATING APARTHEID Continuing U.S. Sanctions Against South Africa • The Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act • State And Municipal Sanctions • ACTION SUMMER FOR SOUTH AFRICA A 60 Day Campaign To Save Sanctions • TALKING POINTS • THE COMPREHENSIVE ANTI-APARTHEID ACT OF 1986: An Overview • PRESIDENT BUSH SAYS... The mailing says the Bush Administration's lifting of most federal sanctions against South Africa on July 10 cynically undermined Nelson Mandela and the movement for democracy in South Africa. The President simply ignored the facts on key provisions of the 1986 sanctions law. For example, he declared that Pretoria had released all political prisoners although even the apartheid government concedes it holds almost 300 people with political prisoner status; Bush asserts that South Africans are now free to participate in politics, yet four out of every five of its citizens are still denied the vote because of their color. 35 million South Africans remain officially classified by race, but the President says apartheid is over. The mailing asks people to urge their Mayor, Governor, and other local officials to speak out against the lifting of federal sanctions and secure public pledges for local sanctions to continue. The mailing asks people to organize visits with their Congressional representatives to ask them to publicly condemn Bush's repeal of the 1986 Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act and support the right of state and local governments to impose local sanctions. The mailing discusses F.W. de Klerk, investment in South Africa, imports from South Africa, the state of emergency, the African National Congress (ANC), the Group Areas Act , the Population Registration Act, negotiations, the Pan African Congress (PAC), AZAPO, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), democracy, George Bush, sanctions imposed by state and municipal governments, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the arms embargo, military-related items, U.S. corporate involvement in South Africa, "people's sanctions," Assistant Secretary of State Herman Cohen, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Boston Mayor Raymond Flynn, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, and the KwaZulu bantustan.
