Mailing seeking to raise money for The Africa Fund. The mailing says on a recent Monday morning I received a desperate phone call from student nurses in Soweto; the South African army had occupied their hospital when they went on strike for decent wages; there was a reign of terror in the wards; nurses were being fired and arrested at gunpoint; patients were being driven out of the hospital. The mailing says within hours we were alerting U.S. health workers and unions and talking to the press; by Wednesday the annual conference of the American Public Health Association had condemned the occupation of the hospital and begun responding to the desperate need. The mailing says this time we were...
Mailing seeking to raise money for The Africa Fund. The mailing says on a recent Monday morning I received a desperate phone call from student nurses in Soweto; the South African army had occupied their hospital when they went on strike for decent wages; there was a reign of terror in the wards; nurses were being fired and arrested at gunpoint; patients were being driven out of the hospital. The mailing says within hours we were alerting U.S. health workers and unions and talking to the press; by Wednesday the annual conference of the American Public Health Association had condemned the occupation of the hospital and begun responding to the desperate need. The mailing says this time we were able to defeat the South African government's attempt to hide its brutal repression from the American people; your generous contribution will ensure that when the next desperate call comes from South Africa we will be able to respond. The mailing discusses apartheid, media coverage, American TV screens, and the South African propaganda machine.
