African Activist Archive

The mailing asks people to please mark down the date for a forthcoming demonstration on August 1st at Noon at Top Rank, Inc. (Bob Arum's office) in New York City. The mailing says events surrounding the Tate-Coetzee fight have been moving rapidly since our last mailing; numerous opinion columns, mostly critical of Arum, have appeared in the Washington Post, New York Times, and Daily News; the fight was officially announced by Arum today; we simultaneously launched the STOP THE FIGHT CAMPAIGN (STFC). The mailing includes an American Coordinating Committee for Equality in Sport and Society press release STOP THE FIGHT CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED. The mailing includes newspaper articles including "Tate Fight Set Oct. 20 In Pretoria" by Michael Katz, "TIME FOR TRUTH" by Ken Denlinger, "Arum offers King winner-take-all promo" by Dick Young, "Gerrie is new hope" by John Kennedy, "SA's new cult hero", "Big John Tate unhappy about fighting in SA", "CBS puts eye on apartheid", and "'Baddest' Heavyweight" by Steve Caddy. The mailing discusses the NAACP, Denton Watson, Franklin Williams, the Phelps-Stokes Fund, Don King, John Tate, Gerrie Coetzee, Operation Push, the Davis Cup tennis competition, Muhammad Ali, NBC, the Southern Liberation Council, the American Committee on Africa, Southern Sun Hotels, Leon Spinks, the WBA (World Boxing Association), the South African Council on Sport (SACOS), Hassan Howa, Bophuthatswana, John Dommisse, Kallie Knoetze, and Larry Holmes.

African Activist Archive

BOXING UPDATE AND ANNOUNCEMENTS - ACTIONS REQUESTED

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