Brochure advertising the Angola Support Conference, May 26-30, 1976. The brochure says the purposes of this working conference are to broaden and sharpen the political and material support by the people in the U.S. for the new society being built in the People's Republic of Angola (PRA) and to analyze and inform ourselves about the remainder of Southern Africa, especially those areas directly related to Angola, such as Namibia. The proposed schedule includes a discussion on U.S. policy in Africa by a Congressperson and a talk by an MPLA delegation. A workshop of the significance of Angola's victory for Southern Africa will include liberation movement representatives; other workshops will...
Brochure advertising the Angola Support Conference, May 26-30, 1976. The brochure says the purposes of this working conference are to broaden and sharpen the political and material support by the people in the U.S. for the new society being built in the People's Republic of Angola (PRA) and to analyze and inform ourselves about the remainder of Southern Africa, especially those areas directly related to Angola, such as Namibia. The proposed schedule includes a discussion on U.S. policy in Africa by a Congressperson and a talk by an MPLA delegation. A workshop of the significance of Angola's victory for Southern Africa will include liberation movement representatives; other workshops will address Material Assistance, Health Assistance, Information: Dispelling Myths, and Recognition and Political Support. Panelists include Jen Davis, Goler Butcher and Tony Monteiro. Conference coordinators are Angola Committee and National Conference of Black Lawyers. Conference sponsors are Barbara Barnes, MPLA Solidarity Committee; Marjorie M. Boehm, Women's International League tor Peace and Freedom; James E. Bristol, American Friends Service Committee; Robert S. Browne, Black Economic Research Center; Robert Chrisman, Black Scholar; Johnetta B. Cole, National Committee of the Venceremos Brigade; Henry Foner, Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America; Larry Holmes, Youth Against War and Fascism (YAWF); George M. Houser, American Committee on Africa (ACOA); A. Leu Johnson, Coalition of Black Trade Unionist (NYC); Brenda Jones, Freedomways Magazine; Edgar Lockwood, Washington Office on Africa (WOA); Willis Logan, Africa Office, National Council of Churches; Anthony Monteiro, National Anti-Imperialist Movement in Solidarity with African Liberation; Patricia Murray, National Council of Black Lawyers; Prexy Nesbitt, US Out of Angola Committee and Chicago Committee for the Liberation of Angola, Mozambique and Guine; Lance Pustin, Prairie Fire Organizing Committee; Antonio H. Rodrigues, CASA- General Brotherhood of Workers; Michael Simmons, Third World Coalition/Southwest Workers Federation; Jose B. Velazquez, Partido Socialista Puertorriqueno; and Joe Walker, Bilalian News.
