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Memorandum to NPED Committee, Regional and Area PED Staff and the Southern Africa Task Force. The memorandum says over the years not surprisingly the same concerns keep arising as pacifists attempt to relate to the struggle for liberation and justice, whether within our own country or in the larger context of Asia, Africa and Latin America; I bear this all in mind as I attempt to carry out an assignment laid on me by PED's Southern Africa Task Force with the approval of the Nationwide Peace Ed Committee; responding to the growing visibility of the monstrous injustices perpetrated daily upon the black people of southern Africa by an apartheid structure that has steadily increased its oppression in the past quarter century, the AFSC Board last June approved the expansion of PEDIs Southern Africa program, and in September issued a "Policy Guideline" for AFSC work on southern Africa. The memorandum discusses the Nationwide Peace Education Committee, apartheid, Rhodesia, South West Africa, black majority rule, the armed violence of the freedom fighters, nonviolence, Kenneth Kaunda, the Society of Friends, grinding poverty, hunger, unemployment, lack of decent education, vicious discrimination, Western Europe, the Soviet Union, China and other Asian countries, the United Nations, the Organization for African Unity (OAU), the Mennonite Central Committee, FRELIMO, MPLA, Jim Bristol, Gulf Oil, NATO, National Security Studies Memorandum 39 (NSSM 39), U.S. banks, loans, Rhodesian chrome, the Byrd Amendment, United Nations sanctions, boycotts of South African goods, boycotts of U.S. corporations, Jimmy Carter, Andy Young, Leon Sullivan, the Opportunities Industrialization Center, American Committee on Africa (ACOA), the Washington Office on Africa (WOA), the Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy, FCNL (Friends Committee on National Legislation), U.S. corporations operating in South Africa, Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, Byers Naude of the Christian Institute, Kenneth Kaunda. Bishop Muzorewa, the African National Council, armed struggle, Joshua Nkomo, the Patriotic Front, Sam Nujoma, SWAPO, Lou Schneider, John Sullivan, Peter Molotsi, David Sogge, Pat Hunt, Steve Thiermann, Jeanne Newman, investment, pacifists, institutionalize repression, self-determination, and the United Nations. • My Assignment • Implementing the Board's Guideline • Accentuating the Positive • Two Quaker Pacifist Views • Points To Bear In Mind • Perception and Frustration • Aspects of the Liberation Struggle • AFSC and Liberation Movements • Amplification • Two Schools of Thought • Two South African Views • Two Observations • Conclusion

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The Southern Africa Liberation Struggle and the Quaker Pacifist Approach

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