The mailing urges churches to join a campaign to have the City of East Lansing condemn apartheid and take action against some major corporations that support apartheid. The City Council will hold a public hearing on March 30, 1971 to determine whether to impose municipal sanctions upon nine U.S. corporations heavily involved in South Africa: - Caltex, Firestone, General Motors (GM), IBM, ITT, Kennecott, Mobil, Motorola and Union Carbide - until the Organization of African Unity (OAU) recognizes the formation of a legitimate representative government in that country. The mailing includes Prosperity "For White Only": The Paradox of Economic Growth in South Africa by The Africa Fund, American...
The mailing urges churches to join a campaign to have the City of East Lansing condemn apartheid and take action against some major corporations that support apartheid. The City Council will hold a public hearing on March 30, 1971 to determine whether to impose municipal sanctions upon nine U.S. corporations heavily involved in South Africa: - Caltex, Firestone, General Motors (GM), IBM, ITT, Kennecott, Mobil, Motorola and Union Carbide - until the Organization of African Unity (OAU) recognizes the formation of a legitimate representative government in that country. The mailing includes Prosperity "For White Only": The Paradox of Economic Growth in South Africa by The Africa Fund, American Corporations, South African Apartheid and Us, UNITED STATES CORPORATIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA, and a resolution to East Lansing Mayor George Griffiths. The mailing discusses Bantustans, disengagement of U.S. corporations from South Africa, the Poverty Datum Line (PDL), trade unions, the jobs reservations law, computers, the Department of Defense, the Atomic Energy Board, prisons, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Electricity Supply Commission (ESCOM), computers, African wages, Africa Telephone Cables (Pty.) Ltd., Miller's Electrical Lines (Pty.) Ltd., ITT Supersonic Radio and TV Co. (Pty.) Ltd., Standard Telephone and Cables (Pty.) Ltd. (STC), oil, Rhodesia, the Iron and Steel Corporation (ISCOR), the Byrd Amendment, and Rhodesian chrome.
