The mailing says we are writing this letter to you to attain your support for the enclosed resolution now being considered by the East Lansing City Council; members of the Council have indicated a willingness to take action despite some media publicity to the contrary; we hope that you will find that this proposed resolution is an effective way for American citizens to work for ending United States support for the Government of South Africa; this approach is the one adopted by many church and international organizations on how people throughout the world can express their abhorrence of apartheid and how they may prevent their governments and transnationals from supporting apartheid. The mailing...
The mailing says we are writing this letter to you to attain your support for the enclosed resolution now being considered by the East Lansing City Council; members of the Council have indicated a willingness to take action despite some media publicity to the contrary; we hope that you will find that this proposed resolution is an effective way for American citizens to work for ending United States support for the Government of South Africa; this approach is the one adopted by many church and international organizations on how people throughout the world can express their abhorrence of apartheid and how they may prevent their governments and transnationals from supporting apartheid. The mailing says the enclosed letter is intended only for City Council members John Czarnecki, George Griffiths, Larry Owen, John Polomsky, and Mary Sharp; it will not be made public nor released to the press; the letter will be sent to seek the signatures of the following people: Ralph Bonner, Byron Brown, Robert Carr, Charles Diggs, Jr., Amel Eiland, Robert Green, Lynn Jondahl, Father McDevitt, Earl Nelson, Alan Suits, Howard Wolpe. The mailing says when you sign this letter please indicate what title or position might be included with your signature. The mailing discusses Africans, Bantustans, the vote, land, racial discrimination, crowded hostels, the white government, multinational corporations, the role of foreign corporations and U.S. corporations, the gap between white wealth and black poverty, the poverty datum line, industrial workers, Soweto, Prime Minister Vorster, Vice-President Mondale, the Carter administration, justice, U.S. dollars, apartheid, increasing U.S. investment, white rule, political power, migrant labor, union recognition, and trade unions.
