Memorandum to divestment supporters from Jim Burchell, Legislative Aide to Representative Perry Bullard. Burchell says the House Civil Rights Committee, chaired by Representative Ethel Terrell of Detroit, will hold a hearing on the South African divestment legislation (HB 4770 and HB 4771) on October 21 in the Detroit City/County Building. The memorandum includes Divesting Michigan Pension Funds of Investments in Firms Operating in South Africa, The Role of United States Corporations in South Africa: Propping Up Apartheid, MICHIGAN ANTI-APARTHEID ACTION ALERT, WHAT YOU CAN DO TO SUPPORT THE MICHIGAN DIVESTMENT BILL, and SAMPLE LETTER. The memorandum...
Memorandum to divestment supporters from Jim Burchell, Legislative Aide to Representative Perry Bullard. Burchell says the House Civil Rights Committee, chaired by Representative Ethel Terrell of Detroit, will hold a hearing on the South African divestment legislation (HB 4770 and HB 4771) on October 21 in the Detroit City/County Building. The memorandum includes Divesting Michigan Pension Funds of Investments in Firms Operating in South Africa, The Role of United States Corporations in South Africa: Propping Up Apartheid, MICHIGAN ANTI-APARTHEID ACTION ALERT, WHAT YOU CAN DO TO SUPPORT THE MICHIGAN DIVESTMENT BILL, and SAMPLE LETTER. The memorandum discusses the Michigan Education Association, Michigan Chamber of Commerce, GM (General Motors), Dow, Ford, Governor Blanchard, the Divestment Commission, Senator William Sederburg, Margaret Baylor, Detroit TransAfrica; Gene Booker, State Treasurer Robert Bowman, Attorney General Frank Kelley, Budget Director Robert Naftaly, John Thodis, the Michigan Manufacturers Association, the Public School Employees' Retirement System, the State Employees' Retirement Systems, U.S. corporate interests, apartheid, political rights, integration, Clifton Wharton Jr., "Key Point Industries," IBM, Control Data, Franklin Research Company, Chemical Bank, the U.S. Trust Company, Trinity Investment Management Corp., Desmond Tutu, trade unions, Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU), disinvestment, the Internal Security Act, the racially classified population registry, the department of prisons, military research, and the oppressed black majority. • The Detroit hearing • The October 8 hearing • The Governor's Commission • Ongoing work
