Nancy Walker; Gus Newport; John George; Carole Nelson; David Reed; Geraldine Johnson; Cati Okorie; Kanika Ajanaku; Blanche Bebb; Leo Robinson; Willie Thompson; Coalition of Black Trade Unionists; San Francisco Anti-Apartheid Committee; National Conference of Black Lawyers; Bay Area Free South Africa Movement; Southern Africa Freedom Committee/All Peoples Congress; American Federation of Teachers
San Francisco, California, United States
March 18, 1986
3 pages
A group of West Coast activists in the U.S. Southern Africa solidarity movement is cooperating with the ANC and SWAPO to call for a WEST COAST CONFERENCE IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE NATIONAL LIBERATION OF SOUTH AFRICA (ANC) AND NAMIBIA (SWAPO) on June 27-29, 1986, in the San Francisco Bay Area. The conference will include high-level officials of the ANC and SWAPO and will discuss material aid, divestment of university and other public funds, boycotts, cutting off of trade, closures of South African consulates, and legislative campaigns to put teeth into Reagan's empty sanctions. The mailing also publicizes nationwide demonstrations on June 14 marking the tenth anniversary of the Soweto...
A group of West Coast activists in the U.S. Southern Africa solidarity movement is cooperating with the ANC and SWAPO to call for a WEST COAST CONFERENCE IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE NATIONAL LIBERATION OF SOUTH AFRICA (ANC) AND NAMIBIA (SWAPO) on June 27-29, 1986, in the San Francisco Bay Area. The conference will include high-level officials of the ANC and SWAPO and will discuss material aid, divestment of university and other public funds, boycotts, cutting off of trade, closures of South African consulates, and legislative campaigns to put teeth into Reagan's empty sanctions. The mailing also publicizes nationwide demonstrations on June 14 marking the tenth anniversary of the Soweto uprising. The call is signed by Gus Newport, the Mayor of Berkeley, and people affiliated with the San Francisco Board of Supervisors; Alameda County Board of Supervisors; Associated Students of the University of California, Berkeley; Southern Africa Freedom Committee/All Peoples Congress; San Francisco Council of Churches; Service Employees International Union, Local 250 Southern Africa Liberation Support Committee; International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), Local 10 Southern Africa Liberation Support Committee; and American Federation of Teachers, Local 2121 Anti-Apartheid Committee.
Bay Area Free South Africa Movement; American Federation of Teachers; Associated Students of the University of California; Coalition of Black Trade Unionists; National Conference of Black Lawyers; San Francisco Anti-Apartheid Committee; Southern Africa Freedom Committee/All Peoples Congress
American Federation of Teachers
Bay Area Free South Africa Movement
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
International Longshore and Warehouse Union
National Conference of Black Lawyers
San Francisco Anti-Apartheid Committee
Service Employees International Union
All Peoples Congress
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Used by permission of David Bacon, a former member of the Bay Area Free South Africa Movement.
