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The leaflet says this summer, 1978, The American Friends Service Committee has initiated a project called "Southern Africa Summer"; AFSC has hired 40 people across the United States to do education and organizing around the struggles against white minority rule in South Africa, Namibia, and Zimbabwe and the role of the U.S. government and U.S. corporations in supporting those regimes. The leaflet says in Seattle, Judith Hightower, a student at the University of Washington and an active participant in the UW Out of South Africa Committee, has been hired as a summer intern for the project; she will be working with Gerald Lenoir, AFSC's Southern Africa Program Coordinator. The leaflet says major activities that are already being planned for the summer are: 1) a film series and a booth for the Black Community Festival, July 28-30; 2) a celebration of South African Women's Day on Saturday, August 12 in Volunteer Park; 3) a demonstration or vigil on Wednesday, August 16, from 12 noon to 2 p.m. in downtown Seattle. The leaflet says sometime after July 10th, the Senate will take up the Export-Import Bank authorization bill. Senator Don Riegle (D-Mich) has proposed legislation which would cut off Eximbank financing for South Africa; the Eximbank underwrites political and economic risks involved in export sales, giving key assurances to banks and businesses that might questions the wisdom of bankrolling apartheid.

African Activist Archive

ANNOUNCING SOUTHERN AFRICA SUMMER

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