African Activist Archive

Contents: Document 1: Index to Conference Documents • Document 2: Participant Information Form • Document 3: Midwest Regional Consultation on U.S. Policy Toward Africa Program • Document 4: U.S.-South Africa Foreign Policy • Document 5: Provincial Legislatures in South Africa • Document 6: Africa Policy Outlook 1998 • Document 7: Mobil in Nigeria: Partner in Oppression • Document 8: Action for Human Rights in Nigeria • Document 9: Human Rights Activism in Africa: A Frog's Eye View • Document 10: Foreign Aid Programs Provide No Protection for Aid to Africa • AFRICAN GROWTH AND OPPORTUNITY ACT (H.R. 1432) • H.R. 1786 THE NIGERIA DEMOCRACY ACT • Information Questionnaire • Packet for participants in the "Midwest Regional Consultation on U.S. Policy Toward Africa." Document 8 includes a reprint of "Human Rights: Crucial To US Foreign Policy" by Senator Russ Feingold. A document includes short biographies of state legislators Charles Brown, Irma Hunter Brown, Spencer Coggs, Williams Crawford, Lois M. DeBerry, Jesus Garcia, David Haley, Johnnie Morris-Tatum, Barack Obama, Mary E. Panzer, Coy Pugh, Virgil Clark Smith, Vernon Sykes, Donne E. Totter, and Arthur Turner. It also includes biographies of mayors Gary L. Loster, Emmanuel W. Onunwor, and William E. Ward; City Council members Sam Burrell, Shirley A. Coleman, Barbara Holt, and Virgil E. Jones. Speakers at the event are also listed, with short biographies, including: Adotei Akwei, Salih Booker, Danny K. Davis, Jennifer Davis, Cedric Herring, Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., Tilden LeMelle, Jeffrey W. Lewis, William Martin, John Metzler, Prexy Nesbitt, Edward "Buzz" Palmer, Alice Palmer, Bobby L. Rush, Mlulami Mzukisi Lucas Singapi, Robert Stumberg, Barine B. Teekate-Yorbe, and Wyatt Tee Walker. The packet mentions Mobil Oil Corporation, Shell Oil Company, General Sani Abacha, Moshood Abiola, Milton Dabibi, Chevron, the African National Congress (ANC), Nelson Mandela, Vice President Gore, apartheid, Mobutu Sese Seko, Zaire, the International Labor Organization, Sassou-Nguesso, sanctions, Tutsi, Hutu, Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright, President Clinton, security forces, Major General Musa Yar'Adua, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Amnesty International, the International Commission of Jurists, the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights, the Development Fund for Africa, and Representatives Phil Crane, Jim McDermott, Charles Rangel, Donald Payne, and Amory Houghton. {Note: the packet included other items, including The Africa Fund, 1987; Africa Fund News, No. 6, Issue 1, Winter 1997, The Africa Fund; and inside S C I Volume 1, No. 2, Spring 1997, Sister Cities International.]

African Activist Archive

MIDWEST REGIONAL CONSULTATION ON U.S. POLICY TOWARD AFRICA

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