African Activist Archive

Cover, contents page and an article from the newsletter AMBO. The newsletter includes a quote from the Episcopal Church General Convention resolution, Detroit, July 1988. The article says in January 1986 the Board of Trustees of Virginia Theology Seminary chose to reject the 1985 General Convention resolution calling for divestment of our holdings in corporations active in South Africa, and to reject appeals from the church in South Africa for the application of economic pressure upon South Africa.; instead it endorsed the Sullivan Principles (guidelines for non-racial corporate responsibility by American firms doing business in South Africa). The article says on September 22, 1988, the Committee on Investment Responsibilities of the seminary board of trustees declined to recommend to the trustees the adoption of a policy for divestment, a policy in accord with the wishes of the church in South Africa and with the resolutions of our General Convention. The article discusses Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Royal Dutch Shell, oil companies, Mobil, Chevron, Texaco, British Petroleum (BP), Total, apartheid, the state of emergency, Leon Sullivan, sanctions, economic pressure upon South Africa, Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, Bexley Hall, the Episcopal Divinity School, the School of Theology at Sewanee, General Seminary, and economic action against South Africa.

African Activist Archive

The Church, The Seminary, And South Africa

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