African Activist Archive

Copy of a letter to James Victoria, Chair of the East Lansing Fine Arts Commission. A group of Michigan State University (MSU) students, faculty and staff will be passing out the enclosed leaflet and carrying posters describing the racist apartheid system of South Africa, in front of the Wharton Performing Arts Center before your performance on the McGoff Festival Stage February 12. This picketing is not against the Fine Arts Commission or your performance but rather against use of the McGoff name on a University facility. The McGoffs have long been inextricably linked to the perpetuation of apartheid in South Africa, one of the cruelest and most blatant forms of racism still being practiced in our world today. In 1977, the City of East Lansing protested U.S. support for apartheid and passed a selective purchasing policy which restricts, when possible, the purchasing of supplies and equipment from corporations and businesses operating in South Africa. It doesn't seem that a commission of this city should be breaking this student boycott. The letter mentions reports of the official South African government Erasmus report and of the American Universities Field Staff.

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[Dear Mr. Victoria: A group of Michigan State University students, faculty and staff will be passing out the enclosed yellow leaflet . . .]

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