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Letter to The Honorable David Evans, Chairperson, Michigan House of Representatives Civil Rights Committee asking him to support House Bills 4831-4839 to remove the State of Michigan from partnership in apartheid. The letter says approval of these Bills would: 1. Remove the State of Michigan and its educational institution's direct support and participation in the perpetuation of the oppressive apartheid regime of South Africa. 2. Express forcefully through this action to American corporations, to but government, and to the South African government, disapproval of this corporate support of the South African government. 3. Make Michigan taxpayers aware of how they and their educational institutions are involved in the support of the South African government. 4. Join the State with the United Nations, the National Council of Churches, the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, the UAW, the NAACP, and others who have also divested--thus making our federal government more aware of the support and the need for federal and world-wide sanctions, and to create the necessary outside pressure against the white South African regime which will hasten the achievement of human and political rights in South Africa. The letter discusses the Democratic National Platform, the Michigan State University Board of Trustees, the federal government, tax advantages to corporations doing business in South Africa, and the United Nations Centre Against Apartheid. [This appears to be a personal letter, not a letter send on behalf of the Southern Africa Liberation Committee in which Beeman was an active member.]

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[Dear Chairperson Evans: No one who knows the facts of apartheid would want to support it]

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