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The mailing says although HB4553, the bill to prevent Michigan educational institutions from investing in South Africa, was passed in the Michigan House of Representatives by a vote of 75-25 in May, 1982 and is now in the Senate Judiciary Committee, we have trouble getting it on the agenda; when it is on the agenda it is always last so it is not taken up. The mailing says the University of Michigan, Ford Motor Company and the South African Consulate have been lobbying against it; at the last Judiciary Committee meeting Sept. 15, the Committee Chairman Basil Brown, when asked when the bill would come up, announced it would die. The mailing says we need constituents from the areas of the Judiciary Committee members particularly Senator Brown's and the other members who voted for the bank bill-to write their Senators thanking them for supporting the bank bill and asking that the education bill be put on the agenda, taken up and supported. The mailing says we also need the constituents of all the Senators who voted for the bank bill to contact their senators, thank them for supporting the bank bill and request them to work to have the education bill put on the Judiciary Committee agenda, to support it through the committee and on the Senate floor. The mailing says we also need constituents of the senators who did not vote for the bank bill to send educational messages to their senators explaining its importance to our educational institutions and State. The mailing says it is necessary that we do South African divestiture bills, bill by bill, and state by state because, as we have learned from experience, the corporate lobby on the federal level is already too strong to do it federally.

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