African Activist Archive

Contents: TRIAL • DEFENDANTS' MEETING • EMBARGO SOUTH AFRICA NOT NICARAGUA • DRAFT COUNSELING • NEWS around the world • Schedule of Events • What Can You Do to Help End APARTEID??? • BIKO PLAZA NEWS SUMMER SUBSCRIPTIONS • women against oppression PRIVILEGE • RACISM and POLITICS IN SUDAN • HELL in a handbasket • GOOD OLE DAYS • DURANT-SQUEAKY CLEAN • One Side to Every Story • DOG APPREHENDED • The newsletter says anti-apartheid protesters appeared at Berkeley Municipal Courts yesterday for arraignments and pre-trial hearings in four of the many unfounded prosecutions by the Alameda County District Attorney's office. Billy Nessen appeared before Judge Julie Conger to set the date for trial for his arrest on charges of "interfering" with the arrest of "Mama" during the Biko Sit-In. The newsletter says there will be a meeting of all protesters arrested on June 20 and 21 at the San Francisco Regents' Meeting to discuss next week's arraignments. The newsletter says, in South Africa, two Blacks were killed during a demonstration protesting rent increases in Soweto. The newsletter says 107 people were arrested for staging a sit-in in defiance of a law that forbids Black gatherings except for funerals. The newsletter says Congress voted 236 to 185 to repeal the 1976 ban on military aid to the South African-backed rebels trying to bring down the Marxist government of Angola. The newsletter says the Bank of Apartheid (a.k.a. Bank of America), with many branches in Berkeley, is a pillar of the apartheid regime. The newsletter includes an advertisement for a National Mandela Freedom Day demonstration on July 16 by the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, with photographs of Nelson Mandela and Winnie Mandela. The newsletter discusses U.C.P.D. (University of California Police Department), ASUC (Associated Students of the University of California), the Berkeley Draft Counseling Center, Bishop Desmond Tutu, the Reagan Administration, the Livermore Action Group (LAG), Nimeiri, Al Dahab, Chevron Oil Company, Vice President George Bush, Dan "Greg" O'Neil, Christian Alexander, Rachel Robinson, U.C. President David Gardner, Dan Siegel, and Terry Koch.

African Activist Archive

BIKO PLAZA NEWS

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