Leaflet advertising a rally at the South African Consulate in New York City on August 3, when millions of South Africans will begin a nationwide general strike and other mass actions, including marches, sit-ins and boycotts. These actions are called by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), the African National Congress (ANC), the South African Council of Churches and other democratic organizations that are demanding an end to the violence by police and state-sponsored Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) vigilantes and installation of a multi-racial interim government to guide the country to democracy. The leaflet discusses the Biopatong massacre, F.W. de Klerk, the Human Rights Commission,...
Leaflet advertising a rally at the South African Consulate in New York City on August 3, when millions of South Africans will begin a nationwide general strike and other mass actions, including marches, sit-ins and boycotts. These actions are called by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), the African National Congress (ANC), the South African Council of Churches and other democratic organizations that are demanding an end to the violence by police and state-sponsored Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) vigilantes and installation of a multi-racial interim government to guide the country to democracy. The leaflet discusses the Biopatong massacre, F.W. de Klerk, the Human Rights Commission, ANC President Nelson Mandela, the UN Security Council, sanctions, and President Bush. The leaflet names the partial list of sponsors: African Americans United for Political Power; American Committee on Africa; Paul Basista, Exec Dir Graphic Artists Guild; George Boncoraglia, Pres CSEA Local 1 000; Eombe Brath, Patrice Lumumba Coalition; Rev. Dr. Calvin Butts III; Hon. Una Clarke; Clergy and Laity Concerned; Coalition of Black Trade Unionists NY Chapter, Jim Webb, Pres; CWA District 1; CWA Local 1180; Rev. Herbert Daughtry; Hon. Gloria Davis, Chair, NYS Black and Puerto Rican Leg. Caucus; DC 37 AFSCME; DC 1707 AFSCME; Hazel Dukes, Pres, NYS Conf NAACP Branches; Educators Against Apartheid and Racism; Hon. Wendell Foster; John Glasel, Pres. Loc 802 AFM; Hon. Roger Green; William R. Hanauer, Chair, Unions for Performing Arts; ILGWU; Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility S. Africa Issues Group; Immobilize Apartheid Coalition; Sue Kelly, International Center and Movement for Peoples Assembly; Dr. Daniel Lawlor, Pres Committee Interns and Residents; Hon. Guillermo Linares; Local 375, DC 37 AFSCME; Local 420 AFSCME; Local 1199; Network of Black Organizers; NY Labor Committee Against Apartheid, Stanley Hill, Edgar Romney and Cleveland Robinson, Co-chairs; NY Labor-Religion Coalition; NYS Unity Party; Religious Action Network, Rev. Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker, National Chair; Retail Wholesale Dept. Store Workers Union; Sam Robert, COMPTU; Sisters Against S. African Apartheid; Willie Terry, Pres CSEA Local 460; UAW District 65; UAW Local 259; United Paper Workers Local 107; Unity Organizing Committee, NY/NJ Chapter; WESPAC; Canon Frederick Williams; WREE.
