African Activist Archive

Contents: Attendance • 3. Reports • a. Dumisani Kumalo speaking tour through Connecticut and to midwest student conference in Detroit • b. Public statement about the Sullivan principles to be released by William Booth at hearings of the UN Special Committee Against Apartheid • c. 1981 calendar featuring black South African and American Artists being considered by Ray Gould and Herb Yavel • d. Guide to using films to activate on issue of institutional investments is being written by California Newsreel, to be published by The Africa Fund. • e. Planned resignation of Edgar Lockwood as director of the Washington Office on Africa and search for successor • f. Plans for a northeast student conference in April and for a student newsletter byJosh Nessen • g. Edgar surgical supplies and other medical equipment will be sent soon to the Mozambique Ministry of Health. • 4. ACOA received 501 (c) 4 tax-exempt status from the IRS • 5. George Houser and Tilden LeMelle reviewed highlights of the report of the observer team which ACOA initiated at the Rhodesian elections. • 6. Elizabeth Landis, William Johnston, and Houser reported on Namibia and the Western Sahara. • 7. William Booth proposed a nominating committee to include Dorothy Hibbert, Richard Lapchick and Tilden LeMelle. • The minutes report three Namibia projects to supply medical equipment, educational material, and transport for refugees in Angola. The minutes mention a Namibia chronology, paper on strategic U.S. investments presented at a London seminar, a seminar on the South Africa oil embargo, a seminar on women and apartheid, UN hearings on sports and codes of conduct, an international NGO conference on South African sanctions in Geneva, an international conference on international economic investment in Libya, Paul Irish, Gail Morlan, Truman Dunn, Alexander Boyer, Cynthia Cannady, TransAfrica, Robert Edgar from Howard University, Michael Schuster, Robert Mugabe, Tilden J. LeMelle, Peter Weiss, Josephine Buck-Jones, David Lampel, Robert Browne, Richard Knight, and Jennifer Davis.

African Activist Archive

Minutes - ACOA Executive Board Meeting March 13, 1980

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