African Activist Archive

Contents: Attendance • 2. Brief Reports • a. New interns working with ACOA - Josh Nessen, Craig Howard, Rene Gadsden from Brown University, and John Stobo from Columbia • b. Nessen report on student actions • c. Richard Lapchick (chair of ACCESS - American Coordinating Committee for Equality in Sport and Society), assessed work done on the Tate-Coetzee heavyweight boxing match, promoted by Bob Arum. • d. George Houser received from Algeria a ticket to attend the 25th anniversary of the launching of the armed struggle by the FLN (National Liberation Front). • e. Paul Irish attended seminar in London on the role of transnational corporations in South Africa, sponsored by the British anti-apartheid movement in cooperation with the UN. • f. Houser discussed signatories to the "Sullivan principles" statement. • g. Bank campaign • h. Houser and Ray Gould were negotiating with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the NY Public Library to acquire ACOA's archives. • i. Research/Literature • 3. Finance Report and 1980 Budget • 4. Policy Issues • a. Zimbabwe • b. Elizabeth Landis reported on lack of progress in UN-SA negotiations on Namibia. • c. Western Sahara • d. Houser noted some cosmetic changes offered by the Botha regime and their acceptance in the media, while UN-OAU make plans for major conferences focusing on mandatory sanctions against South Africa. • The minutes say Dumisani Kumalo reported on legislative initiatives in Illinois, Ohio, Connecticut, Bank of America's new policy statement after the successful Berkeley initiative, pressures in Oakland, San Jose and Cambridge, and demonstrations in San Francisco, Philadelphia, Seattle, and Washington DC in November. The minutes mention Bennington College, Oberlin College, communal villages in the countryside, Polisario officials, the Saharan refugee camps, Mahbes major battle site, Truman Dunn, divestment, a Namibia chronology, a nuclear study, coordination of the international the SASOL coal-to-oil project, Fluor, joint ACOA-AF Finance committee, The Africa Fund, an IRS audit, the Patriotic Front, the Senate, lifting of sanctions, the Lancaster House discussions, the Security Council, SWAPO bases in Namibia, the Carter Administration, military sales to Morocco, Congressman Solarz, the OAU (Organization of African Unity), Tilden LeMelle, William Booth, Elombe Brath, Michael Davis, Dorothy Hibbert, Josephine Buck-Jones, David Lampel, Edward May, Gail Morlan, Kate Shackford, Annette Hutchins-Felder, Stephanie Urdang, Jennifer Davis, Richard Knight, and COBLSA (Campaign to Oppose Bank Loans to South Africa).

African Activist Archive

Minutes, ACOA Executive Board Meeting December 6, 1979

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