African Activist Archive

Contents: Attendance • 2) Staff changes • 3) Report on Southern Africa • a) Delegation to Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and possibly Angola • b) Recommendation for a small consultation on Southern Africa policy • 5) Budget • a) Impeachment • b) Activities at the U.N. • c) Mailings • 6) ACOA stance on South Africa's suspension/expulsion from the U.N. • a) The press statement did not represent a final position. • b) The issue could be discussed again. • c) George Houser suggested the Board reaffirm and emphasize its previous position on corporate disengagement. • d) Staff were conversing with Arthur Ashe about his plans to play in the South African "open." • e) The Human Rights Committee in South Africa requested cables of support for demonstrations on December 8. • f) ACOA is in meetings with banks lending to South Africa and is producing materials on this issue. • g) "Sizwe Banzi is Dead" and "The Island" South African plays were discussed • 7) Rhodesia • 8) Namibia • 9) Reports • 10) Other items • The minutes mention Dick Leonard, Annie King, Henry Lieberg, Angela Passaro, Barry Scott, literature distribution, liberation movements, Don Wilson, Bill Booth, Bank Leumi, the Byrd Amendment, "say no to chrome" advertisement, New York City travel agencies encouraging Rhodesian tourism in violation of UN sanctions, ZANU, Tapson Mawere, Bill Johnston, the SWAPO delegation, the case against the New York Times on job advertising in South Africa, a State Supreme Court Justice, Doug Wachholz, Peter Weiss, new literature, "Prosperity for Whites Only in South Africa," the bank campaign fact sheets by Tad Szulc's (reprints from Esquire), "Why are we in Johannesburg," U.S. violations of the arms embargo, The Africa Fund, Tanzanian drought, Ambassador Salim Salim, expropriation by the South African government of Federal Theological Seminary for blacks, Paul Irish, Ray Gould, Collin Gonze, Winifred Courtney, Jay Jacobson, Elsie Carrington, Gail Morlan, Dorothy Hibbert, Don Wilson, Larry Henderson, Janet Hooper, Tim Smith, Ted Lockwood, Dave Robinson, Elizabeth Landis, Jennifer Davis, Marvin Rich, and Seana Sheehan.

African Activist Archive

ACOA Executive Board Meeting, December 5, 1974

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