African Activist Archive

Program of public forum at Columbia University Law School on February 24, 1979 about how the U.S. banking system channels money out of U.S. communities and into repressive regimes such as South Africa. The program includes Welcome and Wrap-Up - NY-COBLSA (New York Chapter of the Committee to Oppose Bank Loans to South Africa); Living with the Banks - Media presentation; Building Apartheid: The Role of U.S. Banks - Professor Ben Magubane; "Six Days in Soweto" - Film; South Africa: The U.S. Connection - Rep. Stephen Solarz and Assemblyman Al Vann; Financing Urban Decay - Ray Rogers of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) J.P. Stevens Corporate Campaign; The Thin Red Line - Gail Cincotta of the National Training and Information Center and a leader in the national anti-redlining movement; The Global Banking Empire-Michael Moffit of Institute for Policy Studies; What Now? - Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker of Canaan Baptist Church; and Master of Ceremonies - Gil Noble, producer of ABC-TV's "Like It Is." Sponsors are: American Committee on Africa; Black United Front; Clergy and Laity Concerned; Coalition for Responsible Investment; District 65, Distributive Workers of America; District 1199, National Hospital and Health Care Employees, AFL-CIO; Episcopal Churchmen for South Africa; Furriers Joint Council of New York; Sister Janice McLaughlin, Maryknoll Sisters; National Chile Center; National Council of Churches, U.S.A.; National Lawyers Guild, New York Chapter; South Africa Freedom Committee; United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America; United Methodist Office for the U.N.; U.S. Peace Council; and Peter Weiss, Center for Constitutional Rights. Financial support came from the National Ministries of the American Baptist Church; Institute for Policy Studies; Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility; National Council of Churches; and the Women's Division and the Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church. The program also thanks the Episcopal Campus Ministries (P.F.), Institute for Human Rights, and California Newsreel. [Note: Gail Cincotta is presumably Gale Cincotta.]

African Activist Archive

RUNAWAY BANKS The Misuse of Our Money and Home and Abroad

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