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Leaflet advertising a 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 moderator is Gil Noble of WABC-TV's "Like It Is." Ben Magubane will speak on South Africa. Other speakers are U.S. Representative Stephen Solarz, Chairman, Subcommittee on Africa; Assemblyman Al Vann, Chairman, Black and Puerto Rican Caucus, on the U.S. Connection; Ray Rogers, ACTWU J.P. Stevens Boycott Office on Financing Urban Decay; Gail Cincotta, National Training and Information Center on Redlining; Michael Moffit, Institute for Policy Studies, on Foreign Lending; and Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, Pastor, Canaan Baptist Church, on What We Can Do. "Six Days in Soweto" will be shown. Sponsors include American Committee on Africa; Lauren Anderson, National Conference of Black Lawyers; Clergy and Laity Concerned; Coalition for Responsible Investment; District 65 Distributive Workers of America; 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 Methodist Office for the U.N.; U.S. Peace Council; Peter Weiss, Center for Constitutional Rights; District 1199, National Hospital and Health Care Employees, AFL-CIO ; Black United Front; and United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America. The leaflet mentions the African National Congress (ANC). [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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