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The draft conference proposal says that Coalition for the Liberation of Southern Africa (CLSA) would initiate broad discussion of the need for a national program of action to support Southern African liberation and, preferably in conjunction with other national organizations, initiate a call for a conference to develop such national programmatic unity. The document says three points could serve as a basis of unity for a conference: (1) oppose U.S. corporates, financial, military, governmental and cultural links which strengthen white minority rule in Southern Africa; (2) support existing liberation movements as the legitimate representatives of the people in Southern Africa; and (3) struggle against racism in the U.S. as an essential basis for supporting Southern African liberation. It was proposed that CLSA issue a political statement (a draft by UPCAR is attached) explaining why CLSA sees the need for more unified thrust in southern Africa work (in part as an advance over spontaneity) and the rationale behind the third point of unity. The document recommends how organizations can vote at a conference and that the conference would be open to all interested groups that agree to the meeting's basis of unity. The document discusses the CLSA Basis of Unity (agreed to at the October 1975 conference), presentations by liberation movements, SWAPO, ANC (African National Congress), the Patriotic Front, political struggles, repression, trade unions, cutbacks, redlining, class oppression, the National Black Coalition on Southern Africa, the People's Alliance Against Racism and Apartheid, Barnard Lee, Ralph Abernathy, Bob Van Lierop, United People's Campaign Against Apartheid and Racism (UPCAAR), the Del Monte anti-corporate campaign, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland. • Initiation of broad discussion on the need for national programmatic unity in our work on southern Africa • Re Co-sponsorship and call for a conference • NOTES ON THE DISCUSSION OF DRAFT CONFERENCE AGENDA • Subcommittee proposals re planning process

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CLSA – DRAFT CONFERENCE PROPOSAL BY EAST COAST SUBCOMMITTEE

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