To: Southern Africa Task Force & Others working on Southern Africa, Bud Day, Niva Padilha & Gerald Lenoir

The mailing contains a draft plan for the AFSC's Peace Education Division (PED) work on southern Africa. The draft was developed by Michael Simmons, Brenda Joyner, Ginny Hill and Ron Young and sent to members of the Southern Africa task Force and others, and also copied to Greg Williams, Peter Molotsi, David Sogge, Harry Amana, Buff Groff, Jaffery Cuyler, Webb Norman, Jim Bristol, and Lou Schneider. Draft Plan Contents: INTRODUCTION • PROGRAM OBJECTIVES • BANKS • IMPLEMENTATION • CORPORATIONS • IMPLEMENTATION • RESOURCES • NEEDS • III Federal Government • IMPLEMENTATION • SPEAKERS • MEDIA • COMMEMORATING SIGNIFICANT DAYS • CONCLUSION • The draft plan notes that AFSC has worked for an end to apartheid and majority rule in southern Africa for more than 20 years; since 1974, Bill Sutherland, under the auspices of the PED and International Division, has been gaining current information about southern Africa and interpreting the southern Africa reality to AFSC's constituency. In 1975, the National PED assigned Jim Bristol as full-time staff to work on southern Africa, and this work expanded to include staff of eight regional AFSC offices. At its October 1976 meeting, the AFSC Board of Directors approved a policy guideline reaffirming opposition to apartheid, support for majority rule, and challenging U.S. economic institutions to withdraw from economic involvement in South Africa, Namibia, and Rhodesia. It also approved AFSC's selling its Mobil Oil stock because of that company's policy of oil sales to Rhodesia through its affiliates in southern Africa. The draft plan notes that, in the past year, the situation in southern Africa has deteriorated as the white minority regimes of Rhodesia and South Africa intensified their repression and continue to resist moderate pressure towards change. In Rhodesia, the Ian Smith government refuses to entertain the Anglo-American plan for a process leading to majority rule. The U.S. administration has consistently avoided the issue of economic sanctions against South Africa and still allows U.S.-based companies such as Mobil Oil and Caltex to break the United Nations sanctions against Rhodesia; the U.S. has even refused to ban whites-only South African sports teams from competing in this country. PED staff working on South Africa feels it is time to develop a focused program of public education about southern Africa and particularly the U.S. role there. The draft plan's goal will be to work toward withdrawal of all U.S. political, financial, and economic institutional support for minority-ruled states in southern Africa and developing movement toward an international boycott of South Africa and Rhodesia in areas such as sports, cultural exchange, and advertising. Since 1977, AFSC has been a member of the National Committee to Oppose Bank Loans to South Africa (COBLSA). The Furriers Joint Council withdrew $10 million from Manufacturers Hanover Trust. Demonstrations in Chicago and Boston have begun to encourage withdrawals from banks that refuse to discontinue business with South Africa; religious organizations such as the New York Conference of the United Methodist Church and the National Council of Churches are preparing to withdraw accounts from banks participating in loans to South Africa. Students at the University of Massachusetts, along with other groups, were successful in getting the university to sell its stock of companies doing business in South Africa, and the longshoremen local in Oakland and the United Electrical Workers have passed resolutions opposing companies that invest there. The memorandum and draft plan mention the death of Stephen Biko (Steve Biko), security laws, arrests in South Africa, the Carter administration, policy toward the Black majority, the struggle against racism, traditional peace movement constituencies, Fannie Rushing, Chicago AFSC, Bank of America, Bernard Rivers, the Subcommittee on Africa in the House of Representatives, the Security Council, divestment, NARMIC, ICCR (Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility), denial of tax credit to U.S.-based corporations in South Africa, sanctions on arms shipments, emergency refugee aid to the frontline states, enforcement of laws prohibiting U.S. citizens from military involvement, the Washington Office on Africa (WOA), the Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy, the Congressional Black Caucus, political prisoners, Cathy Harrington of Information Services, the history of the struggle, Sharpeville (March 21), and Soweto (June 16).