The leaflet promotes the SHELL BOYCOTT, which began in response to South African unions, who daily face the atrocities of the apartheid regime and its allies like Shell. South African unions ask for help to stop Shell from fueling the military, police, and overall economy. When enough consumers refuse to buy Shell, it will become more "profitable" for Shell to leave South Africa rather than stay. The boycott is endorsed by 47 international unions, the AFL-CIO, Free South Africa Movement, World Council of Churches, and others. The leaflet says apartheid enslaves South Africans and costs U.S. jobs. Profiting from slave labor, many corporations invest in South Africa instead of investing in...
The leaflet promotes the SHELL BOYCOTT, which began in response to South African unions, who daily face the atrocities of the apartheid regime and its allies like Shell. South African unions ask for help to stop Shell from fueling the military, police, and overall economy. When enough consumers refuse to buy Shell, it will become more "profitable" for Shell to leave South Africa rather than stay. The boycott is endorsed by 47 international unions, the AFL-CIO, Free South Africa Movement, World Council of Churches, and others. The leaflet says apartheid enslaves South Africans and costs U.S. jobs. Profiting from slave labor, many corporations invest in South Africa instead of investing in job-producing operations in the U.S., export from South Africa to the U.S. and other countries that normally buy from the U.S., and use lower labor standards. The leaflet says Royal Dutch/Shell (Shell Oil's parent company) profits from apartheid and is one of six corporations that violate the United Nations ban on exporting oil to South Africa, which is crucial because South Africa has no oil of its own.
