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Paper presented by Rosetta Daylie of AFSCME (American Federation of State, Country and Municipal Employees) and Co-chair of the Illinois Labor Network Against Apartheid (ILNAA) to the "National Workshop On Strategies For Local Organizing" from February 28 - March 1 organized by The Africa Fund, sister organization of the American Committee on Africa (ACOA). The speech thanks Nomonde Ngubo for her teaching, the New York Labor Committee, Vicki Williams, and Kate Pfordresher, who provided guidance to the Illinois Labor Network in its first three years. The speech salutes U.S. union anti-apartheid leaders Bill Lucy of AFSCME, Owen Bieber of United Auto Workers (UAW), Richard Trumka of United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), among others. The speech mentions the Chicago Committee in Solidarity with Southern Africa (CCISA), the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU), the struggle of South African workers, the broader anti-apartheid movement, the liberation struggle, the Dellums sanctions bill, Congress, the Free Moses Mayekiso campaign, the visit of Winnie and Nelson Mandela to the U.S., the South African Ambassador's first visit to the Midwest, NUMSA (National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa), solidarity, sanctions, Shell Oil, responsible disinvestment, COSATU (Congress of South African Trade Unions), non-racialism in South Africa, violence, Inkatha, democracy, self-determination, African-American communities, NACTU (National Council of Trade Unions), the New York Labor Committee Against Apartheid (NYLCAA), and international labor solidarity. [Notes: Two photographs and other documents related to this event on this website.]

African Activist Archive

BUILDING BROAD-BASED LABOR COALITIONS

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