RALLY: Get the sHELL out of South Africa!

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Creator

Illinois Labor Network Against Apartheid

Place Created

Forest Park, Illinois, United States

Date

Undated, about October or early November 1988

Type of Item

Leaflet

Length/duration

2 pages

Description

Leaflet advertising a rally at the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) in Chicago on November 19 with Richard Trumka, President of the United Mine Workers and Co-Chair of the national Shell Boycott Campaign. The boycott aims to support South African trade unionists who are under attack by the apartheid government. SHELL is the target of a worldwide boycott because it is the major supplier of oil to South Africa. South Africa has a wealth of diamonds and gold, but no oil of its own, Without oil, the leaflet says, the tanks that mow down union brothers and sisters would not run; without oil, the apartheid regime would be immobile. • Stop apartheid in South Africa. Project...

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Organization

Illinois Labor Network Against Apartheid

Coverage Africa

South Africa

Language

English

Digital Format

text/pdf

Rights Management

Used by permission of a former member of the Illinois Labor Network Against Apartheid.

Collection

Kathleen M. Devine papers