African Activist Archive

Leaflet advertising a march to and rally at City Hall on December 22 and a picket-line each weekday at the Maritime Association office at 180 West Grand in Oakland. The leaflet says in November, 1984, San Francisco Longshoremen refused to unload South African cargo from the Dutch ship Nedlloyd Kimberly. Simultaneously, members of Congress, civil rights leaders, trade unionists and others were being arrested at the entrance of the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C., which has sparked a powerful movement against the system that brutalizes the majority of the South African people. The U.S. stands by while South Africa occupies Namibia and attacks Angola, Mozambique, Zambia and Lesotho. The leaflet mentions multinational corporations operating in South Africa, the Reagan administration policy of "constructive engagement," repression, Black trade unions, steel, U.S. steelworkers, Steven Biko, the South African Students Organization (SASO), the South African police, Nelson Mandela, the African National Congress (ANC), murder, imprisonment, the white minority government, racism, the Black majority, and a general strike.

African Activist Archive

Community Alert South Africa

All Out to the March & Rally

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