Statement released at press conference on May 16, 1985 that calls for 1) the University of California Regents to adopt the policy of total divestment from companies operating in South Africa, 2) legislators to vote in favor of divestment bills currently pending in our legislature and Congress, and 3) religious institutions that have not yet divested to do so and to reinvest in accordance with their religious conviction. The statement is signed by religious leaders in California and some national leaders from these denominations and several other institutions: African Methodist Episcopal Church, Reformed Church in America, National Baptist Convention, Progressive National Baptist Convention,...
Statement released at press conference on May 16, 1985 that calls for 1) the University of California Regents to adopt the policy of total divestment from companies operating in South Africa, 2) legislators to vote in favor of divestment bills currently pending in our legislature and Congress, and 3) religious institutions that have not yet divested to do so and to reinvest in accordance with their religious conviction. The statement is signed by religious leaders in California and some national leaders from these denominations and several other institutions: African Methodist Episcopal Church, Reformed Church in America, National Baptist Convention, Progressive National Baptist Convention, American Baptist Churches of the West, Lutheran Church in America, Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), United Methodist Church, Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, United Church of Christ, Presbyterian Church (USA), Episcopal Church, Diocese of Oakland, San Francisco Archdiocese, Sisters of the Holy Names, LCWR, Metropolitan Community Church, Southern California Ecumenical Council, Northern California Ecumenical Council, San Diego Council of Churches, National Council of Churches of Christ, Interfaith Committee on Corporate Responsibility, American Friends Service Committee, National Council of Christian-Jewish Relations, Jewish Community Council, Progressive Zionist Coalition, New Jewish Agenda, and North America Conference of Action Against Apartheid. Signers are: Daniel Adelman, Ann Anderson, Bishop Vinton Anderson, Rabbi Martin Ballonoff, Barry Barkan, Rev. Tim Boeve, Rabbi Ira Book, Rev. Eugene L. Boutilier, Rev. David J. Bowman, Dr. Amos C. Brown, Rev. Janet Burks, Rev. Paul Burks, Rev. Joan Campbell, Rev. Ellis H. Casson, Virston Choi, Harry Chotiner, Rev. Peggy Owen Clark, Rev. Michael Cooper, Bishop Philip R. Cousin, Rev. Dr. Donald Cunningham, Rev. Raymond Currie, Avram Davis, Rev. Edwin L. Ehlers, Rev. Ann Eichorn, John H. Emerson, Rabbi Edwin M. Epstein, Rev. H. Eugene Farlough, Susan Felix, Rev. Wendy Fossgreen, Bishop William H. Graves, Reuben Halpern, MarlBne Helgemo, Anthony R. Henry, Bishop Will Rerzfeld, J. Clinton Hoggard, Rev. Melvin A. Hoover, Rev. M. William Howard, Rt. Rev. Mikhael F. M. Itkin, Bishop, Rev. Donald G. Jacobs, Rabbi Burt Jacobson, Robert Jacobvitz, Rev. Kathy Johnson, Rev. Lynne Josselyn, Murray Kaufman, Bishop Leontine T. C. Kelly, Rev. Collins Kilburn, Rev. William R. King, Rev. Richard L. Lauer, Dr. Michael Lerner, Dr. John Lind, Bishop Nathaniel Linsey, Rev. Bryce Little, Rev. Dr. C. J. Malloy, .Jr., Daniel C. Matt, Rev. Doris V. McCullough, Rev. J. Oscar McCloud, Thomas McGowan, Roxanne MillerRev. Gerald L. Moede, Jonika Mountainfire, Rev. John C. Moyer, Ruth Myli, Rev. Gary O'Hara, Bishop Stanley E. Olson, Rev. Sandra Peirce, James Pence, Rev. Tyronne Pitts, Rev. Robert L. Polk, Rev. Jeanne Audrey Powers, Rev. Thomas H. Quigley, Dr. Robert D. Rasmussen, Rev. James Rein, Rev. Dr. W. Franklyn Richardson, Richael Richman, Rev. Dr. Andrew M. (Duke) Robinson, Rev. James Sandmire, Rabbi Joseph Schonwald, Rev. Gustav Schultz, David Simpson, Pastor J. Alfred Smith, Sr., Rev. J. Alfred Smith, Jr., Rev. Harold B. Statler, Rev. George Tinker, Bishop Nelson W. Trout, Rev. Richard M. Wallis, Rev. Robert Welsh, Fr. George Wesolik, Dr. Yenwith K. Whitney, Rev. Samuel Williams, Martha Wood, Laurie Zolath, Rev. David Hurty, Rev. Phillip Lawson, Fr. William J. O'Donnel, Mildred Slack, and Stan Gurfinkel.
