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Leaflet advertising a day of national, local and regional demonstrations and lobbying visits to support H.R.1580/S.2378, the Comprehensive Sanctions Bill, and commemorate the 12th Anniversary of the 1976 Massacre of Black School Children in Soweto by South African troops. If passed, this bill will make U.S. companies leave South Africa so their business cannot help finance apartheid, end virtually all trade between the U.S. and South Africa, and stop U.S./South Africa military and intelligence cooperation. A national coalition of anti-apartheid, trade union and religious groups have called for this day of local demonstrations, prayer and candlelight vigils, worship services, teach-ins, rallies and visits by broad based lobbying delegations to members of Congress in support of H.R.1580/S.2378. Congress will soon consider this total sanctions bill, introduced by Congressman Ronald Dellums (D-CA), Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA), and Senator Alan Cranston (D-CA). It goes beyond the limited, selective sanctions against South Africa, passed by Congress in October 1986 and puts more pressure on the white minority regime. The June 16th action is being organized by the Southern African Working Group, an ad-hoc coalition of 150 national groups. The leaflet says PROTEST THE BOTHA REGIME'S BANNING OF CHURCH LEADERS AND OPPOSITION GROUPS PEACEFULLY OPPOSING APARTHEID RULE IN SOUTH AFRICA AND NAMIBIA! The leaflet mentions increased repression, the incarceration of children, invasion of Angola, famine in Mozambique, occupation of Namibia, the United Democratic Front (UDF), the Azanian People's Organization (AZAPO), South African troops, destabilization, RENAMO (MNR), Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Reverend Allan Boesak, Archbishop Stephen Naidoo, South African Police (SAP), and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU).

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NATIONAL ANTI-APARTHEID ACTION AND LOBBY DAY THURSDAY, JUNE 16TH 1988

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