Letter to Reverend John Moyer from Reverend Bill Ng, Director of UNITAS, and Emeka Kalu Ezera, Representative of United People of Color - on behalf of the South African Memorial Service Committee - inviting participation in a Candlelight Memorial Service for South African Martyrs to be held at St. Mark's Episcopal Church at 6:30 p.m. on May 8, 1986. The event will also support the struggle for freedom, and keep continuing South African atrocities alive in the minds and hearts of the people of the U.S. In South Africa, 1,450 people were killed in the last 14 months. Blacks from South Africa in exile in the Bay Area are working with us to assure an authentic memorial customary to their motherland....
Letter to Reverend John Moyer from Reverend Bill Ng, Director of UNITAS, and Emeka Kalu Ezera, Representative of United People of Color - on behalf of the South African Memorial Service Committee - inviting participation in a Candlelight Memorial Service for South African Martyrs to be held at St. Mark's Episcopal Church at 6:30 p.m. on May 8, 1986. The event will also support the struggle for freedom, and keep continuing South African atrocities alive in the minds and hearts of the people of the U.S. In South Africa, 1,450 people were killed in the last 14 months. Blacks from South Africa in exile in the Bay Area are working with us to assure an authentic memorial customary to their motherland. There will be an indoor memorial service, followed by a candlelight "Death to Apartheid" funeral procession, which will culminate in a remembrance of the martyred--in speech, song and poetry at UC Berkeley's Biko "Sproul" Plaza. Clergy are asked to wear clerical robes or attire for the ceremony; choir members are invited to also appear in their robes. Participating groups should send at least two representatives with appropriate banners and or coffins. The Bay Area Free South Africa Movement, UC Berkeley (University of California Berkeley) and San Francisco State campus divestment groups, Black community churches, Supervisor John George, Mayor Gus Newport, Councilmember Wilson Riles Jr., Professor Ken Simmons, Rev. Brice, Councilmember Maudelle Shirek, the University Religious Council, and the Berkeley City Council all support this event. [Note: this letter is apparently a letter sent to a number of people.]
