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The document is an Action Alert presumably sent as a mailing. The Action Alert says Dear Anti-Apartheid Activist: It is now vitally important that we immediately focus all of our efforts on getting the strongest possible sanctions against the South African government passed in the Senate; the House-passed sanctions bill has been introduced in the Senate as 5.2570 by Senators Cranston (D-CA), Weicker (R-CT), and Kennedy (D-MA); you are urged to have your organization and/or members contact their Senators asking for their support of this legislation which calls for a trade embargo and sanctions against the racist regime of South Africa; Californians are urged to contact Senator Pete Wilson (R). The Action Alert says since the 20th Anniversary of the Soweto Uprising of June 16th and in response to a stay-away call by trade union leaders, hundreds of trade unionist in South Africa have been arrested and detained under the laws of the state of emergency imposed by the apartheid regime; enclosed is a listing of the names of trade unionists being detained. Under the strict censorship that the regime has imposed on news from the Black areas, the police clamp-down on the number of detentions and their refusal to release the names of the detainees, it is imperative that these detainees should not disappear. We must demand their immediate release; you can help by sending a message to the South African Embassy demanding immediate release of all the detained trade unionists and others. The Action Alert asks people to send messages demanding the release of trade union and political detainees to His Excellency J. H. A. Beukes, Ambassador of the Republic of South Africa, in Washington, DC. The Action Alert discusses the African National Congress (ANC), the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO), Namibia, Franklin Alexander, Gloria Calomais, Ben Priestly, Maryamu Eltayeb, and Carolyn Trowbridge. [Note: This document was produced after the West Coast Regional Conference in Solidarity with the Struggling Peoples of Southern Africa which was held June 27-29, 1986.]

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ACTION ALERT: S.2570 - The Anti-Apartheid Action Act of 1986

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