African Activist Archive

Contents: 1. Introductions and welcome • 2. Minutes previous meeting • 3. United Nations Forum: Reports from different committees • *Program • * Logistics • * Publicity • * Education • * Budget • 4. Divestments • 5. Steve Biko • 6. Report party • 7. Grenada Conference • 8. Other • The minutes say present were Karen, Sandy, Julian, Beverly, Nesbit, Andy, Nick, Gay, Cheryl, Rosemarie, John and Sam. The minutes say Sept 15th is not a good day for the conference as the Beth. Lutheran church is not available and Lourie from Stanford cannot make that day; then a discussion took place when a good day would be. The minutes say need about 3200 signatures by Nov and the voter forms need to be in by Oct. 19th 1984; discussion on viability of actually being able to collect so many signatures; people felt that it would be difficult to collect so many signatures; also need to know more information on Companies in the East Bay that do business with SA. The minutes say Julian distributed flyers on Biko event. It is on Wed. Sept 12th, at La Pena at 7:30 pm; people are encouraged to hand out flyers and to attend. The minutes say Mime Troupe: Need to sell 300 tickets by Sept 22, if we were going to do it; anything over $2000 would be for the SASN i.e. the first 200 tickets would be the Mime Troupe's. The minutes says Julian spoke about forced removals in South Africa and the urgent need to do more publicity about them; the World Council of Churches have chosen August 26th as a day of international solidarity with these people; this is Cheryl's field -where she's done a lot of her research and she has slides of removals. The minutes say the BBC has done a movie on Woza Albert; it has not yet been shown in the U.S.; maybe SASN can have a premier showing of it. The minutes discuss material aid, boycotts, Divest. SF (divestment San Francisco), Divest. East Bay (divestment East Bay), reports from individuals who attended the conference, reports on what is happening locally, UN material, SAMRAF (South African Military Refugee Aid Fund), ARC (Africa Resource Center), PISA, a special Network table, a mailing list, trials, political prisoners, liberation movements, and a benefit. [Notes: Beth. Lutheran Church is presumably Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Oakland. Nesbit is presumably Nesbit Crutchfield. Gay is most likely Gay Seidman.]

African Activist Archive

SASA MEETING 8/28/1984

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