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I. Overview of Meeting • II. Educationals (Internal/with occasional friends) • III. Social events • A. DSA Conference at U.C.-Berkeley • B. A.R.C. Reception for Visiting South African Minister • The meeting focused on how the SASN would function. Given our newness, it was important to begin some activities right away to develop a ''group dynamic." It also was decided to make plans for the next three months and then evaluate as to future projects. It was agreed that educationals should be part of each meeting. Meetings will be held every three weeks on Saturday at the Africa Resource Center (ARC). Once SASN's goals were agreed upon, people will volunteer to be in sub-groups which would meet before the next meeting to discuss objectives of each goal and develop methods for meeting them. All goals should be listed, even if it may not be possible to work on all of them now. Goal II--inform the public about the situation in Southern Africa; Goal III- put Southern Africa issues on the agenda of U.S. progressive movement; Goal IV--develop links with similar Africa solidarity/support groups and the liberation movements. Educationals are The Role of Theology and Churches in South Africa, The Current Situation in Mozambique, Angola, Lesotho. Other proposed topics are U.S. Foreign policy in Southern Africa, Unions in South Africa, South Africa: History and the Current Situation, and Analysis of South African Propaganda in the U.S. People representing groups in the Network should be given time to talk about the work of their organizations to provide a better idea of what the Network should do as a whole, and when the particular organizations might be a better form for various types of solidarity work. The minutes mention the Stop Banking on Apartheid, U.C.-Berkeley (University of California Berkeley), and DSA (Democratic Socialists of America).

African Activist Archive

Summary of Southern Africa Support Network meeting-- January 21, 1984

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