African Activist Archive

Contents: 1. Welcome and introductions • 2. State of labor in South Africa, and remarks about the Labor Network • 3. Need for Comprehensive Sanctions • 4. Petitions and demonstration to call attention of trials of labor leaders in South Africa • 5. The Shell Boycott and a short film • 6. YOU can help end apartheid! • Agenda of February 8, 1988 meeting the Illinois Labor Network Against Apartheid at UAW Local 477. The says PLEASE PICK UP PETITIONS AND LEAFLETS ON YOUR WAY OUT! The agenda says the Chair is Steve Culen, Director, AFSCME Council 31. People on the agenda included Harold Rogers, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU); Rachel Rubin, House Staff Association of Cook County Hospital and Co-Chair, Chicago Committee in Solidarity with Southern Africa (CCISSA); Kathy Devine and Harold Rogers, ILNAA Coordinators; John Rice, Secretary-Treasurer, UAW Local 477; and Johnnie Jackson, President of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW). Slogans on the agenda are: Boycott Shell, Free Moses Mayekiso, Free Nelson Mandela, End Diplomatic Relations, Close the South African Consulate, One person/one vote, Demand full U.S. Sanctions, and End Apartheid and Racism. The agenda discusses the UAW (United Auto Workers), and AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees).

African Activist Archive

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