Letter send by UPS Overnight to Kathy Devine from Ann M. Werboff, National Organizer, Shell Boycott Education Project. The letter says I am writing to request your assistance in one aspect of the Shell Boycott Campaign; the National Association of Counties (NACO), comprised of county officials from all across the country, will be holding its annual meeting August 5-9 in Anaheim, California; at that time, the attached resolution to endorse the Shell Boycott will be considered. The letter says the resolution will first be considered by the National Association of Black County Officials (NABCO), the black caucus of NACO, at its business meeting 6ri Sunday, August 7; Hilda Pemberton, the President...
Letter send by UPS Overnight to Kathy Devine from Ann M. Werboff, National Organizer, Shell Boycott Education Project. The letter says I am writing to request your assistance in one aspect of the Shell Boycott Campaign; the National Association of Counties (NACO), comprised of county officials from all across the country, will be holding its annual meeting August 5-9 in Anaheim, California; at that time, the attached resolution to endorse the Shell Boycott will be considered. The letter says the resolution will first be considered by the National Association of Black County Officials (NABCO), the black caucus of NACO, at its business meeting 6ri Sunday, August 7; Hilda Pemberton, the President of NABCO, has agreed to bring it up before NABCO; if NABCO passes it, which appears highly likely, the resolution will then be considered by the entire conference of NACO; we feel that the resolution has a good possibility of passing if, in addition to the support of NABCO, we have support from various county officials across the country. The letter says I would like to ask your assistance by contacting your local county officials who will be in attendance at the Anaheim meeting and would be most likely to support this resolution; we would like these officials to not only support and vote for the resolution but also to speak out in favor of it when it comes before the floor of the conference. The letter includes the proposed NATIONAL ASS0CIATION OF COUNTIES RESOLUTION ENDORSING THE BOYCOTT OF ROYAL DUTCH/SHELL. The letter discusses the African National Congress (ANC), the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), the United Democratic Front (UDF), the South African Council of Churches (SACC), the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), the Council of Unions of South Africa (CUSA), Royal Dutch/Shell, Shell Oil Company (USA), disinvestment of foreign corporations, economic sanctions, the international oil embargo, crude oil, refined petroleum products, he South African military and police forces, apartheid, South African-occupied Namibia, United Nations resolutions, Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, operating a coal mine in South Africa and exporting that coal abroad, virtual slave-labor conditions, American-mined coal and American jobs, Shell Oil Company credit cards, the National Union of Mineworkers of South Africa (NUM), the Miners International Federation (Miners' International Federation, MIF), the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), union busting, anti-worker policies, Rietspruit coal mine, capital, petroleum refining, and the chemical industry.
