[The Illinois Labor Network Against Apartheid is mobilizing local unions and the public to demand freedom for jailed trade unionists and other opponents of South Africa's apartheid system, …]

The mailing says the Illinois Labor Network Against Apartheid is mobilizing local unions and the public to demand freedom for jailed trade unionists and other opponents of South Africa's apartheid system, and an end to the trials of union leaders charged with "high treason." The mailing says ILNAA is part of an international movement to free South African unionists that includes the International Metalworkers' Federation, the AFL-CIO and many international unions. The mailing says fifteen top union leaders in Illinois serve as chairs and co-chairs of the Labor Network. The mailing says the ILNAA steering committee has adopted specific plans to (1) protest the jailings and trials of union leaders, (2) step up the boycott of Shell Oil Co., and (3) demand that the U.S. Congress impose comprehensive sanctions against South Africa. The mailing says as an educational and communications network, ILNAA will keep unions informed of local actions related to South Africa and the state of affairs in South Africa; this is most important since the state of emergency and a news blackout, imposed in June 1986, are yet in effect today. The mailing says ILNAA is also considering the development of direct ties between related unions in South Africa and Illinois. The mailing includes Background Information: U.S. SANCTIONS AGAINST SOUTH AFRICA, Background Information: TRIAL OF MOSES MAYEKISO AND OTHER UNION ACTIVISTS, and Background Information: THE SHELL BOYCOTT CAMPAIGN. The mailing discuses Congress, sanctions, the Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986, President Reagan, S556/HR1580, the Cranston/Dellums bill, complete disinvestment of all U.S. companies from South Africa and Namibia, trade, the termination of the treaty permitting air flights, Charles Hayes, Gus Savage, Cardiss Collins, Lane Evans, Kenneth Gray, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), the National Union of Mineworkers, the South African Council of Churches (SACC), Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Washington Office on Africa (WOA), the New York Labor Committee Against Apartheid, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), Mzwanele Mayekiso, Paul Tshabalala, Richard Mdakane, Obed Bapela, the black township of Alexandra, the Metal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU), the United Mine Workers, the AFL-CIO, the Free South Africa Movement, U.S. labor union, the World Council of Churches (WCC), the NAACP, the National Organization for Women (NOW), American National Bank, Shell products, HR3317, the Anti-Apartheid Petroleum Sanctions Act, Royal Dutch/Shell, the Shell Oil Company, an oil pipeline, the United Nations ban on supplying oil to South Africa, South Africa's military and police forces, the Rietspruit coal mine, a mine accident, Meridyne car radios, Heritage furniture polish; and Citrus Blossom, and Open Air and Wild Flower air fresheners.