The Washington Office on Africa (WOA) has three goals for public policy work in 1990: 1) Influence U.S. public opinion by providing high quality commentary and educational material to the general public, government officials, and our sponsoring constituency of church organizations, labor unions and anti-apartheid activists. 2) Increase outreach to individuals and organizations that are not already active in the anti-apartheid movement. 3) Achieve new U.S. foreign and military policies toward southern Africa that: • Exclude political, economic and military support for the South African apartheid government and its surrogates; • Protect human rights; • Support the right to self-determination...
The Washington Office on Africa (WOA) has three goals for public policy work in 1990: 1) Influence U.S. public opinion by providing high quality commentary and educational material to the general public, government officials, and our sponsoring constituency of church organizations, labor unions and anti-apartheid activists. 2) Increase outreach to individuals and organizations that are not already active in the anti-apartheid movement. 3) Achieve new U.S. foreign and military policies toward southern Africa that: • Exclude political, economic and military support for the South African apartheid government and its surrogates; • Protect human rights; • Support the right to self-determination and the concept of one-person-one-vote; • Promote social and economic justice and development for all races on an equal basis • Oppose South Africa's regional destabilization. WOA also must focus on issues described in the "1990 Program Statement" to strengthen the organization. These efforts include: 1. Improve our grass roots lobbying work; 2. Create a vibrant, politically powerful and financially supportive network of citizens committed to the goals of WOA and woven into the grass roots fabric of their communities; 3. Improve administrative office procedures; 4. Better integrate corporate, financial, fundraising and other administrative requirements with our program work; and 5. Continue to enhance the multi-cultural and multiracial composition of our organization.
