African Activist Archive

Contents: STRUCTURE • ACTIVITIES • MATERIAL SUPPORT • FUNDING • WHAT YOU CAN DO • RESOURCES • The report says SASP is a volunteer organization. It has no paid staff and all of its members hold fulltime jobs; SASP is a small organization with fewer than 20 members; the work of SASP is accomplished through the efforts of its members and the assistance of people in the community who volunteer to help with specific projects or activities. The report says since 1978, SASP has had a year-round program to educate the local community about the critical issues in southern Africa and raise funds for humanitarian aid for the liberation struggle. The report says SASP has successfully provided information to large segments of the community by organizing an annual week-long educational and fundraising campaign, focused on a specific country in southern Africa, which is the highlight of each year's activities. The report says Southern Africa Week also always includes a community forum where a speaker, usually a representative from the African National Congress (ANC) or the Southwest African People's Organization (SWAPO), provides information to the community; each year SASP and the Black Film Institute of the University of the District of Columbia have co-sponsored a film or series of films on southern Africa during the week. The report says SASP produces newsletters, informational leaflets, and slide shows as a means of providing information on critical issues in the region; SASP makes presentations to area schools, churches, universities, community and social organizations, labor unions, and interested persons. The report says there are over 90,000 refugees, mostly orphaned children, women, and the elderly, who have been made homeless by ruthless South African aggression in the region. The report says SASP has always maintained an independent base of funding by seeking grants only from institutions committed to the liberation of southern Africa. The report says grants were then sought from the World Council of Churches to broaden the scope of our work and allow the organization to develop and distribute a newsletter. The report says over the years SASP has received assistance from the United Nations High Commission on Refugees which has enabled us to airship critically needed medical supplies to refugee camps inside Zambia, Mozambique, and Angola for Zimbabwean and Namibian refugees. The report includes a quote by Samora Machel, President of Mozambique. The report discusses WHUR and WPFW radio stations, WHMM television station, a run for Namibia, Youth Against Apartheid, military attacks, cash, medical, and educational supplies, the United Nations Council on Namibia, and demonstrations to protest U.S. policy.

African Activist Archive

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