African Activist Archive

The program includes the Sechaba Singers, Pete Seeger, and Adjoa A. Aiyetoro, General Counsel of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (NAARPR). The Sechaba Singers are a cultural group of the African National Congress (ANC). The event is a benefit for the Campaign to Free South African Political Prisoners, sponsored by The Peace and Education Fund, Inc., George Washington University, and NAARPR. This campaign began with a petition demanding that President Reagan join with the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity (OAU) to call for the immediate release of Nelson Mandela and all South African Freedom Fighters. Also, the NAARPR will unite with women's organizations to campaign to end the brutal banning and banishment of Winnie Mandela. Further, NAARPR demands that the Reagan Administration end its "Constructive Engagement" policy and end its persecution of the legitimate liberation movements of the ANC and the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO). Simon Mogoerane, Jerry Mosololi, and Thabo Motaung, members of the ANC, were hanged by the South African government in June 1983. The NAARPR is a coalition of church, political, labor, civic, student and community organizations and individuals committed to organizing millions of people in movements for freedom, peace and justice in the US as well as to ending racist violence and repression in the courts, the police, jails, and prisons. The program patrons are Senator James Abourezk, Chair, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee; Aiyetoro; Hodari Ali, Pyramid Books; Joanne Bisagna-Villafane; Dwight Brown, President, Local 2463, AFGE; Josephine D. Butler, Paul Robeson Friendship Society; Rick Gantly; Maurice Jackson, C.O.-U.S.A., WDC/Va District; David Marcuse, Common Concerns Bookstore; Hon. Hilda Mason, WDC City Council; Charles Mason; George Murphy, Jr.; Kathy Ramos, League of United Latin American Citizens; Barbara Tutor; Hector Villafane, 1st Vice President, National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights; Hudson Well; Ruth Wells.

African Activist Archive

Pete Seeger, Sechaba Singers in Concert

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