African Activist Archive

Contents: Set up telephone tree • Other national political campaigns • Support for political prisoner cases in Africa • Request for teach-ins on Namibia • 1982 panel at African Studies Association (ASA) on role of non-governmental groups in liberation support work • Massachusetts phone tree (largest concentration of ACAS members) alerted to oppose governor's veto of Massachusetts divestment bill. By mail, selected ACAS members were asked to contact key members of the House of Representatives in support of the D.C. divestment bill. Action on national political campaigns included: signed several multi-organization letters co-ordinated by the Washington Office on Africa or the Southern Africa Working Group (e.g., on nuclear relations with South Africa); mailed ACAS letters to selected members of the House of Representatives on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Export Admin. Amendments about South Africa in summer, 1983. Support for political prisoners included: appeal to ACAS members (sent with Nov. 82 membership renewal letter) to write to South African President and to President Reagan in support of the ANC 3 (Mogerane, Motaung and Mosololi) of the African National Congress; petition campaign, individual and organizational letters sent to Zaire President Mobutu in support of Professor Wamba-dia-Wamba; and ACAS letter sent to State Department in support of Somali detainees. Support was provided for Dennis Brutus' case, with emphasis on establishing his special academic contributions in the eyes of other scholars.

African Activist Archive

ACAS Political Action: Tasks undertaken in 1982-1983

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