African Activist Archive

Contents: REPORT ON ANNUAL MEETING by IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN • FINANCIAL APPEAL • MEMBERSHIP FORM • PANEL REPORTS FROM ANNUAL MEETING • Actions in Washington on Southern Africa by Chris Root • Action throughout the U.S. on Southern Africa by Allan D. Cooper • Action on Policy toward other African Issues and Nations by Nzongola-Ntalaja • Action on Relations of Scholars with U.S. Defense Intelligence Agencies by David Wiley • AD HOC COMMITTEE TO KEEP SOUTH OUT OF THE OLYMPICS • BREAKING THE ECONOMIC LINKS WITH NAMIBIA'S EXPLOITERS: DIVESTMENT ACTION IN THE U.S. by Gail Hovey • ADDRESS TO THE INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON THE ROLE OF TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS IN NAMIBIA by Randall Robinson • Cooper writes the U.S. anti-apartheid movement is highly decentralized and community-based, including student groups, labor unions, religious organizations, black groups, and progressive whites. The role of academics generally has been limited to providing background research and information on specific issues and testifying before governmental bodies. A survey during Spring 1983 of the interests and needs of anti-apartheid groups throughout the U.S. showed that issues being developed by these groups are divestment (or monitoring of successful divestment campaigns), fundraising for projects such as the Winnie Mandela Clinic in South Africa, information distribution, collecting textbooks for schools in Namibia, networking with other groups, and campaigns against local banks, corporations or other institutions involved in South African trade. Issues to continue or develop over the next two years included Namibian independence, divestment campaigns, stopping nuclear collaboration between the U.S. and South Africa, protesting South Africa's war against the front-line states, exposing U.S. involvement and complicity with apartheid, economic sanctions, coalition building among U.S. anti-apartheid groups, protesting Reagan's support for apartheid, direct assistance to SWAPO and ANC, publicizing the South African stands of House/Senate/Presidential candidates in 1984, facilitating tours in the U.S. for South African activists, and a march on the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C. Nzongola-Ntalaja writes about a workshop with Bereket Habte-Selassie and Teresa Smith on Eritrea and Western Sahara, discussing economic development, self-determination, and human rights related to U.S. policy toward Africa. People of the U.S. need to perceive Africa in terms of a yearning for independence and non-alignment, and to urge the U.S. to abandon uncritical support for pro-Western dictators. The newsletter mentions Bill Minter, Ronald Reagan, constructive engagement, House Africa Subcommittee Chairman Howard Wolpe, the ACAS Political Action Committee, destabilization, African National Congress (ANC), TIAA, pension fund, the Federation for Progress, Dennis Brutus, Judy Chu, and the South African Olympic Committee.

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