African Activist Archive

Contents: ACAS ACTIONS • REPORT FROM THE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE by Chris Root • VICTORY IN LOS ANGELES - A MEDAL FOR THE ANTI-APARTHEID MOVEMENT by Carol B. Thompson • COORS, BLACKS and THE NAACP BOYCOTT • EPHRAIM ISAAC SUIT AGAINST HARVARD NEARS TRIAL by Willard R. Johnson • REPORT FROM THE RESEARCH COMMITTEE by Ann Seidman • FURTHER AFRICA RESOURCES • ZED PRESS DISCOUNT ARRANGEMENTS • CURRENT ISSUES: FOCUS ON NKOMATI • MOZAMBIQUE AND THE SOUTHERN AFRICA STRUGGLE FOR LIBERATION 1974-81 by Bertil Egero • REPORT FROM BEIRA by Kathleen Sheldon • AFRICANIST SCHOLARS FOR WOLPE • A press conference addressed by mayors Flynn of Boston and Koch of New York on September 7 highlighted the growing success of the public divestment movement. Eight new divestment policies have been enacted so far in 1984, after a lull in 1983. The New York City Employees Retirement System has become the largest pension fund in the nation to decide to divest of stock in companies that operate in South Africa. Santa Cruz, California; Cayahoga County, Ohio (where Cleveland is located); and the state of Maryland have recently passed bills prohibiting the deposit of public funds in banks that loan to South Africa. As of April 1, all Michigan state universities are to have been divested of all companies operating in South Africa. Representative Bill Gray introduced H.Con.Res. 298 urging release of the approximately 76 Namibians from the Mariental Camp in Namibia, many of whom were captured from the Cassinga refugee camp in Angola in 1978. A "Friends of Ephraim Isaac Committee" has established a special account, under the name of THE EPHRAIM ISAAC DEFENSE FUND, with the Chase Manhattan Bank. The newsletter also mentions Nebraska, the District of Columbia, the American Committee on Africa (ACOA), David Wiley, the University of Michigan, Ferris State College, Congressional sanctions, bank loans, Krugerrands, the Washington Office on Africa (WOA), TransAfrica, Senator John Heinz, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), Representative George Crocket, Nelson Mandela, H.Res. 430, the Olympic Games, Juan Samaranch, the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee (SANROC), International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF), American Coordinating Committee for Equality in Sport and Society (ACCESS), Richard Lapchick, Dennis Brutus, Sam Ramsamy, James Mittelman, Theodore Landsmark, FRELIMO, ZAPU, ZANU, PAIGC, MPLA, Nkomati Accord, AFSC, the African Studies Association (ASA), the Southern Africa Media Center, Portuguese colonialism, Rhodesia, Dar es Salaam, and Judy Murciano. [Page 46 is left blank.]

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