African Activist Archive

Contents: I. The Bulletin • II. Annual Meeting Planning • III. Selection of a Co-Chair • IV. Committee Reports • 1. Research • 2. Membership (Ed) • 3. Treasurer's Report (Candice) • V. Other Business. Participants: Immanuel Wallerstein, Bud Day, Ed Ferguson, Candice Goucher, David Groff, Chris Root, Carol Thompson, and Dave Wiley. Two more issues of the Bulletin will come out before the end of the year; Day said he has received a good deal of material, but few in depth pieces. Features will include an article on the effects of war on the children in Angola and Mozambique, a piece by Jennifer Davis on tax payments to the South African government by U.S. corporations, a list of divestment guidelines issued by ACOA, Transafrica and AFSC, a remembrance of Tom Shick, and accounts by Jim Mittelman and Carol Thompson of their recent experiences with rightwing repression. Bud hopes to receive contributions from Bill Minter and Gerald Bender from their recent visits to Angola, and articles on the pro-apartheid lobbies in the U.S. and the current miners' strike in South Africa. Wallerstein reported that Bill Martin of the Urbana sociology department is currently in South Africa and might be willing to write an account of the strike. Root and Wiley volunteered to organize the final issue of the Bulletin; they will ask Anne Schneller for help. All panels have been scheduled; Wiley will check with George Shepherd to ensure that the final African Studies Association (ASA) schedule includes clear references to ACAS sponsorship. Willard Johnson has expressed a desire to step down as co-chair, so there was some discussion of possible replacements; Pearl Marsh, Coordinator of the joint Stanford-U.C. Berkeley African Studies Center, was suggested. Board members need to pay their dues. Claudia Zaslavsky of Educators Against Apartheid has asked ACAS to endorse their elementary school curriculum packet on South Africa; she hopes it will be funded by the UN Center on Apartheid. The minutes mention Jacques Depelchin, Mike Watts, and Joel Samoff.

African Activist Archive

SUBJECT: Minutes of Teleconference of August 15, 1987

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