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Minutes of three ACAS meetings at African Studies Association (ASA) meeting in Denver. Executive Committee (November 20): I . Agenda for business meeting • II. The Bulletin • III. Elections • IV. Membership • V. Other Business • General Business Meeting: I. Reflections of Ten Years of ACAS Activity- Immanuel Wallerstein • II. Reports by Committee Chairpersons: A. Political Action - Chris Root and Carol Thompson • Legislative Action • Petition on Angola • Mozambique Support Network • The Condition of South African Universities • Questionnaire for Presidential Candidates • TIAA-CREF • B. Research Committee • C. The Bulletin - Chris Root • D. Membership - Ed Ferguson • F. Finance - Candice Goucher • III. Other Business • IV. Elections • Executive Committee (November 22): I. The Bulletin • II. ACAS Panels at the 1988 ASA Annual Meeting • III. Other Business. Bill Minter reported on results of last year's survey of members' research interests and their relevance to the work of the anti-apartheid lobbying organizations; 28 questionnaires were returned; the match between members' interests and the needs of the organizations turned out not to be very great. Ann Seidman and Bob Edgar reported on recent conference on sanctions at Howard University; steps were taken to create a national research network on sanctions. Future conferences of this type may focus on issues such as the debt crisis. Schneller suggested making more effort to support the annual peace tour; last summer 30 Americans and Africans toured the south arguing against the militarization of southern Africa. ACAS Panels at the 1988 ASA Meeting: 1. "The Struggle in South Africa: I Revolutionary Theory and Strategy in South Africa" (Chair: Jim Mittleman); 2. "The Struggle in South Africa: II The Struggle for People's Education" (Bill Martin); 3. "U.S. Community Involvement in African Issues" (Prexy Nesbitt); 4. "The Crisis in the Horn" (Ahmed Samatar); 5. "The Western Sahara" (Theresa Smith); and 6. "Southern Africa: Economic Transformation under Crisis Conditions" (Carol Thompson and Ann Seidman). The minutes also mention Ed Ferguson, David Groff, David Wiley, a petition protesting U.S. support for UNITA, Clifton Wharton, the State University of New York (SUNY), Fred Dube, ANC, SWAPO, Lina Mugaia, Frontline States, SADCC (Southern African Development Coordinating Conference), Zaire, the White House, Congress, policy alternatives, MNR, the State Department Authorization Act, the Democratic Movement, Jonas Savimbi, Bud Day, the University of Zambia, the African-American Institute, Paul Lubeck, Ted Lockwood, Joel Samoff, Kassahun Checole, political prisoners, Assumpta Oturu, KPFK, Samora Machel, Harold Wolpe, John Saul, Jacques Depelchin, and Clark University.

African Activist Archive

Minutes of the Meeting of the ACAS Executive Committee, Denver, November 20. 1987

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