[Dear Board Members, Enclosed are copies of our new letterhead and brochure for your use.]

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Creator

Ed Ferguson; Association of Concerned Africa Scholars

Place Created

Corvallis, Oregon, United States

Date

February 1, 1986

Type of Item

Mailing

Length/duration

2 pages

Description

Mailing to ACAS Board members from Ed Ferguson about membership development and the ACAS TIAA-CREF divestment campaign. The TIAA-CREF Board of Trustees will consider the issue at its February 20 meeting, so lobbying trustees before then is urgent. A recruiting letter to 306 people who signed our Angola petition has been sent asking them to participate in this lobbying effort. (The Angola petition opposed U.S. support fo Jonas Savimbi and UNITA.) That letter is attached. The recruiting letter asks for two kinds of organizing: (1) mobilizing TIAA-CREF members on campuses across the country to call for divestment, through a petition and letter writing campaign; and (2) lobbying of individual...

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Publisher

Association of Concerned Africa Scholars

Organization

Association of Concerned Africa Scholars

Coverage Africa

Angola
South Africa

Language

English

Digital Format

text/pdf

Rights Management

Used by permission of several co-chairs of the Association of Concerned Africa Scholars..

Collection

William Minter papers, Michigan State University Library Special Collections