African Activist Archive

Contents: PANELS AT NEXT YEAR'S ASA CONFERENCE IN DENVER • ACAS MEETINGS AT ASA CONFERENCES • POLITICAL ACTION • OTHER BUSINESS • Present: Immanuel Wallerstein, David Wiley, Chris Root, Ann Seidman, Bill Minter, Bill Derman, Kassahun Checole, Elizabeth Schmidt, Carol Thompson, and Candace Goucher. These panels were provisionally accepted for ACAS sponsorship at the Denver conference: (1) Women in Struggle in Southern Africa, jointly sponsored by the ASA Women's Committee with a woman from South Africa (if possible) and Betsy Schmidt as chair; (2) Washington Politics: focus on current anti-Apartheid initiatives and links between southern African and Central American issues; Chris Root will chair; (3) The Role of Churches in Southern African Struggles: Bud Day and Mike Schulteis will organize panel about churches in the struggle in southern Africa and in the U.S., with someone from National Namibia Concerns Committee (since it is headquartered in Denver); (4) The Political Economy of Southern Africa: part of long-term research effort coordinated by Ann Seidman; (5) South Africa's Regional Destabilization Campaign: Carol Thompson will chair; (6) The Western Sahara: a regular ASA offering, if possible, or ACAS can sponsor. Each panel should include a paper analyzing right-wing activities related to southern Africa issues. Political action on TIAA-CREF: concentrating on encouraging lobbying directed at TIAA-CREF board members, especially Clifton Wharton, the new chair of the board - by face-to-face meetings, letter writing, and petitions. POLICY-ORIENTED RESEARCH: ACAS needs to do a better job of mobilizing and using members' research skills; the present membership form does not elicit enough information about areas of expertise. The executive secretary will send a questionnaire to members (to be prepared by David Groff with help of Ann Seidman and Bill Minter) asking for research interests and issues on which they feel competent to prepare briefing materials for American Committee on Africa (ACOA), Washington Office on Africa (WOA) and TransAfrica.

African Activist Archive

MINUTES OF ACAS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING Madison, WI, November 11, 1986

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