African Activist Archive

Contents: Issues Working Groups: Work Plan for 1992 • 1. New Visions Paper • 2. Draft Policy Papers • 3. Revised Policy Papers • Contact People • ACAS ISSUE WORKING GROUPS AND COORDINATORS • Memorandum from Research Committee Co-chair Elizabeth Schmidt about implementing ACAS's mission to encourage scholars "to use their academic skills to analyze U.S. policy toward Africa, to mobilize public critical commentary, ... to provide scholarly legitimacy for the criticism," and to develop alternative U.S. policies. At its November 23 meeting in St. Louis, ACAS agreed to respond to the rapidly changing situation in Africa by extending the focus of the organization from Southern Africa to the entire continent. To facilitate these goals, ACAS established thirteen Issue Working Groups to develop policy papers for consideration by the general membership and appointed coordinators for each group. Coordinators are asked to submit "New Visions" Papers by January 15, 1992. The topics and coordinators are the nature and changing shape of international aid, Robert Browne and Suzanne Grant Lewis; scholar activists, David Wiley and Deborah Theado; academic freedom in education, Julius Ibonvbere, Sylvia Federici and Wendy Belcher; regional and Pan-African linkages, Robert Manley and Ann Seidman; why Africa has falled off the policy map, Lisa Alfred; U.S. support for authoritarian regimes (focusing on Zaire), Georges Nzongola-Ntalaga, Catherine Newbury, and Jim Cason; democracy: a guise for destabilization, Carol Thompson; the environment, Thomas Painter, Jean Sindab, and Paula Donnelly-Roark; health, Meredeth Turshen and Doe Mayer; economic crisis, Sylvia Federici, Julius Ihonvbere, and Mujubaolu Okome; South African transition, Kevin Danaher; post-apartheid development, Bud Day; and the financial intellectual complex, Joel Samoff and Meredeth Turshen.

African Activist Archive

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