Executive & Board Meeting, Friday, 11/22/91, 7-10 PM

Contents: Executive and Board Meeting, Friday, 11/22/91, 7-10 PM • 1. "New Blood Commission" Report on the Future • 2. Membership: How to Grow? • 3. Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa (CAFA) • 4. Other Issues • 5. Consensus on Outstanding Issues • Executive and Board Meeting, Saturday, 11/23/91, 11:20-12:45 PM • 1. Friday night discussions • 2. Agenda for General Membership Meeting • General Meeting, Saturday, 11/23/1991, 3:15-5:15 PM • 1. ACAS achievements, new directions: Report of the New Blood Commission • 2. Formulating the Issues and Constructing the Issue Working Group • 3. Financing the New Agenda • 4. Election of Officers • 5. Other and New Business • Exec and Board Meeting, Sunday, 11/24/91, 7:30-8:45 AM • Executive Meeting, Sunday, 11/24/91, 3:15-4:30 PM • 1. UDUSA proposal • 2. Retreat for Exec and Board • 3. Distribution of New Vision and Issue Working Group papers • 4. Recruitment • 5. Relations with NGOs on Washington, etc. • 6. ASA Business Meeting • ASA Business Meeting, Sunday, 11/24/91, 7:30 PM • The minutes were submitted by Warren 'Bud' Day. The minutes discuss David Wiley, the Washington Office on Africa (WOA), the U.S. constituency for Africa, Imani Countess, Bill Rau, Jim Cason, American Committee on Africa (ACOA), Meredith Turshen, Allen Isaacman, Sylvia Federici, Nancy Klepper, racism, poverty, the Cold War, the Africa Information and Resource Center (AIRC), the MSU/Rockefeller survey, the World Bank, educational policies, Stephen Solarz, a multi-billion dollar aid package, the House Intelligence Committee, Robert Browne, Robert Manley, Pan-African Linkages, Suzanne Grant Lewis, Kathy Sheldon, Mujubaolu Okome, post-apartheid, Wendy Belcher, the MacArthur Foundation, the New World Foundation, Victor Levine, ASA (Africa Studies Association), Deborah Theado, MSU (Michigan State University), George Bush, the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act, cuts in aid to Africa, CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency), dues, libraries, Lisa Alfred, Jean Sindab, Ed Ferguson, Candice Goucher, Allen Cooper, Eddie Huckaby, Kevin Danaher, Bill Martin, Ahmed Samatar, Betsy Schmidt, TransAfrica, St. Louis, U.S. government policy in Zaire, the Mobutu regime, a code of ethics, North American academics, work for the Research Co-Chairs in 1992, the Bulletin, the Issues Working Group, work of the Membership Development coordinator, work of the Executive Secretary, A Weekend Retreat, Africa Watch, Bread for the World, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, Sean Cleary, South African intelligence, Edward A. Alpers, Jennifer Davis, William Derman, David Groff, Bereket Habte-Selassie, Frank Holmquist, Hampshire College, Stephen Howard, Ohio University, Julius Ihonvbere, University of Texas Austin, Willard Johnson, Tilden LeMelle, University of the District of Columbia, Pearl-Alice Marsh, William Minter, James Mittelman, Cornelius Moore, Catherine Newbury, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, George Nzongola-Nialaja, Hans E. Panofsky, Christine Root, Joel Samoff, Ann Seidman, Jo Sullivan, Carol Thompson, Immanuel Wallerstein, George Caffentzis, Al Kagan, and Bud Day. [Note: the correct spelling of the name is Silvia Federici.]