Contents: Banks Promote Housing Crisis in DC • Riggs' Record on Housing • Riggs Rated Worst by DC Government • Riggs Denies Community Services • Riggs in South Africa • Apartheid • From South Africa to DC • There's Even More Where That Came From! • Riggs Finances Racist Rule • Liberation Struggle in South Africa • Riggs in Chile • US Banks Support Pinochet • Riggs' Loans Aid Repression • Chilean People Resist • What is the DC Bank Campaign? • Demands of the DC Bank Campaign • Endorsers of the DC Bank Campaign • What You Can Do • Pamphlet produced to urge people to withdraw their money from...
Contents: Banks Promote Housing Crisis in DC • Riggs' Record on Housing • Riggs Rated Worst by DC Government • Riggs Denies Community Services • Riggs in South Africa • Apartheid • From South Africa to DC • There's Even More Where That Came From! • Riggs Finances Racist Rule • Liberation Struggle in South Africa • Riggs in Chile • US Banks Support Pinochet • Riggs' Loans Aid Repression • Chilean People Resist • What is the DC Bank Campaign? • Demands of the DC Bank Campaign • Endorsers of the DC Bank Campaign • What You Can Do • Pamphlet produced to urge people to withdraw their money from Riggs National Bank. Endorsers of the DC Bank Campaign are the Alliance for Labor and Community Action; the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), District 20; American University Committee Against Investments in South Africa; Center for Peace Studies; Chile Legislative Center; Clergy and Laity Concerned (CALC); Council on Hemispheric Affairs; D.C. Metro Area Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression; D.C. PIRG (Public Interest Research Group); East of the River Neighborhood Reinvestment Association; Friends of the Filipino People; Human Rights Internet; Institute for Policy Studies (IPS); Middle East Resource and Information Project; National Network in Solidarity with the Nicaraguan People; Non-Intervention in Chile; Revolutionary Student Brigade; Southern Africa Support Project (SASP); St. Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopal Church; TransAfrica; United Church of Christ Potomac Association Task Force on Southern Africa; Washington Office on Africa (WOA); and Washington Peace Center. The pamphlet mentions Sharpeville, Soweto, Mayor Marion Barry, Senator Dick Clark, General Pinochet, and mortgage loans,