SOUTHERN AFRICA SUMMER NEWSLETTER

Contents: ACTIVITIES • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania • Mobile, Alabama • Chicago, Illinois • Baltimore, Maryland • San Francisco, California • Portland, Oregon • Dayton, Ohio • Kalamazoo, Michigan • Suggestions, Do's and Don't's • From Kalamazoo • From Portland • From San Francisco • From Pittsburgh • From Western Massachusetts • From Chicago • U.S. pays covert role in Southern Africa • This newsletter says supported by staff and committees of AFSC regional offices and some Friends Meetings, some 40 college-age volunteers are at work during the summer of 1978 in at least eleven cities across the United States to carry out education and action projects on the issues of Southern Africa and U.S. responsibilities; the theme "U.S. - Apartheid: Break the Links." The newsletter reprints a letter to the editor "U.S. plays covert role in Southern Africa" by Frances Crowe. The newsletter discusses David Zarembka, Southern Africa Summer (SAS), Pittsburgh Friends Meeting, Lou Schneider, AFSC, the pacifist Quaker tradition, "Last Grave at Dimbaza",Carla Watson, the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), Mellon Bank, Pittsburgh National Bank (PNB), the African Liberation Support Committee (ALSC), the Zimbabwe Emergency Medical Committee, Brenda Joyner, Bishop State Junior College, Christian College, the Black community, a South Africa Advisory Committee, Roslyn Snyder (RosIyn Snyder), the Ministerial Alliance, the Black Action Coalition, church groups, high schools, colleges, Marcy Morgan, university investments and South Africa, liberation movements, The Latino Institute, the Upward Bound Program, the Evanston Friends Meeting, the Better Boys Foundation, Grace Calvary Church, Continental Bank, Gonzales Bruce Jr., the Friends Meetings at Stony Run and Homewood, Morgan University, the Krugerrand, the Afro-American, Fred Hines, Karen Johnson, Third World communities, the NAACP, ILWU, the Oakland Board of Supervisors, citizen activist organizations, the Jarvis-Gann Tax Initiative, the removal of funds from banks lending to South Africa, Bank of America, $top Banking on Apartheid (Stop Banking on Apartheid), KOPANO, South African Women's Day, the South African Consulate, the Third World Women's Alliance, Peace Education staff, Fungai Kumbula, Benjamin Hooks, Elizabeth Buff Groff, Donald Woods, the Black Educational Center, Portland Citizens Against Racism, Mary Wade, John Young, Sue Mason, Operation Sisters United, Wright State University, the Black Press Forum, the Ohio Black Political Assembly, the Ex-Im Bank (Export-Import Bank), the Washington Office on Africa (WOA), Sally Wallace, Kalamazoo College, St. Thomas Church, the Kalamazoo Ethnic Festival, Upjohn Pharmaceuticals, Gavin Gardi, terrorism, the security police, NUSAS (National Union of South African Students), a black theatre group, The Phoenix Players, Soweto, the International Defense and Aid Fund, the South African Foundation, Ben Magabane, Tim Smith, Prexy Nesbitt, General Motors (GM), assistance to refugees, divestiture, divestment, and the YMCA. [Note: Ben Magabane is presumably Ben Magubane.]