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The report includes a message of solidarity from the chairman of the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid. Participants included a representative of SWAPO, the Namibian liberation movement, and Don Morton of the South African Military Refugee Aid Fund (SAMRAF). Speakers emphasized the impact of the victory of ZANU in Zimbabwe for the region. Contents: Message of Solidarity to the New York Student Anti-Apartheid Strategy Conference • Table of Contents • Introduction • Summary of the Mid-West Conference held at Western Michigan Univ. • Part I: Up-Date on Liberation Struggle in Southern Africa • A) Summary of Panel Discussion • B) Paper by African National Congress • Part II: Discussion of Strategy for Student Anti-Apartheid Movement • A) Linking Anti-Apartheid Work to Struggles Against Racism (Joe Morrissey, SAMRAF) • 1) Historical Overview • 2) Weakness of Student Anti-Apartheid Movement on Racism • B) Linkages with Anti-Nuclear Movement (Brooke States, Student Coalition Against Nukes Nation-wide) • C) Relation to Anti-Draft Movement (Angi Fa, Mobilization Against the Draft) • D) Relation to Feminist Struggles (Barbara Brown, Boston Coalition and Mt. Holyoke College) • 1) Parallels Between Women's Oppression in USA and South Africa • 2) Usefulness of Raising issue of South Africa for U.S. Feminists • E) Community Anti-Apartheid Work (Chris Root, Washington Office on Africa; Activists from the Connecticut Anti-Apartheid Committee) • Part III: Future Plans and Priorities • Major political priority is to link anti-apartheid work to domestic struggles against racism-forge links with Third World Students. • 1) Preparation of Pamphlet/Newsletter for next Fall • 2) Informal Correspondence Network • 3) Analytical History of the student anti-apartheid movement • 4) Traveling (campus-to-campus) organizers • Part IV: Reports From Other Students Attending April 12 Conference (What they found most useful about Conference) • A) University of Rochester • B) MIT/Harvard • Part V: Contact List of People at Conference

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Report on Student Anti-Apartheid Strategy Conference Held April 12, 1980

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