African Activist Archive

The report discusses spring student anti-apartheid activities, including construction of shanties and other forms of divestment protest, at a time of South Africa's successful media blackout of township protest. Full divestment on 40 campuses in the past year and student protests themselves have helped push 38 U.S. firms to begin withdrawal from South Africa. The National Weeks of Anti-Apartheid Action from March 21-April 6 concentrated forces this spring, and the October 11, 1985 National Protest Day helped spark action on over 100 campuses. The report says it is important to rebuild campus organizations and get new students involved to exert pressure on Trustees while projecting the nationwide scope of the movement. The report discusses the International Day in Solidarity with Southern African Political Prisoners, Congressional sanctions, corporate collaborators with apartheid, Namibian refugee projects administered by SWAPO, the UN Council for Namibia, Colorado Representative Patricia Schroeder's bill HR 2589 (the Namibian Natural Resources Protection Act), raw materials, black armbands, the ANC (African National Congress), U.S. military backing for Savimbi in Angola, South African military forces in Namibia, the Mobutu regime in Zaire, U.S. military intervention, UNITA, U.S. investment in South Africa, the Multi-Party Conference, and "constructive engagement." • Background • FRIDAY OCTOBER 10 NATIONAL PROTEST DAY FOR DIVESTMENT AND SANCTIONS AGAINST SOUTH AFRICA • Political/Tactical Rationale for October 10 Proposal • SATURDAY OCTOBER 11: FREE NAMIBIA THE IMPRISONED SOCIETY DAY • Political/Tactical Rationale for October 11 Proposal • CONCLUSION: INTERRELATION OF OCTOBER 10th AND 11th ACTIVITIES [Note: This report may have been distributed at the NATIONAL ANTI-APARTHEID STRATEGY MEETING on June 28.]

African Activist Archive

Proposal for Nationally Coordinated Action in Fall 1986

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