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Program of the second Conference on Public Investment and South Africa in Boston, Massachusetts. Keynote speakers include Joan Specter, Councilmember, Philadelphia, TOPIC: "Philadelphia and the Municipal Divestment actions Across the U.S." and Hon. Maxine Waters, California State Senate, TOPIC: "Responding to Constructive Engagement: Divesting in States and Cities Across the U.S." People listed on the program include: Hon. William Booth, Jennifer Davis, Dumisani Kumalo, and Gail Hovey, American Committee on Africa (ACOA); Senator Jack Backman, Massachusetts; Representative Melvin King, Massachusetts; Jerry Herman and Tandi Gcabashe, American Friends Service Committee(AFSC); Hon. John Ray, Washington DC City Council; Mokubung Nkomo, Africa National Congress; Dick Clapp, Themba Vilakazi, Liz Phillips, and Melinda Tuhose, Mass Divest; Joan Bavaria, Franklin Research Center; Carole Collins, Campaign to Oppose Bank Loans to South Africa (COBLSA); Representative Sylvania Woods, Maryland; Mark Harrison, Clergy and Laity Concerned (CALC); Tom Jackson; John Harrington, California; Robert Schwartz, Shearson/American Express; Tim Smith and Carol Jarman, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR); Representative Perry Bullard and staff member Barbara Eldersveld, Michigan; Representative Virgil Smith, Michigan; Representative Marcia Coggs, Wisconsin; Beneva Nyamu, Houston Task Force on Southern Africa; Senator Thomas Mann, Iowa; Representative Larry Evans, Texas; Christy Hoffman and Peggy Buchanan, Connecticut Anti-Apartheid Committee; Ron Harnden, Black United Front; Hon. John Street, Philadelphia City Council; Representative Randy Staten, Minnesota; Willard Johnson, TransAfrica; and Ruth Messinger, City Council of New York. Conference Coordinators: Dumisani Kumalo, ACOA; and Lee Farris, Mass Divest. Conference sponsors: ACOA, AFSC, COBLSA, CALC, Connecticut Anti-Apartheid Committee, ICCR, Mass. Divest, TransAfrica, United Methodist Office for the United Nations, and Washington Office on Africa.

African Activist Archive

Conference on Public Investment and South Africa Program

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