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The minutes say a meeting of southern Africa support groups was held on Feb. 7, 1982 at Amherst College, attended by Judy Weiss, Sarah Murray, Art Serota, Mary Ann Cloherty, Laura Boutwinck, Ron Kendall, Kathleen Brunet and Mokubung Nkomo. James of the Young Workers Liberation League is scheduled to appear at University of Massachusetts (UMass) around March 17; he will report on the First Congress of the Youth of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola - Youth of the Party (JMPL-YA) held in Luanda, Angola. The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee asked for an endorsement of the Anti-Springbok 5 Campaign. A national speaking tour is being planned on this campaign, linked with the general southern Africa issue. The Springfield Committee Against Apartheid is planning a fundraising and consciousness-raising event for April 3. Films will be shown every Wednesday beginning Feb. 17 at the Winchester Square Library, which also has a literature exhibit on southern Africa. Planned Activities for the Two Weeks of Action include talk by SWAPO representative at UMass, Mt. Holyoke and Amherst College (March 30-31); "You Have Struck A Rock" and "South Africa Belongs to Us" about women in the struggle against apartheid will be shown in the Student Union Bldg (April 1); the African National Congress (ANC) representative will talk at UMass and at least two other colleges (April 6). Arrangements are being made with the Duke Ellington Committee to bring either Abdullah Ibrahim (Dollar Brand) or Hugh Masekela to UMass during the Spring semester, with part of the proceeds from the concert being donated to the liberation movement in SA. The Springfield Comm. will initiate a material aid campaign for SWAPO. Mary Ann Cloherty talked about renewed efforts to divest state funds from companies and banks doing business in SA; hearings on Bill 984 will begin in March. It was decided that pickets be planned against Old Colony Banks in Springfield and Hampshire Malls on March 27, the same day as demonstration at the First National Bank of Boston.

African Activist Archive

Minutes of Meeting February 7, 1982

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