African Activist Archive

Brochure advertising demonstrations on May 26. The people of Mozambique, Angola, Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands are battling the Portuguese colonialists who are trying to maintain economic and political control over them. U.S. has provided vital financial assistance to Portugal. The people of Azania (South Africa), Zimbabwe (Rhodesia), and Namibia (South West Africa) are waging protracted struggle with white settlers who are occupying and claiming African soil as their own. In the Americas, the African struggle is waged on many fronts, but the same forces operating on the African continent are in motion here. A large firm in Oakland, California recently closed its factory, putting thousands of Black people out of work, and re-opened the factory in South Africa where they exploited cheap labor made available by the racist policies of the white settler government. The African Liberation Support Committee (ALSC) is a coalition of organizations and individuals of various educational, religious, political, and social ideologies who are committed to self-determination for all African people. The ALSC will attempt to mobilize all sectors of the Black community to participate in this year's African Liberation Day (ALD) demonstration. Last year, demonstrations and rallies in six cities in North America and the Caribbean marked ALD; 30,000 African people In Washington D. C. protested crimes committed against Africa and her people and demonstrated solidarity with the struggles of Africans in the Motherland. On May 26, Black people will march and rally to: 1) show solidarity with the Southern African liberation armies and raise material support; 2) point out U.S. involvement in our oppression here and in Africa; and 3) protest the imperialistic European states of Portugal, Rhodesia, Britain, South Africa (and their other supporters) present in Africa. The brochure mentions Kojo Odinga and Black House.

African Activist Archive

MAY 26 AFRICAN LIBERATION DAY "Africa is at War"

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