The press release says anti-apartheid organizations and activists will walk around Lake Merritt in Oakland on April 20 to demonstrate the Bay Area's support for continued sanctions against apartheid and to support and raise funds for the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). There will be a short program with representatives of the African National Congress (ANC) and the Alameda County Central Labor Council. COSATU was organized in 1986 as a non-racial union federation and is allied with the ANC. The Walk for COSATU is sponsored by the Bay Area Free South Africa Labor Committee and the Human and Civil Rights Committee of United Public Employees Local 790. Local 790 led the effort...
The press release says anti-apartheid organizations and activists will walk around Lake Merritt in Oakland on April 20 to demonstrate the Bay Area's support for continued sanctions against apartheid and to support and raise funds for the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). There will be a short program with representatives of the African National Congress (ANC) and the Alameda County Central Labor Council. COSATU was organized in 1986 as a non-racial union federation and is allied with the ANC. The Walk for COSATU is sponsored by the Bay Area Free South Africa Labor Committee and the Human and Civil Rights Committee of United Public Employees Local 790. Local 790 led the effort to eliminate Shell Oil Co.'s sponsorship of the Great Dutch Masters exhibit of paintings at the San Francisco Museum of Art. The union has a sister-union relationship with the South African Municipal Workers Union, the city workers' union in Soweto which belongs to COSATU. The walk-a-thon has been endorsed by the Central Labor Councils of San Francisco and Alameda County. The press release quotes David Bacon and Roland Anolin.
