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Contents: ALSC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE • 1. INTRODUCTION: OVERVIEW • 2. PROGRAM FOR THE MONTH: PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS • A. May 1-18 Educational Forums • B. May 19 Local Demonstrations • 3. ISSUES FOR AFRICAN LIBERATION MONTH 1974 • A. Crisis of Imperialism • B. Slogans • C. Energy and Economic Exploitation • D. Police Repression and Political Prisoners • E. Impeach Nixon • F. Support African Liberation Struggles • 4. AFRICAN LIBERATION FUND • 5. MAY CALENDAR (local, national international dates) • 6. OUTLINE HISTORY OF ALSC • This Handbook is a guide for a month of activities for local committees around this year's African Liberation Day (ALD) demonstration. Slogans include IMPERIALISM NO, NIXON MUST GO, SMASH RACISM, and BLACK PEOPLE MUST BE FREE. The document mentions the Statement of Principles, Richard Nixon, local issues, monopoly capitalism, the Byrd Amendment, longshoremen, a Black United Front, chrome, Rhodesia, police repression, Sharpeville, Amilcar Cabral, the Seven Sisters, EXXON (Standard Oil of New Jersey), Royal/Dutch Shell, Texaco, Mobil (Standard Oil of New York), British Petroleum, Standard Oil of California, Gulf Oil, Portuguese imperialism, political education, the ALSC Speakers Bureau, local organizations, banks, corporations, investments in Southern Africa, mass participation, marches, banners, forums, films, speaking engagements, leafleting, media, posters, finance capital, I.B.M. (International Business Machines, IBM), U.S. policy toward Israel, Japan, Salvador Allende, the working class, the ruling class, the U.S. Congress, a Black Workers Unity Rally, a Student Strike Day, Black Button Day, Black Sunday, the Coalition Against Police Repression, a boycott of PAIGC (African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde), FRELIMO (Mozambique Liberation Front), UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola), ZANU (Zimbabwe African National Union), ZAPU (Zimbabwe African People's Union), Portuguese wines, freeze-dried coffee, Dawolu Gene Locke, Brenda Paris, John Warfield, Tim Hector, Owusu Sadaukai, Imanu Amira Baraka, Haki R. Madhubuti, Akinlabi, Kwadwo Akpan, Nelson Johnson, and Abdul Alkalimat.

African Activist Archive

AFRICAN LIBERATION MONTH: MAY, 1974

ALSC HANDBOOK OF STRUGGLE #4

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