Press release on the Midwest Regional Consultation on U.S. Policy Toward Africa. The press release says speaking to state legislators gathered in Chicago at an Africa Fund consultation on U.S. policy toward Africa on February 28, civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, Sr., the Special Envoy to the President for the Promotion of Democracy in Africa, linked expanded U.S. trade and investment in Africa with respect for human rights and democracy; emphasizing that U.S.-Africa trade should benefit both Africans and African Americans, Rev. Jackson declared that "Trade ... without humane values is slavery," and called for stronger American pressure on the Nigerian military dictatorship to release political...
Press release on the Midwest Regional Consultation on U.S. Policy Toward Africa. The press release says speaking to state legislators gathered in Chicago at an Africa Fund consultation on U.S. policy toward Africa on February 28, civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, Sr., the Special Envoy to the President for the Promotion of Democracy in Africa, linked expanded U.S. trade and investment in Africa with respect for human rights and democracy; emphasizing that U.S.-Africa trade should benefit both Africans and African Americans, Rev. Jackson declared that "Trade ... without humane values is slavery," and called for stronger American pressure on the Nigerian military dictatorship to release political prisoners and restore democracy. The press release mentions President Clinton's March trip to Africa, the American Committee on Africa (ACOA), Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, General Sani Abacha, George Wallace, Tennessee Representative Lois M. DeBerry, the National Black Caucus of State Legislators (NBCSL), Arkansas Representative Irma Hunter Brown, Indiana Representative Charles Brown, Wisconsin Representatives Spencer Coggs and Johnnie Morris-Tatum, Illinois Senators Jesus Garcia and Donne Trotter, Kansas Representative David Haley, Wisconsin Senators Gwendolynne Moore and Mary Panzer, Michigan Senator Virgil Clark Smith, Ohio Representative Vernon Smith, Illinois Congressional Representatives, Danny K. Davis, Bobby Rush, church, union and community leaders, aid, investment, trade, U.S. Africa policy, Vice-Consul Mlulami Lucas Singap, African stock markets, Jeffrey Lewis, DST Catalyst, the banking and financial system, the African Growth and Opportunity Act, Congress, Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow Salih Booker, an annual U.S.-Africa Economic Forum, Professor Robert Stumberg, Georgetown University, the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI),oil, diamonds, Japan, Europe, sanctions against apartheid South Africa, Burma, Milwaukee's sister city relationship with Queenstown, human rights, Amnesty International, Adotei Akwei, democracy, Barine Teekate-Yorbe, the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Shell Oil Company, Chevron, Mobil, natural resources, injustice and killings, U.S. development aid, Jennifer Davis, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Dr. Alice Palmer, the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, Enron Corporation, and Eli Lilly and Company.
