Contents: A new context • The Budget Cutters Attack Development Aid • Civil Society - a key to democracy • Legislators • Union to Union Links • Human Rights • Nigeria • South Africa • Research and Information • Follow up • It has been a year of intense activity, especially because of the cuts in our funding and staff and efforts not to cut program. We have moved forward from our anti-apartheid mode and developed new programs, but both our staff and our constituencies still grapple with ways to do new work. The report mentions OAU General Secretary Salim advocating a new partnership with Africa, repression, a Peace Center in Kigali, Rwanda, labor and civil liberties, structural...
Contents: A new context • The Budget Cutters Attack Development Aid • Civil Society - a key to democracy • Legislators • Union to Union Links • Human Rights • Nigeria • South Africa • Research and Information • Follow up • It has been a year of intense activity, especially because of the cuts in our funding and staff and efforts not to cut program. We have moved forward from our anti-apartheid mode and developed new programs, but both our staff and our constituencies still grapple with ways to do new work. The report mentions OAU General Secretary Salim advocating a new partnership with Africa, repression, a Peace Center in Kigali, Rwanda, labor and civil liberties, structural adjustment, Harlem congregants, the Development Fund for Africa (DFA), Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the South Central Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), Projects Director Kumalo, Michigan State Senator Virgil Smith, Arizona State Rep. Art Hamilton, Arkansas State Rep. Irma Hunter Brown, the National Black Caucus of State Legislators (NBCSL), SWAPO President Sam Nujoma, U.S. AID, the Constitutional Affairs Committee, Speaker Cyril Ndebele, Prime Minister Robert Mugabe, Sally Mugabe, Mike Fleshman, Florence de Villiers of the South African Domestic Workers Union (SADWU), the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW), Senate Africa Subcommittee Chair Nancy Kassebaum, John Sweeney of AFL-CIO, the NAACP, the National Employment Law Project, Assistant Secretary of Labor Karen Nussbaum, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees), the Ford Foundation, the New York Committee for African Labor Solidarity, ACOA (America Committee on Africa), Stanley Hill, Edgar Romney, the UAW (United Auto Workers), OCAW (Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union), UNITE, the South African Agricultural Plantation And Allied Workers Union (SAAPAWU), the United Farmworkers Union, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, hanging of Ken Sara-Wiwa, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Mayor Norman Rice, Episcopal Presiding Bishop Browning, Lutheran Bishop Anderson, the YWCA, the Nigerian oil workers' strike, Mayor Marc Morial, New York City Councilman Wendell Foster, Mobil, Nelson Mandela, the South African-Nigeria Democracy Support Committee, Bheki Ntuli, ANC (African National Congress), Kwa-Zulu Natal, Amnesty International, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and teachers trip to South Africa.
