Contents: Tasks Ahead • Challenging U.S. policy • Strengthening Citizens Engagement with southern Africa • PROJECTS REPORT • 1. Achieving democracy in South Africa - the April Elections • 2. Maintaining Citizen Action for southern Africa • 3. The Labor Desk • 4. Programs in Brief • Human Rights • Women • Coalitions • Mozambique Elections • 6. Research and Literature Production • 7. The last two years have seen a steady erosion of our budget and our staff • There have been swings between success and celebration and the uncertainties of collapsing funding and shifting mission. The report mentions a joint Africa Fund and ACOA Board and Staff meeting, reconstruction,...
Contents: Tasks Ahead • Challenging U.S. policy • Strengthening Citizens Engagement with southern Africa • PROJECTS REPORT • 1. Achieving democracy in South Africa - the April Elections • 2. Maintaining Citizen Action for southern Africa • 3. The Labor Desk • 4. Programs in Brief • Human Rights • Women • Coalitions • Mozambique Elections • 6. Research and Literature Production • 7. The last two years have seen a steady erosion of our budget and our staff • There have been swings between success and celebration and the uncertainties of collapsing funding and shifting mission. The report mentions a joint Africa Fund and ACOA Board and Staff meeting, reconstruction, the peace agreement in Angola, Black townships, barren rural areas, democracy, poverty, mines, refusing to pay rent, housing, utilities, demonstrations, political/social justice, civil society, the South African Domestic Workers Union, Action for Rural Development and Environment, George Houser, Jim Cason, U.S. A.I.D, (Agency for International Development), state and municipal public officials, the Carnegie Corporation, a South Africa Elections Watch Campaign, Dumisani Kumalo, Bill Lynch, Soweto, a Congressional Briefing, Tilden LeMelle, Gail Hovey, Prexy Nesbitt, Judge William Booth, ACOA (American Committee on Africa), ANC (African National Congress), political violence, U.S. unions, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), refugees, AFSCME, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), union-to-union ties, Bethuel Maserumule, Metalworks, OCAW (Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union), the International Chemical and Energy Federation, Women's Desk coordinator Rachael Kagan, National Council of Negro Women, International Woman's Day, the Fifty Years is Enough Campaign, structural adjustment, IMF (International Monetary Fund), the World Bank, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and Ruth Brandon Minter.
