Shedule for 13 hours of radio programming during an annual “Day of Information” about Southern Africa organized by the Southern Africa Support Project (SASP) and WPFW, the community radio station at Howard University owned by Pacifica Radio. Topics include the brutality of apartheid and the struggle against it, the links between political and economic conditions of Black people in the U.S. and South Africa, how the Reagan administration’s domestic and foreign policies are intertwined, and how local residents can support the liberation struggle. The schedule includes speakers; poetry; music by Sweet Honey in the Rock and others; interviews with African members of the African...
Shedule for 13 hours of radio programming during an annual “Day of Information” about Southern Africa organized by the Southern Africa Support Project (SASP) and WPFW, the community radio station at Howard University owned by Pacifica Radio. Topics include the brutality of apartheid and the struggle against it, the links between political and economic conditions of Black people in the U.S. and South Africa, how the Reagan administration’s domestic and foreign policies are intertwined, and how local residents can support the liberation struggle. The schedule includes speakers; poetry; music by Sweet Honey in the Rock and others; interviews with African members of the African National Congress in South Africa, SWAPO, and white South African military resisters; and interviews with U.S. political figures Randall Robinson of the Free South Africa Movement, Damu Smith, Bill Lucy of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, Jean Sindab of the Washington Office on Africa, Salih Abdul-Rahim [later Salah Booker] from the staff of the Africa Subcommittee of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, and SASP members about activism to support the struggle in Southern Africa.
