San Francisco ANTl=.APARTl!uDIJEID Committee VOLUME THREE, NUMBER ONE t\lE RT JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1988 Break all dlplomatlc, economic and mllltary relations with south Africa ~~~BERG: 'YOU · HAVE .THE POWER, SWITCH ON'
When ANC leader Nelson Man· dela was sentenced in 1963 for '"trea son" against the apartheid state of South Africa, seven others went with him. Among these was Denis Goldberg who, after 22 years, was released in 1985. He has since worked out of the London headquarters of the African national Congress (ANC). He was invited to tour the U.S. by the American Friends Service Com mittee, and in February the San Fran cisco Anti-Apartheid Committee org DENIS GOLDBERG at City Hall steps, lauding Supervisors Walker and anized his presence at the Third Bap· Kennedy (at left) for proposed resolutions declaring apartheid a crime tist Church. against humanity and offering sanctuary. Additional sponsors were the AFSC, National Conference of Black that sanctions were weakening the break all relations with that govern· Lawyers, National Lawyers Guild Anti· apartheid regime and that we here ment. Apartheid Subcommittee, Women's needed to step up divestment and mnti.nued on page 6 International League for Peace and Freedom, and Bay Area New Jewish Agenda. APARTHEID CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY Goldberg praised the mass cour At a press conference on the steps of cials or employees from meeting with age of Black South Africans, drawing a the City Hall on Mor.day, February or hosting any representative o! 1, 1988, Supervisors Nancy Walker, South Africa or occupied Namibia. parallel with Vietnam. He reported Willie Kennedy, and Harry Britt intro Denis Goldberg, oC the African Na duced new legislation to strengthen tional Congress was also present and San Francisco's commitment against commented that, "Everybody says apartheid. The proposed legislation they are against apartheid, but the declares the City of San Francisco a real issue is, what are they actually "safe refuge" for blacks who flee doing about it." from South Africa and Namibia, as The proposed legislation was ini well as whites who refuse to serve tiated by a coalition of organizations in the South African army. including the S.F. Anti-Apartheid The resolution is also the first in Committee, the local chapter of the the country to officially recognize National Conference o( Black Law apartheid as a crime against humani yers, Art Against Apartheid, and the ty. The United Nations Assembly National Lawyers Guild S.F. anti adopted an International Convention apartheid subcommittee. Their goal is on the Supression and Punishment of to get many cities to take similar the Crime of Apartheid, which rec actions. CALL OR WRITE THE SU ognizes apartheid as a crime against PERVISORS AND TELL THEM TO humanity. While 69 countries have SUPPORT THE SOUTH AFRICAN/ ratilied the UN Convention, the U.S. NAMIBIAN REFUGEE RESOLUTION. Prime movers of Santuary, etc. Reso hasn't. Thus San Francisco's legisla Also, a hearing is expected on the tion would also spur nationwide ac legislation in early March. Those in lutions, from left, Cliff Rechtschaffen, tions. terested in testifying please contact Karen Kramer, Cati Okorie. At right, Finally, the proposed legislation Cati Olcori at 552-0860 or Karen Bill Stroud of Artists vs. Apartheid. would prohibit San Francisco of!i- Kramer at 759-8524. -K. Kramer. ORDINANCEAMENDMENT TO COVER PORT LEGISLATIVE Supervisors Kennedy, Britt, Ward etc. from carrying South African cargo and Silver proposed an Amendment to into and out of our Port. the City's anti-apartheid ordinance This inclusion had been urged by UPDATE (Code See's 10.210 through 10.218) the SFAAC, the city's labor movement, ••to prohibit leases, permits,licenses," and by other anti-apartheid forces since Readers were recently asked to contact or ..use of City property" with persons passage of the Ordinance in February their representatives about the SWIN or institutions doing business directly of '86. DALL-BURTON amendments to the STATE AUTHORIZATION BILL. These or indirectly with South Africa. The proposal was referred to the amendments would restrict ANC and 1f. Finance Committee on January 27th. SW APO personnel to the city limits of This is a major change, as it will Keep your eye on it and watch for the New York and would cut by 25% U.S. restrict shippers like Zim,Nedlloyd, public hearing in early or mid-March. funding !or U.N. projects which would benefit the African National Congress. Opposition to these measures resulted in their defeat and the Authorization Bill ~~9_.HIE~O~~~~~~~~ was passed without these amendments. A victory against Apartheid. BLACK HISTORY MONTH *** Important legislation pending includes the BRADLEY BILL, S1474 and the House companion bill, H.R. 3633. This legislation would prevent any further aid to UNIT A without full congressional debate. Aid to UNITA, Angola's rebel group, is comparable to aid to the Con tras in Nicaragua. UNIT A is financed by South Africa and the South African army is now fighting with the rebels in Angola. Support to UNIT A has made the U.S. 'de facto' allies with South Africa. The Senate bill is in the foreign Rela tions Committee and the House bill is in the Foreign Affairs and Intelligence Committee. We must let these Commit tees know of our support for these bills. *** HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 382 desig REV. M. L. KING NELSON MANVELA WINNIE MANVELA nates June 26, 1988 as 'Nelson Mandela' Day. This Resolution introduced by Rep. George Crockett has 68 co-sponsors ..If there is no struggle, there is no bique and Nicaragua, and who oppose including every member of the congres progress ... power concedes nothing nuclear disarmament. sional Black Caucus. We should let them without a demand." - Frederick * * * know that we appreciate their valuable From around the Bay Area, thou- work against apartheid. Douglass, Aug. 4, 1857. sands of people of all colors streamed *** Afro-American History Month into our Civic Auditorium to com THE COMPREHENSIVE SANCTIONS calls us to the struggle for people's memorate Martin Luther King's birth BILL requires urgent attention. B.R. 1580, the DELLUMS BILL and 8556, the power in our country, in Southern day and his Dream for a non-racist CRANSTON BILL impose a total trade Africa, in Central America and in the nation. embargo and require complete with Middle East. But the stench of bigotry clings to drawal of U.S. corporations from South Today, despite the genocidal hor the U.S. body-politic as we witness the Africa. Passage of this legislation is ESSENTIAL in the fight against Apart ror of apartheid, which our govern attempted burial of Dr. Jesse Jack heid. Hearings are being held by the ment helps maintain, our Black broth son's candidacy by the establishment Africa Sub-Committee of the Foreign ers and sisters exp•and their struggle media. Is there any question that Jack Affairs Committee. Howard Wolpe is the Chair. At this point ther,e are 75 co against our common enemy - greed son is the best spokesman for the aspi sponsors for the Ho.use bill. At least 100 and its divisive weapon of racism. Nel rations of the working people? are needed. Many. tnore co-sponsors are son Mandela, now 25 years in prison, And in our own City, racism per needed for the Senate bill. Now there and Winnie Mandela are now world sists, as in the Fire Department and in are only two! Kennedy and Levin. Sen ators who have co-sponsored other legi symbols of the people's movement. the mass joblessness of our youth. slation on Southern Africa should be * * * * * * In this election year we must oust contacted immediately. For example, Slack History and Brotherhood Paul Simon, Joe Biden, Barbara Mikuls every Reaganite, of either party, who Month will mark the renewal of our ki, Patrick Leahy. JOIN IN THE SPRING blocks sanctions against apartheid ACTIONS FOR TOT AL SANCTIONS. struggle for justice, which has no color South Africa, who aids the terrorist THIS BILL IS KEY! or boundaries. -Rhoda Norman armies laying waste to Angola, Mozam- -ALERT Staff 2
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Half of the Black children in the bautustans (enforced ghettoes) die ~efore they are five years old. In Angola and Mozambique it is more than a third. Millions of bautustan child ren grow up WITHOUT educa tion, decent housing and health care. Education material is free for whites. Blacks must pay. About 23 of Namibian children go to secondary school. World Council of Churches, 1987 "Thousands of children have nowhere to go ... But imagine a child of four, five or six, crossing on foot hundreds of miles. As you can well guess, hundreds perish as they make a run for their lives." - Thuthukile Radebe, Left to right:.Peggy Gash( Sandra Mack and Joan-Marie Shelley of AFT Local ANC Women's, Section 61, surrounded by a load of contributions for Southern Africa children.
•The Holiday Campaign for the Refu We also received, through the good "collection station" in Bayview-Hunter's gee Children of South Africa and Nam efforts of Rev. Roland Gordon, $100 Point. ibia has been successful. The people from the Western region of the Nation • It is impossible to name all the peo- of San Francisco, the Bay Area and al Black Presbyterian Caucus. ple who contributed their efforts, time, collections and money. But we take elsewhere have opened their hearts • As you can see from the picture this opportunity, on behalf of the child and thei.r pocketbooks. accompanying this article, our friends ren who will benefit from their efforts, of the S.F. American Federation of to express our heartfelt thanks for all • We collected a lot of underwear, Teachers, Local 61 came through with your help. school supplies, soap, toothpaste, tooth flying colors. They collected two huge • We are negotiating for shipment brushes, toys, good-as-new clothes and cartons of materials, as well as addi sometime in March. Meanwhile, we're other items. Funds came in from indi tional boxes of books, school supplies, sorting and packing. viduals and organizations in denomi toys. The Oakland United Teachers, nations from $2 to $295 (the latter AFT, also came through with materials. TO ALL OF YOU WHO HELPED from IL WU). We are grateful to Ida MAKE THIS CAMPAIGN A SUC Stickland for helping obtain a $1,000 •IT WAS GRATIFYING TO SEE THE CESS, CONGRATULATIONS! grant from the Third World Fund to BARS OF SOAP, TOYS, SCHOOL - Mollie Gold conduct the campaign. SUPPLIES AND UNDERWEAR BROUGHT IN BY THE CHILDREN at •Betsy Blom Stallinger turned in over Cabrillo School, as well as at DeAvila, * $400 from friends and neighbors who Anti-Apartheid Peace Seals El Dorado, Lilienthal and RAP Schools, contributed to the Campaign in mem among others. ory of her deceased husband, Brother Preston Stallinger. This included $75 • The collection stations produced from as far away· a.s Paris', France, and large amounts of materials, especially $50 from Brother Walter Johnson, the Sun Reporter, Pilgrim Commun Secretary-Treasurer of the San Fran ity United Church of Christ, Potrero cisco Labor Council. Hill Neighborhood House, Bethel AME SEALS-Green &: red on yellow back ground. Sheet of 50 .for $3.00. 25 • A $5 anonymous contribution came Church and Providence Baptist Church, sheets or more, $2.00 per sheet. Send to the Sun Reporter collection station to name only some. Several dentists check with order to SFAAC, P.O. Box from a senior citizen who said: ..This contributed toothpaste and toothbrush 5422, SF 94101-5422. Info: 661-9492. is all I can afford, hut I want to help." es. Norita Collins was a one-woman
3 • THE LINK BETWEEN LOST U.S. SFAAC RECEPTION FOR JOBS and South Africa was again demonstrated on Feb. 12 when Del "CRYFREEDOM"AUTHOR Monte fruit canners announced clos· ing of their Emeryville plant, with about 1,400 workers. The reason? - "excess capacity." Del Monte has set up orchards and canning plants in South Africa, and its parent company, R.J. Reynolds-Nabis· co (tobacco, crackers etc.) has sub· stantial investment there. • THE SPRING MOBILIZATION for Jobs,Peace and Justice will take place on APRIL 30. Al ready 26 Bay Area groups have joined on. Among the issues will be self-determ DONALD WOODS, the journalist ination and majority rule companion of STEVE BIKO, as depicted for South Africa.Join SFAAC in the stirring film "Cry Freedom," in the March and at our was ''at home" in San Francisco for an tab 1e. evening. Criss-crossing the country with his wife, reporting the uncensored THE MAN BEING DRAGGED by THE SHARPEVILLE SIX face execution story of events in South Africa, he in late March unless world pressure the South African police is auto work· stopped off February I 0 between er Moses Mayekiso. He's been in pri· stops it. They were convicted in 1984 of killing an apartheid puppet planes, at the home of SFAAC chair son now over a year, charged with trea councillor who had shot into a mass person, David Reed. About 50 anti son, but due to world labor protests protest South of Johannesburg. apartheid activists were present. the judge has ruled out the death penalty. The enraged crowd, protesting in He described how the established creased rents and taxes, attacked Mayekiso's crimes? Leading the en mass and killed the councillor. world media select the censored news militant Union of Metal Workers and Later, the Appellate Court noted: from South Africa, reporting little of organizing community rent and con "It has not been proved (that) any the freedom struggle, and mostly neg sumer boycotts. of the six contributed causally to ative. "They don't report events like the death." the 144 police stations attacked by Among the groups working for The Six are Theresa Ramashamcia, ANC last year," he explained. his freedom are UAW, IL WU and Mojalefa Sefats, Oupa Diniso, Reid The film, "Cry Freedom," truth CISTUR. YOU can protest to Ambas Mokoena, Duma Khumalo and Francis fully recounts the words of Black mar sador A.J. Koornhof, South African Mokhesi. tyr Steve Biko, Black Consciouene88 Embassy, 3051 Massachusetts Ave., Protest to Amb. F. G. Koornhof, at leader, and is now playing in selected N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. Embassy of South Africa, 3051 Mass theaters. achusetts Ave. N.W., Washington, Woods returned Feb. 20 for a D. C. 20008 ,- and to Pres. Reagan, 'X w w KQED-sponsored lecture at the Cal~in w .. for his personal intervention. A RIGHT-TO-KNOW INTITIATIVE is now Simmons Theater in Oakland. circulating for the State November ballot. It will require disclosure of information on South Africa busi- ...... ~~········· PLEASE NOTIFY US OF CHANGE ness connections, toxic household OF ADDRESS. THANK YOU. products, etc.
Some of the endo~sers include Calif ornia League of .Senior Citizens,Con THE ANTI-APARTHEID ALERT sumer Action, David Brower and Mario is a newsletter published monthly and distributed free by Obledo. San Francisco Anti-Apartheid Committee POB 5•22 SF, CA "'101-5•22 We'd like to hear your comments. Write us or call 661-.,.92. Those interested, contact Atty. Jim Chair: David Reed • Co-chair: Willie Thompson Rogers.of CURE, the sponsoring coali Secretary: Mollie Gold• Treas..-er: Margaret Stroud tion,at (415) 444-4464. Editorial:DavidReed,Arla Ertz.Jam Gold.Rhoda flonnan.Willie Thompson. " " A WOMAN FOR ALL SEASONS
Book Review: Side by Side brought about her release. by Helen Joseiil Her 00use arrest and her bans were lifted, but she was still a '"Ibere is a plant in South Africa "listed" person and was subject to which we c:al.l the khakibush. a.it it restrictioos. She ocntinued to down, him it Cbwn, it will shoot protest as the apartheid system up again. • • • Like the khakibush, became increasingly respressive, the African National Ccngress has . and she was again banned in grown and spread. • • • 1980--at the age of 751 ''Like the khakibush, the Freedcm Writing her very llDVing
Commenting on his visit to Phila delphia,he observed that the Liberty Bell was cracked - and that the peo ple needed lo "forge a new Bell that would ring sound and true." Goldberg appealed for a unity of the democrlltic forces who are the majority and concluded in almost a whisper, "You have the power, switch SFAAC · Chairman David Reed on!" The overflow crowd responded ANC's Denis Goldberg. warmly. The program was also highligh "YOU HAVE THE POWER, c.on:t. ted by presentation of an award to CLERGY maJtc.h 0oJt :the Jtel.e.a.oe 06 He said Israel was the "main con Goldberg from Mayor Art Agnos and ~pwoned chldlten. duit for sanctions busting;;and for the presented by Deputy Mayor Rotea Gil AbouA: 140,000 c.ilid!l.e:n pvz. flow of arms and techology" to apart ford. The electrifying African Free ~he:d in Angola and Mozamb heid. Israel receives $4 billion yearly dom songs by the Vukani Mawethu ique: lM:t ye:o.JL, ac.c.oJtding from the U.S. Chorus were thunderously applauded :to UN Jte:po~. "To call for a democratic society by the audience. Me:anwilie: :the: UN Se:c.u.Jtdtj Co is high treason in South Africa," he The event was ably moderated by said, and described the non-racial Free Eva J. Paterson, noted civil rights unc.il pM~e:d a Jt~olu.:tion au :tlwtizmg :the: Sec.' y Ge:nvz.al dom Charter of the ANC. attorney representing the Black Fire Goldberg displayed a !J.S. Jand Fighters Association, and was hosled ;to aJUta.n 9 e: a c. e:aJ.i e: - 6-Ut~ hi·· Namibia and :to pu,t a pe:ac.e mine (model), thousands of which · by Rev. Kenneth Clarke of Third Bap were supplied to Savimbi against tist Church. SFAAC announced the ke:eping 601tc.e :the:Jte:. The Jte~· Angola, and causing untold thousands collection was $1,000 for ANC. olu.:tion pa1.i~e:d 14-0. The U.~ ab~:taine.d. SouA:h Antic.a oc.c.upie~ Na mibia illegally and dtiv~ :th1tou9h it. :to invade: Angola. jl. MORE THAN 6,300 PETITION SIGNATURES ha.ve been c.oUecte.d .&!. SFAAC '4 d.JU..ve .to Re.te.a..s e .the Chll..dlt.en, a.nd lVtea.k T.i..u W.i...th Sou.th A6JUca.. OW!. 6oWtth bundle .to .the P11.u.i..de.n.t, Sena.toM S Cong11.u.speople c.on..ta.&t.ed ave.Ji. 1500 .s.i..gneJtL,. Keep u.p .the pJtU.SWte:W.ut:e 0Oii. pet.U.<.o n.b •
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