AN APPEAL TOTHE PEOPLE OF THE U.S.

Our government's policies in Central These policies must be changed. But America and southern Africa are morally these policies will be changed only if our wrong and violate our nation's democratic policymakers inWashington knowthe depth ideals. They violate fundamental rights to of our opposition to them. self-determination, liberty, and justice. They betray our own democratic ideals. They risk So we must show them. Nonviolently. deeperU.S. involvement inbloodyandcostly Forcefully. With passion. Together. In a uni­ foreign wars while the needs of our unem­ ted witness by tens of thousands of citizens. ployed. homeless, farmers. and children go unmet. They reflect a militarization of our foreign policy that increases the risk of nuclear war. JOIN US IN A MOBILIZATION FORJUSTICE & PEACE IN CENTRAL AMERICA & SOUTHERN AFRICA

Sunday, April 26, 1987 Washington, D.C. Monday, April 27. 1987 • Interfaith Worship ServiCe saturday, • Congressional Accountability • Training in Non-violence Day-Visits to Senators and April 25, 1987 Representatives March and Rally • Non-violent Civil Disobedience at CIA Headquarters in Langley. VA REIJGIOUS Sr. Helen Maher Garvey, BVM President. Sisters of Charity of the Sr. Luise Ahrens, M.M. Blessed Virgin Mary President. Maryknoll Sisters Thomas Gumbleton Sr. Helen Amos, R.S.M. Catholic ArchdiocASI? ()f President. Sisters ot Mercy of the Union Sr. Joyce Hoben The Rev. James E. Andrews Provincial Moderator. Sisters of Notre Dame de Stated Clerk. Presbyterian Church (USA) Namur (Ohio Province) Archbishop Anthony Sablan Apuron Bishop J. Clinton Hoggard OFM. Cap.. Archbishop of Agana. Guam Fourth Episcopal District. African Methodist Sr. Kaye Ashe, O.P. Episcopal Zion Church Prioress General. Sinsinawa Dominicans Bishop ~illiamA Hughes Asia Bennett Catholic Diocese of Covington. Ky. Executive Secretary. American Friends The Rev. John O. Humbert Service Committee General Minister and President. Christian Rabbi Ballour Brickner Church (Disciples of Christ) Stephen Wise Free Synagogue. NYC Bishop Joseph L. Imesch The Rev. Arie R. Brouwer . Catholic Diocese of Joliet. II. General Secretary. The National Council Rev. Jesse Jackson ot Churches President. The National Rainbow Coalition The Most Rev. Edmond L. Browning Rev. Joseph E. Lowery Presiding Bishop. The Episcopal Church President. Southern Christian Leadership Sr. Kay Burton, SNJM Conference Provincial Director. Sisters of the Holy Names Bishop Raymond A Lucker Sr. Margaret Cafferty, PBVM Catholic Diocese of New Ulm. Mn. Congregational Superior. Sisters of the The Rev. C.J. Malloy, Jr. Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary General Secretary. Progressive National Baptist Rev. Ben Chavis Convention. Inc. Executive Director. Commission for Racial Bishop Dale Melczek Justice. United Church of Christ Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit. Mi. Sr. Joan Chittister, OSB Th91 Rev. Donald E. Miller Prioress of MI. SI. Benedict General Secretary. Church of the Brethren Bishop C.D. Coleman Bishop P. Francis Murphy Senior Bishop. Christian Methodist Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore Episcopal Church Sr. Maureen McCormack, S.L. Bishop Philip R. Cousin President. Loretto Community Eleventh District. African Methodist Episcopal Bishop James P. Niedergeses Church and President. The National Council Catholic Diocese of Nashville. Tn. of Churches Sr. Anne O'Neil, RSCJ Bishop James R. Crumley, Jr. Provincial. Society of the Sacred Heart. Lutheran Church in America US. Province Bishop Maurice J. Dingman Sr. Kathleen Popko, S.P. Catholic Diocese of Des Moines President. Sisters of PrOvidence Bishop Paul A Du11ey The Rev. Avery Post The President. United Church of Christ B~ishop Nicholas D'Antonio, O.F.M. Bishop Kenneth J. Povish Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans. La. Catholic Diocese of Lansing. Mi. Rev.~aterE.Faunuoy Sr. Carol Quigley, IBM United States House ot Representatives. President. Leadership Conference of Washington. D.C. Women Religious Sr. Helen Flaherty, S.C. The Rev. Graham H. Rights President. Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati President. Provincial Elders' Conference. Sister Patricia Flynn, SSND Moravian Church. Southern Province Provincial Leader. Baltimore Province. Archbishop Mar Athanasius Y. Samuel School Sisters of Notre Dame Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch Rabbi David Saperstein Bishop John J. Snyder Director. Religious Action Center of Catholic Diocese of SI. Au~tine Reform Judaism The Rev. Gordon L. Sommers Rabbi Alexander Schindler he:;ident. Provincial Elders' Conference, -President of UrJon cA ArrlE:lrican Hebrew Moravian Church, Northern Province Congregations Bishop Walter SUlliVan William F. SChulz Catl)clic Dior.ese of Richmond. Va. President. Unitarian Universalist A.c;sociation of Rev. C.T. Vivian Churches in North America Chairman. Center for Democratic Renewal Sr. Julie Sheatzley, CSJ Dr. Doris Anne Younger President of the Sisters of SI. Joseph of Medalle General Director. Church Women United The Rev. J. Ralph Shotwell Executive Director, International Council of Community Churches

LABOR David Livingston President. District 65. United Auto Workers MortonBahr (AFL-CIO) President. Communications Workers of America Frank D. Martino (AFL-CIO) President. International Chemical Workers Union Owen Bieber (AFL-CIO) President. United Auto Workers (AFL-CIO) Gerald W. McEntee Kenneth T. Blaylock President. American Federation of State. County President. American Federation of Government and Municipal Employees (AFL-CIO) Employees (AFL-CIO) Joseph Misbrener Bernard Butsavage President. Oil. Chemical. and Atomic Workers President. International Molders and Allied International Union (AFL-CIO) Workers Union (AFL-CIO) Henry Nicholas William H. Bywater President. National Union of Hospital and Health President. International Union of Electronic. Care Employees (AFL-CIO) Electrical. Salaried, Machine Workers and James J. Norton Furniture Workers (AFL-CIO) President. Graphic Communications International Union (AFL-CIO) President. United Farm Workers of America Charles A Perlik (AFL-CIO) President. The Newspaper Guild (AFL-CIO) Mary Hatwood Futrell Cleveland Robinson President. National Education Association Secretary-Treasurer. District 65. United Auto James Herman Workers (AFL-CIO) President. International Longshoremen's and Jack Sheinkman Warehousemen's Union Secretary-Treasurer, Amalgamated Clothing Dolores Huerta and Textile Workers Union (AFL-CIO) Vice President. United Farm Workers of America John J. Sweeney (AFL-CIO) President. Service Employees International Georgianna Johnson Union (AFL-CIO) President. Local II 99-Drug. Hospital and William Winpisinger Health Care Employees Union. RWDSU President. International Association of Machinists (AFL-CIO) (AFL-CIO) Keith W. Johnson William Wynn President. International Woodworkers of President. United Food and Commercial America (AFL-CIO) Workers International Union (AFL-CIO) James M. Kane President. United Electrical. Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) WE ISSUE THIS APPEAL BECAUSE:

In Central America, our government is: In southern Africa, our government is:

• Escalating its terrorism and war against the • Continuingtosupport the South Africangovern­ people and government of Nicaragua through ment through a sanctions policy that contains CIA-directed Contra forces. major loopholes thai among otherihings allow U.S. companies 10 reinvesl Iheir profits and • Providing massive economicandmilitaryaidto make short-term extensions of credit. a government in EI Salvador that is bombing its own people, repressing the church and human • Persisting inintelligencecooperationwithSouth rights workers, and protecting those guilty of Africa's mililary and security forces even m gross violations of human rights. those forces repress and torture people, includ­ ing church, trade union, United Democratic • Transforming impoverished Honduras into a Front. and student leaders. gigantic military base for use by U.S., Contra, and other foreign forces. • Supporting South Africa's economic strangula­ tion of its neighborsbyrefusing 10 provide those • Granting military aid to the Guatemalan army neighboringcountries majoreconomicsupport that is responsible for widespread massacres, and by cutting 011 aid to Zimbabwe because of the use of strategic hamlets for population cone its criticism of U.S. policy. trol. and the highest rate of diSappearances in the Weslern Hemisphere. • Refusing to push South Africa to end its illegal occupation of Namibia. • Rejecting opportunities to end the conflicts through political settlements providing security • Allying itself with South Africa in its war againsl for all. Angola by providing covert aid to the rebel groupUNlTA • Implicatingus all in Ihe killing of innocent men, women, and children. • Supportingrepression against legitimaterepre­ sentatives of the people of South Africa and Namibia.

• Support peace andfreedominCentralAmericaand Southern Africa • Stop the U.S. war in Central America • Stop U.S. government and corporate support for apartheid • Stop U.S. aid to the Contras. Stop U.S. aid to UNITA

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