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K,' NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS NATIONAL MEDIA 29 AFRICA 5 REGIONAL ALTERNATIVE AMNESTY 5 PRESS 36 ANIMALS 7 ASSASINATIONS ; 7 LOCAL DC ORGANIZATIONS BLACK 7 CIVIL RIGHTS 7 AMNESTY 39 CONSUMER 9 ANIMALS 39 CO-OPS 9 BLACK 39 CORPORATE ACTION 9 BUSINESS 39 40 DRUGS 10 CIVIL RIGHTS 40 ECONOMIC CHANGE 10 COFFEEHOUSES CONSUMER 40 EDUCATION 11 42 ENVIRONMENT 12 CO-OPS 13 CREDIT UNIONS 42 FAMILY 42 FOOD 13 DRUGS 14 ECONOMIC CHANGE 42 FUNDS-FOUNDATIONS .42 , GOVERNMENT;. .. .-.',.:'. ' •.. ,. ':. .. .,14 EDUCATION ......,„.',.-. " ':•-, 14 44 'HOMOSEXUALS- •'-'• ;• is FAMILY '. '".•.'• "•• -44 HOUSING -PLANNING 15 FOOD 45 INDIANS 15 FUNDS-FOUNDATIONS 45 45 INDOCHINA 16 GOVERNMENT INTELLIGENCE 16 HEALTH 45 INTERNATIONAL 16 HOMOSEXUALS 46 LABOR & UNIONS 18 HOUSING - PLANNING 46 47 LATIN AMERICA 18 INDIANS , LATINO 19 INTERNATIONAL 47 47 LEGAL 19 JUSTICE MEN 20 JOBS 48 MID-EAST 20 LABOR 48 MILITARY 20 LATINO 48 NEIGHBORHOODS 21 POLITICS 49 NEW COMMUNITIES 21 PRISONS 50 POLITICS 22 PROFESSIONAL 50 PRISONS 23 RELIGIOUS 50 PROFESSIONAL 23 SENIOR CITIZENS 51 RELIGIOUS 24 SOCIAL SERVICES 51 SENIOR CITIZENS 25 TOURISTS 51 TAXES 25 TRANSPORTATION 51 TRANSPORTATION 26 WOMEN 52 UFO 26 YOUTH 52 WOMEN 26 MISC 52 YOUTH 27 MISC 28 LICENSED TO UNZ.ORG ELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED NEIGHBORHOODS FAR NORTHWEST 53 WEST END 54 NORTH CENTRAL 55 ADAMS -MORGAN 55 MT. 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ASHTRAYS Hade to Order SPECIAL -1/2 PRICE SALE SIVAWE CERAMICS Chicken Cantonese Style with rice 1307 East Capitol St 547-7972 Regular order:$1.50 Large order: $2.90 Folger Apartments READY TO GO ON - THE - PARK One bedroom, efficiencies and studios 411 2nd St. SE 765-2625 LICENSED TO UNZ.ORG ELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED NATIONAL GROUPS APR I CARE AFRICA 1424 16th St.fVU DC 20036 NATIONAL AFRICAN PRISONER OF WAR ALLI- 201-621-2300 ANCE CONGRESS OF AFRIKAN PEOPLE P0 Box 21056, Kalorama Station, DC 502 High St. 20009 Newark NJ 07102 WASHINGTON OFFICE ON AFRICA 110 Maryland Ave NE DC 20002 THE AFRICA FUND (if* *& M*T PA€>O 305 East 46th St. NYC NY 10017 (202) 546-7961 AMERICAN COMMITTEE ON AFRICA 305 East 46th 17th Floor AMNESTY New York NY 10017 FAMILIES OF RESISTERS FOR AMNESTY(FORA) 69 First Ave. NYC NY 10003 SOUTHERN AFRICA COMMITTEE 212-260-3232 244 West 27th New York NY 10001 AMERICANS FOR AMNESTY PAN AFRICAN STUDENTS ORGANIZATION P0 Box 467, Cathedral Station 235 49th St. (3rd fir) NYC NY 10017 NYC NY 10025 212-371-7080 1 ———„_ o • WHAT IS THE AMERICAN COMMITTEE ON AFRICA? o ~ 1 i o — The American Committee on Africa, founded in 1953, is devoted to supporting African *3 oi people in their just struggle for freedom and independence. ACOA informs Americans JK-:. n3 =C a about significant African issues, mobilizes public support for African freedom, and works o '5 'S S for policies which will strengthen this aim. i^ °>. «£ Z HOW ACOA WORKS . £ <= • SUPPORTS African liberation movements in Africa and in exile. The Africa Defense and o * £ >- ^ a> Aid Fund of ACOA was set up in 1957 to provide this assistance. > « t: • PROVIDES a forum for African representatives through public meetings, news media, conferences, speaking tours. - If O) • OPPOSES specific instances of U.S. corporate collaboration with apartheid through 1 JI T3 3 bank loans, trade, investments; and supports workers refusing to offload goods from i 8° m white minority countries. ^ < <D T3 u CJD ^ i- w C • ARRANGES meetings with African leaders and reports on decisions reached. ^ O CD i* (/> tft > •*^ a (0 C C O • TESTIFIES before the Congress and the United Nations, and lobbies in coordination LU m Q. with the Washington Office on Africa to end government policies which foster n> 0 0,° colonial and white minority rule. CT g C 15 ~a a • ACTS through the courts to end practices supporting white minority rule in Africa. B ~ • MOBILIZES prominent sports and entertainment figures to "Say NO to Apartheid" 1 ll and refuse to perform before segregated audiences in South Africa. Wi co 2 o • PUBLISHES books, pamphlets, fact sheets and in-depth reports and distributes ! P § to S resources in cooperation with The Africa Fund (associated with ACOA). <0 ~ Q> • COMMUNICATES its message to Americans through radio, TV, press conferences, 1 2 g«£ magazine articles, speakers, and occasional ads on issues of current importance. III VjsJ IO _l, • INITIATES action and cooperates with other organizations on public demonstrations, <D T3 TD .— 33 Sgl C/ pickets, rallies. O OQ O goo CT IL 1 f? — * *-- : r ACOA depends entirely upon voluntary contributions to carry on these programs. i t Your contribution will help. <y. c DO z <: c LICENSED TO UNZ.ORG ELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED alone. Ypueg men and women often choose to join the arme4L,|§uggle for; independence. But there are rriany who aW too young ortop-old to fight, and many who can contribute in other ways to the future of a free Zimbabwe. The host countries for these refu- gees, themselves poor and facing many problems, can ill afford to take care of these extra thousands. Until the day when they can return home, the battleground for freedom refugees want to take some responsibility for their daily lives. They want to farm cooperatively, to build Ninety-five percent of the 6.4 million people living in schools and train their own medical personnel. They Zimbabwe (the African name for Rhodesia) are want to begin the process of building independence blacks ruled by an illegal white minority regime now, rather than simply surviving off the charity of which has resolutely refused to acknowledge any others. democratic rights for the majority African population. This regime unilaterally declared its independence building sen-reliance from Great Britain in 1965 in order to avoid majority A farm has been bought in Zambia for a self-reliance rule. Not one nation in the world has recognized its project so that Zimbabwe refugees can begin legitimacy. Yet, lan Smith, the prime minister, has growing their own food. The Africa Fund has been said there will be "no black rule in a thousand years." asked by the African National Council of Zimbabwe For the blacks in Zimbabwe, life is "nasty, brutish to provide plows, hoes, shovels, pick axes, fertilizer and short." Wages are low. A black mine worker and insecticides for this project. earns 260 a day for an 8-hour shift. In 1974, the average annual earnings for blacks were less than There are also thousands of children in the refugee $650 against more than $7,100 for whites. The camps. Among the adults, there are teachers who Rhodesian regime spends only $70 a year to educate gladly give of their services; but books, pencils and a black child and more than $740 to educate a white paper have to be paid for. The Africa Fund wishes to child. And above all, Africans have no voice in provide these basic school supplies. We have making the laws that they must obey. pledged to raise $10,000 for these agricultural implements and educational supplies. repression and res/stance inside Zimbabwe Inside Zimbabwe, African students, workers and It is more difficult to assist the people inside their families are protesting the policies of the Zimbabwe. But it is possible to give support to the Rhodesian regime. Those who demonstrate, sign families of political prisoners, to provide legal petitions, or join political groups are sometimes defense and to help expose the worst of the abuses expelled from school with no hope of getting an — the beatings, the torture, the abduction of African education. They may lose their jobs, be beaten or leaders.