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Advisory Board* July 16, 1987 Harry Belafonte Hon. Julian Bond Christine Root Hon. William Booth 729 Sunset lane Bishop H. H. Brookins East lansing MI 48823 Dennis Brutus Ossie Davis Ruby Dee Dear Chris: Hon. Ronald V. Dellums Milfred C. Fierce, Chair, The Southern Africa Media Center has been busy churning out Africana Studies, Brooklyn College material over the last few months and I wanted you to see what Edward Hawley, Editor, we've been doing. We have just released both of these Africa Today George Houser publications which we hope will expand anti-apartheid education Rev. M. William Howard, Jr. and action programs into new constituencies. Fonner Pres., Nat1 Council of Churches Paul Irish, Associate Director, The Witness to Apartheid teaching guide was written by Bill American Committee on Africa Bigelow, author of the acclaimed teachers' guide on South Africa Rev. Joseph lowery, President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference "Strangers in their CMn Country". We send it to those high Prexy Nesbitt schools and teachers who purchase the 35 minute version of Randall Robinson, Executive Director, Witness to Apartheid which was especially prepared for high TransAfrica school classes. Christine Root, Association of Concerned African Scholars Jean Sindab, Director The "Together/Against Apartheid" action/resource guide goes out Washington Office on Africa to any student, church, or ccmnunity group which rents or Timothy Smith, Director, Interfaith Committee on Corporate Responsibility purchases any of our films on southern Africa. It is especially Steve Talbot, Journalist designed to encourage innovative usage of videotapes in anti Dr. James Turner, Director, Africana apartheid organizing. It provides a step-by-step plan of how Center, Cornell Univ. to:pull off an event, deal with the press, influence Rev. Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker legislators, and raise funds for the victims of apartheid. Hon. Maxine Waters Thanks to a grant fran the carnegie Corporation of New York, I Dr. David Wiley, Director, African Studies, Michigan State Univ. will be giving workshops at several student conferences on the 'Organizations listed for identification "Together/Against Apartheid" campaign - beginning with the purposes only. national meeting of the u.S. Students Association in August.
OUr new catalogue will be caning out in September featuring a new film on the resistance struggle in South Africa entitled, Bound to Strike Back and Destructive Fllgagement, a documentary on South Africa's War on the Frontline States. You will receive more information when the catalogue is released.
If you would like more copies of either publication, please let me know.
Cornelius Moore