eonference'itj Solidarityl witH the

LiberationStrugglesof the

Peoples ofSouthern Africa

OCTOBER 9 - 11, 1981RIVERSIDE CHURCH

122nd Street and Riverside DriveNew York City

Hon. Ronald V. Dellums, President, Preparatory CommitteeLennox S. Hinds, Esq., Chair, Preparatory Committee SecretariatCarl Bloice, Conference Coordinator

In co-sponsorship with theAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS OF SOUTH AFRICA (ANC)

and theSOUTH WEST AFRICA PEOPLE'S ORGANIZATION (SWAPO).

In cooperation with the International Committee Against Apartheid, Racismand Colonialism in Southern Africa (ICSA)

HOSTS:The Southern Africa Team/Outreach Ministry, Riverside Church,

Dr. Carl Fields, Leader andThe Rev. George Thomas, Minister of Outreach, Riverside Church.

,,----eallAt a time when the posture of our government towards both the independent

and yet-to-be liberated nations of Southern Africa portends more reactionary anddangerous actions, we have joined to convene a national meeting in New YorkCity that we anticipate will be a watershed in the efforts of all United States peopleof good will to combat current U.S. policy trends and make a vital contribution tothe cause of human freedom.

We are mounting this event in co-sponsorship with our brothers and sisters inthe African atlonal Congress of South Africa (A C) and the South West AfricaPeople's Organization (SWAPO), who are leading the fight to rid their countries ofracial oppression and injustice, forfreedom and independence, and whose effortsdeserve strong, organized support in the United States - the nation which,together with other key Western powers, bears so much responsibility for presentdevelopments in Southern Africa. The International Committee Against Apar­theid, Racism and Colonialism in Southern Africa (ICSA)* has initiated this first in aworldwide series of olidarlty conferences and is co-operating in its organization.

To insure that the conference will spur the mobilization of maximum nationalsupport for the liberation movements at thiS critical stage in the Reagan ad­ministration's formulation of foreign policy, a number of organizations and in­dividuals representing the labor, church, entertainment, sports, legal, civil rightsand other fields have committed their assistance.

The United States has long collaborated with Canada, West Germany, Franceand the United Kingdom in maintaining in power in South Africa a white minorityregime that is besmirched with the blood of thousands of men, women andchildren who justly demand an end to their virtual enslavement under the apar­theid system. That system has been erected solely in the name of economic andsocial privilege for the few and inhumane concepts of racial purity. Indulged in itsinhumanities by the U.S. and its allies, the apartheid regime has segregatedmillions of Africans In remote 'bantustans" where neither arable land noremployment is .1\ ailable for their needs; incarcerates the leaders of the Black peo­ple - such as elson Mandela of A, C and Hermann Toivo ja Toivo of SWAPO,among many others; violates the territorial integrity of Angola, Mozambique andZambia by conducting military raids into the countries and killing and maimingvillagers.

Abetted by the We tern powers, South Africa remains bent on destabilizing theFrontline States and continues to resist Implementation of the United Nations planfor the transfer of political power to the I amibian people. Without doubt, SouthAfrica constitutes a direct threat to the independence of the Frontline States and,by implication, a threat to the whole continent of Africa.

At the same time, this regime - again, through the collusion of the Westernpowers led by the U.S. - has developed and is expanding a nuclear weaponscapability as a ready back-up for its offensive actions and is, thus, one of theprimary threats to peace and stability in the world.

With the Reagan administration, we are witnessing moves towards the furthercementing of relations between the U.S. and the criminal apartheid regime ratherthan away from such ties as was to some extent the case under President Carter.This is evidenced by, among other things, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. JeaneKirkpatrick's conference with South Africcln military officials and by the officialvisit to Washington of South African Foreign Minister Pik Botha. These activities,taken within the context of conciliatory pronouncements In favor of South Africaby the Reagan administration, are deSigned to break the Isolation of South Africaby the international community. The deadly consequences of such conciliatorywords and deeds can be seen in the case of Secretary of State Alexander Haig'spronouncements on "international terrorism" (the code term for liberationmovements), which led directly to a massacre at Maputo in Mozambique.

*/CSA IS the international body charged ,,,,,th continUing thel",ork ofthe 1977 World conferenceAgainstApartheid. RaCism and CQ/onia/l m In Southern AfrKa held In LI bon, and With implementing the program of action adopted at that gathenng

eall---.......Therefore, the time is now for us to elevate the level of support to the liberation

movements by consolidating our forces, raising our voices and pursuing concreteactions to expose and bring to a halt our government's unacceptable behavior.

We are not do-gooders, however. If It IS our aim, through this conference, todevelop and implement strategies in support of the official liberation policies andprograms of the ANC and SWAPO, we proceed with a keen sense of our own self­interest as people of the United States in aiding the Southern African peoples'struggles. We know, because documentation abounds, that the same companieswhich are exploiting the labor of Southern Africans are putting people out of workin the U.S., and we understand the symbiotic relationship between thesedomestic and foreign corporate operations. We also know that the billions of dol­lars invested by U.S. multinational corporations like IBM and General Motors inthe apartheid economy would be better spent on improving the lives of U.S.citizens than on enhancing white privilege and reinforcing black oppression In

Southern Africa.Apprised of these realities, we recognize that even though the bread-and-butter

issues that are multiplYing almost daily here at home must command our atten­tion, we must simultaneously intensify pressure on the U.S. government and thecorporate sector to end their relations with the apartheid regime.

The format of the Conference in Solidarity With the Liberation Struggles of thePeoples of Southern Africa has been designed to maximize productivity and togive an ongoing character to the work of the conference. It is our intention thatout of this meeting will come regional and national strategies for involving muchlarger numbers of U.S. people In a campaign aimed at

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the total isolation of South Africa;

the immediate withdrawal of South Africa from amibia;

reinforcement of the mandatory arms embargo to render it more effec­tive and to include nuclear collaborations;

the adoption and implementation by the U. of comprehensive andmandatory sanctions against South Africa, Including d n effective oil em­bargo,

the severance of all cultural and sporting links with South Africa;

increasing political support and material assistance to the people ofNamibia through SWAPO and the people of South Africa through theANC;

increasing political support to the Frontline States in the face of mount­ing attempts by South Africa to destabilize them.

We look forward to your, attendance at this histOriC conference, and to your ac­tive participation in its vitally important work.

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Program

FRIDAY, October 9 (Sessions begin at 9:00 AM Sharp)

MORNING:

LUNCH

AFTERNOON:

EVENING:

REGISTRATIONOPENING PLENARY: Riverside Church NaveFeatured Speakers: Oliver Tambo, President, African Na­tional Congress of South Africa; Sam Nujoma, President,South West Africa People's Organization

Representatives of the Organization of African Unity (OAU)and the Frontline States

Keynote Address: Member of U.S. Congressional BlackCaucus

Available at Riverside Church

COMMISSIONS:POLITICAL COMMISSIONWill address U.S. foreign policy and U.S. political collabora­tion with apartheid in respect to Namibia and South Africa.

ECONOMIC COMMISSIONWill explore U.S. investments, trade and commerce, oil andpetroleum interests and loans and credit with Namibia andSouth Africa.

MILITARY COMMISSIONWill detail breaches of Security Council embargo, expose thegrowing military role of U.S. companies, identify U.S. nuclearcollaboration and encouragement of mercenarism.

MEDIA, SPORTS AND CULTURE COMMISSIONWill document South African manipulation of U.S. press andother media, breaches of international agreements to boycottsporting relations with apartheid and identifies U.S. sportsfigures and artists who have violated such agreements.

RECEPTION FOR CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS AT RIVER­SIDE CHURCH

SATU RDAY, October 10

MORNING: PLENARY: Riverside Church NaveflU .S. Labor and the Southern African Struggle" - Presenta­tions by U.S. and Southern African trade union leaders.

REPORTS FROM COMMISSIONS:• Political commission• Economic Commission• Military Commission• Media, Sports and Culture Commission

LUNCH:

AFTERNOON:

EVENING:

Available at Riverside Church

INTEREST GROUP WORKSHOPS

1. ROLE OF ORGANIZED LABOR IN STRUGGLE FOR MAJORITYRULE

• Trade embargoes• Union pension fund divestment campaigns• Rhodesia chrome blockade and oil embargo lessons• US corporations·suppressing unions in South Africa and Namibia• US labor network to implement Conference Program of

Action

2. CHANGING U.S. FOREIGN POLICY TOWARDSNAMIBIA & SOUTH AFRICA

• National legislative strategy• Enforcing sanctions• Outlawing mercenarism• Stopping US military & economic collaboration

3. ROLE OF RELIGIOUS AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZA­TIONS IN STRUGGLE AGAINST COVERT ECONOMICINVESTMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA

• Bank loans & other covert support• Divestment campaigns• Kruggerrand struggle• Publicizing US collaboration with crimes of apartheid

4. ENDING U.S. MEDIA, SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT COL-LABORATION

• U.s. media support of apartheid• South African propaganda in U.S. schools.• Sports & entertainment boycott campaigns• U.S. media supporting anti-apartheid work

5. SUPPORT FOR WOMEN OF SOUTH AFRICA AND NAMIBIA• Women as workers & mothers in Southern Africa• Health & nutrition problems• Material aid to refugees in Front Line States• Women in liberation struggle

6. SUPPORT FOR YOUTH & STUDENTS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA• U.s. destabilization of Frontline States• South Africa's attacks on youth & student organizations• U.S. campus campaigns for material aid to refugee schools• Scholarships for student refugees from Namibia & South

Africa

7. SUPPORT FOR POLITICAL PRISONERS• Free Mandela and Toivo petitions• Boycott of Polaroid & other transnationals implicated in

enforcing Pass laws & other racist "laws."

8. FINANCIAL AND MATERIAL AID TO SWAPO & ANC(SOUTH AFRICA)

• U.S. assistance: Educational, clothing, nutritional &medical.

SOLIDARITY RALL Y.Southern African and U.S. speakers and entertainment will befeatured. (location to be announced.)

SUNDAY, October 11

MORNING:

AFTERNOON:

FINAL PLENARY: McMillin Hall, Columbia University116th Street and BroadwayWorkshop Reports by Rapporteurs

PRESENTATION OF RESOLUTIONS AND PROGRAM OF AC­TION

VALEDICTORY KEYNOTE ADDRESS (Speaker to be announc­ed)

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Sponsors(partial listing)

BELLA ABZUG, President Women U.s.A.; ROBERT Z. ALPERN, Unitarian Universalist Association, JOSE ALBERI\..ALVAREZ, First Secretary, Puerto RICan Socialist Party; HERBERT APTHEKER, The American Institute (or Marxist Studies;LOUIS D. ARMMAND, Graduate Students Association, u.c.L.A., BARBARA ARMENTROUT, Women's InternationalLeague (or Peace and Freedom/U.S. Section; DR. ANTONIO M. STEVENS ARROYO, U.S. CommiSSion On C.vil Rights;ARTHURASHE; CHAUNCEY BAILEY, ExecutIVe Director, Black Press Institute; EUGENIA BAIN, A(ncan HentageStudiesAssociation ( .Y.); DR. & MRS. HARRIS f. BEEMAN, Southern Afnca liberation Committee (East Lan>lng, MIChigan);HARRY BELAfONTE; VIRGINIA READE BELMONTES, Co-Coordinator, Coal,t.on to Stop The Ramt Africa Consulate(Los Angeles); HON. JULIAN BOND, Senator, Georgia LegIslature; WILLIAM H. BOOTH, Amencan Committee OnAfnca, HON. CAROL MOSLEY BRAUN, Illinois State LegIslature; BISHOP J. HARTfORD BROOKINGS, WesternEpiscopal Distnct A.M.E. Church; THE HONORABLE WILLIE LEWIS BROWN, Speaker of the Assembly, California StateLegislature; HAYWOOD BURNS, Esq., Acting DeanNice-Provost, Urban & Legal Programs, CCNY; VINJE BURROWS,Women's International Democratic Federation; JAMES M. CAMPBELL, People for Southern I'frican Freedom; HON.JOHN CARRO, Judge, Appellate Division, Supreme Court of New York; REV. BEN CHAVIS, Commission On RacialJustice, United Church of Christ; ROBERT CHRISMAN, Publisher, THE BLACK SCHOLAR: MARILYN CLEMENT, Ex·ecutive Director. Center for Constitutional Rights; DR. CHARLES L. COBB, Sr., Execullve D"ector, Commission on RacialJustice, United Church of Christ; REV. DR. WILLIAM SLOANE COffiN, Senior MlIllster, Rlvers,de Church; CAROLECOLLINS, Campaign to Oppose Bank Loans to South Af"ca; REV. JOHN COLLINS, Clergy and Laity Concerned, PROf,JAMES H. CONE, UllIon Theological Semlllary; HON. JOHN CONYERS, U.S. Congress; RAYlEEN M. CRAY, Ame"canF"ends ServICe Comm,ttee, NatIOnal Th"d World Coalition; HON. GEORGE W. CROCKETT, JR., U.S. Congress;ANGELA Y. DAVIS, Co-Cha", National Alliance Agalllst Ramt & Political Repres ,on, CATHERN DAVIS, Coalition ofLabor Union Women; DANNY DAVIS,Alderman, CityofCh'cago; JENNifER DAVIS, Executive D"ector, Ame"can Com­mIttee On Africa; OSSIE DAVIS: RUBY DEE; HON. RONALD V. DElLUMS, U.s. Congress; BISHOP JESSE R. DeWITT,President, Board ofGlobal Minist"es, The UllIted Methodist Church; DR. JOHN DOMMISSE,ACCESS; fRANK DURKAN,

Esq., Chair, Ame"can IflSh Unity Committee; KATHY ENGEL, Fund for Open Information and Accountability, Inc.,ROBERT FARRELL, Member, Los Angeles Gty Council; FR. DAVID GARCIA, Rector, SI. Marks of the Bowery; REV.HOWARD GLOYD, Bethel A M.E Church. San Francisco, CA., VICTOR GOODE, Esq., NatIOnal Director. National Con­ference of Black Lawyers; OR. CARLETON GOODLEn: SAUNDRA GRAHAM, Massachusetts Black LegislatIVe Caucus &State RepresentatIve; BISHOP THOMAS J. GUMBLETON, ArchdIocese of DetroIt, GLEN DIS HAMBRICK, Ch,cago BlackCaucus-American FederatIon of Teachers; THE HONORABLE RICHARD HATCHER, Mayor, Gary, IndIana; CHARLESHAYES, International VIce President. Untted Food and Commercial Workers; DOROTHY I. HEIGHT, President, NatIonalCouncil of Negro Women; BISHOP LEROY C. HODAPP, President, Board of Church & Society, the United MethodistChurch, CHARLES HUGHES, AFSCME, Local 372, ew York CIty Board of EducatIon, AN EnE HUTCHIN~FELDER,

Moderator, Program to Combat RaCl m, Wor/d CounCIl ofChurches, ABDEEN JABARA, Esq.; ESTHER JACKSON,Manag­Ing Editor, FREEDOMWAYS Magazine; REV. JESSE JACKSON, atlonal PreSIdent, Operation PUSH: MURRAYJACKSON, Board of Governors, Wayne State UnIversity; Or. LEONARD JEFFRIES, Chall, Black StudIes Department,CCNY; WILLIAM JOHNSTONE, Episcopal Churchmen for South Africa: OR. WILLIAM A. JONES, NatIonal Black Pastor'sConference; CRAIG KAPLAN, Esq., Puerto Rico Legal Watch, COREnA scon KING; FRANCIS A. KORNEGAY,Haba" (WashIngton, 0 C /, WILLIAM KUNSTLER, Esq., Center for ConstitutIonal RIghts, OR. RICHARD LAPCHICK,AC·CESS; JAMES E. LEWIS, Publl her, Bllmlngham (Ala) TImes, SHELBY LEWIS, PresIdent atlonal Conference of BlackPolitICal SCIentists. WILLIAM LUCY, Ame"can FederatIon of State, County & MunICIpal Employees, Chall, Coal,t,on ofBlack Trade UnlOntsts; Sr. BARBARA LUPO, Clergy and Laity Concerned MARYANN MAHAFEEY, Detroit CIty Council;GARTH MARCHANT, PreSident Un"efSlty Student Senate ofCty UntvefS/tyol Y, JULIUS MARGOLIS, New York C/ttCentral labor Council' EDWARDC. MAY, Lutheran World MinI tries, REV. H. CARL McCALL, Y Chapter, TransAfrtca,GEORGE McCLAIN, MethodISt Federation for SOCIal ActIOn, GAY McDOUGALL, Esq., Southern Afrtca ProJect· Lawyersfor Gvil RIghts; LEILA McDOWELL-HEAD, ~atlOnal Co-Coordinator. NatIonal AlI,anceof Thlld World Journalists; HON.PARREN MITCHELL, U.S Congre's, REV. TIMOTHY MITCHELL, NatIonal Conference of Black Churchmen;ASSEMBLYWOMAN GWEN MOORE, Californta State Legislature;QUEEN MOTHER MOORE, World FederatIon ofAf"can People, Inc; OLGA E. MORENO, National Women's Po!ttlcaICaucus; Or. LEITH MULLINS, Columbia UnIversityTeachers College REV. OR. CECIL L. MURRAY, Senior Minister, First African Methodist EpIscopal Church (Los Angeles/,PROF. ANTONIO NADAL, Puerto Rican Studies Dept. Brooklyn College' PREXY NESBln, Program to Combat Racism,World Council of Churches; EUGENE "Gus" NEWPORT, Mayor. Cit; of Berkeley, Caltfornta; WILLIAM NIEVES, Com.munity Development Agency; WILLIAM H. NUCHOW, Local 840 InternatIonal BrotherhoodofTeam ters. JACK O'DELL,OperatIOn PUSH. PAUL O'DWYER, Esq.; FREDERICK O'NEAL, As.o{lated Actors & Artl<ts of Amertca; LU PALMER,Chall Ch,cago Black Untted Communlt,es. CARMEN PEREZ, Southern Calltornla D mocrat/cCounc,I, ALVIN F. POU~SAINT, M.D.;DAVID P. RICHARDSON, State Representative, Philadelph'a, Pa.. PAUL ROBESON, JR.; CLEVELANDROBINSON, SeeretarylTreasurer, D,st"ct 6S, UAW RANDALL ROBINSON, TransAf"ca, HELEN RODRIGUEZ·TRIAS,M.D.; HAROLD ROGERS, Coal,t,on ofBlack Trade UntOntsts WILLIAM H. SIMONS, Washington Teacher' Unton. Local6, AF of T JEAN SINDAB, Washington Office on Af"ca, Dr. ARCHIE SINGHAM, Brooklyn College; MELBA SMITH,Women', DIVISIon. Board ofGlabal Mlnlst"eS/Un,ted MethodIst Church' TIMOTHY P. SMITH, Executive Dllector. Inter­fa'th Center for Corporate Respons,bJltty; VIRGI LC. SMITH JR., StateofMichigan House ofRepresentat,ves; MARK STEPP,United Auto Workers Union; HEIDI TARVER, U.S. Committee In Solidarity with the People of EI Salvador; SALVADORT16, Vieques Network: HON. ART TORRES, California State LegIslature. WALTER TUCKER, Mayor of Compton, Califor.nia: OR. JAMES TURNER, African He"tage Studies ASSOCIation; HON. JACKIE VAUGHN III, Mich,gan StateSenate; REV.WYAnT. WALKER, Internatlona! Freedom Mobil,zat,on Aga,nst Aparthe,d. HON. HAROLD WASHINGTON, Member.US Congress. MAXINE WATERS, Cahfornia State Assembly. WILMA J. WEBB,StateRepre entat"e. Colorado LegIslature;JEWEL RYAN WHITE, NatIonal Black Communtcations Coahtlon. FRANKLIN H. WILLIAMS, PreSIdent, Phelps-StokesFund; JUNIUS WILLIAMS, Esq., Naltonal Bar Assoc. WENDALL L. WRAY, Schomburl; Center for Rf"iearch in BlackCulture JAMES ZOGBY. Palestine Human Rights Campaign.

Affiliation noted for identification only

AMERICAN COMMITIEE ON AFRICNACCESS (American Co-ordinating Committee for Equality inSport and Sodety)/AFRICANA STUDIES AND RESEARCH CENTER/A.F.S.C.M.E. LOCAL 372 NEWYORK CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION/ASSOCIATION OF ARAB·AMERICAN UNIVERSITYGRADUATES/COALITION OF BLACK TRADE UNIONISTS/EPISCOPAL CHURCHMEN FOR SOUTHAFRICA/FIRST AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH (LOS ANGELES)/THE GUAR­DIAN/INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DEMOCRATIC LAWYERS/METHODIST FEDERATIONFOR SOCIAL AOION/MEXICAN AMERICAN POLITICAL ASSOCIATION (LOS ANGELES METROREGION)/NATIONALALLIANCE AGAINST RACIST AND POLITICAL REPRESSION/NATIONALANTI·IMPERIALIST MOVEMENT IN SOLIDARITY WITH AFRICAN LIBERATION/NATIONAL BLACKPASTORS' CONFERENCE/NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK CHURCHMEN/NATIONAL CON­FERENCE OF BLACK LAWYERS/NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK POLITICAL SCIENTISTS/NA­TIONAL LAWYERS GUILD/OPERATION PUSH/PALESTINE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN/PEOPLEFOR SOUTHERN AFRICAN FREEDOM/PUERTO RICAN SOCIALIST PARTY/SCHOMBURG CENTERFOR RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE/SOUTHERN AFRICA MAGAZINE/SOUTHERN AFRICA MEDIACENTER {CALIFORNIA NEWSREEL)ITRANSAFRICA, NEW YORK CHAPTER/U.S. COMMITIEE INSOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF EL SALVADOR/U.S. PEACE COUNCILIWASHINGTON OFFICEON AFRICAIWASHINGTON TEACHERS' UNION, LOCAL 6, AF OF TIWOMEN FOR RACIAL ANDECONOMIC EQUALlTYIWORLD FEDERATION OF AFRICAN PEOPLE, INC./UNITED STATES STU·DENT ASSOCIATION/BLACK AMERICAN LAW STUDENTS ASSOCIATION/CASA DE LASAMERICAS/IRANIAN STUDENTS ASSOCIATION OF THE U.S.ITHE JOINT BOARD FOR LEATHER &MACHINE WORKERS UNIONITHIRD WORLD FUNDNENCEREMAS BRIGADEIYOUNG WORKERSLIBERATION LEAGUF

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