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For South African Apartheid Anti-apartheid contingent on April 20 in San Francisco April 1985 can be a turning point.
For years we have been told that the student movement was dead. And we've been told that Reagan received a mandate from working people in this country to carry out his reactionary domestic and foreign policies.
Those who refused to admit that only 31 percent of the electorate actually voted for Reagan could try to convince us that a "landslide" had occurred last Nov. 6.
Those who refused to look at the deep anger and frustration that has been «We must follow up this success with natlonal fall actions."
building up beneath the surface could get away with these arguments for a time. Things appeared to be the way they said.
But then there was April 20. And there was April 24. On these two dates, the sentiment of millions of people in opposition to the government's austerity and war policies began to be expressed openly. Even the mainstream media could not fail to notice this reality.
Potential shown on April 20 On April 20 tens of thousands marched in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Seattle, Houston, and other cities for jobs, peace, and justice. They marched in support of four demands: an end to U.S. support to apartheid; an end to U.S. intervention in Central America; jobs and justice, not war; and a freeze and reversal of the nuclear arms race.
The turnout was far greater than even the organizers had expected: 70,000 in Washington, D.C., 50,000 in San Francisco, 10,000 in Los Angeles. But more important than the numbers was the breadth of the demonstrations.
In a number of cities the trade unions were centrally involved in the demonstrations. The San Francisco rally, for example, was chaired by Jack Henning, head of the 1.5 million-member California Labor Federation. Thousands of Bay Area unionists marched behind their banners and took part in the rally alongside students, Blacks, Latinos, feminists, gays, and the elderly.
April 24: The campuses explode The campus sit-ins against U.S. support to apartheid began at Columbia Apartheid AnA sernAi ANC Racism OVE