Fall protests, conference planned
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Local peace, jobs, and justice coalitions should be encouraged by the large anti-apartheid actions that took place last month, drawing at least 20,000 in New York City, over 5000 in Washington D.C., and thousands more in Atlanta, Detroit, Boston, and San Francisco.
The Aug. 13 march and rally in midtown Manhattan was endorsed by some 35 area trade unions. David Livingston, a vice president of the United Auto Workers Local 65, spoke to the primarily Black demonstrators of the need for mass action.
"Many important people have spoken out and been arrested" Livingston said. "It is up to us, the less important people, to say say apartheid must be destroyed."
Other major anti-apartheid activities "Students can make the fall actions large and effective."
will be held in several cities across the country on Oct. 11, National Anti-Apartheid Protest Day. Local Oct. 11 coalitions, like the one in Cleveland, have shown the real potential for involving the trade-union movement in the fight against apartheid.
A central demand of the October actions is that the political prisoners in South Africa be immediately released. Oct. 11 is the United Nations International Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners.
The opening of the fall campus semester should boost the organizing momentum for these actions. The student movement, with its clear policy of condemnation of apartheid and U.S.
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