Nationwide support mounts for April 25 MOBILIZATION For JUSTICE PEACE SOUTHERN AFRICA APRIL 25,1987

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Ecumenical Ministry, and Rabbi Bruce Abrams. Cleveland Board of Education President Stanley E. Tolliver also spoke. Also lending their support were representatives of various peace, solidarity, and anti-apartheid organizations.

NOAC has called a Town Meeting to help publicize the April 25 demonstration. This event will be held Saturday, April 4, at 2 p.m. at the Church of the Covenant. Speakers include Dennis Brutus, exiled South African poet; the Rev. Donald Jacobs, staff National Council of Churches; Elizabeth Franklin, representative of NOAC; Ray Miklethun, representative Cleveland Central America Network; and James A. Russell, United Mine Workers of America.

Approximately 20 buses have been reserved to take Clevelanders to the demonstration. These include buses reserved by AFSCME, CWA, and area churches. The Cleveland State University Student Committee Against Racism and Youth United to Oppose Apartheid, and a high school anti-apartheid group have both chartered buses. Four busloads of Oberlin college students are planning to attend. Buses will also leave from Akron and Youngstown.

A send-off rally is planned for Friday, April 24, at E. 22nd and Euclid. Anyone wishing to purchase a bus ticket, obtain fliers , or help should call (216) 429-2167 West Coast SAN FRANCISCO-Support for the April 25 antiwar demonstration to be held in this city is growing throughout the Western states. Activists in California, Arizona, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington are actively organizing support for this march.

Seattle activists are sending bus caravans and planning a teen dance at a local high school to mobilize support for the march. A send-off rally is planned for April 24.

Sacramento activists have obtained the endorsements for the coalition from Bishop Francis Quinn and Mayor Anne Rudin.

In the Bay Area, 175,000 leaflets have been distributed, and Spanish-language and Black-community leaflets have been printed. Fundraisers have been held featuring Nora Astorga, the Nicaraguan ambassador to the United Nations.

One event with Nora Astorga was a reception at San Francisco State University on March 18. Organized by student activists, the reception attracted 400 people and Tv.oc lyar cinlist Nicaraguan leader Nora Astorga New York NEW YORK-District Council 37 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) has endorsed and is actively building the April 25 Mobilization for Justice and Peace in Central America and South Africa.

A labor-clergy breakfast, convened by DC 37 Executive Director Stan Hill, was attended by over 100 prominent labor and religious leaders in the New York area in February. This gathering has played an important role in drawing in new forces for the Mobilization.

Also, on March 2, over 100 DC 37 union officers, stewards, and rank-and-file activists heard Dave Dyson, national director of the National Labor Committee in Support of Democracy and Human Rights in El Salvador, and Stan Hill speak on the importance of a involvement in Central Southern Africa.

Obledo said, "It is almost unbelievable that in 1987 we (the government) are involved in helping terrorists in Central America, in Nicaragua, to get weapons to kill other people. Stop the killings! Bring Justice! On to San Francisco!"

The other keynote speaker was the Rev.

James Lawson, Los Angeles president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Lawson spoke about the April 4 Coalition, which is organizing two weeks of teach-ins in the greater Los Angeles area, culminating in a rally on Saturday, April 4, at St. Vincent's Catholic Church (corner of Figueroa and Adams at 7:30 p.m.).

The speakers at that rally will include Father Luis Olivares, C.M.; Dolores Huerta, vice president of the United Farm Workers Union; Dr. Charlie Clements, California CINCINNATI-An active coalition has come together in this city to build the April 25 march on Washington. The coalition, which calls itself the April 25th Coalition, is a city-wide collection of religious, labor, student, and peace groups.

At the University of Cincinnati, the Central American Solidarity Organization has been formed. Through regular meetings, literature tables, and fund raising activities, it is attempting to send as many students as possible to Washington.

The most interesting development in the planning for April 25 here has been the formation of a labor subcommittee of the coalition. Through the efforts of the Molders Union, which has its national headquarters in Cincinnati, several other unions and union leaders here have been active in trying to broaden out labor's opposition to U.S. involvement in Central America and South Africa. This type of labor participation is new for Cincinnati.

The Molders Union has printed the first piece of literature about the demonstration. Other labor endorsers locally include the president of the Cincinnati Federation of Teachers, a representative of the Cement Masons Union, and Hospital Workers District 1199. Representatives of several other unions regularly attend meetings.

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More than a dozen teach-ins will be held throughout the area before April 4 and will focus on U.S. policy in Central America and Southern Africa and the domestic impact of these policies-as well as the need to build the April 25 action in San Francisco. For more information call (213) 295-KING.

Other speakers at the March 16 rally included Arnoldo Ramos, representative of the Salvadoran FMLN/FDR; and Bernard Walker, representative of the Free South Africa Movement.

More than 100 organizations, religious groups, and unions in Southern California have endorsed the April 25 action and are urging people to join the bus and car caravans leaving from Los Angeles. Bus tickets are $30 round trip and can be obtained by calling (213) 225-6136.