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Along with this new focus, the movement has found a powerful new driving force. Six progressive national groups have combined to form the Coalition for the Campaign Against Public Investment in South Africa. This umbrella group brings together the Quaker American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Clergy and Laity Concerned (CALC), founded in 1965 by anti-war activists Rev. Martin Luther King and Rev. William Sloane Coffin, the Inter-Faith Center for Corporate Responsibility, which represents 200 church groups, the United Methodists at the United Nations, the American Committee on Africa, and Trans Africa...
Other groups favor a more active stance. At the AFSC, Jerry Herman, coordinator of the South Africa program for the committee, speaks of a "fall offensive" that his group will begin this September in conjunction with campus protestors. The AFSC will "take the issue to the people where they are: in churches, campuses, even businesses," he says. This fall, the AFSC will "take a more aggressive position, even to the level of civil disobedience, to promote their cause, Herman says...
Other groups favor a more active stance. At the AESC, Jerry Herman, coordinator of the South Africa program for the committee, speaks of a "fall offensive" that his group will begin this September in conjunction with campus protestors. The AFSC will take the issue to the people where they are in churches, campuses, even businesses," he says. This fall, the AFSC will "take a more aggressive position even to the level of civil disobedience, to promote their cause," Herman says...
Despite the success in recent months and positive prospects in the near future, next year will be a crucial one for the national divestiture movement. "We've grown tremendously over the past three years," AFSC South African coordinator Herman says. "But we need more...
Donations to the fund will be used to purchase food, medicines, shelter and clothing for refugess and others threatened by the conflict, Asia A. Bennett, executive secretary of the AFSC, said in a letter to the Harvard committee. The fund will also aid families of assassination victims, people targeted for assassination to escape, and political prisoners to escape, she added...