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...worse than walking under ladders or breaking a mirror, opening an umbrella indoors or stepping on a crack. When a Black Knight crosses your path, you know you're in for an unlucky football game...
...here don't understand that we are not against them personally," insists one activist. "We are against their missiles. We are against the militarization they represent. But we mean none of this as a personal attack." Says Jo Leinen, head of Federal Citizens' Initiatives Association, a nationwide umbrella group involved in the protests: "[Our movement] is part of a German emancipation. There was a war, we were occupied, and we want to liberate ourselves. Now our campaign is against missiles. There is a strong sense that the American nuclear missiles should go home. That does not necessarily mean...
Along with this new focus, the new movement has a powerful new driving force Six progressive national groups have combined to form the Coalition for the Campaign Against Public Investment in South Africa. Thus umbrella group brings together the Quaker American Friends service committee (AFSC), Clergy and Laity Concerned (CALC), founded in 1965 by anti-war activities Rev. Martin Luther King and Rev. William Sloane Coffin the Inter-Faith Centre for Corporate Responsibility, which represents 200 church groups, the United Methodists at the United Nations, the American Committee in Africa and Trans Africa...
Membars of the Campaign Against Public Investment, the national umbrella coalition, say that in the future these local efforts will have far more support from the national groups. In addition, a major focus for their activities is just now coming to the legislative forefront, they point out: a debate on corporate divestiture from businesses operating in South Africa should occur in the House of Representatives sometimes next year...
Members of the Campaign Against Public Investment, the national umbrella coalition, say that in the future these local efforts will have far more support from the national groups. In addition, a major focus for their activities is just now coming to the legislative forefront, they point out: a debate on corporate divestiture from businesses operating in South Africa should occur in the House of Representatives sometime next year...