MEMORANDUM
DATE: January 24, 1972
TO: All Black Faculty and Staff
FROM: Umoja (Black Student Union)
RE: Meeting
The Council of Ministers of the Black student organization
at SUNYA respectfully requests you to attend a meeting on Tuesday,
January 25, 1972. ‘The purpose of this meeting is to familiarize
the Black faculty and staff with the nature and purpose of our
organization, and to make use of the many talents you have to
offer. Our goals are anbitious, but we are confident that with
your help they are easily obtainable. Please make every effort
to be present. ‘The meeting will be at 3:00 p.m. in Lecture
Center t
Anthony M. Belcher
Acting Prime Minister
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African Liberation Week
Remember
Sharpeville March 21, 1961
70 Dead 200+ wounded
demonstrating peacefully against
South Africa's oppressive pass laws.
Support Umoja Clothing Drive
for
African liberation fighters & their families
Collection hours & locations:
Campus Center - 11:00 - 3:00
Quad dinner lines - 4:30 - 6:30
EOP Office - All Day
Afro-American Studies - All Day
Puerto Rican Studies - All Day
INFORMATION SHEET
African Liberation Week
The freedom of Black people all over the world is directly
related to the success of the African liberation movement. Black people
are presently waging war against colonialism and oppression in the
Portuguese colonies of Guinea Bissau, Angola and Mozanbioue and against
white minority settler rule in South Africa, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) and
Namibia (Southwest Africa). We in the western hemisphere can help the
movement for liberation in Southern Africa. The Black Student Organiza-
tion (Umoja) has taken the vangard position in bringing about an aware—
ness of the current situation in Southern Africa‘and helping to make
the struggle a successful one.
To bring about this goal, Umoja is launching a massive
clothing drive to raise a minimm of 700 lbs. of clothing to be sent
to the Liberation Committee of the Organization of African Unity to be
distributed according to need. The drive begins Monday, March 20, 1972
with African Liberation Week. It will be a week of activities commemorating
the anniversity of the Sharpeville Massacre on March 21, 1960 in which
over 70 Blacks were killed and over 200 wounded during a peaceful march
protesting the South African pass laws. These laws require that every
African carry an identification book with his picture, place of employment,
age, etc. and the signature of his current employer. This book is to be
presented at the request of authorities at any time.
For most of Africa, 1960 marked the date of their legal indepen-
dence. For Southern Africa, 1960 and the years after marked the beginning
of guerilla warfare aimed at liberating the African masses.
The planned activities will begin Tuesday, March 20 with a showing
of the video tape made of Brother Ngqondi Masimini of the Pan African Congress
of South Africa when he spoke here in early March. Brother Masimini is a
freedom fighter and is intimately aware of the situation in Southern Africa.
Wednesday, there will be a presentation by the Afro-American Studies Dept.,
Thursday, there will be a panel discussion on WSUA at 8:00 P. M., Friday,
there will be a presentation by Afro-American Studies and Saturday, there
will be a fumd raising event (to be announced) and Sunday, The Urban League
Speaks, will have a special on South Africa on Channel 13.
Clothing will be collected from 11:00 - 3:00 in the Campus Center,
from 4:30 - 6:30 on the dinner lines on each quad, in the EOP Office all day,
in the Afro-American Studies Office, in the Puerto Rican Studies Dept. Office
and at each function planned this week. The drive itself will run for the
rest of the semester. We will take any articles of clothing available. We
prefer khakis and combat boots however.
Your contribution will help Africans insure for themselves that
they will have government by the majority dedicated to their well being. *
We thank you.
Adewale
Iiaison for Umoja
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