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Subject: [wa-afr] FW: UPDATE: Africa Action is Born! Announcement
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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 13:32:54 -0500
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Subject: UPDATE: Africa Action is Born! Announcement
ADNA Update: 010321
Message from: Africa Action
For contact information see also:
http://www/africapolicy.org
Dear ADNA members,
The long awaited moment has arrived! We are officially merged!
Following find the full announcement from ACOA, Africa Fund and
APIC, and in a second message find the press release.
Regards,
Vicki Ferguson
ADNA Communications Facilitator
Announcement to Colleagues
Africa Action is Born!
[Incorporating the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) est.1953,
The Africa Fund est.1966, and the Africa Policy Information Center
(APIC) est.1978]
Washington DC Office:
110 Maryland Ave, NE #508
Washington, DC 20002
Tel: 202-546 7961
Fax: 202-546 1545
website: http://www.africapolicy.org
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
New York Office:
50 Broad Street, #1701
New York, NY 10004
Tel: 212-785 1024
Fax: 212-785 1078
website: http://www.africapolicy.org
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
March 21, 2001
International Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination
The United States' oldest organizations devoted to analysis and
advocacy on African Affairs have successfully negotiated a
consolidation of three institutions into one: Africa Action.
The three organizations forming this new union date back to 1953,
the year South African liberation movement leader Walter Sisulu
requested the creation of an organization to educate Americans
about the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. We are the
oldest progressive American organizations devoted to educating and
mobilizing Americans to fight for positive US and international
policies toward Africa and to supporting African struggles for
political and economic justice, as well as combating global racism.
The American Committee on Africa was established in 1953 in New
York to support the liberation struggle in South Africa. Its mandate
grew rapidly to encompass solidarity work with independence
movements throughout the continent. It founded The Africa Fund in
1966 to provide research, publications and public education for
campaigns in support of African freedom. The Washington-based
APIC was created in 1978 as the education wing of the Washington
Office on Africa, itself originally an initiative of ACOA. Throughout
the past decade APIC has pioneered the use of information and
communication technology to support advocacy work on Africa. It
became an independent organization in 1998.
Over the years, The Africa Fund and ACOA helped develop strong
networks of Africa advocates among the African American faith
community and black State and Municipal elected officials. Both
networks were important participants in the anti-apartheid struggle.
They have been active this year in pressing for the cancellation of
Africa's illegitimate foreign debt and for equal access to life-saving
anti-AIDS medicines. The New York organizations have also
renewed a program to engage younger people in activism for Africa.
To these mobilizing strengths, APIC brings a proven capacity to
reach diverse public constituencies with timely information and
analysis of African affairs by e-mail and through our excellent
website. APIC has also helped develop and co-chairs the Advocacy
Network for Africa (ADNA), a 200 plus strong coalition of
organizations that monitor Congress and U.S. policy and advocate
for positive changes in U.S. policies. APIC has also organized and
moderated global electronic discussions on key social and
economic policy issues that are helping to identify and facilitate
communication among grassroots social movements in Africa
concerned with the same issues the new organization will be
working to address.
As Africa Action we will address Africa's priority issues by providing
information and mobilizing for action to help shape new US and
multilateral policies to support Africa's efforts to achieve economic,
political and social justice in the 21st century. Shortly we will launch
a campaign to support Africa's Right to Health as one of our major
efforts. We will continue to share information and analysis on a
wide range of African affairs to shape public policy debates. We
will expand and strengthen our networks, empowering them to
participate in influencing US and international policies toward Africa,
democratizing US foreign policy and holding international institutions
accountable for their actions.
The following are lists of the staff and Board of Directors of Africa
Action.
Africa Action Staff
Salih Booker, Executive Director (analyst and activist; media
commentator; former staff member in US Congress, TransAfrica,
The Ford Foundation and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign
Relations)
William Minter, Senior Research Fellow (researcher, analyst,
activist, author,information technology consultant; books include:
King Solomon's Mines Revisited, 1986, and Apartheid's Contras,
1994)
Aleah Bacquie, Program Director/Religious Action Network
(religious and civil rights activist; former Social Justice Ministry
Director at The Riverside Church in New York and Media Officer at
the South African Council of Churches)
Vicki Ferguson, Program Director/Public Education and Outreach
(activist combating racism, sexism, & homophobia; trainer in gender
analysis, and electronic and grassroots advocacy; former
conference and demonstrations coordinator)
Muntu Matsimela, Program Director/State and Municipal Network
(lawyer, activist and organizer on domestic and African human
rights issues; former managing attorney for The Osborne
Association providing legal services for HIV-positive prisoners and
their families)
Aisha Satterwhite, Program Director/Youth Action Network (editor,
researcher and writer; former Associate Editor of American Legacy
magazine)
Ann-Louise Colgan, Research Associate (MA Graduate of
University of Limerick, Ireland; former student leader on human
rights issues; with APIC since 1999)
Annie King, Financial Officer/Office Manager (Church
Administrator, One Way Church, NY; Financial Advisor, Project
People Foundation, NY; with ACOA/The Africa Fund since the
1960's)
Sarah Ciapponi-Godfrey, Administrative Associate (BA Graduate of
Trinity College, Washington, DC; with APIC since 1998)
Nechesa Morgan, Administrative Associate (BA Graduate of
American University, Washington, DC; with The Africa Fund since
2000)
Laura Bryant, Research Assistant (BA Graduate of Syracuse
University, NY; researcher in conflict resolution and faith-based
advocacy; former development worker with African and Latino
refugee communities in South Africa and the US)
Jeff Manchester, Bookkeeper (with APIC since 1995; former
Accountant for Kraft General Foods)
Africa Action Board of Directors
Rev. Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker, President (Senior Pastor, Canaan
Baptist Church, Harlem, NY; former Executive Director for Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership
Conference)
Adwoa Dunn-Mouton, Vice President (Consultant; former Staff
Director, Senate Subcommittee on Africa, US Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations)
Marvin Rich, Treasurer (Program Director, National Coalition
Against Censorship)
Carolyn Long, Secretary (Consultant; former Vice President,
InterAction, Washington, DC)
Elizabeth Calvin (Executive Secretary, Women and Children's
Office, Mission Contexts and Relationships, General Board of Global
Ministries, United Methodist Church)
Jim Cason (Journalist, La Jornada; Political Action Co-chair,
Association of Concerned Africa Scholars)
Fantu Cheru (Professor of African and Development Studies,
American University, Washington, DC; Independent Expert on
Effects of Structural Adjustment and Debt for the UN High
Commission for Human Rights)
Cecelie Counts (Assistant Director, Department of Education, AFL-
CIO)
James Early (Director, Cultural Heritage Policy, Center for Folklife
and Cultural Heritage, the Smithsonian Institute; Chair of the Board
of Directors, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, DC)
Bob Edgar (Professor, African Studies Department, Howard
University, Washington, DC)
Prexy Nesbitt (Program Officer, Center for International Solidarity,
AFL-CIO, Johannesburg, South Africa)
Andrew Norman (Former President, Scholarship, Education and
Defense Fund for Racial Equality)
Rev. Dr. Franklyn Richardson (Senior Pastor, Grace Baptist
Church, Mount Vernon, NY)
Venita Vinson (former Vice Chair, Colorado State Democratic
Party)
Canon Frederick B. Williams (Rector, Church of the Intercession,
NY)
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This message from Africa Action is distributed through the
Advocacy Network for Africa (ADNA).
Vicki Lynn Ferguson
Advocacy Network for Africa (ADNA)
Communications Facilitator
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c/o
Africa Action
[incorporating the American Committee on Africa (ACOA), The
Africa Fund, and the Africa Policy Information Center (APIC)]
visit our website: http://www.africapolicy.org/
Washington Office:
110 Maryland Ave., Suite 508 NE Washington, DC 20002
Tel:202-546-7961, Fax:202-546-1545 e-mail: [log in to unmask]
New York office:
50 Broad Street, Suite 1701, New York, NY 10004
Tel:212-785-1024, Fax:212-785-1078, e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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