Participants in the anti-apartheid movement recognized that solidarity with South Africans was essential to their pursuit of collective liberation. At the 1985 UC divestment public hearing, AFSCME member Steve Willett noted the following: “From the South African Embassy in Washington to South African Airlines in San Francisco. From divestment campaigns among public employees to the refusal to unload South African ships in San Francisco Harbor. We recognize . . . that so long as one worker is in chains, none of us are free.”
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Labor solidarity Soweto to Berkeley, May Day; Apartheid is a crime, protest is not; Short memory; Stop supporting South African racism; Freedom first [missing text] peace last; End U.C. ties.
Date: 1985
Attribution: Photograph by Craig Lee, 1985, Negative files of the Fang Family San Francisco Examiner Photograph Archive, BANC PIC 2006.029:1985-05-01.14.014--NEG, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.