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Anti-Apartheid Network fonds
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Activities

Series documents the Anti-Apartheid Network’s (AAN) anti-apartheid activities and campaigns from 1985 to 1990. Particularly represented in the series are: the Shell boycott, which included pickets at Shell stations and a successful proposal for the Vancouver City Council to boycott the City buying Shell products for its vehicles; and AAN’s purchase of a billboard at the intersection of Broadway and Cambie for Nelson Mandela’s 70th birthday, as well as a birthday party that shut down the streets with its several hundred attendees. Other actions undertaken by AAN are also represented, including boycotts, protests, letter-writing campaigns, speaker events, and workshops.

Series consists of newspaper clippings, memoranda, flyers and leaflets, notes, posters, pins, photographs, reports, and other material created as part of organizing AAN activities and evaluating the public response.

Administration

Series documents the organizational structuring of and meetings held by AAN. Meetings were held monthly and were open to the public. At these meetings, members generally provided updates on ongoing campaign and protest actions, planned future activities, evaluated previous events, suggested targets for action, reviewed finances and grant applications, and addressed any other business relevant to AAN’s activities.

Series consists of meeting minutes, memoranda, notes, by-laws, and other material arising from AAN’s monthly and annual meetings.

Anti-Apartheid Network fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1867
  • Fonds
  • [1981?]-[1997?]

Fonds documents the Anti-Apartheid Network’s (AAN) operations from 1985 to 1990, including its meetings, coordinated activities and campaigns, and communications with other anti-apartheid organizations. It consists of memoranda, correspondence, news clippings, newsletters, meeting minutes, flyers, posters, pins, and other material produced as the AAN coordinated anti-apartheid action undertaken in B.C.

Fonds is arranged into three series: Administration; Activities; and Publications, readings, and other materials.

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"An injury to one is an injury to all"

CTF Wksp. For Union Editors - June/July 1990

File documents a communications seminar held in Johannesburg, South Africa from 18 June - 8 July, 1990. The seminar was a project by the Canadian Teachers' Federation (CTF) with the African Teachers' Association of South Africa (ATASA), and potentially with the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession (WCOTP).

Publications, readings, and other materials

Series consists of material collected by AAN to inform its activities and keep up to date on the anti-apartheid movement. It includes newsletters, reports, and correspondence from other anti-apartheid groups, such as Canada–South Africa Cooperation, the International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa (IDAFSA), and the South Africa Network. It also includes files with materials collected around particular subjects, such as education in South Africa or the Black Consciousness Movement.

Series consists of newspaper clippings, articles, newsletters, leaflets, reports, correspondence, video cassettes, and other material collected by AAN to stay apprised of the anti-apartheid movement’s focuses, successes, and activities.

Regional Wkshp. / National Conference Montreal

File contains materials from: the Workshop on Apartheid & Southern Africa, organized by the Anti-Apartheid Network and held at Christchurch Cathedral on 17 January 1987; and Taking Sides in Southern Africa, a conference held in Montreal in February 1987.

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