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Anti-Apartheid Demonstration Against South African Rugby Team I Anti-Apartheid Demonstration Against South African Rugby Team I
Date: 9/26/1981Call Number: V 292Format: UmaticProducers: WPIX TVCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Corporate news footage of anti-Apartheid activists demonstating against the arrival in the US of the all-white South African Springbok rugby team. For similar footage, see V 293 and V 294. See V 295 for digital video of all three news reports.
Anti-Apartheid Demonstration Against South African Rugby Team II Anti-Apartheid Demonstration Against South African Rugby Team II
Date: 9/26/1981Call Number: V 293Format: UmaticProducers: ABC TVCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Additional corporate news footage of anti-Apartheid activists demonstating against the arrival in the US of the all-white South African Springbok rugby team. For similar footage, see V 292 and V 294. See V 295 for digital video of all three news reports.
Anti-Apartheid Demonstration Against South African Rugby Team III Anti-Apartheid Demonstration Against South African Rugby Team III
Date: 9/26/1981Call Number: V 294Format: UmaticProducers: CBS TVCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Additional corporate news footage of anti-Apartheid activists demonstating against the arrival in the US of the all-white South African Springbok rugby team. For similar footage, see V 292 and V 293. See V 295 for digital video of all three news reports.
Anti-Apartheid Demonstration Against South African Rugby Team (Collected) Anti-Apartheid Demonstration Against South African Rugby Team (Collected)
Date: 9/26/1981Call Number: V 295Format: Mini DVCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Same as V 292, V293, and V 294, collected in digital format. Corporate news footage of anti-Apartheid activists demonstating against the arrival in the US of the all-white South African Springbok rugby team.
Boycott - The Gods Must Be Racist Boycott - The Gods Must Be Racist
Publisher: Art Against ApartheidFormat: FlyerCollection: Anti-Apartheid Solidarity
Asking people to picket the Elmwood Theater in Berkeley and Vogue Theater in San Francisco against film The Gods Must Be Crazy
Shut Down South African Airways Shut Down South African Airways
Format: EphemeraCollection: Anti-Apartheid Solidarity
Card calling for demonstrations against South African Airways in San Francisco on second Wednesday of each month
Emergency Demonstration Emergency Demonstration
Publisher: Campaign to Shut Down South African Airways, Freedom Rising Africa Solidarity CommitteeDate: 8/17/1985Volume Number: 17-AugFormat: FlyerCollection: Anti-Apartheid Solidarity
Calling for demonstration in San Francisco against South African Airways
Down With South African Airways Down With South African Airways
Publisher: Freedom Rising! Africa Solidarity CommitteeDate: 1/14/1985Volume Number: 14-JanFormat: FlyerCollection: Anti-Apartheid Solidarity
Calling for demo of South African Airways, 360 Post, SF, as part of movement against apartheid
Demonstrate! Shut Down South African Airways Demonstrate! Shut Down South African Airways
Publisher: Freedom Rising! Africa Solidarity CommitteeDate: 3/13/1985Volume Number: 13-MarFormat: PamphletCollection: Anti-Apartheid Solidarity
Calls for demonstration to shut down South African Airways
Demonstrate Against IBM Demonstrate Against IBM
Publisher: Freedom Rising! Africa Solidarity CommitteeDate: 6/21/1984Volume Number: 21-JunFormat: FlyerCollection: Anti-Apartheid Solidarity
Call for demo at IBM Building in Oakland - no computer to South Africa