Protest planned to oppose Clinton's visit
A coalition of unions and political groups,
meeting for a conference in Johannesburg, announced March 15
that they would protest U.S. President Bill Clinton's visit to
South Africa between March 25 and 28.
The conference issued a statement saying that Clinton's
"neo-liberal policies and his country's influence in the World
Bank, International Monetary Fund and World Trade Organization
are explicitly against Africa's interests."
Twenty-nine worker and community groups endorsed the
statement. They included most of the country's major labor
unions and the South African Communist Party.
Clinton's Africa Trade Bill would "recolonize Africa," the
document said. Washington's refusal to cancel African debt
"subjugates innocent people to perpetual misery."
-Andy McInerney
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