FPIF News | South Africa: A New Generation of Stuggle

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Africa News from FPIF
http://www.fpif.org/

July 7, 2004
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Introducing a new commentary from the Foreign Policy In Focus

After a Decade of Democracy in South AfricaA New Generation of Struggle By
Andre Banks and Devanne Brookins

It took U.S. activists decades of campaigning against the apartheid regime
in South Africa to arrive at strategies that, when combined with a commitment
to transnational relationships, changed more than individual attitudes. This
anti-apartheid movement changed the balance of power in the U.S., the future
of South Africa, and lives on both sides of the Atlantic.

Ten years later, the threat of moving backward is quite real and the stakes
are even higher. In place of an apartheid state we now face a Global Apartheid
that demands a U.S. movement at its best and most effective.

Devanne Brookins currently works as Africa Program Associate at Global Rights
(formerly the International Human Rights Law Group, with a programmatic focus
on Burundi, Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
http://www.ihrlg.org

Andre Banks is an Assistant Director of the Africas Right to Health Campaign
at Africa Action, the nation's oldest organization focused on African affairs.
http://www.africaaction.org/

See new FPIF commentary online at:
http://www.fpif.org/commentary/2004/0407struggle.html

With printer friendly PDF version at:
http://www.fpif.org/pdf/gac/0407struggle.pdf

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