Boycott

Leaflet produced for the AAM’s Boycott Apartheid 89 campaign. It asked shoppers not to buy Cape or Outspan fruit.

This conference gave London anti-apartheid supporters information about the AAM’s Boycott Apartheid 89 campaign. It was one of 18 regional meetings held all over Britain to mobilise support.

Regional anti-apartheid committees organised 18 area conferences all over Britain to mobilise support for the AAM’s 'Boycott Apartheid 89’ campaign. This meeting in Sheffield was for activists in Yorkshire and Humberside, north-east England.

This letter from Islington AA Group asked for support for pickets of the local Chapel Market branch of Sainsbury’s, planned as part of the AAM’s national ‘Boycott Apartheid 1989’ campaign. It also appealed for cash to pay for an advertisement in the Islington Gazette in response to an ad from a group calling itself the Social Democrats against Terrorism, attacking the ANC. 

This issue of Bath AA Group’s Newsletter proposed a programme for local activity in support of the AAM’s ‘Boycott Apartheid 1989’ campaign. It publicised regular pickets of Sainsbury’s and a role-playing workshop for new members to help them deal with ‘unfriendly comments’.

Anti-apartheid supporters in Maidstone, Kent asked shoppers to boycott Cape Fruit as part of the AAM’s ‘Boycott Apartheid 89’ campaign. All over Britain local AA groups talked to shoppers and motorists outside supermarkets and Shell garages.

Local AA groups all over Britain organised activities as part of the AAM’s ‘Boycott Apartheid 1989’ campaign. Tyneside AA Group asked the supermarket chain William Laws to reinstate a local worker sacked for refusing to handle South African fruit. This leaflet publicised its Boycott Conference and a fundraising concert for workers on strike at BTR in South Africa.

Poster advertising a benefit concert at the Tabernacle in Notting Hill, West London organised by Notting Hill Anti-Apartheid Group. The gig featured ska/rap band Ruff Ruff and Ready. The AAM received no government or large institutional grants and depended on membership subscriptions and events like this for funding.