Have You Heard From Johannesburg: From Selma to Soweto (5 of 7)

"From Selma to Soweto" is part of a powerful new documentary series by two-time Academy Award nominee Connie Field that shines light on the global citizens movements that took on South Africas apartheid regime. Long one of South Africa's most important and powerful allies, the United States becomes a key battleground in the anti-apartheid movement as African-Americans lead the charge to change the governments policy toward the apartheid regime. Strengthened through years of grassroots organizing during the civil rights movement, black leaders and their allies take on U.S. foreign policy on South Africa, directing campaigns in corporate boardrooms, universities, embassies, and finally in the U.S. Congress itself, where a stunning victory is won against the formidable opposition of President Ronald Reagan. African-Americans alter U.S. foreign policy for the first time in history, and the U.S. once the backbone of support for apartheid South Africa as its ally in the Cold War finally imposes sanctions on Pretoria. European sanctions follow, and with them, the political isolation of the apartheid regime.

"From Selma to Soweto," released as an independent feature film in 2006 under the title "Apartheid and the Club of the West," received Best Feature Documentary Awards from both the Canadian Film Board and the Pan African Film Festival.

For more information about the series, visit http://www.clarityfilms.org. To get involved in the global engagement campaign around the series, please visit http://activevoice.net/haveyouheard.html.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• apartheid
• racism
• South
• Africa
• activism
• Johannesburg
• social
• justice
• documentary
• divestment
• sanctions

[intrepeco]

@BobReidy Dont forget the Uranium, Diamonds and Gold that was was facilitating your Stock Market Exchange from US companies and companies from friendly countries .. Today you still have Barrick, Anglo-American and De Beers still doing all the necessary destruction in African countries.

You guys never stop killing and messing people up. And then send Peaxcce corps (in disguise of good people) trying saving Africans from themselves! Thats DUMB.

[BobReidy]

What you just posted has all been debunked.Read Deory Murdocks on Ronald Reagan and Larry Elders.They both debunk your claims.

[knoblester]

You are a fool BobReidy. This is the same time we were enacting sanctions against Cuba; we didn't seem to have a problem with those. That excuse is just, well, an excuse. Reagan was an immoral man who cared little for the disadvantaged, whether it be the poor or blacks. He identified with the leaders of Apartheid and did not care for the plight of those suffering, kinda like he didn't care about victims of AIDS(religious reasons) or American blacks by employing the southern strategy.

[BobReidy]

The US did not support Aparthied.They did not want to envoke sanctions because they thought sanctions would hit the poor the hardest.Eventually the US realized they were needed because constructive engagement was not working.

[kaalde88]

@SockpopINC My friend I think you are confusing racism to election rigging. South Africa was under aparthied more than 300 years, and then you compare it with few days of anti-goverment rallies. I would suggest you to read history before you comment on such historical events.

[BobReidy]

Mugabee you are right about but Mandela is a saint.If he were Catholic,he would cannonized imediatley after he died.He is to South Africa what Michael Collins was to Ireland.

[Sunclief]

@BobReidy No he isn't he is a sadisticaly evil creature. It was the British and Americans who made a martyre out of people like Robert Mugabe and Nelson Mandela

[BobReidy]

Mandela is a saint.

[BobReidy]

Nelson Mandela is a saint you bastard.

[Sunclief]

After watching all six of these video's I have not seen one picture or even one comment about the ANC and their mass intimidation through the necklace methodes and killing of their own people you do not see them with their weapons and not even mension of their limpit mines and bombing of shopping malls and the placing of Limpit mines in Rubbish bins outside busy pubs, banks and shopping malls? Talk about a biased one sided view filled with lies and propaganda!