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{SPEAKER name="Freda Brown"}
The WIDF delegation has just participated in a seminar
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on women and disarmament in Vienna.
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This seminar brought together women from 33 organizations,
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from 23 countries.
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They were a widely different ideological and political outlook.
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Many represented organizations with whom we had never worked
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or even met before.
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There were such organizations as the International Council of Women,
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the World Lutheran Federation,
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the Young Women's Christian Association,
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Catholic women and Pax Christi.
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One of the WIDF delegates was Monty [[??]]
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from the woman's section of the ANC South Africa.
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She deeply moved the participants by her speech.
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Telling of the suffering and the struggle of the people of Southern Africa,
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and she was able to have the demands of the liberation
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movement included in the final report.
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Dear friends, the aim of our meeting is in the first place,
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to intensify solidarity with the women and the people of South Africa,
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Zimbabwe, Namibia, their liberation movements,
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the ANC, the Patriotic Front of Zimbabwe and ZAPU.
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We salute their heroic struggle and we reaffirm our solidarity.
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International support for the liberation struggle of southern Africa
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at the same time implies building a vast movement
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of solidarity with the frontline states.
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Transcription Notes:
---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-12-29 19:37:22 ZAPU-- The Patriotic Front in Zimbabwe was a coalition of two African Leadership parties: the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU) and the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU)[2] which had worked together to fight against white minority rule in Rhodesia. One name is difficult to identify - the ANC South African delegate to WIDF in 1977 in Vienna - tried to find her name via google but was unsucessful.