RESULOUTION ON NAMIBIA

Micah 6:8

            Hear what the Lord says:

“He has showed you, O people, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?”

WHEREAS the rightful inhabitants of Namibia are suffering from three types of violence; apartheid, economic exploitation and collusion by the silence and inactivity in Western countries; and

WHEREAS religious organizations suffer persecution and sixty-six per cent of the blacks in Namibia are Lutherans; and

WHEREAS the International Court of Justice at the Hague, as well as the U.N. General Assembly has declared that South Africa’s control over Namibia is illegal (General Assembly resolution – 2145 of October 1966 – House 1971); and

WHEREAS the people of South Africa refuse release of the Namibians from the present regime of injustice; and

WHEREAS Namibian church leaders have appealed for support from the international church community;

BE IT RESOLVED that the Lutheran Student Movement send letters of support to church leaders in Namibia; and

BE IT RESOLVED that the Lutheran Student Movement Council members begin to receive information on Namibia from Rev. Ed May’s office of World Community LCUSA; and

BE IT RESOLVED that local LSM groups shall designate one individual whose responsibility is to keep abreast of the political, economic, and social conditions of the people of Namibia.  These local representatives plus a national coordinator, selected at the annual convention, shall constitute a task force on Namibia for the 1976 annual convention; and

BE IT RESOLVED that LSM members write to their local senators and Congress people to support our State Department and U.N. representatives on their attempt to establish Namibian independence; and

BE IT RESOLVED that LSM obtain a film, Last Grave Dimbaza, from the World Council of Churches to be shown at the gathered assembly next year.  The film is on the expression of apartheid in South Africa.