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Ephemera
United Farm Workers boycott poster, Seattle, 1975
This 1975 poster calls for the boycott of all lettuce and grapes sold without the UFW label, and calls out Gallo wine in particular for its contract with the Teamsters rather than the farm workers union. Printed on both sides, the poster also describes union-busting efforts by grape growers, the hazardous nature of farm work, and the success of the…
ID Number:2002.23.8.14.4
Date:1975
Ephemera
Smoke-In poster, Volunteer Park, Seattle, June 10, 1979
From the late 1960s into the 1980s, marijuana "smoke-ins" were held by legalization advocates, antiwar protesters, and others in big cities nationwide. The Youth International Party (Yippies) organized an early smoke-in attended by 25,000 in Washington, D.C. on July 4, 1970, a anti-war counter to the nearby "Honor America Day" festivities with Billy Graham and Bob Hope. The annual July…
ID Number:2002.23.8.15.1
Date:1979
Ephemera
Get Peaced Off! poster, January 14, 1991
After Iraq invaded and annexed Kuwait in August 1990, the United Nations Security Council and the Arab League passed resolutions giving Iraq a deadline of January 15, 1991 to leave Kuwait and authorizing military intervention if this did not occur. When Iraq did not withdraw, the United States and coalition forces from other countries began a heavy bombing campaign, codenamed…
ID Number:2002.23.9.20.1
Date:1991
Poster
November 12th Coalition March poster, November 12, 1983
During the Reagan administration in the 1980s, U.S. foreign policy was rooted in winning the Cold War and dispelling communism. U.S support was given to right-wing governments in Central America and the Caribbean in an effort to dispel Soviet influence and leftist regimes. In 1983, the November 12 Coalition organized a day of protest to bring attention to the violations…
ID Number:2002.23.11.11
Date:1983
Poster
National Day of Solidarity with Prisoners poster, September 13, 1978
The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 is one of the most well-known flashpoints of the prisoners' rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s. In Seattle, the Uprising was commemorated by marches and other actions on its anniversary over the subsequent several years. On September 6,1978, the newly formed Washington Coalition Against More Prisons asked state officials to immediately release 1000…
ID Number:2002.23.11.12
Date:1978