3224 results for: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Fans with sign at last Sonics home game before move to Oklahoma, April 13, 2008
The Seattle SuperSonics (commonly known as the Sonics) were a National Basketball Association (NBA) team based in Seattle, that played from 1967 until 2008. The Sonics competed in the league's Western Conference Pacific and Northwest divisions and won the NBA Championship in 1979. In 2008, the team's new ownership relocated to Oklahoma City, where they play as the Oklahoma City…
ID Number:2000.107.20080412.CD01.02.02.001
Date:2008
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Fans cheer on the Sonics with seconds left in their last home game, April 13, 2008
The Seattle SuperSonics (commonly known as the Sonics) were a National Basketball Association (NBA) team based in Seattle, that played from 1967 until 2008. The Sonics competed in the league's Western Conference Pacific and Northwest divisions and won the NBA Championship in 1979. In 2008, the team's new ownership relocated to Oklahoma City, where they play as the Oklahoma City…
ID Number:2000.107.20080412.CD01.02.02.002
Date:2008
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Sonics mascot Squatch at last home game before move to Oklahoma, April 13, 2008
The Seattle SuperSonics (commonly known as the Sonics) were a National Basketball Association (NBA) team based in Seattle, that played from 1967 until 2008. The Sonics competed in the league's Western Conference Pacific and Northwest divisions and won the NBA Championship in 1979. In 2008, the team's new ownership relocated to Oklahoma City, where they play as the Oklahoma City…
ID Number:2000.107.20080412.CD01.02.02.003
Date:2008
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Fan with sign at last Sonics home game before move to Oklahoma, April 13, 2008
The Seattle SuperSonics (commonly known as the Sonics) were a National Basketball Association (NBA) team based in Seattle, that played from 1967 until 2008. The Sonics competed in the league's Western Conference Pacific and Northwest divisions and won the NBA Championship in 1979. In 2008, the team's new ownership relocated to Oklahoma City, where they play as the Oklahoma City…
ID Number:2000.107.20080412.CD01.02.02.004
Date:2008
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MEChA rally poster, May 1977
The activist Chicano student organization MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztlan) was founded in Santa Barbara, California, in 1969, and was active at high schools and colleges for 50 years. MEChA worked to promote Chicanx culture, advocated for Chicano Studies programs, faculty, and staff, and fought for social justice. In 2019, MEChA student leaders voted to drop the words "Chicano"…
ID Number:2002.23.1.43.2
Date:1977
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Rider Alert, plan for nuclear war threat leaflet, April 1982
This leaflet, made to resemble a bus rider alert pamphlet, uses satire to protest against US nuclear weapon policy. The front reproduces an article from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer from February 27, 1982 about plans to use Metro buses to evacuate residents from Seattle in the event of nuclear attack, while the inside text describes the absurdity and futility of such…
ID Number:2002.23.1.73.1
Date:1982
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Handbill for rally protesting proposed youth curfew, Seattle, July 21, 1986
After Seattle’s 1985 Teen Dance Ordinance tried to severely tighten up regulations on youth dance clubs and musical events, citing drug use, sexual abuse, and underage drinking, the Youth Defense Campaign and other groups organized to try to repeal these and other laws affecting youth, like a 1986 proposed teen curfew.This July 1986 Youth Defense Campaign urges people to attend…
ID Number:2002.23.2.24.2
Date:1986
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Handbill for youth rally in protest of teen dance regulations, Seattle, February 4, 1987
Although the city of Seattle passed its first regulations on teen dance events in 1967, enforcement was minimal. In 1985, the city’s Teen Dance Ordinance tried to severely tighten up regulations on youth dance clubs and musical events, citing drug use, sexual abuse, and underage drinking. This led to several decades of protest. Opponents pointed to the effect this had…
ID Number:2002.23.2.30.1
Date:1987
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Cedar River: A Call for Action flier, May 1990
The City of Seattle took ownership of much of the Cedar River Watershed in 1899 to use to supply drinking water to the greater Seattle area. Over the years, haphazard logging continued on both private and city lands in the watershed. In 1990, with the growth of the environmental movement, the city’s proposed sale of the 73-acre Sugar Bear tract…
ID Number:2002.23.2.55.2
Date:1990
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Make the bosses take the losses! flier, Seattle, May 1975
In May 1975, Eddie Bauer, a prominent Seattle clothing manufacturer, fired over 70 garment workers without notice. Most were women - members of the United Garment Workers Union Local 17. On May 17, some two-dozen people picketed the downtown Seattle Eddie Bauer store in protest. The laid off workers blamed the company for firing them because of their union membership,…
ID Number:2002.23.3.54.1
Date:1975