518 results for: Protests and Demonstrations
Poster
"Labor in the Philippines" poster, September 1985
This poster promotes a presentation about the Philippine labor movement and the Kilusang Mayo Uno (May 1st Movement) or KMU, held on September 24, 1985 at the Labor Temple in Seattle. Maynardo Palarca, leader of the Center of Nationalist Trade Unions In Mindanao (CENTRUM), spoke about the organization's role in a one-day general strike on the island of Mindanao to…
ID Number:2002.23.2.15.1.1
Date:1985
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ACT UP/Seattle flier for World AIDS Day rally at Seattle Center, 1991
ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) is a grassroots political activist group founded in New York in 1987 to advocate for immediate and meaningful action to fight the AIDS crisis and end homophobia. The organization's tactics include the use of direct action, such as protest and civil disobedience, advocacy, and work to change legislation and public policy. The Seattle…
ID Number:2002.23.2.64.3
Date:1991
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Out in the Streets march poster, October 11, 1991
The flier seen here advertises a march to Westlake Center in Seattle on National Coming Out Day, planned by Queer Nation, a group committed to activism on issues of queer visibility, homophobia, and anti-queer violence.This item is one of many gathered by the Seattle-born author, artist, and chronicler of local drag culture, Donald Charles "Don" Paulson (1933-2012), in a collection…
ID Number:2002.23.2.73.1
Date:1991
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Draft resistance flier, Seattle, 1968
Though protest to conscription has been a feature of all American wars, draft resistance and draft evasion reached a historic peak during the Vietnam War. Draft Resistance-Seattle (DR), the local chapter of a larger national network, worked at Seattle colleges and high schools, alongside other antiwar groups, to organize young men eligible for military service to delay their induction. This…
ID Number:2002.23.3.1b.1
Date:1968
Document
Seattle Liberation Front Program for Action, circa 1970
The Seattle Liberation Front (SLF), organized by University of Washington professor Michael Lerner in January 1970, was a short-lived radical organization arising out of the student movements of the 1960s. The group became famous when conspiracy charges against seven of its members were filed in connection with a protest at the Federal Courthouse in downtown Seattle. On February 17, over…
ID Number:2002.23.3.4b.1
Date:1970
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Flier for Union of Sexual Minorities picket line, October 14, 1975
The flier pictured here gives detailed information to participants about a planned picket line outside Seattle's Public Safety Building to protest the "refusal of the police to begin to adequately protect the lives of gay people from assault on the streets." The event was sponsored by the Union of Sexual Minorities, an organization dedicated to raising awareness around issues related…
ID Number:2002.23.3.53.1
Date:1975
Poster
"People's Blockade" poster, Seattle, 1972
During the summer of 1972, the Seattle-based People’s Blockade Coalition organized numerous protests to block U.S. Navy ammunition ships headed to Vietnam. The vessels, sailing from the ammunition depot at Bangor, on the Kitsap Peninsula, had to pass through the Hood Canal Bridge. Sections of this floating bridge had to slide open for boats of all sizes, and protesters used…
ID Number:2002.23.3.61.1.1
Date:1972
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Poster for demonstration in Philadelphial, July 4, 1976
In the 1970s, several anti-war and anti-capitalist student protest movements coalesced into the Revolutionary Student Brigade. Nationwide, a number of universities, including the University of Washington, had Brigade chapters. As the 1976 Bicentennial of the signing of the Declaration of Independence approached, Brigade chapters urged members to travel to Philadelphia for marches and demonstrations. This UW poster strongly states the…
ID Number:2002.23.3.62.1
Date:1976
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Women's Fight for the Equal Rights Amendment flier, November 1976
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) would have amended the US Constitution to guarantee equal rights under the law regardless of sex. It was passed by both houses of Congress in 1972 but was not ratified by enough states before the deadline set by Congress. As a result, it was not added to the Constitution, but it has been reintroduced in…
ID Number:2002.23.3.68.1
Date:1976
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March for Women's Rights flier, Seattle, August 26, 1978
Women's Equality Day, celebrated in the U.S. on August 26, commemorates the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the right to vote. First celebrated in 1973, the day is proclaimed each year by the United States President, and marked by celebrations, as well as protests and marches.This flier advertises the August 26, 1978 Women's Rights March in Seattle,…
ID Number:2002.23.3.99.1
Date:1978