513 results for: Protests and Demonstrations
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Lesbian/Gay Freedom March poster, Seattle, June 27, 1981
The "Stonewall Rebellion 1981 Lesbian/Gay Freedom March" occurred outside the federal Courthouse in downtown Seattle on June 27, 1981. About 1,500 demonstrators participated in the event, criticizing leaders of the country's "Moral Majority" for their conservatism, which marchers said negatively affects the jobs, pay, housing, and life-style of queer people. The event was sponsored by the Stonewall Committee, a Seattle…
ID Number:2014.89.2
Date:1981
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Womxn's March on Seattle sign, January 21, 2017
The 2017 Womxn's March on Seattle was held in conjunction with other marches around the country to advocate for the rights of women. The march from Judkins Park to downtown Seattle set the city’s record for the largest demonstration of any kind, with an estimated 100,000 to 122,000 attendees.The two-sided sign pictured here was made and carried by the donor…
ID Number:2017.18.2
Date:2017
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Eat the State!, Vol. 4, No. 8, December 22, 1999
The Third Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was held in Seattle from November 30 to December 3, 1999. Trade ministers and other officials from the WTO’s 135 member nations met in an unsuccessful attempt to plan negotiations to further deregulate free trade. Tens of thousands of activists for many causes gathered to protest what they saw as…
ID Number:2018.3.3.6
Date:1999
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Jubilee 2000 Northwest coalition flier, 1999
The Third Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was held in Seattle from November 30 to December 3, 1999. Trade ministers and other officials from the WTO’s 135 member nations met in an unsuccessful attempt to plan negotiations to further deregulate free trade. Tens of thousands of activists for many causes gathered to protest what they saw as…
ID Number:2018.3.3.7
Date:1999
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"Be there!" WTO protest flier, 1999
The Third Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was held in Seattle from November 30 to December 3, 1999. Trade ministers and other officials from the WTO’s 135 member nations met in an unsuccessful attempt to plan negotiations to further deregulate free trade. Tens of thousands of activists for many causes gathered to protest what they saw as…
ID Number:2018.3.3.8
Date:1999
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"The only thing 'free' about 'free trade' is the freedom of corporations to rip-off workers!" broadside, 1999
The Third Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was held in Seattle from November 30 to December 3, 1999. Trade ministers and other officials from the WTO’s 135 member nations met in an unsuccessful attempt to plan negotiations to further deregulate free trade. Tens of thousands of activists for many causes gathered to protest what they saw as…
ID Number:2018.3.3.9
Date:1999
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"Don't let the WTO boil you like a frog!" broadside, 1999
The Third Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was held in Seattle from November 30 to December 3, 1999. Trade ministers and other officials from the WTO’s 135 member nations met in an unsuccessful attempt to plan negotiations to further deregulate free trade. Tens of thousands of activists for many causes gathered to protest what they saw as…
ID Number:2018.3.3.10
Date:1999
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"Be part of history: Join the big march for fair trade" flier, 1999
The Third Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was held in Seattle from November 30 to December 3, 1999. Trade ministers and other officials from the WTO’s 135 member nations met in an unsuccessful attempt to plan negotiations to further deregulate free trade. Tens of thousands of activists for many causes gathered to protest what they saw as…
ID Number:2018.3.3.20
Date:1999
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Rally Against Hate / No on Nine flier, 1992
Gay rights activists held a “Rally Against Hate” at Westlake Plaza in Seattle on October 27, 1992. The event protested Oregon's Measure 9, an initiative by the conservative activist organization Oregon Citizen’s Alliance (OCA) to prevent “special rights” for LGBT people by amending the state constitution. The proposed new provision equated homosexuality with pedophilia, sadism and masochism, and as “abnormal,…
ID Number:2019.69.31.1
Date:1992
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Flier for UW divestment rally at Red Square, July 1986
When South Africa’s National Party came to power in 1948, the white leadership put extreme laws in place forcing the country’s racial groups to live and develop separately. These “apartheid” laws caused much hardship and resentment. The growth of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States in the 1950s brought attention to apartheid, and in the 1970s and 80s,…
ID Number:2019.96.2.19.1
Date:1986