518 results for: Protests and Demonstrations
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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
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Remember Soweto! Free South Africa! flier, 1988
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:2019.96.2.19.2
Date:1988
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Charlie James in front of Colman School building, Seattle, December 5, 1985
In 1985, a group of Black activists led by Charlie James, Earl Debnam, Omari Tahir-Garrett, and Michael Greenwood began occupying the abandoned Colman School in the Central Area in order to pressure the city to renovate it into a museum of African-American history. Despite the building's lack of heat and running water, the occupiers stayed for eight years, making this…
ID Number:2020.42.1.16.01.30
Date:1985
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"African American Museum" sign on door of Colman School, Seattle, November 25, 1985
In 1985, a group of Black activists led by Charlie James, Earl Debnam, Omari Tahir-Garrett, and Michael Greenwood began occupying the abandoned Colman School in the Central Area in order to pressure the city to renovate it into a museum of African-American history. Despite the building's lack of heat and running water, the occupiers stayed for eight years, making this…
ID Number:2020.42.1.16.02.44
Date:1985
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Muckleshoot memorial and protest march on Highway 164, February 27, 1991
On February 27, 1991, a group of Muckleshoot tribal members held a march along Highway 164, also called the Auburn-Enumclaw Road. The march was a memorial to tribal members who had been hit and killed by cars on the highway, as well as a protest to lower the speed limit to 45 mph on Highway 164. Despite high pedestrian traffic…
ID Number:2020.42.3.05.03.01
Date:1991
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Muckleshoot memorial and protest march alongside cars on Highway 164, February 27, 1991
On February 27, 1991, a group of Muckleshoot tribal members held a march along Highway 164, also called the Auburn-Enumclaw Road. The march was a memorial to tribal members who had been hit and killed by cars on the highway, as well as a protest to lower the speed limit to 45 mph on Highway 164. Despite high pedestrian traffic…
ID Number:2020.42.3.05.03.11
Date:1991
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Crosses along route of Muckleshoot memorial and protest march, February 27, 1991
On February 27, 1991, a group of Muckleshoot tribal members held a march along Highway 164, also called the Auburn-Enumclaw Road. The march was a memorial to tribal members who had been hit and killed by cars on the highway, as well as a protest to lower the speed limit to 45 mph on Highway 164. Despite high pedestrian traffic…
ID Number:2020.42.3.05.05.15
Date:1991