community struggle

Education With Strings Attached
Late 20th Early 21st Century

This poster is titled "Education / With Strings / Attached." It features a brown, black, and white illustration of a stack of books tied to a rifle with a "U.S. Government" check. Black text below...

Veritas
Late 20th Early 21st Century

This poster features a red coat of arms shield with a rifle, a bulldozer, and a police baton on it. "Veritas" is printed in very large text below.

504
c. 2005

This poster has a white and yellow background with floral wallpaper patterns and clouds. There is a black, circular image at the top of the page with "503" above a storm cloud at the top and "504...

Untitled
Late 20th Early 21st Century

This poster advertises a "National Day of Protest October 22" to "Stop Police brutality, Repression, / & the Criminalization of a Generation". This message is printed in several languages....

A Letter to My Family
c. 1992

This horizontally-oriented poster is printed in magenta on gray paper. There are two circles of natural and manmade environments joined by a tree in the center of the page. Text inside the circles...

Trust
c. 2005

This poster is divided into quarters in a checkerboard pattern of black and red sections. Each quarter contains an image or text. The top right corner contains a black illustration of a hand...

Shut Up!
Late 20th Early 21st Century

This white poster features illustrations of stick figure people with x''s in their eyes holding their hands to their faces. Very large, red text at the top of the page reads "Shut Up!". Black text...

Street Academy
Late 20th Early 21st Century

page continues with "School Teaches / Kids about Life" with a happy face.This is a light blue and green poster with faint, superimposed images of steps leading to a door, students, and teachers in...

National Lawyers Guild 50 years Fighting for Social Justice
c. 1987

This horizontally-oriented poster has a white background and an illustration of a woman reading a newspaper in front of a television. Text next to the television reads "Attorney general / Edwin...

Independent Learning School
Late 20th Early 21st Century

This poster is printed on thick, textured orange paper. It includes an ornate, black frame with legs at the bottom and text inside. The text introduces the "Independent Learning / School /...

School Wars
1980

This poster has a white margin around a black and white illustration of "School / Wars". There are caricatures of people with large heads holding signs, a newspaper with the headline "Substance",...

Power Shift
Late 20th Early 21st Century

This poster promotes "a Festive Rally / for Clean, Affordable, Public Power". It lists events at the "State Capital building, Sacramento" rally as an "Alternative energy fair, live bands, theater...

100 Years of Caring
c. 1993

This is a white poster with a elaborate gold and red frame surrounding the central printed portion. The background inside the frame is brown and there are 7 sepia-toned photographs of people...

Student Protest In The 80's
1987

This is a black and white poster filled with an out-of-focus photograph of protest activity. Large, white text across the center of the page reads "Student Protest In The 80''s". Small text in the...

Work For The Future
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has a silver color background with a black line border and black text and an image. At the top is "Work / For The / Future." followed by a central graphic of a hand drawing a line with a...

Celebrating 10 Years
1997

Poster has a black printed border at every edge with pink at the top left and right and orange at the center and bottom left and right. The orange has handprints with smiles on the palms. At the...

untitled (Asian man in glasses)
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has a black and white photo of an Asian man in glasses with his elbows resting on a table with microphones positioned in front of him.

Stop Police Brutality
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster shows a stylized gray faceless police officer with a gun in front of him. In the barrell of the gun is the face of another figure. A splatter of blood surrounds the weapon. Across the top...

The big game
1998

Poster printed on light gray paper. Imgage depicts a "Cal" bear holding a UC banner and a megaphone with two skeletons behind the bear and missiles around the bear. In parantheses at the top of...

Cancer: A Profitable Operation
1979

Top of poster has a black and white photo of a large graveyard with a city skyline in the background. At the left, near the bottom of the photo is a black tombstone shape with "Cancer: / A /...

untitled (child on a swing)
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has a black and white background image of a little girl with one leg over the platform of a swing and the other on the lumpy ground. At the top left is a quote by Montessori in black...

Yes On 1
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has black ink printed on white paper. Left and right edges have vertical lines of holes on a strip attached by a perforated line. There is a horizontal perforated line through the center of...

Fuck The Pigs
1991

Top of poster has a blue background with a blue, red and white image of a clown''s face in a wide, open mouth smile. The clown''s hat reads "S.F.P.D." Below the image, at the bottom of the white...

Freedom of Speech
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has a black background with a central, vertical inverted yellow triangle. At the top in the yellow is "Freedom / Of Speech / Call For Entries / Berkeley Art Project" in black followed by a...

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