2010.54.3160

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Death Has Many Faces, We Demand Life!
Death Has Many Faces, We Demand Life!
1971
22.00 in HIGH x 17.00 in WIDE
(55.88 cm HIGH x 43.18 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.3160

Lower left corner has an Allied Printing union label with: "19".





Poster has a green border overall. Background of poster has a large stylized drawing of a human skull. Overlaid on the drawing are photographs of children in tattered clothes and parents holding sleeping or injured children. The top of the poster has the text: "Death Has Many Faces / We Demand Life! / April 2,3,4,--- / April 5, mule train to Wall Street / Washington D.C / april 24 - may 5". The bottom of the poster has the text: "Peoples Coalition for Peace & Justice / 1209 Vermont Avenue, N.W. Room 900 / Washington, D.C. 20005 / (202) 737-8600". Note the "Mule Train to Wall Street" action- this was part of larger anti-war event in D.C. by the "Mayday Tribe" that included Yippies whose goal was to shut down the government on May 3rd. President Nixon mobilized police and National Guard troops and 7,000 arrests ended the protests. [LMC]
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