2010.54.20933

Take It to Wall Street: Stop Nuclear Investments
1979
22 in HIGH x 16.875 in WIDE
(55.88 cm HIGH x 42.86 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.20933

Lower right edge has: "c Shad Alliance Anne Katz typsetting donated by jim box 562 cooper station, nyc 10003".

Poster has a black background overall. Center of poster has a photographic image / montage of a mushroom cloud where the top portion of the cloud contains a negative image of newspapers and currency in white and green. Poster reads from top to bottom: "Take It To / Wall Street / Stop Nuclear / Investments/ October 28 / Legal Rally: / Church Street / World Trade Center / 12:00 noon / Child Care provided. / October 29 / Non-violent / Civil Disobedience: / N.Y. Stock Exchange / Non-violence training / is required. / The Wall Street Action / 339 Lafayette St., New York, N.Y. 10012 - (212) 673-0680 / Box 962, Seabrook, New Hampshire O3874 - (603) 436-5414 / Fund Human Needs".

The Shad Alliance (the name was modeled after the many other antinuclear groups adopting a regional animal totem, such as Abalone Alliance or Clamshell Alliance; it was also punctuated as an acronym, SHAD, for "Sound and Hudson Against Nuclear Development") organized actions in the Hudson River, Manhattan, and Long Island region. [LMC]
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