2010.54.8208

We Bring the War Home to Win the Future
c. 1970
16.88 in HIGH x 11.00 in WIDE
(42.86 cm HIGH x 27.94 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.8208

"1970" handwritten in graphite on verso, bottom left corner.

Poster printed with red and purple ink on white paper. Four graphics of homemade incendiary devices appear on the page within angular red borders (from top right, counter-clockwise): a matchbook, a Molotov cocktail (gasoline bomb), a Sterno device (denatured and jellied alcohol) with embedded shrapnel, and a combination Molotov and Sterno bomb. Small text in several paragraphs appears at top left and center right. Text includes: "We bring the war home to win the future. The streets of Berkeley, the bombs of the bay, the righteous violence that signals the beginning of the violent 70's, and the hearts, hopes and struggles of the world's people are for the destruction of the Pig imperialist state, its white agents, lackeys and profits."; "We fight now, to help the Cong, to help the Blacks, to help ourselves to smash the pig. It is not possible for whites to move too fast, to do too much to aid in the destruction of the pig empire." Text and graphics also on verso.
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