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Rush Scores
1995

Poster printed on white paper. At the center is a multicolor, stylized cartoon-like image of Rush Limbaugh in a football uniform running across the goal line with a cigar. At the top and bottom...

Circa 1998

Campaign poster for Jerry Brown for Mayor of Oakland. Poster is dark green with yellow Oakland logo (oak tree) with "Oaklanders First" around the tree.

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Lenin-October
1987

Poster with red Cyrillic text in red at top and bottom. At center is an illustration of Lenin with a red flag with Cyrillic text in white and hammer and sickle in background. "SAMPLE" has been...

Annihiland Presents...Still Life in the Inner Circle
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster set up like a comic strip, with title panel at top left and six rows with four images. Each image is a black and white photograph that is a still shot from a movie. Images have speech...

Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster with black text on green paper, with illustration of Constance Markievicz and a quotation from her above.

Self Made
1984

Poster with quote from Lenin underneath a stylzied drawing of a human figure in black, pale green, yellow, and red with the words "SELF MADE" below.

Two Local Chapters in the Spectacle of Decomposition
1979

Poster with an excerpt from a Chris Shutes publication, Two Local Chapters in the Spectacle of Decomposition. Text is in three columsn with a Daniel Denvert quote at top center and a photograph of...

The Workers Struggle Has No Borders
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster with Spanish text in red bar at top, black text reading "The Workers Struggle Has No Borders" in black next to a stylized image of Che Guevara in black on white background, and web address...

Untitled
1984

Poster with colorful art by Dough Minkler and text from German poet Bertolt Brecht. Text in black below art. Art is somewhat abstract with areads of green, gray, yellow, red, black, and brown,...

There's lots of good reason to end capitalism.
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster with red text at bottom. Top part of the poster is a red dollar sign on blue, but both the red and blue are made up of worlds, logos, and drawing (such as Vietnam, Profits!, KKK, CIA,...

Register to Vote In Berkeley
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster urging students at Berkeley to register to vote on campus. Poster has text in black, text on signs at bottom, and an illustration of a Doonesbury character at top left. Paper is yellow.

Untitled
1972

Poster with illustration of the Statue of Liberty with a black flag held over her head in her right arm. Left arm is holding a globe. Below are broked pieces of a chain/shackles. Background is...

Bill of Rights Void Where Prohibited By Law
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster with a facsimile of the U.S. Bill of Rights documents with "Void Where Prohibited By Law" stamped in Red on top of it.

Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists
1984

Poster for the film "Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists," with two women and one man standing in front of an American flag. There is a red hammer and sickle in the "R" in "Red." Same image...

Lenin-October
1987

Reproduction of a Soviet poster with an illustration by A. Kapitan. Illustration is a stylized Lenin in red, with the hammer and sickle on a white circle. Cyrillic text above, below, and at right...

Fight War Not Wars End Police Oppression
1985

Poster with a very dark street scene with two figures at center and right dressed in punk outfits. At left is yellow graffiti on a wall that reads "Fight War Not Wars End Police Oppression."

Larry Shoup For City Council
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Campaign poster for Larry Shoup for City Council. Poster has bright orange text on a dark blue background, with white border. "Progressive Leadership" in white at bottom.

Warren Hinckle for Mayor
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Election poster for Warren Hinckle for mayor. Poster is white with maroon, blue, and red text. At center is a color photograph of a plate with poop and campaign buttons for Roger Boas, John...

Vote Today For Ronald V. Dellums
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Campaign poster for Ron Dellums, running for Representative in Congress, 8th District. Poster is white with green text, surrounded by a thick black border. At center is a black and white...

Fight The Repeal of District Elections...Register to vote.
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster with a stylized cityscape of San Francisco in blue, with text about registering to vote and fighting the repeal fo district elections. Text in blue on pale yellow paper.

Dellums for Congress Denton for BART
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Election poster for Ron Dellums for Congress, Denton for BART, and voting Yes on "W." Poster has blue text on a white background, with two horizontal bars--one at top and one above"Vote Tuesday...

1979

Election poster supporting voting Yes on A & B, to get Berkeley money out of South Africa. Poster has a gray, black, and white stylized illustration of a human head with chains and dollar...

1977

Election poster supporting voting Yes on B & F in a Berkeley election. Poster has red block text on white paper. The words "Stop Ren" are on an octagonal stop sign.

Keep Maudelle Shirek on the Berkeley City Council!
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Election poster for Maudelle Shirek for Berkeley City Council. Poster is white with dark blue text and a black and white photo of Shirek with Jessie Jackson at top left.

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