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Peace...Please
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has a black and white background photo of children lying on their stomachs in a line, propped on their elbows. At the top is "Peace" in red with "...Please" over the A and C in black. A...

Union Street Spring Festival
1981

Poster printed on white paper. At the top is "Union Street / Spring Festival" in blue. Below the text is a stylized image of a woman''s profile standing in front of pink flowers on a green...

Art for Life
1999

Poster has black ink printed on white paper. White edges enclose a slightly gray background, bordered by black stick-like objects. At the top are semi-transparent images of a mask and a lion face...

May Day 2001
2001

Poster has a black printed background with a stylized image of gray and red featureless figures, some holding signs. At the top is "and on that May Day / the wokers rested" in red, with "rested"...

The Militant
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has a green printed background. At the top is "Your Fight / Is Our Fight" in black. At the center is a black and white photo of people gathered, shouting, pumping their fists in the air,...

untitled (pile of cars)
1969

Poster has yellow edges enclosing a black background. At the center is a black and yellow image of a pile of crushed cars piled in a junkyard. At the top is a stylized image of a paint bucket...

untitled (tall grass)
1969

Poster has red ink printed on orange paper. At the top is a stylized image of tall grass blowing in the wind. At the bottom left is a two-columned story entitled "A Terrirotial". At the bottom...

Festival of Underground Poetry
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has brown and green ink printed on yellow/tan paper. At the top is "the u.c. art museum / & the berkeley poets'' commune - / present / Festival Of / Under- / Ground / Poetry". At the...

Not a Pretty Picture
1984

Poster has black edges at the top and bottom with a central stylized image of a man sitting at a table with champagne and a roasted pig looking at a naked woman flaunting her behind. The man is...

untitled (Tommy's Joynt store front)
1969

Poster has blue ink printed on brown paper. At the top is a photo of the restaurant Tommy''s Joynt, with a Save Biafran Children billboard. At the bottom right, below the image, is a three-...

Red & Black Ball
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has a green background with a black, white and red photo of men and women in costumes at the bottom. Purple and black text at the top has information on The Revolutionary Sweetie''s Red...

untitled (2004 calendar)
2004

Left side of poster has a pastel yellow, purple and green background with flying doves. A quote by Martin Luther King, Jr. is printed over the top in black and reads "let us remember that / there...

Silent Storyteller
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has a black printed background. At the top is "Silent Storyteller" with a stylized image of three figures around a fire on a roof, with a tent to the right and a bridge in the background....

People's World
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has black ink printed on red paper. At the center is a fist formed by human figures. Surrounding the image is "read the People''s World - a working class newspaper" repeated to surround the...

Read the Militant
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has a black and white background image of a woman holding a stack of Militant newspapers and wearing a Vote Socialist Workers t-shirt, speaking to another person. At the top of the poster...

The Great Prairie Read-In & Dinner-Pail Supper
1986

Poster has black ink printed on yellow paper. At the top is "The Great Prairie Read-In / & Dinner-Pail Supper" follwoed by a stylized image of a man pulling grain in a field with two children...

Amy Goodman
2001

Poster has black and white background photos, tinted red. At the left is a woman in headphones speaking into a microphone. At the right is a group of soldiers. The top edge is red with presenters...

untitled (graffiti walls)
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has multicolor photo of walls with graffiti text and images.

Alice Walker
2006

This horizontally-oriented poster advertises "Alice / Walker / In Conversation With Democracy Now! Host / Amy / Goodman." Both names are in large, yellow text. There is a photograph of Walker with...

Celebrating the Grand Opening of Papersong
2000

Poster has white unprinted edges enclosing a blue background, lighter at the center and darker at the top and bottom. A green leaf-like border is at the left and right. At the top is a list of...

c. 1980

Poster has black ink printed on beige paper. At the top is a stylized image of a man standing on a platform addressing a large crowd, pointing at a large book behind him, behind held by massive...

The 9th Annual Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair
2004

Multi-color poster printed in muted tones of green, red, and blue on white paper. The page has an allover olive green background with a graphic at center showing cats in human clothing. An adult...

Anarchist Bookfair
2005

Poster has blcak and red ink printed on yellow paper/ At the top is "Bound Together Anarchist Collective Book Store Presents The / 10th Annual / Bay Area" followed by a banner with "Anarchist" in...

2nd Annual Berkeley Public Library Foundation Authors Dinner
2004

Poster has a multicolor,s tylized background image of a man and woman sitting at a table in a library with books stacked nearby and full wine glasses in front of them. At the top of the image is "...

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