violence

We Resist Colonization
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has a stylized background image of the face of a brown female figure with red features and a white head scarf, set on a brown printed background. Across the top of the poster is "Genocide...

It's About Domestic Violence
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has a central orange background. At the bottom is a red background with stylized green figures stumbling along. At the bottom left is a green semi-circle with blue boxes at the bottom....

Mid-Peninsula Support Network
1989

Poster shows a stylized colorful quilt. At the center is a blue patch with "Mid-Peninsula / Support Network / 10th Anniversary" with birds and circles filled with featureless figures. Surrounding...

Police Brutality Did Not Die On Sept. 11
2002

Poster has a black/gray background. At the top left is "Police / Brutality / Did Not Die / On Sept. 11" in gray and white. At the left center are six columns/four rows of grayscale photos of...

Hunger is Violence
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has red and black text and a red and black image printed in light green paper. At the top is "Hunger / is" followed by a stylized image of a malnourished figure with "Violence" at the below...

Free Kahlil
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has white unprinted edges. At the top is a red background with "drop the charges" in white and "Free Kahlil" in black. At the center is an image showing two police officers detaining a...

Violence Is Not A Cartoon Issue
Late 20th Early 21st Century

This horizontally-oriented poster insists that "Violence Is Not A Cartoon Issue". "Blam" and "Kapow" are in yellow and purple bubbles at the top of the page and there is an illustration of a man...

untitled (image and JFK quote)
1970

Poster has black ink printed on white paper. At the top is a photo of a man speaking while being detained by a police officer with a visored helmet on. At the bottom is a quote by JFK - "Those who...

Hunger is Violence
1970

Poster has brown text and a brown and black image printed on tractor feed paper. At the top is "Hunger / is" with a stylized image of a malnourished figure at the center and "Violence" at the...

Hunger is Violence
1970

Poster has red text and a central red and black image printed on tractor feed paper. At the top is "Hunger / is" followed by a stylized image of a malnourished figure with "Violence" at the bottom...

1970

This poster includes a pixelated photograph of a child with blood on its face. Large text above and below the image read "Know Your / Enemy".

This poster was originally...

Untitled (Statue of Liberty crying)
1970

This horizontally-oriented poster is made up of a drawing of the Statue of Liberty''s face with a tear in one eye. A man with a helmet and badge is beating a woman in the statue''s crown.

Untitled (people running away)
Late 20th Early 21st Century

This horizontally-oriented poster depicts a group of men and women huddling together and running down a street. One of them is looking behind the group. There are other people standing in the...

Phweeet
1991

Poster has black and red ink printed on white paper. Across the top is "Phweeet" in red followed by a large black dotted image of a whistle. At the bottom left corner are three images, stacked...

Art vs. Cops
1997

Poster has a thin black line border printed on white paper. At the top is "Art vs. Cops" in black followed by a centered graffiti-like version of the phrase in green, red and blue/black and "...

1968

Poster printed in brown ink on white paper. Bold text centered at top reads "San Francisco Peace & Freedom Movement Demonstration Against Police Violence." Text aligned at left on...

We Need Community Control Of Police
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has black ink printed on white paper. At the top is "We Need / Community / Control" with "Of / Police" at the bottom. At the center is a photo of a man with his hands bound behind his back...

untitled (American flag handgun)
1992

Poster has a beige background with an image of a handgun painted with stars and stripes like the American flag near the bottom. At the top is a list of how many people were killed in other...

It's Just A Stage
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has black text, a red graphic and a black and white photo printed on white paper. Centered at the top is "It''s Just A Stage / un compania teatral de mujeres / women''s theatre troupe"....

Sex was never meant to be a weapon
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has an unprinted, .25" thick white border all around with a green background at the top and black at the bottom. Black text on the green reads "sex / was never / meant / to be a / weapon"....

For Love And Justice
2005

Poster has a green background at the top center with a shadow effect at the edges. At the center of the poster is a color image of two hands extending from the left and right towards each other....

Violent to Animals
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has black and white and color photos along with red and white text on a black background. Photo at top shows a black and white photo of a dog with a horizontal strip where the eyes would be...

Stop Police Brutality
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster shows a stylized gray faceless police officer with a gun in front of him. In the barrell of the gun is the face of another figure. A splatter of blood surrounds the weapon. Across the top...

untitled (reasons to strike)
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has blue ink printed at the center of off-white paper. The text lists the reason Strike for the Eight demands a strike, including police violence and educational injustices.

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