violence

Can You Hear Haiti?
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

Poster depicts a Haitian woman holding a section of an island with dead civilians spread across the landscape. Around her is the ocean, above her is the sun. There are more civillians in boats...

Together We Can Stop The Violence
1989

Poster has a white background with black text. In the center is an image of two people connecting arms in the middle above an abstract image of a person raising a weapon to strike someone else on...

Battle of City Hall
1960-2010

Poster is printed on white paper with text and images in black. The top of the poster has the text: "Battle Of City Hall / 400 Cops Fight Student Crowd". The center of the poster has a large black...

Battle of City Hall
1960-2010

Poster is printed on white paper with text and images in black. The top of the poster has the text: "Battle Of City Hall / 400 Cops Fight Student Crowd". The center of the poster has a large black...

Stop Youth Violence in Oakland
c. 2003

Multi-colored poster contains a reproduction of a mural titled "Stop Youth Violence in Oakland." The mural shows a young man at bottom center wearing an orange and blue jersey with "choose" and...

The culture of terror
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

Poster consists of blue, green, yelllow, and pink print on a black background on white paper. Image depicts a woman with braided hair in profile, a television with a "$199.97" price tap, and...

Nonviolent Alternatives
1985

Poster is printed on white paper. At the top of the poster is a gray bar. below the bar is black text that reads: "New Resources For Global Security / Nonviolent / alternatives". At the bottom of...

Imagine
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

Poster is printed on white paper. Poster has a gray background. At the top of the poster is white text that reads: "Imagine / A Violence-Free World". Below this textis an image of four women from...

On Our Shoulders They Can See A World Without Violence Against Women and Children
2005

Poster has a white and brown background with black, white and gray text. Main image is a boy sitting atop his father's shoulders. Poster reads, "On our shoulders they can see a world without...

Friends Family Community
1997

Poster has a white background with black and purple text. In the center is an image of two women embracing. The woman to the left is wearing a black shirt and has short hair while the woman to the...

Black People A Nation Behind Bars
1978

Poster is printed on pink paper overall with text and images in red, black, and gray. The top of the poster has the text: "Black People / A Nation Behind Bars" with two small black triangles, one...

untitled (Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X shaking hands)
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

Black and white poster contains a photograph of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X shaking hands in an interior setting. King appears in three-quarter profile at left and Malcolm X faces the...

Stop Racism! Stop Police Violence!
1993

Poster has a white background with black text and graphics. In the center are silhouettes of police officers beating a man on the ground with a grid background. Poster has a quote from Malcolm X...

Palestine Vietnam
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

This poster features two, large, black and white photographs with the words "Palestine" and "Vietnam" above them, respectively. Both pictures depict people struggling with soldiers in a violent...

Amnesty International Presents A Rock4rights Event
2007
CopWatch Film Fest Featuring Free Ya Hood!
2007

Poster printed with black, red, and yellow ink on white paper. A graphic of a person wearing a cap and glasses holding a video camera fills the left half of the page. Black text is printed on...

Stop the Contras
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

Poster printed with black and red ink on white paper. A single-line white border frames an allover black background. Large red font at top reads, "stop the contras." A black and white...

untitled (frog with microphone at television shoot)
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

The poster has a stylized drawing with a green background overall. The upper left corner has black text in Cyrillic. The left side of the poster has a film crew with lights and a cameraman and...

We're All One Color, Stop the Killing
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

Poster has a background split between blue at left and red at right. Three photographs of two people grasping hands in three different ways are printed down the center of the page. Text is...

Why?
1970

The poster has a thin black border overall. The poster has a drawing of a police officer [or National Guardsman] wearing a helmet with a clear face shield, standing over a figure that is lying on...

A World Awash with Fascism & Fear
1971

Poster has black text overall. The top has large lettering that reads, "A World Awash with Fascism & Fear." The lower right corner has "Lawrence Ferlinghetti Reprinted by the Institute for the...

1993

Poster has an imag of a man and woman in pink clothing holding a man who is passed out. They are on a beach with palm trees in the bckground, ocean on the right and a seagull in the sky. Below the...

1969

These are a group of photographs taken by various photographers at anti-Vietnam War demonstrations in the USA. They cover confrontation between police and demonstrators: an in-focus gun barrel...

17-Apr-70

Photo depicts: A white police officer has his baton raised as though about to strike a man lying on the ground. Two other officers stand by and watch, as do two African-American women. They are...

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