Posters and Graphics about Draft Resistance
Fred Moore for the National Resistance Committee, 1980; the same font was used for the masthead of Resistance News. We’ve been told many times that one of the Chinese characters is incorrect — possibly a diminutive (“Be a small soldier”?) rather than a negative (“Don’t be a soldier”). But nobody has yet provided us with a corrected version. We’re open to editing the master image, if you can explain what needs to be fixed and provide replacement character(s) in matching calligraphic style.
United Street Artists, Boston/Cambridge, MA, c. 1982. PDF
United Street Artists, Boston/Cambridge, MA, c. 1982. PDF
United Street Artists, Boston/Cambridge, MA, c. 1982. PDF
United Street Artists, Boston/Cambridge, MA, c. 1982. PDF
Rachel Romero, San Francisco Poster Brigade, 1979.
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Anonymous stickers, Boston/Cambridge, MA, 1980.
“Women Resist” graphic by Ruth Shields, 1985.
[Non-exclusive rights to the use of these posters by the National Resistance Committee were donated by the artists. Printed copies of most of these posters and others were donated by the NRC to the All Of Us Or None collection at the Oakland Museum of California. Some are also held by the University of Michigan library, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Swarthmore College Peace Collection, and have been exhibited at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco.]
Poster for East Coast mobilization against the draft, 22 March 1980
Poster for local protest and civil disobedience on the first day of draft registration organized by the Boston Alliance Against Registration and the Draft (BAARD) and the Clamshell Alliance, 21 July 1980
Stencil of Selective Service death’s head with mushroom cloud and “SS” eyes painted on and around Selective Service System headquarters, Washington, DC, 18 October 1982
Poster by Liz Davidson (with cartoon by Mike Keefe) for the trial of Edward Hasbrouck, Boston, MA, 15 December 1982
Poster by Liz Davidson for an “Affirmation of Peace” after the trial of Russell F. Ford, Hartford, CT, 14 April 1983
Poster with photo by Paul Pearce for the trial of Andy Mager, Syracuse, NY, 8 January 1985
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