spring mobilization (5 résultats)

Handbill. Single 8.5x11 inch sheet handbill printed recto-only in black and lavender inks on white stock, text only. March against the Reagan Administration calling for AIDS and healthcare support. Labor, feminists, LGBT, etc joined together for the march. Pat Norman, Harry Britt, Ron Dellums, Holly Near et al were appearing, speaking and performing.

Single legal-size sheet mimeographed one side, lightly worn along top edge else very good. Calculates that the taxpayer spent $400,000 for every Vietnamese killed.

8p., wraps unevenly browned else good condition, 8.5x11 inches. Single issue of the newsletter. This issue announces that MLK will be speaking at the New York Rally, with a short article on it. Includes an obit for A.J. Muste, chairman of the Committee.

17x11 inch poster, teal blue and white dove holding an olive branch with white text bleeding into magenta background. Poster promotes a demonstration 1) against US intervention in the Caribbean and Central America 2) against South African aparteid 3) for a freeze on nuclear arms 4) for jobs and justice and not war. Supported by the Bay Area Labor Councils, area churches, as well as anti-aparteid and Central American support organizations.

Seven mimeogreaphed items published by the Caucus headed by Robert Driscoll, one packet containing two six-page statements and three individual leaflets stapled together, as well as two separate 8.5x14 inch handbills. Some handling wear and fold creases, the packet has rusted staples and a small edge stain at lower right else generally good condition. The Spring Mobilization was a broad coalition of anti-Vietnam War groups; the Now! Now! Caucus was a group within it that took its name from the double demand, "US government, get out of Vietnam NOW!; Bring the troops home NOW!" Much content focuses on complaints of the caucus and its demands being pushed aside by the broader group through parliamentary procedure at meetings and behind-the-scenes activity.