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Some anti-Columbus Day poster designs
“The republican and democratic war parties are both pro-empire, pro-imperialism. Two sides of the same genocidal coin”
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On December 4, 1969 Black Panther Party leaders Fred Hampton, 21, and Mark Clark, 22, are murdered by the police in Chicago, Illinois. The two young revolutionary activists were shot in a police raid on a Panther residence on Chicago’s West Side during the infamous "search for illegal weapons" authorized by then-State's Attorney Edward V. Hanrahan. Their death came in the last month of a decade that saw the murders of other prominent civil rights leaders including Medgar Evers in 1963, Malcolm X in 1965, and Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.
Some anti-Columbus Day poster designs
Immigrants’ Rights Are Human Rights!
“This image, from the Migration Now! portfolio, calls for an end to the detention system and an end to the abuse of immigrants’ rights. With the proliferation of laws and enforcement policies that seek to criminalize immigrants in the U.S., immigration detention has become a fast growing form of incarceration. The for-profit detention industry is growing, in spite of the fact that detention facilities have been found to subject people to physical, psychological, and sexual abuse. ICE and its supporters continue to defend the substandard conditions of detention centers, denying that people’s human rights are being violated.”
- Molly Fair, April 2012
On August 18, 1970, Angela Davis’s name was added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List for kidnapping, murder, and interstate flight. Davis was already a darling of the left for her membership in the Communist Party and outspoken support for the Black Panthers, which caused then-California governor Ronald Reagan to personally orchestrate the 26-year-old’s dismissal from a teaching post at UCLA. Being hunted by J. Edgar Hoover for a crime she clearly did not commit took Davis’s celebrity to a whole new level.
Almost from day one, posters were the way the world connected with Angela Davis. During the two months she was on the run, head shops did a brisk business selling reprints of the “Wanted” poster that graced the walls of post offices across the United States; by some accounts, Angela’s “Wanted” poster, with its appeal to call the FBI director personally at National 8-7117, was a better seller than hash pipes.
After she was apprehended on October 13, 1970, Davis’s release from prison became a cause célèbr, hundreds of committees in the U.S. and abroad agitated for her freedom. These grassroots groups expressed their support via countless posters and flyers.
#AbolishICE poster design by Phoebe Wahl
Get organized, get united, get ready for the National #DayofactionagainstICE! July 17th.
via: Abolish I.C.E PDX