A large collection of over 350 rave flyers and cards, circa 1993 to 2010, with an emphasis on the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Portland, plus examples from Chicago, New York, Detroit, and other cities, including a handful from Europe/Canada. With a large number of die-cut and fold-out cards, the collection provides a look at the innovative graphic design, typography and printing of the genre emerging in the early 1990s. (This collection is duplicates from a larger collection of approx. 2,000+ rave flyers that is still being cataloged and processed.....
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A circa 1976 War Resisters League poster highlighting the injustice of the prison-industrial complex. With the text: "Capital punishment means them without the capital get the punishment." Includes an illustration credit for Peg Avery/Liberation News Service and a union bug printing credit for The Print Shop of Smithtown, New York. The War Resisters League is the oldest secular pacifist organization in the United States, having been founded in 1923. Copies of this poster are in the Victoria & Albert Museum (UK) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.....
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Poster from the Nicaraguan Revolution featuring the popular slogan “Aquí no se rinde nadie,” which translates from Spanish as “Nobody surrenders here.” The phrase is closely associated with the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) and was used to promote loyalty and resistance during the revolution to overthrow of the Somoza family dictatorship in Nicaragua, which was eventually achieved in 1979. The words of Ernesto Cardenal—a Nicaraguan Catholic priest, revolutionary, and member of the FSLN—accompany a photograph by Esrom María depicting a guerrilla soldier with two children. Translated as “We.....
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A scarce poster celebrating the spirit of resistance in Nicaragua for the 12th World Festival of Youth and Students, held in Moscow in 1985. The festival, whose slogan was "For anti-imperialist solidarity, peace and friendship," was attended by people from 157 different countries. The poster includes the popular phrase "Victorious Nicaragua...we will never sell out or surrender" (ni se vende, ni se rinde). The slogan was a core ideology of the Sandinista government and it frequently appeared in political speeches attacking U.S. foreign policy as one of imperialism.....
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A 1984 poster highlighting the U.S. government's involvement in disrupting Nicaragua's coffee export trade for political reasons. With the text "U.S. Government Doesn't Know Beans...about getting along with our neighbor, Nicaragua. Terrorizing coffee workers and sabotaging storage facilities are a few tactics used by the U.S. government to intimidate the Nicaraguan community and destroy its key export crop. In response, hundreds of U. S. citizens have volunteered to help with the coffee harvest. Support the growing community of North Americans who actively oppose U.S. intervention in Nicaragua. Contact the Nicaraguan.....
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The circa 1975 Women's Graphic Collective of Chicago's silkscreen reprint of Cuban artist Frémez's 1968 poster "La Modelo y La Vietnamita" (The Model and the Vietnamese Woman). José Gómez Fresquet, known as Frémez, was born in Havana in 1939 and was an influential graphic artist and designer. His work was influenced by pop art and contemporary graphics. He died in Havana in 2007. "La Modelo y La Vietnamita" contrasts a fashionable Western woman with an injured Vietnamese female guerrilla fighter, and stands out as a landmark example of Cuban.....
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Scarce 1971 poster criticizing American President Richard Nixon and the country's involvement in the Vietnam War. The original image, titled “Nixon Tearing the Heart out of Indochina,” was created by prominent Cuban graphic designer and artist René Mederos. The composition depicts a map of Southeast Asia, with North Vietnam and Laos represented as a burning red hole in the map. A bird of prey bearing the face of Richard Nixon, with exaggerated vampiric fangs, grips the affected countries in its talons. Although Nixon is directly depicted, the work reflects.....
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Poster produced for the National Campaign to Stop U.S. Sponsored Bombing of El Salvador, protesting U.S. funding and military aid used against the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) guerrilla insurgency during the Salvadoran Civil War. The stark black-and-white design features the shadowed face of a Salvadoran child looking upward, creating a powerful and emotionally charged image that centers the experiences of Salvadoran civilians subjected to aerial bombing during the conflict.

Condition: Very Good-, foxing to top 5" of poster; moderate edgewear to left edge; light edgewear to.....
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Translating to "The Power of Words," this exhibition, held in the waiting room of the German State Library, brings together books, images, newspaper articles, and documents related to the anti-fascist literary movement. A diverse and international movement that took root in the 1930s, anti-fascist literature often opposed and challenged authoritarianism, nationalism, and oppression, while advocating for democracy and marginalized communities. The exhibition’s location in the German State Library in Berlin, Germany, is especially significant. As a historical epicenter of the Third Reich, the site adds resonance to the materials.....
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A silkscreen poster featuring a quote from the radical Japanese feminist, activist, and poet Yosano Akiko (1878–1942). The quote speaks to the power of women and their capacity to rise, act, and create change. The design complements Akiko’s words: the central figure, bearing a gun, a child, and a book, symbolizes strength and the ability to inhabit multiple roles, from caregiving to protection, both physical and intellectual. Stamped with “PRG” (Provisional Revolutionary Government) in the lower right corner, the image and text are connected to a broader political struggle.....
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A 1978 poster designed by artist Rúpert García to benefit of the New People’s Army (NPA), the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines. Created to rally support and raise funds for the NPA’s campaign of guerrilla warfare against the kleptocratic regime of Ferdinand Marcos, the text denounces the greed of the ruling class while highlighting the exploitation, hardship, and desperation experienced by those affected by authoritarian rule. García, an American Chicano visual artist known for his bold graphic style and involvement in the Third World poster.....
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Campaign poster produced by the Committee for a Free Mozambique advocating for the independence of Mozambique from Portuguese colonial rule. The phrase “FRELIMO has won,” translated from Portuguese, served as a slogan of the FRELIMO Mozambique Liberation Front party. Founded in 1962, this national movement in Mozambique fought for self-determination and the liberation of Mozambican people from Portugal. After independence, it became the country’s ruling democratic socialist political party and has governed since. According to the Victoria & Albert Museum (UK), which also holds a copy of this poster.....
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Anti-apartheid poster published by OSPAAAL, the Organization of Solidarity of the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America, with their logo in the lower left. OSPAAAL was established in Cuba in 1966 and produced anti-imperialist posters supporting socialism, armed liberation and solidarity among oppressed peoples. Text in English, Spanish, French, and Arabic. Designed by Cuban artist Víctor Manuel Navarrete, black-and-white collaged images depict a wounded child and a scene of a political demonstration being violently suppressed by police. The juxtaposition of these images highlights the brutality of apartheid and.....
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