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Act Up's poster for the 10th Anniversary “Crash the Market” action to demand AIDS treatment for all, including a reduction in the price of medication. Also promotes an activist conference occurring over the preceding weekend.
Condition: Fine.
Item #1100
A double-sided flyer promoting a one-hour employee walkout and rally at Columbia University in support of student demands, which included abolishing ROTC, war research and recruiting, opening up apartments held vacant and ending evictions in area apartment houses. The flyer is printed in English on one side and Spanish on the other and is stamped March 26, 1969.
Condition: Near Fine, mild toning; stamped "Mar 26, 1969" on one side.
Item #721
A poster commemorating 100 years of struggle for Puerto Rican independence. The Puerto Rican flag is shown framed in bullets. On September 23, 1868 the Lares uprising was the first major revolt against Spanish rule in Puerto Rico. Text in English, Spanish, French and Arabic. Published by OSPAAAL, the Organization of Solidarity of the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America, with their logo in the lower right. OSPAAAL was established in Cuba in 1966.
Condition: Fair, with overall waviness to poster likely from previous moisture; some edgewear and chips.....
Item #1535
A folded newsprint pamphlet from the Students for a Democratic Society consisting of two items: a 14" x 22" fold-out poster advertising their 1972 Convention Against Racism held at Harvard University, plus a folded sheet with a registration form for the convention to be mailed back to the SDS. Calling itself on the pamphlet a "militant, nation-wide student organization," the SDS organized against racism, for worker's right and in opposition to the Vietnam War. It grew to over 300 campus chapters but eventually dissolved in 1974, becoming the Committee Against.....
Item #1364
Flyer promoting the Socialist Workers Party in the 1969 election. One side features the candidates for New York City government offices with Paul Boutelle for mayor, while the other spells out the Party's platform. The SWP formed in 1937 as a splinter group of Trotskyists from the Socialist Party and went through several major transformations over the following decades. By the late 1960s, the SWP was strongly involved in the Black nationalist movement, the anti-Vietnam-war effort and women's rights, all of which are strongly represented on this flyer.
Condition: Very.....
Item #682
Announcement of and invitation to join the SCU, a moderate student organization dedicated to nonviolent dialogue and academic freedom. The SCU was founded in May 1968 in direct opposition to the SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) and its violent activities. This flyer states that the SCU is involved in university restructuring, position papers, study groups, campus debates and social activities and warned that another violent spring could threaten the very existence of Columbia. The flyer is stamped March 17, 1969 at the bottom.
Condition: Near Fine, mild toning; stamped.....
Item #722
A silkscreened poster by the UK's Poster Collective featuring images of labor protest plus music and lyrics from the iconic labor song "Which Side Are You On?" which was written by Appalachian activist Florence Reece in 1931. The poster also shows a large image of Sara Ogan Gunning, a singer and songwriter from the coal mining country of Eastern Kentucky. The song includes the lyrics "Come all of you good workers, good news to you. I'll tell, of how the good old union has come here to dwell. Which side.....
Item #1385
Flyer, printed on yellow paper, promoting a talk by Dan Bentivogli at Columbia University on the student protests and strike at the University of Buffalo. The strike, which began as a series of student demands to halt institutionalized racism, war research and campus ROTC, turned violent with police, in full riot gear and armed with tear gas and clubs, attacking students.
Condition: Near Fine.
Item #683
A vintage poster of the famous image of an East German border guard, Konrad Schumann, jumping barbed wire to escape into West Germany during the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. Issued by "Arbeitsgemeinschaft 13. August" the organization founded by human rights activist Rainer Hildebrandt and named after the date construction began on the Berlin Wall. The organization also established the Haus am Checkpoint Charlie which later became the Mauermuseum (Wall Museum)/Haus am Checkpoint Charlie. The photo was taken by West German photographer Peter Leibing and the image became.....
Item #1643
An extremely rare set of all 5 of Danny Lyon's posters for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) produced circa 1963 from images Lyon's took at civil rights marches and other moments. The man kneeling on the left in the second poster is the young, future Congressman John Lewis, who was the Chairman of SNCC from 1963 to 1966, and one of the organizers of the March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. made his "I Have a Dream" speech. Lewis died in 2020. The posters and their message.....
Item #1590
![Item #149 George Miller: 18 West 11th Street [1970]. George Miller](https://monographbookwerks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/149.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1438750366)
A poster as artwork, or a conceptual piece by George Miller documenting his experience around the Weather Underground bomb explosion at 18 West 11th in New York on March 6, 1970. The poster reads "George Miller, 18 West 11th Street, March 15-May 15, 1970, New York City" and includes a photograph of the destroyed townhouse at that address, which was exploded when a bomb being constructed in the basement by members of the Weather Underground detonated. Three members of the Underground died in the blast. Miller was in New York.....
Item #149
A two-sided flyer/order form from the War Tax Resistance (WTR), a group encouraging citizens to not pay taxes as long as the US is involved in the Vietnam War. This illustrated flyer includes a contribution by Allen Ginsberg and a selection of stickers, posters, buttons and literature for purchase. The back side, noted as page 6, contains portions of articles by Tom Cornell and Donald N. Gluckman.
Condition: Very Good+, light toning along top and bottom edges; 1/8" tear on bottom edge.
Item #650
