Folk Arts of Social Change Exhibition
The people united will never be defeated
Naming a position and acting on beliefs are continually necessary folk arts. Some people learn activism from family and neighbors. Others find their way through experiences that forever change the way the world looks. When people connect with one another, work collectively and cultivate a movement, they both draw on and create a storehouse of tools and techniques: the craft of social change. Leaders pass on their wisdom to successors, colleagues learn from one another, and children inherit a family tradition of political action. In this work there is creativity, analysis, doubt, conflict, drudgery, ethics, and values.
The signs, banners and puppets in this section represent the visible parts of collective efforts. The events at which they are carried require tremendous levels of coordinated planning and attention to thousands of details: What kind of event will be staged? Which words and images should be used? How to control the message to the media? What will draw a crowd? Both in planning and demonstrating, individuals can find space to craft their own position, and to contribute their personal style and vision to the larger effort.
These objects also represent some visible ways in which people risk serious personal and professional fallout for taking unpopular stands. Demonstrations, sit-ins, actions, die-ins, sick-outs and other interventions are among the ways like-minded people build community out of shared risk. Public events also balance the necessary but mundane behind-the-scenes work with liberatory moments of catharsis, humor, and celebration.
Tell us your stories, share your chants...
Chants are memorable, portable, and effective verbal art forms. People invariably recall what it felt like to hear tens, or tens of thousands of others shouting the same words together, or how what it felt like to throw out a phrase and hear it picked up by the crowd, or how different chants would alternate in a lively competition. At the original exhibition, we used re-recordable cards, so that exhibition visitors could add their chants. Send us your contribution: pfp@folkloreproject.org
What do we want? Freedom! When do we want it? Now!
What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now!
What do we want? A Union! When do we want it? Now!
What do we want? A contract! When do we want it? Now!
1, 2, 3, 4. We don't want your dirty war.
1, 2, 3, 4. We don't want your racist war.
1, 2, 3, 4. U.S. out of El Salvador.
1, 2, 3, 4. Open up the clinic door. 5, 6, 7, 8. Don't tell us when to procreate.
Dollars for jobs not for war. U.S. out of El Salvador.
Stop the bombing, stop the war. U.S. out of El Salvador.
Hey, hey, ho, ho! LBJ has got to go!
Hey, hey, ho, ho! The death penalty has got to go.
Hey, hey, ho, ho! Clinic bombers have to go.
Hey, hey, LBJ! How many kids did you kill today?
Hey, hey, Reagan and Haig! How many nuns did you kill today?
Hey, hey, what do you say? How many workers have you screwed today?
Racist, sexist, anti-gay. Born-again bigots go away.
Hell, no, we won't go! We won't fight for Texaco!
Ronald Reagan, he's no good! Send him back to Hollywood!
Stop anti-abortion lies. We will not be terrorized.
Gay, straight, black, white. Same struggle, same fight.
No more back alleys in the night. For safe abortions we will fight.
We gotta beat back the Reagan attack. We gotta beat, beat back, the Reagan attack.
The people united will never be defeated.
Our bodies, our lives. Our right to decide.
Down with dope. Up with hope.
Say it loud. I'm black and I'm proud.
Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh!
Peace! Now!
Freedom! Now!
Fed Up. Can't take it anymore.
No justice. No peace.
They say give back.We say fight back.
Give me a U-N-I-O-N. What's that spell?
Signs and slogans from anti-war demonstrations: a running list (2003-2004, 2007)
In opposition to a war on Iraq, people have taken to the streets to voice their opinons. "This is what democracy looks like," says a popular chant. The following list documents signs and slogans used in demonstrations in January, February, and March 2003, March 2004, and January 2007: this is what democracy reads like! The list that follows (612 signs to date) is a sampling of these condensed, portable, repeatable, and community-making forms of verbal art. This collection catalogs peoples' wit, creativity, recycling of (and plays on) words; it also reflects the depth and breadth of opposition to current U.S. policy. The tenor and tone of demonstrations and vigils have also varied over these months (and years) and the slogans trace a range of emotions as well. We encourage you to send us your contribution: pfp@folkloreproject.org (While you are here, stay a bit, look around, and visit our 1999 "Folk Arts of Social Change" exhibition, which attended to how folk arts are tools in struggles for justice.)
- 1 billion a day to kill people - what a bargain
- 1,000 points of light and one dim bulb
- 9/11/01 New Yorkers say "NO" to war
- 9/1/-01: 15 Saudis, 0 Iraqis
- $200 billion for healthcare and schools not war
- 3,000 American deaths, 655,000 Iraqi deaths (1/27/07)
- A nation betrayed (1/27/07)
- A terrorist act for a terrorist act leaves us all dead
- A village in Texas has lost its idiot
- A war budget leaves every child behind (1/27/07)
- A war with Iraq will not make us safe
- Act like it's a globe, not an empire
- Admiral Poindexter, add me to your database
- Al Qaeda had a first-strike policy too
- All humanity is downwind
- All war and no peace makes Bush a bad man
- All wars are criminal
- All you need is love
- America is a leader- lead with nonviolence
- America wake up: impeach the Bush regime
- America, get out of the bushes
- Americans used to fight against tyranny
- America's problems won't be solved in Iraq
- An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. - Gandhi
- An injury to one is an injury to all
- Another family for peace
- Another patriot for peace
- Another pet for peace [carried by a dog]
- Anything war can do, peace can do better (1/27/07)
- Are detentions and racial profiling democratic?
- Artists against war on Iraq
- Ask me about my lobotomy [w/picture of Bush]
- Asses of evil [with pictures of Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld]
- At least in Vietname, there was an exist strategy (1/27/07)
- Attention shoppers, aisle four: we don't want your oil war
- Axis of Evil = Dubbya, Cheney, Rummey
- Back by popular demand [picture of the peace symbol]
- Bad plan, dude
- Ban Republican marriage (1/27/07)
- Ban weapons of mass destruction everywhere
- Barbara Bush: please give your son a time out
- Beat the bushes for peace
- Better old-fashioned Europe than new-fashioned fascism
- Big boys, big toys, tiny minds
- Big brother is watching you [w/photo of Bush]
- Big brother isn't coming - he's already here
- Blind faith in bad leaders is not patriotism (1/27/07)
- Blonds against dumb wars
- Bomb Texas - they have oil, too
- Bombing = terrorism
- Bombs breed hate - my children will suffer the revenge
- Bombs kill too many children and too few dictators
- Bombs leave a return address
- Books not bombs
- Boomers unite, stop the fight (1/27/07)
- Born to kill, born to drill
- Brains not bombs
- Bring my husband home now (1/27/07)
- Buck Fush
- Build ramps not bombs [disability rights activists]
- Bu$h is evil
- Bush = Sauron
- Bush and Cheney sitting in a tree, K-I-L-L-I-N-G
- Bush: appointed, not elected
- Bush / Blair: axis of arrogance
- Bush, Blair, Bin Laden - world leaders in terrorism
- Bush doctrine = state terrorism
- Bush is a servant of Sauron. We hates him
- Bush family evil empire
- Bush gets oil, we get duct tape
- Bush is a bully
- Bush is a butcher
- Bush is a moron - don't let him get his war on
- Bush is a weapon of mass destruction
- Bush is proof that empty warheads can be dangerous
- Bush is the weakest link
- Bush is to Christianity as Osama is to Islam
- Bush lied, thousands died (1/27/07)
- Bush lies
- Bush pro-life? My ass (1/27/07)
- Bush sucks
- Bush, send the twins
- Bush/Cheney: malice in blunderland
- Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld: the asses of evil
- Bush: don't Defy U.N.
- Bush: don't grind our bones to make your bread
- Bush: how many Iraqi children will you kill?
- Bush: shame on you
- Bush's policies: endangering America, enraging the world
- Bush: take your hands off Iraq
- Bush the real evil-doer (1/27/07)
- Can we afford $200 billion cuts in social services?
- Can you hear us now? (1/27/07)
- Caution: stupid president at play [with caution stripes]
- Cheney lies
- Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld: axis of weasel
- Chickenhawks want war - we don't (w/pictures of Bush, Cheney, Liebermann, Lott, Wolfowitz)
- Class warfare now!
- Colin Powell, you're from the Bronx. SHAME ON YOU!
- Committee United for Lt. Watada: Refuse Illegal War (1/27/07)
- Congress, don't wimp out (1/27/07)
- Congress, how about some surge protection (1/27/07)
- Conserve oil, don't steal it
- Consume -> Consume -> Bomb -> Bomb -> Consume -> Consume
- Curious, George? - get a clue
- Cut the funding for war and torture (1/27/07)
- Daddy, can I start the war now?
- Dance for peace
- Democracy - 1776-2000 - RIP. Ah well, we had a good run
- Deploy Bush (1/27/07)
- Deport me to France
- Destroy Florida [It could happen again]
- Dick and Bush: make love not war
- Different Bush, same disease
- Disarm Bush too
- Dismantle the empire (1/27/07)
- Dissent is patriotic
- Do something radical - vote!
- Do you smell the bill of rights burning (1/27/07)
- Does it take war to stay in office?
- Don't arm a son of a Bush
- Don't attack Iraq
- Don't be a fossil fool
- Don't blame me, I voted with the majority
- Don't do it, George, Dad will still love you
- Don't enter Iraq [graffiti on street sign]
- Don't kill for oil
- Don't make Iraq pay for Saddam
- Don't make me come back here [to a peace rally] again
- Don't mess with Mesopotamia
- Don't put duct tape over this [over Bill of Rights]
- Don't shell Iraq [w/ Shell oil logo]
- Don't support a personal war: revenge is murder (1/27/07)
- Don't waive your rights while waving your flag
- Down with the Bush oilgarchy
- Draft dodgers shouldn't start wars
- Draft Jenna
- Draft Richard Perle
- Draft the Bush twins
- Drop Bush not bombs
- Drop Bush on Iraq
- Drop names, not bombs
- Drop sanctions not bombs
- Drunken frat boy drives country into ditch
- Dubya Dubya III
- Duct and cover [w/photo of tape over Bush's mouth]
- Duct, duct, duct, goose!
- Duct tape and plastic sheeting are petroleum products
- Duct tape is not the answer
- Duct tape this!
- Duct tape your bombs, not our window
- Eat another pretzel, asshole!
- Embrace the enemy
- Empires fall
- Empty warhead [w/photo of Bush]
- Empty warheads found in Washington [w/photos of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld]
- Empty warheads found in the White House (1/27/07)
- End racial profiling
- End the Bush regime now
- End the sanctions
- Engineers against drafting
- Evict Congress, Free DC (1/27/07)
- Evolve! Work for a non-violent future
- Export human rights, not bombs
- Faster trains not planes
- Fear Bush
- Fear does not justify war
- Fight AIDS, not Iraq
- Fight greed, not Iraq
- Fight plaque not Iraq! [w/a toothbrush]
- Fight poverty not Iraq
- Fight terrorism: impeach Bush
- Fight the power: don't kill for oil
- Fighting terrorism with war is like fighting fire with gasoline
- Fiscal ruin, lost rights, endless war (1/27/07)
- Fixed election, fake president, phony war
- Fossil feuls are fueling our fossilzation (1/27/07)
- Frat boy drives country into ditch / starts war to distract
- Free bodybag with every fill-up!
- Freezing my ass off for peace
- Frodo failed. Bush has the ring
- From democracy To phallusy
- Fundamentalists for peace
- George Bush couldn't run a laundromat
- George Bush guitly of war crimes (1/27/07)
- George Dubya: weapon of mass distraction
- George W. is a petroleum byproduct
- George W. Bush - al Qaeda recruiter of the year
- Get the empty warheads out of the White House
- Give back their oil, then get the hell out of Dodge (1/27/07)
- Give inspectors and peace a chance
- Give Iraq their nation, end the occupation [chant] (1/27/07)
- GLAM, not war
- Global village idiot
- Globalize justice, not war
- Go solar, not ballistic
- God bless hysteria
- God blesses other nations too
- God does not bless only America
- God so loved the world that he gave his only son. George so loved his oil that he gave everyone else's
- Goo Goo Dolls fans for peace
- Good Fat Cat/Bad Fat Cat [2-sided poster, one side w/a chubby cat, other side w/ Cheney]
- Got blood? [w/picture of Bush with a red-stained upper lip]
- Got terror?
- Grandmothers for peace
- Guided missles, misguided men (1/27/07)
- Guilty of war crimes - impeach Bush (1/27/07)
- Hans Blix - look over here
- Happy Valentine's Day 2003 [w/picture of heart with bomb through it]
- Has anyone seen my constitutional rights?
- Has anyone seen our constitution lately?
- Have a heart for Iraq [2/15/03]
- Have tea, not war [London, 2/15/03]
- He is a moron and a bully
- Healing, peace and love for all people in all nations
- Healthcare not warfare
- Help Al Quaeda's recruiting efforts - support Bush's war for oil
- He wasn't democratically elected
- Hip Hop not war (1/27/07)
- Honk for peace
- Honk if you're a terrorist
- How did our oil get under their sand?
- How many bodies per mile?
- How many dead bodies does it take to make an SUV? (1/27/07)
- How many lives per gallon?
- Human blood: $1.09 a gallon
- I *am* the bomb [Carried by drag queen]
- I am unarmed and I am not afraid
- I asked for universal health care and all I got was this lousy stealth bomber
- I dissent
- I don't care what the people think; they didn't vote for me anyway -
President Bush - I have a dream / I have a nightmare [w/photo of MLK on one side; other side w/photo of Bush]
- I have family in Iraq
- I live in a rogue state
- I love my Dad too, but Jeez!
- I [heart] O E [for Old Europe]
- I know in my heart that a world without war is possible (1/27/07)
- I love this country, I won't let this happen
- I voted for the other kind of Gore
- I want YOU to bomb Iraq [w/ picture of Osama bin Laden dressed as Uncle Sam]
- If it wasn't for France, we'd all be Texans
- If war is inevitable, start drafting SUV drivers now!
- If war is the answer, we're asking the wrong question
- If we wanted a war we would have elected him
- If you are not outraged you are not paying attention
- If you can read this, you are not the president
- If you can't pronounce it, don't bomb it
- If your enemy is hungry, feed him
- Impeach = patriotic. No to fascism (1/27/07)
- Impeach Bush
- Impeach Bush for war crimes (1/27/07)
- Impeach Cheney first, then Bush (1/27/07)
- Impeach me (w/photo of Bush) (1/27/07)
- Impeach the squatters
- Impeachment is not enough (1/27/07)
- Impeachment. . .it's not just for blow jobs anymore (1/27/07)
- In a democracy, patriots protest when government goes wrong (1/27/07)
- In God we trust, not George Bush
- In your guts, you know he's nuts
- In your guts, you know Bush is nuts (1/27/07)
- INS - shame on you!
- Invest in schools not bombs
- Inspect this! [w/picture of Bush with the top of his head flipped up]
- Inspection begins at home
- Inspections work. War won't
- Iraqi children are NOT collateral damage
- Iraqi children ask: "What have we done?"
- Iraq escalation - wrong way (1/27/07)
- Iraq human rights first
- Iraq in 2003 - Texas in 2004
- Iraq is Vietnam in Arabic
- Iraqi oil for Iraqis
- Iraqi oil isn't worth my sons' blood [w/ photos of two sons in the Army invasion forces]
- Is bypassing the United Nations good for the US?
- Is it fascism yet?
- Is it still democracy if the government doesn't listen to its citizens? (1/27/07)
- Is war the only way our kids are taught geography? (1/27/07)
- It takes a bomb to raze a village
- It takes a child to raze a village
- It's all about the oil [protester dressed as Tin Man from Wizard of Oz]
- It's imperialism
- It's the economy, stupid
- It's NUCLEAR, not NUCULAR, you idiot!
- It's the oil, stupid
- It's the stupid economy
- It's time to trim the Bush
- Just war/just oil
- Justice for Palestine
- Justice or just us?
- Killing innocent people is the problem, not the solution
- Knitters for peace
- Lay Down Your Swords - J. Christ, Occupied Palestine
- Leave Desert Storm to the desert
- Lesbians against boys invading anything
- Let Exxon send their own troops
- Let inspections save US & Iraqi lives
- Let the inspections work
- Let's bomb Texas, they have oil too
- Let's kill Saddam, eat a Big Mac, and watch The Bachelor
- Let's try democracy here (1/27/07)
- Let's try preemptive peace
- Liar! [w/picture of Bush]
- Librarians against the war
- Lick Bush
- Lies kill (1/27/07)
- Lies, lies, lies
- Like father, like son
- Look, I'll pay more for gas!
- Look ma, the emperor has no brains (1/27/07)
- Mainstream white guys for peace [Sign held by three mainstream-looking white guys]
- Make alternative energy, not war
- Make art, not war
- Make democracy, not war
- Make dinner, not war
- Make levees, not war (1/27/07)
- Make love, not war
- Make out, not war
- Make soup, not war
- Make tea, not war
- Make touchdowns, not war - Go Raiders!
- Makeup not war!
- Martin Sheen for president!
- Mid-life menopausal hippies for peace
- Militarism's package deal: disease, repression, and death. Don't buy it.
- Money for jobs, not for war!
- More blood won't clean bad blood (1/27/07)
- More candy less war [On a five year old]
- More MPGs, less MIAs
- More trees, less Bush
- Must our soldiers die for cheap oil?
- Mothers against war
- My brother is Iraq
- My bush doesn't go to war! [w/picture of female anatomy]
- My planet, right or wrong
- My president is a psychopath
- Mr. Bush, here's your pink slip [w/slip] (1/27/07)
- Negotiation not annihilation
- Never thought I'd miss Nixon (1/27/07)
- New world disorder
- Nice guys against icky stuff
- No blood for Bush's oil war
- No blood for morons
- No blood for oil
- No Dubya Dubya III
- No George, I said mac attack
- No hitting [held by young girl]
- No Iraqi children in my gas tank
- No more Bu.Sh.
- No more war. Hands off Iraq. End the Israeli occupation of Palestine
- No oiligarchy [Oilgarchy in circle with slash across it]
- No proof, no war
- No to the Bushtcher
- No to war
- No to war and dictatorship. Solidarity with Iraqi people
- No toys for the boys
- No war but the class war
- No war, no way
- No war, peace now
- No war: question motivation, explore alternatives
- Nonviolence, not nonexistence
- Not in her name [w/photo of daughter who died 9/11]
- Not in my name
- Not in my name - military might does not equal moral right
- Not my President, not my war, this whole system is rotten to the core [chant] (1/27/07)
- Not one more dollar, not one more death (1/27/07)
- Not one penny, one person for US wars (1/27/07)
- Not this war
- Not voting elected Bush and this war
- Occupation is a crime (1/27/07)
- Occupation is a crime, in Iraq and Palestine [chant] (1/27/07)
- Of course qwagmire has a "W" in it (1/27/07)
- Oh say can you cease?
- Oh say can you see my democracy?
- One family, all [in heart]
- One nation under surveillance
- One nation... undereducated
- Only 9/11 truth will set us free (1/27/07)
- Osama Bin Forgotten????
- Out of Afghanistan, out of Iraq, out of the White House and don't come back [chant] 1/27/07)
- Out now (1/27/07)
- Our generation doesn't need a Vietnam (1/27/07)
- Our grief is not a cry for war
- Pacifism IS patriotic!
- Patriots are idiots - matriarchy now!
- Pay women, not the military
- Peace in our name
- Peace in our time
- Peace is not a fringe movement [w/ turquoise fringe]
- Peace is not a radical idea
- Peace is patriotic
- Peace not pieces
- Peace not war
- Peace takes brains
- Peace takes courage, too (1/27/07)
- Peaceful solution not daddy's retribution
- People before profit
- People yes, Saddam no
- Pick fruit, not fights [UFW sign]
- Pillow fights only
- Politicians lie
- Poverty is the enemy
- Power to the peaceful
- Practice peace
- Pray for peace
- Pre-emptive impeachment
- Pre-emptive war is terrorism
- Pretzel - it does a country good
- Pro Israel, pro Palestine, tikkun olam
- Pro-lifers: wake from Bush's propaganda spell - war kills innocent children.
- Promote world peace not world war
- Put Bush in his place: The Hague (1/27/07)
- Put the peace back in
- Quagmire accomplished (1/27/07)
- Queers against war
- Racism and greed = weapons of mass destruction
- Rational Americans thank France and Germany
- Read between the pipelines
- Read my apocolips
- Read my lips - no war
- Real patriots drive hybrids
- Re-elect Carter
- Reform not revenge
- Regime change begins at home
- Relax, George
- Remember we're supposed to be the good guys
- Republican for peace
- Resistance is fertile
- Respect civil liberties
- Rich man's war - poor man's blood
- Rise up to stop the war
- Rogue state
- Rumsfield lies
- Sacrifice our SUVs, not our children
- Saddam didn't raise my tuition
- Sanctions are weapons of mass destruction
- Sanctions: the weapon that keeps on killing
- Save America, spare Iraq, make Texas take him back
- Save the humans
- Say it! One nation under God. say it! [w/ picture of a menacing soldier pointing rifle/bayonet toward the viewer]
- Say no to war
- Scaredy cats for peace [w/ cat ears]
- Schools not bombs
- Secretary of offense [w/picture of Rumsfeld]
- Send Bush to Guantanamo
- Send Jenna and Barbara (1/27/07)
- Separate oil and state (1/27/07)
- Serial killer, no war [on image of US flag]
- Shock and awe: Bush impeachment
- Silence is complicity (1/27/07)
- Small print for peace [on a small card held aloft on a stick]
- Smart bombs don't justify dumb leaders
- Smart bombs, dumb war
- Smart weapons, dumb president
- Smoke pot not Iraq
- Smush Bush
- Solar energy: no pre-emptive strikes required
- Somewhere in Texas, a village has lost its idiot
- Sorry Dubya - have a pretzel instead
- Special prosecutor for Bush & Cheney
- Stand for global peace and justice
- Stand up to Bush (1/27/07)
- Star spangled bummer
- Start drafting SUV drivers now
- Start seeing the Iraqi children
- Stop American terrorism
- Stop Bush's war machine
- Stop de Bom!
- Stop killing children for oil
- Stop mad cowboy disease
- Stop mad sheep disease now [pictures of sheep carrying flags]
- Stop me before I kill [w/picture of Bush]
- Stop the Bushit
- Stop the axis of weasels
- Stop the excess of evil [gives figures for the multibillion defense industry]
- Stop the racist war on Arabs and Muslims (1/27/07)
- Stop the shrub
- Stop the U.S. war machine
- Stop the war - people not profit
- Stop the war on Terra (1/27/07)
- Stop the yee-ha jihad (1/27/07)
- Stop this crazy war
- Stop U.S. aggression abroad
- Stop U.S. imperialism
- Stop world war "W"
- Students united against the war
- Support our troops - keep them home!
- SUV owners roll over for terrorism.
- SUV's: axles of evil
- Take the escalator out of service (1/27/07)
- Take the toys away from Jr!
- Tame the tyrant in the mirror, then the one in Iraq
- Terror sells: don't buy
- Terrorists wear suits
- Texas of evil
- The decider must be stopped (1/27/07)
- The empty warheads are in the White House
- The end is near [w/picture of an empty gas can]
- The face of war in US [picture of Rumsfeld], the face of war in Iraq [picture of Iraqi woman]
- The fruit of peace is peace: terror, the harvest of war
- The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is my own government. - MLK, Jr., 1967
- The last time we listened to a Bush, we wandered in the desert for 40 years
- The only thing we have to fear is Bush himself
- The people of Iraq don't deserve U.S. bombs
- The people voted no (1/27/07)
- The people = the real decider (1/27/07)
- The proper use of duct tape [w/photo of tape over Bush's mouth; also w/Rumsfeld, Powell]
- The rapture is not an exist strategy (1/27/07)
- The surge is a lie (1/27/07)
- The United States of Imperialism
- The United States military spends $65,573,200,000 per month. Why?
- The voters say no - are you listening?
- The war budget leaves EVERY child behind
- The world can't wait - drive out the Bush regime (1/27/07)
- The world says no to war
- There are alternatives to war and oil
- There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people (1/27/07)
- There is no path to peace - peace is the path
- There is no smoking gun!
- There's a terrorist behind every Bush
- These colors don't run the world
- They are selling war - we are not buying
- This is a war against democracy
- This teen doesn't want war
- This war is a weapon of mass distraction
- Together we can stop this war
- Tony Blair, pull out like your father should have [from London demo 2/15/03]
- Torture + silence = complicity (1/27/07)
- Truth not bombs
- Try therapy! Is it Saddam or Dad?
- Unjust war
- US: 9/11, Iraq: 24/7
- US out of everywhere (1/27/07)
- USA: world cannibal
- Use the U.N. not bombs
- Violence brings on more violence
- W - Use your words (1/27/07)
- Wage peace
- Wake up and smell the fascism
- Wake up!
- War begins with 'Dubya'
- War in Iraq is wack
- War in Iraq makes the U.S. a global bully
- War is *so* 20th century!
- War is a Bush family value
- War is a dick thing, peace is a heart thing
- War is a drag
- War is expensive, peace is priceless
- War is God's way of teaching Americans geography
- War is just terrorism with a big budget
- War is mass terrorism (1/27/07)
- War is murder
- War is not a family value
- War is not a video game
- War is not the answer
- War is not the way
- War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength - George Orwell, 1984
- War is so 20th century!
- War is still not safe for children and other living things
- War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. - Erasmus
- War is tacky darling
- War is terrorism
- War is the great deal. Invest your children George!
- War is wrong
- War orphans make great terrorists
- War won't keep us safe
- War? No thanks!
- Waterboarding - from the Inquisition to Guantanamo (1/27/07)
- We are not a focus group!
- We are here - are you listening? (1/27/07)
- We can't afford to rule the world
- We have guided missiles and misguided men
- We hold these truths to be self-evident: Bush is not president (1/27/07)
- We may have the might, but we don't have the right (1/27/07)
- We support our troops, not this impossible mission (1/27/07)
- We support the UN and we are not irrelevant
- We will not be silent (1/27/07)
- We're making enemies faster than we can kill them (1/27/07)
- Weapons of mass destruction: look under the Bushes
- Wellstone was assassinated
- What if God blesses Iraq?
- What if they threw a war and nobody came?
- What if your child was collateral damage?
- What is the sound of no bombs dropping?
- What part of "Thou shalt not kill" is confusing?
- What would Wellstone do?
- What's the difference between me & God? He might forgive Bush, but I won't
- When Bush comes to shove
- When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty (1/27/07)
- When the rich wage war it's the poor who die
- When we sold you the Anthrax we never said you could use it [w/ photo of Rumsfield]
- When you fight evil with evil, evil wins (1/27/07)
- While you were watching the war, Bush was raping America
- Who needs a history lesson?
- Who would Jesus bomb?
- Who would Jesus torture? (1/27/07)
- Whole people. Not holes in people
- Who's Saddamizing who?
- Who's the unelected tyrant with the bomb?
- Why is our Defense Department so offensive? (1/27/07)
- Why should I care what the American people think? They didn't vote for me. [w/picture of Bush]
- Will meet you there. - Rumi
- Will trade Bush for peace
- Women against war
- Women say pull out (1/27/07)
- World peace starts with peace in your mind
- Worst president ever (1/27/07)
- Would a war reduce terrorism and bring peace?
- Would bombing Iraq really make your family safer?
- Would we go to war with Iraq if it exported olive oil?
- Would you die for oil?
- You can't bomb a country to peace
- You don't have to like Bush to love America
Selected sources:
Demos in DC 1/18/03, 1/27/07 & Philadelphia 2/15/03, 3/16/03, 3/20/03, 3/20/04
Initial lists: “Signs spotted at DC Peace Rally” (Mishkan listserve); “Folklore” (Publore listserve); “More Signs of the Times” (PRAWN listserve)
Websites:
lmno4p.org
resistancephotos.org
hyperreal.org/~dana
indymedia.org
why-war.com/education/Full_Coverage/f15/
punchdown.org/rvb/F15/
wvejc.org
progressiveaustin.org/chants
politicalhumor.about.com/library/jokes/blantiwarslogans
bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/5239318
houston.indymedia.org/news/2003/02/7393_comment.php
peaceonearth.net/108PeaceSlogansForSigns
-2.cs.cmu.edu/~ph/pix/iraq_war
wordlab.com/chat/thread.cfm?threadid=3844&messages=95
ccmep.org/2002_articles/Iraq/102702_pictures_of_anti.htm
[list incomplete]
Also see: http://www.redandgreen.org/War_and_Peace/Anti-war_signs.htm
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Introduction
Tools of struggle
· Edwin Arocho
· Frito Bastien
· Sifu Shu Pui Cheung
· Blanche Epps
· Mogauwane Mahloele
· Eang Mao
· Bud Little Wolf & Don Manuel
· Chamroeun Yin
The people united
· Chants
· Signs & slogans
Big shoes to fill
· Tell us your stories
· How to do it
Freedom is my badge
· Button collections
Stories to live by
· Robert M. Smith
· Rafaela Colón
· Peang Koung
· Father Paul M. Washington
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