Create your own protest sign inspired by Mackenzi Lee's BYGONE BADASS BROADS (publishing 27 February 2018), with art by Petra Eriksson! Find out more about the book here: https://buff.ly/2BZBYfs
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These movements include the civil rights movement, the student movement, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the women's movement, the gay rights movement, and the environmental movement. Each, to varying degrees, changed government policy and, perhaps more importantly, changed how almost every American lives today. "Bombing For Peace Is Like Fucking For Virginity." This was on a sign in the 1960s during during a Vietnam War protest. "We Won't Fight Another Rich Man's War!!!" - Vietnam veterans against the War, circa 1970. Hippies selling acid during Woodstock 69. Women attend an Equal Pay for Equal Work demonstration in London's Trafalgar Square in May 1968. NAACP protest, Memphis, TN, early 1960s. African Americans protest against the war in Vietnam during the Harlem Peace March, 1967. Student at Montgomery High School protest intergration, 1963. Kay Tobin Lahusen, right, and other demonstrators carry signs calling for protection of homosexuals from discrimination as they march in a picket line in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, July 1967. Screaming Beatles' fans holding banners and waving at band, Australia, June 1964. On a cool and sunny fall day in Hartford, ten thousand people jammed into Bushnell Park with one goal: to stop the war in Vietnam. As the single largest protest of its kind in the city’s history, October 15, 1969 was historic. A young American woman holds up a sign as she protests for women's rights in front of the Federal Trade Commission headquarters while policemen look on during Richard Nixon's inauguration weekend, Washington, DC, January 18-21, 1969. Members of the National Women's Liberation Party protest the Miss America beauty pageant as degrading to women, September 1968 Girls from the British Society for the Protection of Mini Skirts stage a protest outside the House of Dior, for its 'unfair' treatment of mini skirts, ca. 1966. Gay rights activists picket the White House in 1965 to protest government discrimination against homosexuals. Hippie protesting the Vietnam War, ca. 1960s.
See a gallery of photos of 120 years of women’s protest signs, from suffragettes in the early 1900s to modern-day protests around the world.
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Hundreds of demonstrators filled New York City streets outside the Trump International Hotel in a protest against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Saturday afternoon.
The past, present, and future is female.
A student leans on his placard during an anti-Vietnam War demonstration at the US Embassy in London, England, 1969.
Madison Beer held a variety of signs, two of which she held up: one proclaiming, "No freedom til we're equal," and the other displaying the fist logo of the
“If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything,” states the description on Dude With Sign's Instagram account. And the guy means it.
These movements include the civil rights movement, the student movement, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the women's movement, the gay rights movement, and the environmental movement. Each, to varying degrees, changed government policy and, perhaps more importantly, changed how almost every American lives today. "Bombing For Peace Is Like Fucking For Virginity." This was on a sign in the 1960s during during a Vietnam War protest. "We Won't Fight Another Rich Man's War!!!" - Vietnam veterans against the War, circa 1970. Hippies selling acid during Woodstock 69. Women attend an Equal Pay for Equal Work demonstration in London's Trafalgar Square in May 1968. NAACP protest, Memphis, TN, early 1960s. African Americans protest against the war in Vietnam during the Harlem Peace March, 1967. Student at Montgomery High School protest intergration, 1963. Kay Tobin Lahusen, right, and other demonstrators carry signs calling for protection of homosexuals from discrimination as they march in a picket line in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, July 1967. Screaming Beatles' fans holding banners and waving at band, Australia, June 1964. On a cool and sunny fall day in Hartford, ten thousand people jammed into Bushnell Park with one goal: to stop the war in Vietnam. As the single largest protest of its kind in the city’s history, October 15, 1969 was historic. A young American woman holds up a sign as she protests for women's rights in front of the Federal Trade Commission headquarters while policemen look on during Richard Nixon's inauguration weekend, Washington, DC, January 18-21, 1969. Members of the National Women's Liberation Party protest the Miss America beauty pageant as degrading to women, September 1968 Girls from the British Society for the Protection of Mini Skirts stage a protest outside the House of Dior, for its 'unfair' treatment of mini skirts, ca. 1966. Gay rights activists picket the White House in 1965 to protest government discrimination against homosexuals. Hippie protesting the Vietnam War, ca. 1960s.
The bad news doesn't empower us. The "talking about problems" without offering any solutions is BS. Ready to move to a more positive age?
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We remember the 1960s as an era of activism and social change. Many of the social and political movements of the past half-century can trace their roots, at least in part, to the decade of Selma and Stonewall. But it is necessary to take a closer…
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