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447 ● (MILITARY—VIET NAM.) Phased Withdrawal, Phased Murder Bring All
the Troops Home Right Now. Clark University SMC. Hand-written sign, on the
reverse of a printed poster ìThe Fight for Freedom is at Home. Strike Now. March on
Washington Nov 14 and San Francisco, Nov 15.22 x 17 inches.
Washington, D.C.: Student Mobilization Committee, (1967) [800/1,200]
SCARCE HANDWRITTEN POSTER ON THE BACK OF A PRINTED ONE The National
Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnamî was a relatively short-lived coalition of
antiwar activists formed in 1967 to organize large demonstrations in opposition to the
Vietnam War. The organization was informally known as “the Mobe”. Mobe was formed
following the Spring Mobilization Conference held in Washington D.C. May 20-21, 1967,
a gathering of 700 antiwar activists called to evaluate the antiwar demonstrations, including
draft-card burnings, that had taken place on April 15, 1967 in New York City and San
Francisco, and to chart a future course for the antiwar movement. The conference set another
antiwar action for the fall of 1967 and created an administrative committee to plan it. That
committee was the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. Mobe
planned a large demonstration for Washington D.C. on October 21, 1967. This demonstra-
tion was a rally at West Potomac Park near the Lincoln Memorial and a march to the
Pentagon, where another rally would be held in a parking lot, followed by civil disobedience on
the steps of the Pentagon itself. The action was known as the “March on the Pentagon.”
448 ● MILITARY—VIET NAM.) You and I have not benefited from American
Democracy, We’ve only suffered from American Hypocrisy. Silk-screen poster.
221⁄
2 x 171⁄2 inches. Np, circa 1970ís [700/1,000]
A striking anti-war poster from the Viet Nam protest years.