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WE DEMAND: FEWER GUNS : HIGHER WAGES : UDF : SUPPORT THE CONSUMER BOYCOTT!

Theme: COSATU takes on civil strife


Call Number: 2526
Identifier: AL2446_2526
Title: WE DEMAND: FEWER GUNS : HIGHER WAGES : UDF : SUPPORT THE CONSUMER BOYCOTT!
Date: 1985
Subject: Images of Defiance- IOD;
Consumer boycotts;
United Democratic Front (UDF);
Western Cape
Description: This poster is silkscreened black and red. produced by the UDF at the Community Arts Project (CAP), Cape Town. This poster is one of a set of five posters produced to highlight the demands of a consumer boycott in the Western Cape, including an end to the Emergency and repressive actions by the state. The text reads “WE DEMAND: FEWER GUNS : HIGHER WAGES : UDF : SUPPORT THE CONSUMER BOYCOTT!”Digitised by Specialised Archival Solutions in 2009. Reproduced in "Images of Defiance: South African Resistance posters in the 1980s" on page 31 (number 42) of the 1991 SAHA / Ravan Press edition and the 2004 SAHA / STE Publishers edition.It also appears on page 133 of “Red on Black: The Story of the South African Poster Movement”, SAHA / STE Publishers, 2007
Creator: United Democratic Front (UDF) at the Community Arts Project (CAP)
Type: Poster
Format: Access image - jpeg
Preservation image - tiff
Source: SAHA collection AL2446
Language: English
Coverage: South Africa
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