Radical Student Union (RSU) Records, 1975-2006

The collection is open for research.

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Historical Note

The Radical Student Union (RSU) first appeared at UMass Amherst in 1976 as the Revolutionary Student Brigade (RSB). Founded by Charles Bagli, a Boston University graduate who had moved to Amherst to capitalize on the political momentum on campus, the RSB emerged out of a 1969 schism within the Students for a Democratic Society that produced The Revolutionary Student Movement 1 (later to become the Weather Underground) and The Revolutionary Student Movement 2. This latter organization, comprised of Communists and Socialists of various ideological persuasions, quickly divided and regrouped, leading to the creation of several groups including the Revolutionary Union in 1971, which set up a youth wing in 1972 called the Attica Brigade, which itself split off and formed its own organization in 1975, the Revolutionary Student Brigade.

The UMass Amherst Chapter of the RSB began slowly, with Bagli and other activists distributing material in the Campus Center during the 1975-76 school year. By the spring of 1976, the organization achieved official recognition as a student organization, with the mission of promoting the struggles and consciousness of students through the concrete application of Marxism-Leninism-Mao-Tsetung thought. Taking an office on the second floor of the Student Union building, they began to receive funding from the Student Government Association and a developed a core group of students.

The next thirty years of RSU history can be divided roughly into three phases: the founding and early development of the organization; the robust years of the mid- to late-1980s; and the slow waning of the organization since. Across this time, several principles of the group have remained constant. First, the RSU has always intended to be a multi-issue group whose focus is determined by its membership. Second, the RSU is committed to working with other groups on campus and in the community. Third, the RSU has consistently examined the actions of UMass in a global context, trying to ensure that the University acts in a socially responsible way. Fourth, no member has to subscribe to any particular ideology to be involved. These principles, however, have typically been coupled with other, seemingly contradictory factors. From the beginning, the RSU membership has been drawn primarily from white and middle to upper class students, while few of the people of color who have joined the group stayed active for long. The group has faced similar difficulties in developing women in leadership roles, even though the membership has been roughly balanced between men and women.

By 1980, the RSB had achieved a degree of stability on campus and a relatively high visibility. When the Revolutionary Student Brigade officially joined the Revolutionary Communist Party (changing its name to the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade), the UMass chapter was one of several that struck off on its own, adopting the name Radical Student Union. Despite this break with the national leadership, the RSU maintained some aspects of the earlier party-based organization, continuing to distribute revolutionary readings at meetings for future discussion, and having a secret collective into which only some members of the broader group were invited and which only a few even knew about. On its won, the RSU gradually evolved into a less doctrinaire organization, shedding the secret collective and affiliating with a variety of organizations. From 1981-1987, for example, the RSU joined the Progressive Student Network, a loosely linked coalition of campus-based student groups that sought to share resources and ideas and lend assistance when needed. They have subsequently worked with groups ranging from the American Friends Service Committee to the Students Coalition Against Nukes Nation Wide, United Students Against Sweatshops, Palestinian Action Coalition, the Five College Peace Network, and People for a Socially Responsible University.

On campus, the RSB and RSU worked on a long succession of issues. Among its mobilizations, the RSB organized protests around the 1978 death of Seta Rampersand, a black UMass student who was murdered in South Deerfield and whose death was never properly investigated. They were also active in protesting the decision at Kent State University to build a gymnasium on the site where four Kent State students were gunned down by National Guardsmen during an anti-war protest in 1970, organizing buses to take protestors to Kent State.

Among the most consistent threads in RSU activism has been a steadfast opposition to militarism and imperialism. Opposition to reinstatement of the military draft became a focus of concern after the return of Selective Service registration in the mid-1970s, and organizing around the issue of draft reinstatement has returned repeatedly, most recently in 2005, when a shortage of volunteers and wars on two fronts made it seem as if a new draft was imminent. Similarly, the RSU was deeply concerned with the realities of nuclear proliferation during the Reagan years. The Three Mile Island incident in 1979 highlighted the problems of nuclear power and the bellicosity of the Reagan administration led the RSB to join with national and local groups and organize around these issues through at least the early 1990s.

During the Reagan years, the RSU was active in opposition to American "imperial" expansion, and particularly to intervention in Central America, support for the Apartheid regime in South Africa, and the militarization of research on campus. In a series of demonstrations and marches, both locally and in Washington, D.C., RSU members protested the government's funding and training of death squads in Central America, the efforts of the Central Intelligence Agency to recruit on campus, and the use of Department of Defense funds in weapons research on campus. These protests came to a head with two major waves of sit-ins. In 1987, a group of students and community members occupied Memorial Hall, leading to sixty arrests, including Abbie Hoffman and former president Carters daughter, Amy. All were eventually acquitted. Two years later, students sat in at some of the labs in the Graduate Research Center where Defense Department research was taking place, and then moved to Memorial Hall, the chancellors office, and back to the Graduate Research Center. Organizing against apartheid, the RSU lobbied for UMass to divest from corporations based in and operating in South Africa. The April 1st Coalition took over the office of the Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs for four days and three nights ending the sit-in only when the university agreed to form a commission to study divestment. Off campus, RSU members have periodically sought to form coalitions with organized labor. In their first labor solidarity campaign in 1980, the RSU joined in support of a strike by nursing home workers at the Amherst Nursing Home.

After the high level of activity in the 1980s, the RSU has experienced a considerable drop off. Members joined in demonstrations against the Persian Gulf War in August 1990, including the protests at Westover Air Force Base, and they worked in solidarity to help win University recognition of the Graduate Employee Organization (GEO), and to convince UMass in 2000 to sign onto the Workers Rights Consortium, opposing the sale of sweatshop-produced apparel in the University Store. Efforts in the early 2000s to revive the organization met with mixed success, with some sustained protests against state budget cuts to education (the Save UMass campaign), against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and on issues surrounding globalization. Members took part in protests against the Free Trade Area of the Americas in Québec in 2001 and Miami 2003, the latter notorious for violence. Following a campaign against labor and environmental abuses by the Coca Cola Corporation, the RSU almost disappeared, but was kept alive by several students until the fall of 2006.

The Revolutionary Student Brigade/Radical Student Union has managed to do something that few left-wing groups have: it has survived in more or less the same form it started with the same key principles and in the same physical space. Campus-based groups face difficulty in maintaining continuity as they lose members to graduation or the press of other concerns. The Radical Student Union remained active as of the 2006-2007 academic year, organizing several Critical Mass bike rides, protesting the honorary degree presented to Andrew Card, a senior official in the Bush White House, and attending the protests at the Bio International Convention.

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Scope and Contents of the Collection

The records of the Radical Student Union and its predecessor, The Radical Student Brigade, document the history of a particularly long-lived organization of left-leaning student activists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Beginning in the mid-1970s, as students were searching for ways to build upon the legacy of the previous decade, the RSU has been a constant presence on campus, weathering the Reagan years, tough budgetary times, and dramatic changes in the political culture at the national and state levels. The RSU reached its peak during the 1980s with protests against American involvement in Central America, CIA recruitment on campus, American support for the Apartheid regime in South Africa, and government-funded weapons research, but in later years, the organization has continued to adapt, organizing against globalization, sweatshops, the Iraq War, and a host of other issues.

In addition to the administrative and financial records of the RSU, the collection includes an extensive set of topical files that reflect the evolving interests of the organization and its ties to other, related organizations in the region. Also noteworthy are a handful of banners, some quite large, displayed by RSU members during demonstrations.

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Search Terms

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Series 1: Administrative and Financial 1976-2005 2 linear feet

Series 1 contains two sub-series. First, the administrative sub-series contains internal records kept by the RSU to document its activities, including leaflets advertising RSU meetings from 1980 through 2001, a student booklet created in 2004 entitled "A History analysis and How To," documents pertaining to the status of the RSU within the University, contact sheets and directories for members and the press, meeting notes and agendas, and documents relating to procedures and lists of office duties. The sub-series also contains a few newspaper clippings about the RSU, articles written by members for publication, catalogues for materials and speakers, song sheets, stationary prototypes, and folders used in the original filing process that are of interest.

The RSU's financial records consist primarily of reports submitted to the Student Government Association to account for expenditures, and materials used in grant writing. Both sub-series are filed alphabetically for folder title.

Series 2: Subject Files 1966-2005 5.5 linear feet

The members of the RSU maintained an extensive topical file in their office in the Campus Center. These files were used in several ways by members: as resources for teaching and learning about specific issues (e.g., South Africa), for designing flyers, or for developing learning skills; as documentation of events planned by the RSU or in which they took part; and as information about organizations with whom the RSU coordinated efforts (e.g., American Friends Service Committee). Occasionally, the RSU brought together materials from disparate sources relating to topics of particular interest. Under Womens Issues, for example, they filed materials on Abortion, Leadership, Pornography, and Violence against Women. In most cases, however, the topics are less systematically treated, and it may be necessary to delve deeply to locate all relevant information. A few items dating from prior to the founding of the RSB probably came either from Charles Bagli, the founder of RSU, from other early members, or were inherited from earlier groups on campus. Some materials appear to have come from the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade and the Communist Youth Brigade, both of which were active on campus at the same time.

The series includes newspaper clippings, flyers, published materials, song sheets, correspondence, and notes. Photographs have been removed to the Audio Visual Series and banners have been removed to the Textiles Series.

Series 3: Radical Student Union Publications 1981-2000 0.5 linear feet

This small series contains materials published by the RSU or its members on the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus. The five publications are essentially irregularly-issued periodicals (some with missing issues), with the longest running publication, Critical Times, housed separately. All of these publications focus on social justice issues.

Series 4: Revolutionary Student Brigade (RSB) Term Paper Library 1971-1985 0.5 linear feet

The Revolutionary Student Brigade/Radical Student Union kept a term paper library for use by its members in preparing for work in school and in their activism. The papers, some of which pre-date the founding of RSB, are organized by general subject area.

Series 5: Printed materials 1905-1982 1.5 linear feet

The Printed Materials series contains 156 booklets, books, and single printed sheets covering a wide range of topics, particularly Communism, the Middle East conflict, and Labor. Of particular interest are the materials regarding the protests against the busing of school children in Boston, and a booklet from 1978 about the 1974 death of Karen Silkwood. A few additional monographs are included in Series 2: Subject Files.

Series 6: Textiles 1985-2006 4.5 linear feet

The Textiles consist of sixteen banners and armbands displayed by the RSU during their actions relating to apartheid, labor issues, globalization, and opposition to war and imperialism. The majority of the banners are not dated, and three have yet to be identified as to subject. Almost all are made out of cotton with paint or marker used to create an image, and they vary in size from the size of an armband to approximately ten feet square.

Series 1: Administrative and Financial 1976-2005 2 linear feet

Administrative 1976-2005

Agendas Undated

Articles for publication Ca.1983

Includes drafts for Disinformation Pamphlets

Articles to Collegian 1978-1982

BOG Space Allocation etc. 1983-1986

Catalogues 1 1983-1988

Catalogues 2 1988-1998

Catalogues: Speak Out! 1995-1997

Constitution 1980-2005

See also: Box 2 Folder 7: SGA Materials on the RSU

Directories 1989

Folders of Interest Ca.1991

Key 1987

A History, Analysis and How To 2004

Written by a member of the RSU about the RSU

Leaflets 1980-1981

Administrative Leaflets 1981-1982

Leaflets 1982-1983

Leaflets 1983-1984

Includes news clippings

Leaflets 1984-1985

Includes news clippings and a letter

Leaflets 1985-1986

Includes news clippings

Leaflets 1987-1988

Leaflets 1995-1999

Includes a page of a calendar

Leaflets 199?-2001

Includes news clippings

Leaflets 2000-2001

Large Meeting Fall 1998 1998

Originally in a two inch blue binder

Meetings, Agendas, Work lists Ca. 1984

Meeting Notes and Contact Lists 2002-2003

News clips 1978-1979

Office Duties 1998

Press Contacts Undated

Press/Media 1994-2001

Process 1986

Research and Meeting Notes 1976

Registered Student Organization (RSO) Registration Undated

Registered Student Organization (RSO)/ Student Activities Trust Fund (SATF) 1985-1986

Sign Sheets Undated

SGA Materials on the RSU 1979-2005

Song Sheets 1983, Undated

Stationary Undated

Subscription Information 1993-1994 Undated

Trust Fund Interest, UMass Students vs. Trustees Undated

University System Undated

Financial 1981-2001

Finances 1981 1981

Finances 1982 1982

Finances 1983 1983

Finances 1984 1984

Finances 1985 1985

Finances 1986 1986

Finances 1987 1987

Finances 1988 1988

Finances 1989 1989

Finances FY 1990 1990

Finances FY 1991 I 1991

Finances FY 1991 II 1991

Finances FY 1992 1992

Finances FY 1993 1993

Finances FY 1994 I 1994

Finances FY 1994 II 1994

Finances FY 1995 1995

Finances FY 1996 1996

Finances FY 1997 1997

Finances FY 1998 1998

Finances FY 1999 1999

Finances FY 2000 2000

Finances FY 2001 2001

Financial, General 1994-2003

Funding Requests 1988

Grant Writing 1981-1988, undated

Grants Undated

Series 2: Subject Files 1966-2005

The 1960s 1988

Accuracy in Academia 1982-1985

Activism 1982-1985

AIDS 1983-2001

Affirmative Action 1978-1979

Primarily Bakke decision

Afghanistan 1978-undated

Africa 1 1974-1981

See also: South Africa

Africa 2 1965-1979

See also: South Africa

Africa 3 1969-1979

Booklets

Albania 1992-1999

Alliance for Student Power 1995-undated

Readings to inspire activism

American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) 1985-1995

Anarchism 1984-2001

Anti-Defamation League 1993

Art, political undated

See also: Clip Art

Art, skills undated

Asian-Americans for Political Action undated

Balkans Ca. 1997-2001

Black Liberation 1982-undated

Black Nationalism 1968

Birth Control 2000

Boycotts 1984-1985

Brazil undated

Budget Cuts 1979-2002

Some materials from Save UMass!

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) 1980-1990

CIA: On Trial 1987

CIA: Campaign Lists & Reports 1985-1987

CIA: Civil Disobedience 1987

CIA: Clippings 1987

CIA: Fundraising Lists 1986-1987

CIA: Grant Foundations undated

CIA: Group Correspondence undated

CIA: Jury Instructions 1986-1987

CIA: Jury Nullification/Voir dire, UMass Divestment Brief 1987

CIA: Lawyers Notes on Witnesses 1988

CIA: Memos from Administrators 1986-1987

CIA: Press Releases 1987

CIA: Press Resource Lists 1983-1985

CIA: Propaganda undated

CIA: Statements of Purpose 1987

Central America Solidarity Association (CASA) 1989

Childcare 1986-1987

Chile 1975

Includes stickers

Chomsky, Noam undated

Civil Disobedience undated

Clip Art undated

See also: Art

Coalition for a New Foreign & Military Policy 1979-1980

See also: Peace

Coca-Cola Campaign 2003-2004

COINTELPRO undated

College Republicans 1984-1990

Columbia Ca 1995-2002

Community Service undated

Communist Party 1975-1976

Corporate Agenda conference 1997

See also: Labor

Corporate Research 1991-1993

Corpraization of the University 1998

Critical Mass 2003

See also: Photographs

Cuba 1970-1994

Cults/Religious 1977-1981

Focus on Unification church

Death Penalty 1974-1982

Democratic Socialists of America 1984

Department of Defense Research 1984-1991

Direct Action 2000

Disarmament/Nuclear Weapons 1 1981-1985

See also: Peace

Disarmament/Nuclear Weapons 1981-1985

See also: Peace

Draft 1979-2002

See also: Peace

Drugs 1990

East Timor 1999

Earth Day Wall Street Action 1990-1991

Ecology 1 1970

Ecology 2 1970

Economic Research and Action Project (ERAP) 1964-65

Economics 1971-1975

See also: Labor and Welfare

Education 1988

Education Booklets 1974

El Salvador 1980-1989

See also: Latin America

Electoral Politics 1 1979-1984

Electoral Politics 2 1980-2001

Environmentalism 1980-2001

See also: Ecology and Earth Day

Fascism/Anti-Fascism Undated

Feminist Collective 1985

Film Series 2001-2002

Film Series 2002 2002

Film Series 2002-2003 2002-2003

Financial Aid 2000

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 1990

Free Speech/repressive Legislation/Censorship 1978-1993

Freeze Reagan/Bush Campaign 1984

Free Trade Area of the Americas 2001-2003

Gay Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual, Queer and Questioning Rights 1 1984 undated

GBLTQQ 2: Cameron, Paul 1986-1987

Goodell Take-over 1997 1997

Globalization 1999-2002

See also: Folders for Specific organizations

Green Party 1987

Grenada 1982-1984

See also: Latin America

Grenada Ground Wave Emergency Network (G.W.E.N.) 1983-1985

Gun Control 1985

Haiti 1989-1991

Honors College 1997

Homeless 1990

Honduras 1988

Hunger Undated

See also: Welfare

Imperialism 1989-2003

See also: Native Americans, Globalization

Internships Undated

Iran 1979

Iraq 1: Gulf War 1990-1991 1990-1991

See also: Photographs; See also: Oversized

Iraq 2: Gulf War 1 1990-1991 1990

See also: Photographs

Iraq 3: Gulf War 2003- 2002-2003

See also: Photographs

Iraq 4: Gulf War 2003- 2002-2003

Ireland 1983-1991

See also: Photographs

Israel 1 1966-1985

See also: Oversized

Israel 2 1986-1995

Kent State/Jackson State 1977

Labor 1 1966-1975

Labor 2 1981-1995

See also: Photographs

Labor 3 1978-1999

Labor, UMass 1990-1998

Latin America 1986-2003

See also: Individual Countries

Latinos 1998-1998

See also: Latin America and Individual Countries

Marxism 1983

Media Activism 1989-2003

See also: Film Series

Mental Health/Mental Illness 1984

Mexico 1995

Middle East 1982-2004

See also: Israel/ Palestine

Native Americans 1975-2003

New Left Undated

Nicaragua 1985

See also: Latin America and Individual Countries

Nixon, Richard M. 1973-1974

See also: Oversized

North Atlantic Treaty Organization 1989

Northeast Student Action Network Undated

Nuclear Power and Weapons 1 1975-1978

Nuclear Power and Weapons 2 1976-1990

One World Fair 2003

Organizing 1990-1999

Organization to Liberate Society 1998

Peace 1983-2003

Peace: No Business as Usual 1985-1987

See also: Oversized

Peace: ROTC/Military Recruiting 1 1977-1990

Peace: ROTC/Military Recruiting 2 1982-1990

Peace Groups: 5-College Peace Network 1985

Peace Groups: Faculty for Peace 1986

Peace Groups: Peace Research and Education Project 1989

Peace Groups: Students for a Peaceful Response, Tabling Materials 1991-2001

Philippines Undated

Picketing Code 1997

Prisons 1981-1995

Prisons: Prisons General, Prison Awareness Week 1991-1998

Prisons: Political Prisoners, 1 1989-1998

Much of the material is related to MOVE and the case of Mumia Abu Jamal

Prisons: Political Prisoners, 2 1989

Prisons: Resources 1995-1999

Privatization of UMass 1 1987-2000

See also: Budget Cuts

Privatization of UMass 2 1988-1995

Materials from SGA task force

Privatization of UMass 3 1989-1994

Materials from SGA task force

Privatization of UMass 4 1994-1995

Privatization of UMass 5

Progressive Student Network (P.S.N.): Census 1983

P.S.N.: Conference (Organizers, Letters etc.) 1981

Includes Songbook

P.S.N.: Contacts 1 1983

P.S.N.: Contacts 2 1983-1987

P.S.N.: Letters 1 1982

P.S.N.: Letters 2 1983

P.S.N.: Letters 3 1984-1985

P.S.N.: National Convention 1988 1988

P.S.N.: New England Region 1982-1983

P.S.N.: News Spring 1981 1981

P.S.N.: News 1981-1982 1981-1982

Includes copies of Cognition from the National Student Education Fund and Basta Ya! From the Progressive Campus Network

P.S.N.: News Spring 1983 1983

P.S.N.: News 1984 1984

P.S.N.: Philadelphia Conference on Reproductive Rights 1983

P.S.N.: Program and Principles 1987

P.S.N.: Proposals 1983-1985

P.S.N.: Other P.S.N. Regions 1981-1983

P.S.N.: Outreach 1983-1986

P.S.N.: Resources 1985?

P.S.N.: Stationary undated

P.S.N.: Womens Caucus 1984

Public Health 1997

Puerto Rico 1 1970

Puerto Rico 2 1979-1985

Race, On Campus 1990-2003

Racism 1978-1982

See also: Black Nationalism

Racism 1985 1985

Racism 1986-1987: Documents 1986-1987

Racism 1986-1987: News Articles/Editorials 1986 1986

Racism 1986-1987: News Articles/Editorials 1987 1987

Racism 1986-1987: Copies of Documents 1985-1988

Racism 1988

Reagan, Ronald 1984-1985

Recruiters (Military, Corporate) 1983-1985

See also: Peace: ROTC/Military Recruiting

Registered Student Organizations Undated

See also: Administrative Series

Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade, UMass Undated

Revolutionary Student Brigade Leaflets 1974 1974

Includes an information booklet from UMass.

Revoultionary Student Brigade Leaflets 1975 1975

Revoultionary Student Brigade Leaflets 1976 1976

Includes the first flyer for the first RSB meeting at UMass organized by Charles Bagli

Revoultionary Student Brigade Leaflets 1977 1977

Sanctuary Movement 1985-1986

Seta Rampersand 1978-1979

Socialism 1970

Solicitations from other Organizations 1993-1994

South Africa 1 1977-1985

Contains a copy of Anti-Apartheid News; See also: oversized

South Africa 2 1977-1986

South Africa, April 1st Coalition 1985

South Africa, Divestment 1 1985-1986

See also: Photographs

South Africa Divestment 1983-1988

South Korea 1983

Soviet Union 1984-1986

Star wars 1985

See also: Peace

Student Rights 1986

Student Activities Trust Fund 1983

See also: Administration series

Student Government Association 1983-1984

See also: Administrative series

Student Organizing Project 1975-1983

Student Parents Undated

Student Senate 1979-1984

Sweatshops 1 1996-1997

Sweatshops 2 1997-1999

Sweden 1980

Take Back Democracy 2004

Universal Rights 1988

U.S. Student Association 1990

University Regulations and Policies 1984

See also: Administration series

Vietnam 1965-1979

Welfare Reform 1 1997

Some of this material may be from ca. 1994

Welfare Reform 2 1997-1999

Womens Issues: Abortion 1 1986

Womens Issues: Abortion 2 1981-1999

Womens Issues: Abortion 3 2001

Conference Packet From Abortion Rights to Social Justice

Womens Issues: Leadership Undated

Womens Issues: Pornography 1980-1985

Womens Issues: Reproductive Freedom 1978

Womens Issues: Violence Against, Sexual Harassment, Sexism 1979-1990

See also: Seta Rampersand

Womens Studies 1981

World Bank and International Monetary Fund 2000-2001

World Economic Forum 2002

World Trade Organization 2003

Young Communist League 1986-1988

Series 3: Radical Student Union Publications

Information and Opinions About 1999-2000

Liberator 1994

The Progressive Student 1983

The Weekly News 1989-1990

Welcome to UMass (Disinformation) 1981-1984

Series 4: Revolutionary Student Brigade (RSB) Term Paper Library 1971-1985

Table of Contents 1979

Anarchism 1985

Anthropology 1976

Greek Society Undated

History 1972-1978

Latin American Studies 1985

Law 1981

Literature 1972-1978

Marxism 1972-1981

Miscellaneous 1 1969-1978

Miscellaneous 2 1977-1982

Political Science 1978-1981

Socialism 1976-1978

Student Movement 1971-1973

Series 5: Printed material 1905-1982

Apartheid 1978 1 items, Booklet

Boston Bussing 1974-1975 8 items, Booklets

Class 1971-1974 4 items, Booklets

COINTELPRO 1978 1 items, Booklet

The Public Eye vol. 1, no. 2

Communism 1939-1982 20 items, Booklets and books

Cooperatives Undated 1 items, Booklet

Economics Undated 3 items, Booklets and book

Family Undated 1 items, Booklet

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender/sexual, queer and questioning 1971-1976 6 items, Booklets

Housing 1969-1977 4 items, Booklets

Imperialism 1977 1 items, Booklet

Israel/Palestine 1966-1973 25 items, Booklets and book

Labor 1905-1977 25 items, Booklets

Movement Building 1973-1979 14 items, Booklets and book

Non violence 1966-1969 5 items, Booklets, single sheets

Anti Nuclear 1978 1 items, Booklet

About Karen Silkwood

Peace 1963-1971 6 items, Booklets and book

Racism 1957-1977 13 items, Booklets

Socialism 1972-1975 4 items, Booklets

Spanish 1970 1 items, Booklet

Welfare 1975 8 items, Booklets, single sheets

Women's Issues 1975 4 items, Booklets

Series 6: Textiles 1985-2006

Apartheid: Citicorp pays for apartheid, apartheid kills. Image: "blood" under the word kill Undated Red and blue paint, black and red marker on white cloth.

Central America: In Memorial for all those whose have died. Image: non ca.1985 Black marker on white cloth

Potentially related to the war in Central America.

Central America: Let's stop waging war on El Salvador. Image: small peace sig ca.1985 Black and red paint on white

CIA: "CIA is Murder Inc, USA". Image: skull and cross bones ca.1987 Black and red paint on white cloth

CIA: On to Washington! March & rally, April 25, Action at Langley April 27. Image: cars full of multi-ethnic people holding signs (Peace) (No CIA 1987 Red and black text multi-colored image on blue tie-dyed? cloth

Gay rights: Homophobia is a social disease. Love not hate. Gayzes OK. Image: non Undated Black and gold paint on pink cloth.

Globalization: It's a Dirty Business * and no one's gotta do it. No more $ 4 war, Plan Columbia, WEF, FTAA, World Bank, IMF, Domination, War, Violence . Image: twin towers ca. 2001 Paint on patterned cloth

Globalization: UMass supports human rights abuses. End the Contract with Coca Cola. Image: spring 2004 (never used) Red and black paint on white cloth

Labor: Strike before strangulation. Image: red fis ca. 1991 Black and red paint on white sheet

Undergraduate banner from the Graduate Employee Organization (GEO) strike.

Peace: Food not bombs. Image: non ca.2006 Black paint on white cloth, strings attached

From Tent State University?

Peace: One love peace, earth (image) > $, people (image) > $. Image: a yellow heart between "one and "love", stencil of a United States flag with a peace sign instead of starts, image of earth and people. Undated Black, red, green, and yellow paint, colored marker on patterned cloth

Peace: Peace. Image: Non Undated Black ink on green fabric

Peace: Think military or think for yourself. Image: Undated Red paint on white cloth

Peace: Town & gown stop the military death machine. Image: ca. 1990 Red and purple marker on white cloth

Peace: UMass students say: Stop the arms race (with signatures). Image: various symbols ca. 1983 Red and black paint, colored markers on white cloth

Unidentified AT&T. Image: skull Blue and black paint

Unidentified: Aetna Blue paint on white cloth

Unidentified: Tampax . Image: Undated Blue paint on white cloth