(Sources: Peace Buttons and War Resisters League Calendar)
“…all social movements begin as memory.” -Tom Hayden
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“It’s always the old who lead us to the war,
It’s always the young who fall,
Now look at all we’ve won
With the sabre and the gun,
Tell me is it worth it at all.”
–Phil Ochs 1940-1976
Did you know…
that the first peace symbol badges were made by Eric Austin of Kensington, England CND in1958 using white clay with the symbol painted black? They were distributed with a note explaining that in the event of a nuclear war, these fired pottery badges would be among the few human artifacts to survive the nuclear inferno.
L toR: first ceramic CND badge, early tin badge, current badge
hand drawn symbol available from peacebuttons.info suggests that peace is fragile & created by humans.
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