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The U.S. Forest Service sought the significance of owls for their campaign where the slogan, “Give a hoot! Don’t pollute” was promoted by their mascot; Woodsy Owl during the 70s & 80s. Woodsy Owl teaches younger generations to be involved in appreciating nature through an awareness of protecting our environment from polluting. Today, the campaign for conservation practices still uses Woodsy Owl as the National Symbol for pollution awareness equipped with his new slogan, “Lend  a hand – care for the land!”

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"Hell No We Won't Go" was a popular chant shouted at protests during the Vietnam War. More specifically, the chant began during "stop the draft week" in New York City in 1967. The protest focused on shutting down the Armed Forces Induction Center due to the fact that the draft was being instituted and many citizens were opposed to it.

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The raised fist inside the Venus symbol, known as the "Woman Power" symbol, first originated during feminist movements in the 1960s and 1970s. Shown on this button with the fist inside the Jewish Star of David, it is implied that this symbol would be worn by feminists of the Jewish faith. 

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Jules Feiffer is a cartoonist and writer with his most famous work, a satirical comic strip, Feiffer (originally named Sick Sick Sick). Before he was an established cartoonist, he was an apprentice whose boss had told Feiffer his work was lousy, but hired him anyway. For forty years (1956-1997), he displayed his work for The Village Voice as the staff cartoonist. Feiffer took a public stance in opposition to Vietnam War with his Enough campaign.

In the late 1960s, the war in Vietnam (started in 1955) started to lose popular consensus that Americans should be fighting there. The war had gone on longer than the American people were told, and the number of deaths kept climbing. Feeling like their opinions were not being heard, multiple peace movements popped up around the country with the intent to be non-violent, but would sometimes end with altercations and arrests by police. Despite the growing disapproval for the war it would not officially end until 1975.

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The YWLL, also known as the Young Communist League USA, was a communist organization in the United States that was established in 1920. The youth branch was founded in 1970. The purpose of the league was to form its members into communists, which was done so through studying Marxism and Leninism as well as participating in the struggles the American working class experienced. While the league has disbanded nationally, there are still local state chapters operating throughout the country.

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This button was created for the March on Washington on November 6, 1968. The March focused on bringing an end to the Vietnam War. The Youth Against War and Fascism organization was formed in April of 1962. It was initially known as the Anti-Fascist Youth Committee before changing it name. YAWF was affiliated with the Workers World Party and fought with and for the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Weather Underground, Puerto Rican Independence Movement, Black Panthers, and gay rights.

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Phyllis Yampolsky, an artist and grant-funded Festival Design Consultant at the New York City (NYC) Parks Department, designed and organized Events in Open Air (EIOA). EIOA was a festival with a preview plus five events at various NYC parks between August-September 1966. It was part of NYC Parks Commissioner’s, Thomas Hoving, happenings' initiative to decrease negative perceptions of unsafe NYC parks, increase access to arts, and inspire a sense of community and inclusiveness through play and games. Contemporary artist, Allan Kaprow, coined the term “happening” in the 1950s to describe performances breaking boundaries, relationships, and traditional notions between the gallery space, visitor, and artist.

Yampolsky called happenings, “experimental public games” (NYC Parks, 1966b, “Festival Aug. 26”). EIOA consisted of two types of group games open to everyone: communal art using art and collaging supplies and field games featuring obstacles along with other smaller events. These experimental public games encouraged people to use all senses throughout their experience. The NYC Parks Department and George Delacorte sponsored EIOA, while other organizations (e.g. Azuma, Inc., Magic Markers, Inc., and more) provided supplies to run the festival.

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Ramparts Magazine ran from 1962 to 1975. It was a literary and political magazine that mainly represented the "New Left" political movement in the United States. It was created by Edward M. Keating who intended the magazine to be an outlet for Catholics in America as well as a way for creative writers to display their talent. Ramparts featured poetry, fiction, essays, and art that reflected Christian traditions and beliefs.