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Bust a Pusher refers to stopping illegal drug dealers. A "Pusher" is a dealer in the illegal drug trade and "Bust" refers to an arrest or confrontation for wrongdoing. This button was likely used to help promote awareness of the affects of drug dealers. By busting a pusher, it will ultimately help junkies. 

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The Salad Bowl strike began in August 1970 and led to the largest farm worker strike in American history. Led by United Farm Workers against the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, it culminated in the passage of the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act in 1975. In summer 1970, 6,000 drivers and packing workers (represented by the Teamsters) went on strike, causing the price of lettuce to triple instantly. The UFW, outraged because their jurisdiction over field workers was lost, supported a nationwide boycott of any lettuce that was not picked by members of the UFW. The strike ended on March 26, 1971, when the Teamsters and UFW signed an agreement restating the UFW’s right to organize field workers.

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Beginning in September 1965, the Delano grape strike was organized by the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee and the United Farm Workers against grape growers in California. The strike lasted over five years and ended with a consumer boycott of nonunion grapes.The strike began when farm workers refused to work while demanding federal minimum wages. The strike gained national attention and by 1970, the UFW was able to reach a collective bargaining agreement with the grape growers that affected nearly 10,000 workers.

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The American Cancer Society was founded in 1913 in New York City. Since its inception, the Society has been working to educate the public about cancer and to find a cure for the disease. The Society works to encourage individuals to make healthy lifestyles choices, such as not smoking, to reduce their risk of developing cancer.

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“The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.” - Ursula K. Le Guin

Donnelly/Colt is a progressive company that produces and distributes materials promoting social and environmental justice since 1975.  

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The text on this button is part of the slogan of the animal rights organization PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). PETA was founded in 1980 as a non-profit corporation. Their main focus is on four core issues – opposition to factory farming, fur farming, animal testing, and animals in the entertainment industry. They also campaign against eating meat, fishing, the killing of animals regarded as pests, the keeping of chained backyard dogs, cock fighting, dog fighting, and bullfighting.

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"All weapons are boomerangs" is a popular antiwar and disarmament slogan referencing the fact that a boomerang comes back to the person who threw it. The boomerang effect is when a country creates weapons, which they then have to face in the hands of their enemies in the next conflict. This slogan claims that all weapons a country creates or uses are likely to come back to haunt them regardless of whether they fall into enemy hands.

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The anti-abortion or "pro-life" movement began as a response to the rise of second-wave feminism in the 1960s, in which feminists argued that abortion's illegality removed a woman's autonomy over her own body. Several states including Pennsylvania, California, and Massachusetts started chapters of the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) by 1970 in order to monitor abortion legislation. The movement did not truly gain national prominence until 1973 when the Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade that a woman's right to an abortion could not be restricted by the government. The landmark case was a major blow to the pro-life movement, and motivated anti-abortion activists to mobilize and push abortion as a political issue.

The pro-life movement has been overwhelmingly Christian and is governed by the belief that life begins at conception, and abortion results in the death of the unborn child. Throughout the 1970s, the NRLC and other pro-life organizations attempted to pass several bills that would have reversed the Supreme Court's ruling, but were unsuccessful. Today, their goals involve state-by-state legislation limiting the situations in which abortions are possible with the ultimate goal still being the repeal of Roe v. Wade and the decision of whether females are made to carry a baby to term decided by officials of the state and courts.

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On April 23, 1981, Congress held hearings for a law to make abortion illegal, which they called the "Human Life Statute." This law would have subverted the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade. There were no supporters of abortion invited to testify at the hearings. Three women from The Women's Liberation Zap Brigade attended and, while antiabortion doctors were testifying, they jumped up on their chairs and chanted "A woman's life is a human life." Their claim was that the bill was inherently unfair because it privileged some lives over others, while the title tried to make it look like it did not. They were found guilty of disrupting Congress, but were given probation because the judge was sympathetic to women's rights.

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"In the Magic Land of Peyote" is a book written by anthropologist, Fernando Benitez, and was published by the University of Texas Press in 1975. The book explores the Huichole ceremonies involving the consumption of the cactus known as peyote. This button is an advertisement for the book, including a similar artistic rendering of the cactus that adorns the hardcover edition. ​