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Local 6, Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees International Union, also known as Unite Here, represents workers in New York City who work in the hospitality, gaming, food service, manufacturing, textile, laundry, and airport industries. Local 6 grew out of the hotel and restaurant workers strikes in 1912, 1929 and 1934 and now provides major support for employees in  the hotel and club industries in New York. 

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During the 1960s and 1970s, the anti-nuclear movement started, which includes avariety of social movements that opposed various nuclear technologies. Parts of these movements were large anti-nuclear demonstrations and protests. Anti-nuclear power protests would include protesters with flags bearing the words “No Nukes!”

There can also be significance to a woman holding the flag on the button. Women Strike for Peace, a women’s peace activist group in the United States, marched to demonstrate against nuclear weapons. 

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The Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers International Union (OCAW) is a union under the The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL–CIO), the largest federation of unions in the United States.

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Earth Day was founded on April 22, 1970. It originated from a 1969 UNESCO Conference in San Francisco and is celebrated all over the world as well as the United States. 

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When the United States (US) entered World War I, the federal government began selling liberty bonds to citizens to help cover war expenses. These bonds, sold primarily by the girl and boy scouts, were small loans taken by the US government in which they would repay the citizens in the future. The first two Liberty Loan Acts proved insufficient, so a Third Liberty Loan Act was passed in 1918. It permitted the issuance of three billion dollars in war bonds at an interest rate of 4.5% for up to ten years. The Third Liberty Loan, also, proved insufficient, so the government passed a fourth act later the same year. It allowed even more funds at an even higher interest rate. Artists were commissioned to create posters.  Famous actors, such as Charlie Chaplin, gave speeches encouraging the public to do contribute to the war effort by purchasing liberty bonds.

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Greenpeace is an international non-government environmental organization.  Founded in 1971 with an expedition of volunteers and journalists to Amchita, Alaska to bring attention to the underground nuclear testing the US Government was conducting.  Some of the primary campaigns of Greenpeace deal with: global warming, ocean pollution, deforestation, oil drilling in the Arctic, anti-nuclear campaigns, toxic chemical storage and clean up, and promoting sustainable agriculture.  Operating solely on grants and individual supporters, they are headquartered in over forty countries.

The symbol at the top of the button, the ecology symobl, was created by Ron Cobb in 1969. It was created by combining an e for "environment" and an o for "organism". It has been used as a symbol for Earth Day as well as other environmental causes.

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