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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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This button promotes separate smoking sections in public places. It is from the Washington office of the Action on Smoking and Health. The office was founded in 1967 and started it's campaign for separate smoking and nonsmoking sections in 1971 amidst a national wave of support. Their campaign gained some support in 1971 when United Airlines was the first airline to create separate smoking sections. 

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The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is a far-left political organization that places a high priority on labor issues and aiding strikes.Its influence peaked in the 1970s, and in the 1976 presidential election the SWP candidate Peter Camejo and his running mate Willie Mae Reed ran on a platform that included equal employment opportunity and an end to war. The pair earned 90,986 votes, the most ever received by a SWP candidate. In addition to issues of labor, the SWP also strongly supported Chicano nationalism, legal abortion, and the Cuban government during this period.

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On March 19, 2003 President George W. Bush announced the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom.  The invasion commenced on March 20, 2003, ostensibly to pre-empt Iraqi weapons of mass destruction deployment and remove Saddam Hussain from power. The capital, Baghdad, fell on April 9, 2003.  President Bush declared the end of major combat operations on May 1 with his “Mission Accomplished” speech which later would be criticized as premature.  Iraqi elections and a referendum to approve a constitution were held in January and December of 2005.  From 2004-2006 Iraq deteriorated to almost reaching the point of a full scale civil war.  In 2006 a National Intelligence Estimate asserted that the Iraq war had increased Islamic radicalism and worsened the terror threat.  In January of 2007 Bush announced new initiatives including the “surge” of 21,500 more troops to Iraq which was opposed by many in the Senate and the House.  On July 31, 2008, Bush stated that due to increased stability in Iraq because of what he saw as a success of the 2007 troop surge they would withdraw the additional American forces.