A Great Day

Poster produced by Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom USA, 1979.

History I and History II, posters by Toni Robertson, Earthworks Poster Collective, produced at the The Tin Sheds, University of Sydney, Australia 1977

The Women’s Army is Marching, poster, Britain, 1974-75

From Suffragettes to She-Devils: Women’s Liberation and Beyond by Liz McQuiston, 1997, Phaidon.

“it will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the air force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber”

It was pretty cool to discover the source for the bake sale image/quote. I first came across it during my student activism days and it definitely struck a chord with us. I remember it showing up on buttons, walls, and even in satire – the “bake sale committee” was a derisive reference to student unions that attempted to position themselves as neutral. We responded to the fence sitters with another quote:

“Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.”
– Paulo Freire