Mid 1970s MAKE LOVE NOT WAR NO MORE Give Peace a Chance THE PEACE PARTY Pin

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This listing began on JUNE 7, 2021 and
will end within 30 days, on or before JULY 7, 2021,
if the item is not sold.
OFFERED FOR SALE IS THIS
3 1/2 INCH CELLULOID PINBACK BUTTON
IN WHAT I BELIEVE TO BE REALLY GREAT SHAPE.
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.
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This pin was issued and sold  in the mid 1970s, as stated on its curl, "
FROM
THE ROMANCE AND SEX INVESTIGATIVE INTELLIGENCE OF THE PEACE PARTY
in Macon Georgia."    The curl also includes the slogans
WAR NO MORE
and
GIVE PEACE A CHANCE
.
The face of the pin reads, MAKE LOVE NOT WAR.  In the center is a photo of a couple entwined together laying on the ground forming the shape of a peace symbol, making love, not war.
"
Make love, not war
" was an anti-war slogan commonly associated with the
American counterculture of the 1960s
. It was used primarily by those who were opposed to the Vietnam War or war in general
.
The "
Make love
" part of the slogan often referred to the practice of
free love
that was growing among the American youth who denounced marriage as a tool for those who supported war and favored the traditional capitalist culture.
When the slogan was used during
a protest in California in 1967
, then
Governor Ronald Reagan
(aka "Ray Gun, the Fascist Gun in the West")
joked
: "
Those guys [the protesters] look like they can't make either of both
"
.
The
phrase's origins are unknown
. However, historian Ben Truwe, asserts the phrase was first published in an article written by New York Times Magazine journalist Mitchel Levitas. It has also been acknowledged that the
Chicago Mother's Day peace march
where Penelope and Franklin Rosemont
distributed "Make Love, Not War" buttons
occurred in
May 1965
, the month after a person discussed in the New York Times article had written the slogan for an anti-war rally.
This underground pinback button pin or badge relates to the Hippie (or Hippy) Counterculture Movement of the psychedelic Sixties (1960's) and Seventies (1970's).  That movement included such themes and topics as peace, protest, civil rights, radical, socialist, communist, anarchist, union labor strikes, drugs, marijuana, pot, weed, lsd, acid, sds, iww, anti draft, anti war, anti rotc, welfare rights, poverty, equal rights, integration, gay, women's rights, black panthers, black power, left wing, liberal, etc.  progressive political movement and is guaranteed to be genuine as described.
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