Nov. 14, 1969 Anti Vietnam War Student Strike Moratorium SMC Protest Red Pin

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This pin was issued and sold in the United States in 1969 by the Student Mobilization Committee ( SMC ) to raise funds and support for nationwide student strikes against the War in Viet Nam,  at colleges and universities, to be held on November 14, 1969 in conjunction with the Moratorium March in Washington D.C. on November 13 to 15, 1969.
The background of the pin repeats the word; STRIKE. Superimposed over that text is:
Nov. 14 smc
. The background color is between RED and DARK ORANGE.
This pin comes in
several different background colors
,
some of which I have also listed on eBay
.
The following is from a
Letter to the Editor of The New York Review
, by
Dave Dellinger
(editor of Liberation, and Chicago 7 defendant) about the Nov. 13 - 15 Moratorium protests:
"All Americans interested in helping to put an end to the most tragic war in our history are urged to come to Washington D.C. to attend the legal, non-violent protests sponsored by the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam on November 13th, 14th and 15th.
The first event, a March Against Death, will be a solemn, single file march from Arlington Cemetery, past the White House to the Capitol. Marchers will congregate at Arlington Cemetery at 6 p.m. on November 13th. Each of the more than 46,000 participants will carry a placard with the name of an American soldier killed in the war or a destroyed Vietnamese village. This memorial, tribute to the dead, and protest against further killing, will conclude in mid-morning of Saturday, November 15th. The placards, deposited in coffins, will be later taken to the White House by parents of dead Americans, anti-war veterans and G.I. groups, clergymen, laymen and Congressmen protesting the continuing Vietnam war.
At ten a.m. on Saturday November 15th, there will be a memorial service at the West side of the Capitol, followed by a Mass March proceeding down Pennsylvania Avenue, past the White House and to the Ellipse. The March will be followed by a five hour rally featuring prominent speakers and a cultural festival.
Among the numerous Americans who have endorsed the New Mobilization Committee’s November 13-15th activities are Mrs. Coretta Scott King; Dr. Benjamin Spock; Rev. William Sloane Coffin; Mr. Paul O’Dwyer, of the New York Democratic Coalition; Senator Charles Goodell of New York; Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm of New York; Mr. Sanford Gottlieb, National Director of SANE; writer Jimmy Breslin; Mr. Harold Gibbons, International Vice President of the Brotherhood of Teamsters; Mr. Patrick Gorman, Secretary-Treasurer of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butchers Workmen, AFL-CIO; Mr. Frank Rosenblum of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers; and Mr. Charles Palmer of the National Student Association.
The Vietnam Moratorium Committee has also endorsed the peaceful and solemn protest planned by the Mobilization, and will provide support for Moratorium groups from various parts of the nation who wish to join the March on Washington.
The position paper of the New Mobilization Committee issued in Washington D.C. on October 21st states that President Nixon’s present war strategy includes three distinct elements: 1) U.S. military and economic support of the corrupt Thieu-Ky government. 2) U.S. bombing of Vietnam. 3) American ground action. The Nixon strategy, as stated thus far, proposes to reduce only the last activity, the ground combat troops supplied by the United States, and to continue the two other elements of the strategy unchanged. The position of the New Mobilization is that there can be no real end to this war until 1) All support is withdrawn from the Thieu-Ky government and the people of Vietnam are permitted to decide their own fate; 2) All military action against the Vietnamese on the ground and in the air is stopped; 3) All US troops, equipment, planes and helicopters are withdrawn, and United States bases are dismantled. These three decisions can not be negotiated at the Paris peace talks. They must be announced there by the United States as its unilateral decision for withdrawal. The purpose of the November 13th-15th Mobilization in Washington is to state that there are to be no more deaths; that “vietnamization” is no solution because there has to be total disengagement, and a total withdrawal of all support to a corrupt regime.
Further queries about details and logistics of the November Mobilization can be obtained from the New Mobilization Committee’s headquarters at 1029 Vermont Avenue, Washington D.C. Telephone: (202) 737-8600."
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.
The Deacons emerged as one of the first visible self-defense forces in the South and as such represented a new face of the
civil rights
movement.  Traditional civil rights organizations remained silent on them or repudiated their activities.  They were effective however in providing protection for local African Americans who sought to register to vote and for white and black civil rights workers in the area.  The Deacons, for example, provided security for the 1966 March Against Fear from Memphis to Jackson,
Mississippi
.  Moreover their presence in Southeastern Louisiana meant that the Klan would no longer be able to intimidate and terrorize local African Americans without challenge.
The strategy and methods that the Deacons employed attracted the attention and concern of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which authorized an investigation into the group’s activities. The investigation stalled, however, when more influential black power organizations such as US and the
Black Panther Party
emerged after the
1965 Watts Riot
.  With public attention, and the attention of the FBI focused elsewhere, the Deacons lost most of their notoriety and slowly declined in influence.  By 1968 they were all but extinct.  In 2003 the activities of the Deacons was the subject of a 2003, “Deacons for Defense.” - See more at: HTTPS://www.blackpast.org/aah/deacons-defense-and-justice#sthash.s6D3h3ZZ.dpuf
On July 10, 1964, a group of African American men in Jonesboro,
Louisiana
led by Earnest “Chilly Willy” Thomas and Frederick Douglas Kirkpatrick founded the group known as The Deacons for Defense and Justice to protect members of the
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
against Ku Klux Klan violence.  Most of the “Deacons” were veterans of
World War II
and the
Korean War
. The Jonesboro chapter organized its first affiliate chapter in nearby Bogalusa, Louisiana led by Charles Sims, A.Z. Young and Robert Hicks. Eventually they organized a third chapter in Louisiana. The Deacons tense confrontation with the Klan in Bogalusa was crucial in forcing the federal government to intervene on behalf of the local African American community.  The national attention they garnered also persuaded state and national officials to initiate efforts to neutralize the Klan in that area of the Deep South.
The Deacons emerged as one of the first visible self-defense forces in the South and as such represented a new face of the
civil rights
movement.  Traditional civil rights organizations remained silent on them or repudiated their activities.  They were effective however in providing protection for local African Americans who sought to register to vote and for white and black civil rights workers in the area.  The Deacons, for example, provided security for the 1966 March Against Fear from Memphis to Jackson,
Mississippi
.  Moreover their presence in Southeastern Louisiana meant that the Klan would no longer be able to intimidate and terrorize local African Americans without challenge.
The strategy and methods that the Deacons employed attracted the attention and concern of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which authorized an investigation into the group’s activities. The investigation stalled, however, when more influential black power organizations such as US and the
Black Panther Party
emerged after the
1965 Watts Riot
.  With public attention, and the attention of the FBI focused elsewhere, the Deacons lost most of their notoriety and slowly declined in influence.  By 1968 they were all but extinct.  In 2003 the activities of the Deacons was the subject of a 2003, “Deacons for Defense.” - See more at: HTTPS://www.blackpast.org/aah/deacons-defense-and-justice#sthash.s6D3h3ZZ.dpuf
On July 10, 1964, a group of African American men in Jonesboro,
Louisiana
led by Earnest “Chilly Willy” Thomas and Frederick Douglas Kirkpatrick founded the group known as The Deacons for Defense and Justice to protect members of the
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
against Ku Klux Klan violence.  Most of the “Deacons” were veterans of
World War II
and the
Korean War
. The Jonesboro chapter organized its first affiliate chapter in nearby Bogalusa, Louisiana led by Charles Sims, A.Z. Young and Robert Hicks. Eventually they organized a third chapter in Louisiana. The Deacons tense confrontation with the Klan in Bogalusa was crucial in forcing the federal government to intervene on behalf of the local African American community.  The national attention they garnered also persuaded state and national officials to initiate efforts to neutralize the Klan in that area of the Deep South.
The Deacons emerged as one of the first visible self-defense forces in the South and as such represented a new face of the
civil rights
movement.  Traditional civil rights organizations remained silent on them or repudiated their activities.  They were effective however in providing protection for local African Americans who sought to register to vote and for white and black civil rights workers in the area.  The Deacons, for example, provided security for the 1966 March Against Fear from Memphis to Jackson,
Mississippi
.  Moreover their presence in Southeastern Louisiana meant that the Klan would no longer be able to intimidate and terrorize local African Americans without challenge.
The strategy and methods that the Deacons employed attracted the attention and concern of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which authorized an investigation into the group’s activities. The investigation stalled, however, when more influential black power organizations such as US and the
Black Panther Party
emerged after the
1965 Watts Riot
.  With public attention, and the attention of the FBI focused elsewhere, the Deacons lost most of their notoriety and slowly declined in influence.  By 1968 they were all but extinct.  In 2003 the activities of the Deacons was the subject of a 2003, “Deacons for Defense.” - See more at: HTTPS://www.blackpast.org/aah/deacons-defense-and-justice#sthash.s6D3h3ZZ.dpuf
On July 10, 1964, a group of African American men in Jonesboro,
Louisiana
led by Earnest “Chilly Willy” Thomas and Frederick Douglas Kirkpatrick founded the group known as The Deacons for Defense and Justice to protect members of the
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
against Ku Klux Klan violence.  Most of the “Deacons” were veterans of
World War II
and the
Korean War
. The Jonesboro chapter organized its first affiliate chapter in nearby Bogalusa, Louisiana led by Charles Sims, A.Z. Young and Robert Hicks. Eventually they organized a third chapter in Louisiana. The Deacons tense confrontation with the Klan in Bogalusa was crucial in forcing the federal government to intervene on behalf of the local African American community.  The national attention they garnered also persuaded state and national officials to initiate efforts to neutralize the Klan in that area of the Deep South. - See more at: HTTPS://www.blackpast.org/aah/deacons-defense-and-justice#sthash.s6D3h3ZZ.dpuf
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