Women's Pentagon Action

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Title

Women's Pentagon Action

Subject

disarmament, feminism, lesbian feminism, Pentagon, anti-war, antimilitarism, war at home, direct action, civil disobedience, weaving, anti-nuclear movement

Description

The Women's Pentagon Action in Washington D.C., before 2,000 women surrounded the Pentagon, weaving yarn webs to symbolically block the entrances.

Creator

Copyright © Diana Mara Henry

Date

November 17, 1980

Contributor

Kimber Heinz

Rights

Copyright © Diana Mara Henry. Diana Mara Henry Papers, Robert S. Cox Special Collections and University Archives Research Center, UMass Amherst Libraries.

Format

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Language

English

Type

photograph

Coverage

Washington, D.C., Pentagon, women's liberation movement, lesbian feminism, anti-nuclear movement, Reagan era, post-Vietnam era

Files

Majority-white group of women-presenting people standing in a crowd facing a row of journalists. Some people are raising their fists in the air. Some women are holding a banner with a web on it that reads, "We meet as women to weave a world web of life to entangle the powers that bury our children." Other signs have women's symbols on them, and some read: "No nukes," "Shanti," and "Socialist feminists"

Citation

Copyright © Diana Mara Henry, “Women's Pentagon Action,” War Resisters League Southeast, accessed November 21, 2024, https://resistwarsoutheast.com/items/show/52.

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