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  • Collection: War Resisters League Southeast

Green booklet cover, printed on newsprint, titled, "Your Taxes, Your Choice? Military Spending / How It Affects the Triangle Area" At the bottom of the page is an outline of the state of North Carolina covered in clippings of newspaper headlines like, "Budget Cuts Will Hurt Education in Triangle Area," "Defense Cost Overruns Spiral," and "Jobs Program Target of Cuts"
Guidebook from the Triangle Project on Military Spending and Human Needs, a coalition of Triangle peace and justice organizations bringing attention to the rising disparity between funding for the military and funding for human needs.

Magazine page on newsprint. A photograph of WRL Southeast organizer Mandy Carter, a young African American woman wearing shorts and a tee-shirt, appears in the top left-hand corner, along with a short profile. There is a profile of another person on the same page with a photograph and a series of advertisements for restaurants and theatrical performances in the D.C. area.
A profile of North Carolina March on Washington Committee coordinator Mandy Carter in the 1987 March on Washington special issue of The Washington Blade

Newsletter with two photographs in the right-hand column: the first pictures a white woman standing up next to three other people, two Black, one white, with their names as follows in the caption: Judy Hand, Jennifer Henderson, Isaiah Singletary, and Tim McGloin. Underneath are three head shots of African American program speakers, side by side, with a caption that reads: Pay Bryant, Carrie Graves, and Rev. Fred Taylor.
Article on the work of the North Carolina Organizing Project on Military Spending and Human Needs out of the Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice

Photograph of WRL's Diane Spaugh, a young white woman with short hair and glasses in front of a march of white and Black people holding banners and handwritten signs opposing the death penalty. Spaugh is talking to another person, whose back is facing the camera.
WRL Southeast co-founder Diane Spaugh at an anti-death penalty march

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Flier for a political demonstration in Raleigh, North Carolina led by the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression, identifying North Carolina as "a national pilot project for repression in its most comprehensive form."

Newsletter article titled "Arrests, Arson Plague Southern Walk." The top right corner features a photograph of Black and white marchers, one of whom is carrying a sign reading "Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice" and the bottom left photograph features a group of Black-presenting men and women standing and facing a cop. A white-presenting man stands behind the group, holding a hand-written sign reading, "The Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice."
Article from the Continental Walk newsletter about the police repression and white vigilante violence that members of the Southern leg of the walk encountered on their journey through Birmingham, Alabama.

Group of six people walking in the center of a road. The first four present as young white men and women followed by two Buddhist monks carrying instruments. A person carries a sign at the front of the line of walkers, reading: Appalachian Route of the Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice
Photo of members of the Appalachian route of the Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice, as they made their way from Oak Ridge, TN to Washington, D.C. through North Carolina and Virginia.

Front page of a newspaper with a photograph of a group of six people walking with a Continental Walk sign on a sidewalk.
Asheville, North Carolina news article about the Appalachian route of the Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice, as it made its way from Oak Ridge, TN to Washington, D.C. through North Carolina and Virginia.

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

An event newsletter with a list of dates and event descriptions for the month of May 1983.
Issue of The Newsletter, a lesbian feminist underground newsletter of the Triangle area of North Carolina featuring mention of War Resisters League Southeast
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