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  • Collection: War Resisters League Southeast

A gold-colored flier titled, "A Workshop and Retreat on Political Organizing," with starred text, advertising what participants should expect and, below that, a list of workshop topics in a smaller font.
A WRL Southeast workshop hosted in Durham, NC

Flier with a title in bold, handwritten marker titled, "6 minutes to Nuclear Holocaust," featuring a print of a drawing in ink or marker of an image of a human skull with teeth at the upper center of an analog clock. The skull is holding a missile in its teeth, pointed at the number "6" on the clock. Along the side of the image in handwritten text is the artist's name: Peg Averill. Text describing an anti-nuclear action is below the image.
A flier announcing national demonstrations against the deployment of nuclear weapons in Europe.

News clipping taped to a sheet of worn, weathered paper. The title of the news article reads, "Soviets Arrest Chapel Hill Man," a story noted as based in Moscow and covered by the Associated Press. The cut-out clipping taped under the article text is a photograph on news print featuring a group of white-presenting people standing in a line on the lawn in front of the White House, surrounded by police. Underneath the photograph, a caption reads, "The Line-Up On the White House Lawn / They're against Nuclear Power and Decided to Show It." Next to the news clippings, in handwritten ink, reads, "Durham Herald," indicating the newspaper it appeared in.
Article on the arrest of Chapel Hill, NC-based nuclear disarmament organizer Steve Sumerford during a direct action in Moscow with fellow war resisters. The photograph featured depicts a sister action led by War Resisters League national members,…

Handwritten information sheet on a white index card, written in black ink.
Card with information regarding jail support for women arrested at the Savannah River Site, a nuclear production facility in South Carolina near Georgia, during a women-led action against nuclear weapons

Yellowed print of a photograph on newsprint. The photograph depicts a group of women-presenting people walking in the center of a road with a line of women-presenting people facing them and clapping. The people at the front of the group of walkers is a group of five women-presenting people holding a large fabric banner featuring two large women's symbols on either side of a large image of the outlines of the east coast US states, from North Carolina north  to New York. Along the edges of each women's symbol, respectively, reads, "Women's Peace Walk" and "Durham - Seneca." In the space inside the "circle" of each symbol appears to be an image of a peace dove. The women holding the banner all appear to be white, aside from Mandy Carter, who is African American. The remaining women-presenting people on the walk, as well as those cheering in the crowd along the street and taking pictures of the walkers, also present as white or light-skinned.
Image of the arrival of the women's march from Durham, North Carolina at the Seneca Women's Peace Encampment, during a blockade of the Seneca Army Depot

A petition filled with signatures of men and women's names and addresses, most of them based in Durham, North Carolina. The petition is titled, "A Statement of Affirmation and Draft Resistance"
Pledge affirming resistance to the draft in the case of selective service registration and deployment of people in service of the US military after President Carter reinstated the Selective Service System.

Mailer coupon titled in bold, red handwritten marker: Ft. Bragg Action, Saturday, March 26, 1-3pm - Fayetteville. Below is text asking recipients to commit to joining the action,  committing to civil disobedience, and volunteering time (including legal support) and money. Blank spaces on the form indicate where recipients can mark their choices. Additional spaces ask for Name, Date, "Group/church affiliation, if any," Address, and Phone ("day" and "night" numbers)
Mailing asking for participation in a protest and civil disobedience action at Ft. Bragg Army base in North Carolina. The Reagan administration had just announced a deployment of US troops to Honduras in support of right-wing Nicaraguan contras.

Typed sheet of paper titled, "Women and Nonviolence (A Program of the War Resisters League)" with an image of a small cartoon drawing of a group of three women, with a Black-presenting woman at the center, surrounded by two white-presenting women, one barefoot, one in heels.
Flier describing War Resisters League Southeast's Women and Nonviolence program, offering speakers and workshops on the intersection of feminism, anti-oppression organizing, antimilitarism, and nonviolence

Poster featuring a design of a flower in which the decorative symbols inside of the petals resemble people with their arms raised and touching the hands of the person next to them. The heading of the poster reads "Women's Pentagon Action, November 16 & 17, Washington D.C." The local contact is listed as "War Resisters League" in Durham, NC
Poster calling for a mass mobilization of women to protest in Washington D.C. as part of the 1980 Women's Pentagon Action. Organizers called for action against the New Right, US militarism, and racist and sexist violence. WRL Southeast added a…

Flier on yellow paper of the Durham to Seneca Women's Peace Walk-Women's Peace Camp. The name of the walk is written along the edges of the inside of the circular part of a women's symbol, the most prominent image on the page, along with a line featuring multiple dots with names of cities up the eastern coast of the US, indicating the route of the walk. The page describes the walk from Durham, NC to Romulus, NY, the site of the Seneca Women's Peace encampment outside of Seneca Army Depot. The opposite page features a list of actions that people can take from home: "Write Congresspeople"; "discuss the issues" and a cartoon image of a woman kicking a missile.
Flier announcing the Women's Peace Walk from Durham, North Carolina to the Seneca Women's Peace Camp at the site of the Seneca Army Depot. This site was home to the largest nuclear weapons storage facility in the US.
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