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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."

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.

Mandy Carter, a young Black woman with short hair stands in front of a barbed wire fence at a military base. There is a handwritten sign on the fence with German writing on it that is difficult to see because the sign is folded over.
Mandy Carter at a US base in West Germany during the German-led protests against the US/NATO deployment of nuclear missiles in West Germany

Three white-presenting people sitting around a table. The person in the center table, who is wearing a name tag, is smiling and looking at the person to her right.
WRL Southeast organizer Dannia Southerland (R) at War Resisters League's 1983 national conference.

Group of white-presenting people gathered facing a road or public thoroughfare, holding handwritten signs. WRL Southeast's Steve Sumerford, a young white man with glasses and a beard and wearing overalls, appears in the center of the photograph. The signs read, "Germany Started This Way!!" and "On Good Friday Christians Deplore Violence and Death"
Vigil participants in Durham, North Carolina after the 1981 anti-gay murder of Ronald “Sonny” Antonevich at Little River in north Durham

Newspaper clipping with a photograph of of people in a march behind a banner reading "Triangle Lesbian & Gay Pride." The title of the article reads: "Hundreds Stage Gay Rights March in Durham." Under the photograph is a caption reading: "Supporters of homosexual rights march down Hillsborough Road Saturday to mark Anti-Discrimination Week."
Newspaper image of the first annual Triangle Lesbian and Gay Pride march

News clipping featuring a photograph of a group of white women and men-presenting people sitting with their arms linked and holding each others' hands in front of a doorway surrounded by white police officers and a white man in a business suit. The heading of the caption under the photo reads, "Demonstrators Arrested." At the top of the page, the name of the newspaper is listed as The Chapel Hill Newspaper, and the article is dated Tuesday, April 10, 1979.
News clipping about the arrest of WRL Southeast organizer Steve Sumerford and other members of the Kudzu Alliance who staged a direct action protest against the construction of the Shearon-Harris nuclear power plant near Raleigh, NC. They are…

A colorful poster picturing a large peace dove with five human legs instead of bird legs to represent people marching together. The word "march" is pictured in multicolored block letters with small print reading: "for Peace & Justice" and "June 12, New York"
Poster for a national disarmament rally in Central Park, New York City on June 12, 1982 during the United Nations' Second Special Session on Disarmament

JoanneS_TrainingandFeminism.mp3
Joanne Sheehan, WRL New England founder, WRL Feminism & Nonviolence Task Force member, and Clamshell Alliance organizer, reflects on the importance of nonviolence training for coordinated protest.

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
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