Description: OFFERED FOR SALE IS THIS 1 3/4 INCH CELLULOID PINBACK BUTTON IN WHAT I BELIEVE TO BE REALLY GREAT SHAPE. HOWEVER, THAT IS JUST MY OPINION. SEE PHOTOS FOR CONDITION, AND YOU BE THE JUDGE. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE CONTACT ME BEFORE BIDDING OR BUYING. RETURNS ARE NOT ACCEPTED UNLESS THE ITEM IS NOT AS DESCRIBED OR AS SHOWN IN THE PHOTOS.GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC AND ORIGINAL AS DESCRIBED. Check out my other Political and Social Protest and Cause items! I COMBINE SHIPPING CHARGES FOR MULTIPLE ITEMS. PLEASE WAIT FOR OR REQUEST AN INVOICE WITH COMBINED SHIPPING CHARGE BEFORE PAYING. This pin was issued and sold in 1969 by the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) to raise funds and support for the candidacy of James Harris for Board of Education in Cleveland, Ohio. The pin colors are day glow hot pink and blue and will glow under black light. The pin displays a clenched fist, and reads: VOTE SOCIALIST HARRIS FOR BD OF EDUC, and at the bottom SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE James Harris (born 1948) is an American communist politician and member of the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party. He was initially a leader of the Young Socialist Alliance (YSA) He also served for a time as the national organization secretary of the SWP. He was a staff writer for the socialist newsweekly The Militant in New York. A supporter of the Cuban revolution, Harris participated in the Second Venceremos Brigade to Cuba in 1969 along with hundreds of other students and youth from the United States. Brigade members cut sugar cane for a couple of months in an expression of solidarity with the efforts by millions of working people in Cuba to maximize sugar production. Working alongside Cuban workers and meeting volunteers from Vietnam, Korea, and elsewhere deepened his sense of internationalism.This cause - protest 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, drugs, marijuana, pot, weed, lsd, acid, sds, anti draft, anti war, anti rotc, welfare rights, poverty, equal rights, integration, gay, women's rights, black panthers, black power, left wing, liberal, and progressive political movements.THIS IS MY HOBBY AND IS NOT A BUSINESS. THIS AND OTHER ITEMS LISTED ON EBAY ARE FROM MY PERSONAL COLLECTIONS AND WERE NOT ACQUIRED BY ME FOR RESALE. PROCEEDS GO TO BUY OTHER STUFF I AM INTERESTED IN COLLECTING. I AM A LONG TIME MEMBER OF A. P. I .C. (AMERICAN POLITICAL ITEMS COLLECTORS). IF YOU ARE NOT A MEMBER, YOU SHOULD CONSIDER JOINING. IT IS A GREAT ORGANIZATION! SHIPPING TO DESTINATIONS WITHIN THE UNITED STATES IS BY USPS GROUND ADVANTAGE. CHARGE IS $5.50 OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES, SHIPPING IS BY EBAY'S INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING PROGRAM. EBAY SETS THE CHARGES AND TERMS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST.
Price: 29.95 USD
Location: Ojai, California
End Time: 2024-08-24T08:51:46.000Z
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